#1

[doug]

My 1980's ge filter flo set i hand made.

 

[doug]

#2

washer control pannel

 

[doug]

#3

inside washer with heavy duty 18 activator.

 

[doug]

#4

side view of inside

 

[doug]

#5

Had 2 incude the Super Suds.

 

[appnut]

Very nice Doug!!!!

 

[doug]

#6

Inside shot with the filter flo pan "made this out of a pill bottle cap, which is turned upside down".

 

[hassney]

Now that is impressive That's taken me back to a time when I made a washing machine out of wood, during my secondary school. God knows why I didn't claim it back, once I left school.

Brilliant!!

Hass

 

[cfz2882]

around age 10 or so i made a few replicas too-nowhere near as nice or
detailed as yours,they were usually norges as those were a favorite of mine
around that time.

 

[doug]

#7

washer and dryer

 

[doug]

#8

washer and dryer #2

 

[doug]

#9

dryer control pannel

 

[doug]

#10

dryer inside, sorry about the quality of this pic.

 

[doug]

Thanks

Thanks hassney, yea im not so happy about the front of the dryer when u open the door, but i just reciently redone the washer lid, i took a pic of my ge washers lid and printed it onto reg. paper and took my sisters clear fingernail polish and pasted it on the top of the plexiglass lid, then painted the top white it took me around 2 to 3 days to build just one of them.

 

[washerlover]

Wow! Impressive! I made a Wards/Signature pair out of 4x4 wood blocks when I was about 12...too bad they're gone. I made them for a neighbor girl's doll house. (of course that was my "excuse" to make something like that at that age...)

 

[hassney]

I don't see anything wrong with it. To build something like that is genius building anything takes time and patience, honestly keep up the hard work.

Hass

 

[tolivac]

VERY CLEVER-Right down to the instructions on the washer's lid!

 

[strongenough78]

Very nice!!

I give you mad props for that. I wouldn't have the patience. Very good job with the detail! What did you make them out of?

 

[frigilux]

Wow! I'm with Vern on this one: I commend your patience in taking on such a project!

 

[autowasherfreak]

I don't think I would have the patience either, LOL.  Nice job!

 

[mickeyd]

Doug, they're amazing.

No doubt that you really love washers. What devotion it took to make that !

 

How big are they? Here, they're lookin' full size. Heard you say about the pill bottle and the photo, but the way you shot them, they look huge. Pretty smart stuff.

 

[doug]

Thanks everyone i made them out of plexiglass, i use to make them out of cardboard boxes but when i would put water in it and get it on the top it would wrinkle up so i decided that plexiglass would last lol. they r 10 and a half inches tall but counting the control pannel they r a little over a foot tall. i made a homemade laundry room for them out of plywood, thats prob. why they look full size. The washer and dryer actually work i forgot to mention that, i put a remote controll car in the washer and u take the remote and go foward and backward for agitation and foward for spin. For the dryer i bought a little motor at hobby town and took it home and i had a extra battery pack and saudered some wires from the battery pack to the mtor and i too a rubber band for the belt and put it onto a green bean can for the drum lol. Then i took a coffee cup warmer and hot glued it to where it almost touches the drum for the heat.

 

[strongenough78]

Holy crap!!!

I didn't know they were functional too! That's very clever thinking! I know you said you made the filter flo pan out of a prescription bottle lid, what did you make the activator out of?

 

[bajaespuma]

Love the speckled porcelain tub! How'd you do that?

 

[doug]

I made the agitator out of butter bowl lids then spray painted it, i made the tub out of a butter bown and took a sauder gun and melted the butter bowl to made the wholes, then spray painted it black then took white paint and barely pressed the sprayer town thats how i got the white specks.

 

[doug]

#11

Back shot of washer note - look at the motor of the washer "the remote control car"

 

[doug]

back side of dryer

 

[doug]

dryer motor, drum, and belt.

 

[doug]

this is my actual washer and replica, my replica has all the same cycles and features as my actual washer, but the knits cycle is red in color, and the perm. press cycle is orange on the replica, my childhood filter flo was like my replica.

 

[doug]

this is the laundry room area i created out of plywood.