1-18!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pulsator]

LOOK!!!!!!!!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20714&item=3875625897&rd=1

 

[goatfarmer]

Is that a GM 1-18,or a Westinghouse facsimilie? Hard to tell by the picture....

kennyGF

 

[agiflow]

The lid looks like a westy design

 

[Unimatic1140]

Jamie, although it looks like a 1/18 it's not a 1-18, its an early 80s WCI washer. Look at the sids of the top, they swoop up like a 70's Westinghouse.

 

[pulsator]

Oops. Soooooooooooooooooo sorry. I just got so excited! Can I change the title to "Piece of S***!!!"?

 

[Jetaway]

Frigidaire

Those early WCI spin-offs were tough to detect. Your on the hunt.......the best is yet to come!!!

 

[peteski50]

False 1-18!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate to say it but the lid is a dead give away!
Peter

 

[lightedcontrols]

Hi Jamie! If you want a real GM Frigidaire 1-18, I have several in my warehouse. Just picked up two yesterday and you're welcome to have one. I don't know if they work or not as right now I have no way of hooking them up to test. When I see them, I grab them and put them in the warehouse so that members can have them if that shoud be one of their dream machines. I picked up an avacado one with a window in the lid, and an almond one without the lid window. I'll put your name on one if you want it. Mark

 

[angus]

I am still hoping for one in Poppy Red. The white one I found some time ago was mistakenly sent off to the Krusher by the very guy that found it for me - - very boneheaded move. Oh, well......

 

[westytoploader]

YUK! I almost thought the same thing, until I saw that rounded Westinghouse-style lid...now I thought "P.O.S."

This machine still had the recirculating lint filter and speckled porcelain tub...might be fun to play with for a while. Put it this way: If it was in Texas I'd get it.

--Austin

 

[pulsator-power]

That control panel is the spittin image of the 1-18's though. You can tell by the top, the edges are more angular than that.
Anyone remember when the 1-18's came with a plastic lid? We used to have a home improv./lumber co called Wickes Lumber here that sold Frigidaire in the 70's. Some of the BOL models had rough plastic lids.
Jerry

 

[peterh770]

Look closely at the graphic on the water level control. It's an agitator, not a Jet Cone...

 

[westytoploader]

"Anyone remember when the 1-18's came with a plastic lid? Some of the BOL models had rough plastic lids."

The rare, lower-end, 24" Agitub machines (as well as the Agitub Skinni-Minis) had plastic lids. They weren't considered "true 1-18s" I don't think.

 

[peterh770]

Steve 1-18 has a 1-18 with a plastic lid. It is an early BOL machine.

 

[goatfarmer]

I remember the 1-18's with plastic lids. Didn't see too many of them,but remember seeing a few....

kennyGF

 

[laundromat]

plastic lid

the Frigidaire washers with the plastic lids were the 1-16s not 1-18.

 

[pulsator-power]

Well, they were still Frigidaires. Come to think of it, they were 1-16's. BOL? How much could they have saved with plastic.
(A forerunner of the WCI plastic future?)
Jerry

 

[westytoploader]

What were the differences between the 1-18 and the 1-16 ("Jet Action 16") as far as capacity/tub size go?

Also, in the 1970 Tech-Talk, there's a "2-18" model listed? What was THAT? I was thinking the "2 pieces or 18 pounds" statement, but if it can wash 2 pieces it can certainly hold one!