196? Westinghouse laundromat on EBAY

[laundromat]

Anyone here in Connecticut can go save this basic model. It looks like it's in fair to good condition. No serious rust spots on the door or door frame.Their starting bid is $100.Item number is

120755370911

 

[golittlesport]

I like those basic, bottom of the line machines. Three position water level switch and two water temps on the one-cycle timer dial. Cute machine.

http://cgi.ebay.com/120755370911?ru...70911&_sacat=See-All-Categories&_fvi=1&_rdc=1

 

[alr2903]

Golittlesport,  thanks for the link.  I have never run across that one. alr

 

[appnut]

I think this one has been online on sale before.  Nice condition. 

 

[ingliscanada]

Westy "Suds Saver"

I love Westinghouse's idea of "suds-saver" - simply a water level selector - rather than reusing the wash water for subsequent loads. I know there's no need for that in a front loader.

Gary

 

[countryguy]

That washer is very similiar to the dryer that we had when I was growing up. I've been trying to find pics of it but this washer is the closest I have seen.

Gary

 

[swestoyz]

Cute washer, but I'm surprised no one has said anything about the Frigidaire next to it...

Ben

 

[pdub]

I too recogniced the Unimatic porcelain cabinet sitting next to it with its black edge where the top meets the cabinet. Could this be a member here? (especially with that ebay user name!)

 

[gansky1]

This is Dan Haggarty, a long-time participant of the washer-events and a friend to many of the first wash-ins going back to the late 90's. He sells some things periodically on ebay, etc. and judging by a 100% positive feedback rating, most buyers seem to be satisfied.

That is a super-cute washer, sometimes the BOL machines have a charm all their own.

 

[gansky1]

Sorry, it's Don Haggarty, not Dan.  

 

[peterh770]

I had the matching dryer years ago.  Too much rust, had to become Krusher fodder.

 

[jetcone]

No its not Don

I contacted him. Nice little machine, Greg says it tranny drive not 3 belt but I can't believe that it has the 3 belt drum. Anybody familiar with this BOL model?

 

 

 

[combo52]

OLD WH FL WASHER

Hi Jon what is a three belt drum? Those bolt down WH FL washers were built with either a speed changer trans or the 3 belt system.

 

[arbilab]

Bolt down? We had 2 of them, one each tranny/3belt. Neither were bolted. They would dance if the load was substantially unbalanced, but they did have spring suspension unlike the boltdown Bendix. Coils on either side, leaf on top and bottom.

The tranny was barrel shaped so almost surely planetary rather than pinion/spur. On the back was a large lever and solenoid which engaged spin.

 

[tomturbomatic]

This has no tranny. It has three belts, the potato pulley to give variable speed tumbling, two drum vanes(red one is the lint ejector)and a solenoid (with a loud bang) shifter to put it into spin. This machine has the newer non-slanted drum and a totally kick ass pump that will throw a drain hose out of a stand pipe or laundry sink with almost as dramatic results as that little kid in the diaper commercial where the father undoes the front of the diaper and the kid sends out a stream like a fire hose that hits the ceiling, knocks over things, etc. The pump has 4 rubber vanes that touch the side of the pump chamber and the pump is run off the motor pulley. The machine shifts into the spin and nothing the drum spins out of the load overwhelms the pump. There is no stopping to pump out because there is only one motor and that motor is driving that pump and the drum. Memories of these Westinghouse machines made my Duet look like a weak sister. Plus it is still in the 30 inch wide cabinet so it is a stable as a widow at her 4th wedding.

 

[arbilab]

The pictured one is one of the earliest potato-pulley machines. Not sure why they did that. To make up for taking the slant away? I know of no other tumbler with an eccentric pulley.

The spin drive was elegantly simple. All parts accessible for service except the one-way clutch between the drum pulleys. No gears, cheaper and lighter. As a scrawny 12yo I could scoot the cabinet out from the wall.

The motor pulley arrangement was both clutch and variable speed/variable torque. If you forced the pulley halves together at low drum speed it would stall the motor but that never happened in normal operation.

I admire Wig-tags and May-wags, they were sturdy too, but nowhere near as easy to work on.

 

[jetcone]

You'll be slapped John L!


"Hi Jon what is a three belt drum? Those bolt down WH FL washers were built with either a speed changer trans or the 3 belt system"

I was using short hand so I didn't write "3 belts behind the drum"! KERRRSLAPPPPP!

 

 

[combo52]

3 BELT DRIVE WITH POTATO PULLEY

WH changed to the non-slanted tub and potato wash pulley drive with only two offset drum baffles to greatly improve performance. Getting rid of the ridicules tilted tub greatly minimized tangling and the variable wash tumble speed via the Potato Pulley greatly improved cleaning. The slanted cabinet design was continued through 1963-4 when all WH home laundry changed to 27" cabinets. I consider these 30"slant front WH FL washers to be the most desirable WH FL washers. These not only had the wider more stable cabinet design and they also had two hydraulic shocks that were much better that the earlier and again later friction snubbers.

 

[arbilab]

Guess I don't remember the tangling but I'm not too sensitive to that. Do remember the slants were much easier to unload than my White-Frigi horiz drum. Also remember our later potato Westy much more troublesome than the slants, might just have been that one. Had it a very short time, maybe a year, mom got pissed and insisted on something else so we got a Westy TL that was also more troublesome. I was mostly out of the house by then so don't know the exact problems.

 

[norgeway]

Dons Mother

Had one of these and She insists to this day it was the best washer ever made, it finally died in the late 70s after washing for four kids and a husband who did construction and farming, so it must have been pretty good, it was not exactly like the one shown, but similar, the dial had a T shaped handle you grabbed.