1959 Kenmore "Frog Eye" Washer - Texas

[westytoploader]

I agree Rick; two "eyes" bulging out at an angle from the top of the cabinet...LOL!

I'm hoping the black hex-drive Surgilator that Don sent me will work with this machine...

 

[fixerman]

Pilotless ignition on 59 frog dryer

I believe WP/Kn had the Pilotless ignition as early as 1955 or so. It operated a little different than the later models. The burner had a glow coil, This glow coil ignited the pilot and then the pilot heated a thermocouple which turned the burner on.

 

[david]

KM/WP pilots

Hi fixerman-that's very interesting. I guess I would expect them to be slightly different back then. Thanks for the info-David

 

[zzzzz]

Spark ignition?

Didn't the "Frog Eye" gas dryer use spark ignition instead? The mid/late-1960s KM "match-all" dryer my parents owned in my childhood had.

The ignitor I'm talking about was a box a little smaller than a butter cube holding a set of switch contacts mounted on two arms. When energized, the contacts stuttered and arced, igniting the gas. Crude and unusual witth a weird sound, but it worked.

 

[gregm]

jubilee still available

I have ordered Jubilee from SCJOHNSON on line and yes it is still available in spray cans, not sure about liquid form. It is great stuff and has a nice, clean scent ............

 

[fixerman]

Spark ignition?

The spark igniters came later. The dryers I described earlier had a small Glo Coil about the size of a sugar cube with two wires going to a transformer or something. What you describe is a spark igniter but they were cylinder shaped with the two electrodes coming out the end and much larger than a sugar cube.

 

[Compwhiz]

Thats the same washer my neihbors used to have. Yet they replaced it due to load capacity. Yet the replaced one is still vintage!

Apperently they still have the dryer!

 

[westytoploader]

Who's "GEfilterfloman"?

The game has officially begun...;-)

 

[shawn]

Kenmore Washer

This machine reminds me of the washer my aunt had, but I think the one she had the lid opened from front to back also it had a large agitator in it. This was many years ago so I could be wrong.

 

[appnut]

Shawn, you're correct in your memory. My aunt had a washer like that too--hmmboth aunts on my mom's side had kenmores. My dad's brother's wife had a KA12 and a WO65.

 

[westytoploader]

Well guys, I bid up to $250, and so far I'm winning...YAY! In another hour we'll see how it goes.

--Austin

 

[launderess]

Not No More You're Not

GEFilterflowMan beat your bid by $5 and change.

Better get on the stick.

Me? Would have snipped.

L.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Sorry to hear that Austin, others will come up though for sure.

 

[kenmore1978]

bidding

You'e last bid was an hour before the end. In situations like this you have to "lurk" to the very last minute, then put in the maximum bid that you're willing to pay for item. If you're still overbid, then the other person obviously put in a LARGE bid, probably more than you're willing to spend. If not, then they will have to scramble to beat your bid before the auction ends, meanning they have to either try and find how high your bid is by bidding until they beat you (which takes time while the clock is ticking), or guess at putting a REALLY high bid and take a chance that they'll beat your high bid and you'll have no time to react.

 

[bethann]

I'm sorry Austin!

Kenmore 1978 is right! Don't bid on anything until the end, it will just drive the bid up!
I sure hope GE FilterFlo man isn't a member on this site! If Austin sees that picture he just might start stalking you!
You have got to look at it like this Austin. If you didn't get it there's a reason! Don't be sad.

 

[launderess]

I Feel Your Pain Too

Kenmore1978 is on the money with this one.

Austin your final bid was one hour before the auction ended, which gave GEFilterFlow man time to revise his bid. Was hoping you would see my post and go back and snipe, but guess you got busy with other stuff.

In situations like that, especially where you see a dedicated bidder coming back time after time revising his bids to be the highest bidder, you really have to snipe in the last few moments with the highest money you've got.

Don't sweat it though, your time will come, of this I am sure.

Launderess

 

[Manoravenue]

I feel the need to

I'm fairly certain we've all won items that others would also like to have won and, on the flip side, we've all lost out on items that we'd like to have won. Lots of people have found or won washers/dryers that I'd give anything to have found first, but I didn't behave like this on those occasions. Many times they found what they found because I steered them in the right direction, and that made me feel happier for them. I know for a fact that just about everybody in this club has machines in their collection from yesteryear that would put my somewhat "rinky-dink" collection to utter shame, and I take great pleasure in seeing the photos of those collections and view them with pleasure and as an incentive to improve my collection. This type of fairly "bitter" conversation that's gone on about the 1959 Kenmore doesn't strike me as making for much group camaraderie, at least not from the standpoint of a relatively new member. I wonder, is this the type of discussion that takes place every time somebody in the club happens to lose out on an auction for a washer or dryer?

 

[partscounterman]

I don't see anything "bitter" about the conversation on this thread. It reads to me like everyone is saying "oh well, better luck next time." There is nothing bitter about lending some "emotional" support to a friend that lost out this time.

 

[westytoploader]

I don't feel bad at all despite losing this auction. Why? Well...you'll see ;-)

--Austin

 

[Manoravenue]

Seems like the "long way around the barn" of saying "better luck next time." Begins to sound too much like the background conversations I hear at work when somebody loses out on the last pair of shoes or some other "must-have" item at a bargain sale. Maybe it's my perception: I just felt that a friendly, congenial, "Hey, congrats to whomever it was that won," would have been a lot more pleasant to read.