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hello fellow washer friends, I have a 1959 dexter quicktwin you have all seen in my old posts. mine has quicktwin in a horizontal chrome strip on front in line with the 2 levers. I have always liked the version they make like mine but with a huge wave washtub decal on the front. what I want to...

hello friends I bought a nice kenmore visimatic from 1955. I just have to get it this next weekend. my friend chris from onieda found it for me and picked it up. we just have to go up and get it next weekend. I plan to post pics of the new machine and my other two visimatics. I will post under...

this is to bob riley the drycleaner, I tried your email but it wouldnt go through. can you email me so we can talk the trade? I saw a thread that you had about the westy drycleaning machines that were coinop. thanks the drycleaner

I am looking for a vintage kenmore wringer washer from the late 1940s to the 1950s. they are usually white in the many models they made from the visimatic to the bol. if anyone has a leed on one anywhere obtainable please let me know. thanks Bill

hello fellow collectors. the carriage on my royal empress got stuck in one posiiton the other day. I couldnt break it loose. So I did manage to get it free and realized that the drive belt had broken and I pulled it all out in pieces. I have another old royal standard as a doner. can anyone tell...

hey guys the ribbon reverse on the royal empress is broken. when it is switched to the left spool, the gears unsderneath dont stay engaged. even if I hold the reverse lever and tap the space bar the gear that is supposed to connect with the gear on the long rod just clicks over and will not...

hello fellow washer friends, I want to say I am sorry for my past requests for machines I am searching for. let me explain, you folks are great about showing me machines that are available, but sometimes they are in states far away and I cant get them. even though I would like to purchase them...

hello fellow collectors, I have a vintage royal typewriter and cannot find out the year it was made, can you tell me based on the serial number? its mcp 11-8293857 thanks Bill

hello friends, I have a 1925 thor model 32 that I use once and a while for a very gentle wash on my customers garments.the wash tub is made of brass and recently started leaking in a crimped area near the drain. should I use gorilla epoxy or jb weld to fix it? thanks Bill

hello all, does anyone else find it interesting that kenmore always had three different wringer options on thier wringer washers? if you look at the pics of my white visi matic, you will see that the wringer wasnt just functional but also had a unique oval outer shell. I was asking a while back...

hello fine collectors, I have two vintage visimatics. one is a 64 full skirted pink kenmore and the other is a 50 model. my next step I think is going to be a pants model which seems like the visi right after my 1950 model. I would appreciate any suggestions and comments from you kenmoore guys...

hey friends, as you all know I recently aquired a 1950 visimatic. mine has an oval wringer that I have always found to be a very neat part of the machine.in most of the previous years the wringers all seem to be more all business. is 1950 the only visimatic that had the oval wringer? does anyone...

hey friends I am looking for a kenmore visimatic pants model. please get in touch if anyone has one.someplace in ny if posible. thanks Bill

hello folks its me the drycleaner. I was able to get the model and serial of my vintage visimatic here it is,please let me know-serial-33690 model-503251 I had thought that it was a 51 because of the last two digits of the model but by 51 the pants model was already out as the visimatic. please...

hello friends, usually I get the ad for the machine before I actually have the machine but in this case I have the machine and no ads. does anyone have an ad for the 51 tol visimatic? I would like to see one. thanks Bill

hello , I am looking for a gooeneck for my 1951 visimatic, I knnow they are as rare as hens teeth. the machine has a special holder for the goose neck and so other ones will not work. thanks Bill

hello fine fellows,its me the dry cleaner. I recentyly had some trouble with my thor model 32. the tranny had been getting water in it and I had put a fernico adapter over the drive shaft inside of machine. it seemed to work ok for awhile until it started slamming when it changed gears from...

I thought you all might enjoy this cartoon! Thanks. Bill

hey washer fellows, I was watching an old video of the westy coin drycleaning machines in a westy laundramat and I beliieve they were dry to dry machines. can anyone tell me what model of washer it was that they used for the drycleaning? it was the type thats a slant front I beleive. thanks Bill

hey folks, its me the drycleaner. I just got a 1948 visimatic.the wringer doesnt engage at all. the shaft that comes up from the bottom is all there along wth the spring in the middle, and the top part has a part that looks like its meant to fit into the bottom although it seems like it just...