1974 Maytag A806

[trapperjohn]

I need help posting some pictures of my mom's washer & dryer pair that goatfarmer helped me get a replacement timer for.

Back up and running and not a drop of water or oil underneath them. Work perfectly. Needs a new timer dial as her's is faded to where you can't see the cycles very good.

Told you I'd post them when I finished. Timer was a -2, and I replaced with a -1. . .different shape but terminals were the same.

The pics are around 4.6Mb range and I don't know how to resize them as I've never posted pics before. It is my Windows photo gallery now. It looks like I can crop which cuts off picture but I can't resize???

 

[qsd-dan]

The pics are around 4.6Mb range and I don't know how to

The pics will automatically be re-sized when you upload them. No worries in that department.

 

[danemodsandy]

Here You Go:

Trapperjohn:

Go to the link below, which is for a free photo viewer and editor called IrfanView. Once you have downloaded and installed it, go to the File menu and select Open to open your picture; you navigate to the picture file the same way you go through your folders to get to any kind of file.

Once the picture is open, go to the Image menu and select Resize/Resample. A window will open up. In that window, you will see a check circle labelled "Set new size as percentage of original." Click on the circle, and then look at the two boxes below the label I just mentioned. Both of them will say "100%"; one is for the width of the picture, and one is for the height.

Click inside the Width box, and enter a new value, like 50%. You will see that the Height box will change to the same value automatically. What this will do is to reduce the size of the photo to half of what it was originally. If you wanted to take it to one-quarter its original size, you would enter "25%", and so on. Once you have entered the size value you want, click on the "OK" button at the bottom of that window. It will close.

Now go to the File menu again, and select Save; this saves the photo at the new size. One tip; it's always a good idea to make a copy of a photo, using the Save As selection of the File menu, and do your re-sizing on that copy. That way, you will never do anything irreversible to a photo you cannot replace.

To upload a resized photo here, enter whatever message you want to in the Message window on this page the way you always do. Then scroll down a little bit, and you will see a field labelled, "Upload JPEG Format Picture to share in message:" At the end of that field is a button marked "Browse.." Click it. Your folders will appear in a window, and you can navigate through them to find the picture you want to upload. When you've found it, click on it. Its filename will then appear in the field labelled, "Upload JPEG Format Picture to share in message:"

Now click on the button marked "Preview Message" at the bottom of the page the same way you do for any message. Your message, with picture, should come up, just like previewing any written message does. Then you click on the button labelled "POST this to Discuss-O-Mat," the way you always do to post a message.

This is all actually very easy; you'll have the hang of it in no time.

http://www.irfanview.com/

 

[danemodsandy]

Trapperjohn:

What Dan said is true; your photos will be resized here for viewing automatically. However, such huge photos might take some time to upload, depending on the speed of your connection; the entire original file size has to upload before this site's software can magically resize it for you. On really big photos like that, I often find it faster to resize photos myself, then upload the smaller version.

Up to you.

 

[Unimatic1140]

4.6mb is way too big

Due to security issues, I would never allow anyone to upload anything that big to the sever, you will get an error message. Any standard photo software will re-size photos, you need to make them 1000pix wide and then they will not have any issues.

 

[trapperjohn]

I didn't get an error message, but after I uploaded it (which took about a minute) only the top 1/8 of the picture was shown when I previewed it and it was huge.

I'll try what danemodsandy suggested tonight when I get off work.

Oh, by the way I still have the timer mtr off of the old one. Does anyone need it? I think the timer could be fixed as I think it is just a bad contact. It wouldn't go into spin on either the regular or perm press cycle. Sounds like a bad contact or contact associated hardware to me.

 

[bajaespuma]

Maybe this will help

I don't know what image software you have on your computer, but what I do to resize big images is to choose "SAVE AS" and then go to the "TYPE OF FILE" box to save them as JPEGS. When you do this, you'll get a sub-menu with a numeric scale that asks you whether to save them as a large file or a small file. I usually choose the number 50 and they're small enough to use.

 

[redcarpetdrew]

Funny as it sounds, I simply take the picure and open it in Paint. Click the resize option and resize it to about 35/45% and then click "save as...". They come out perfect sized for the thread and upload really quick...

RCD

 

[goatfarmer]

Glad that timer worked out, Tom. Now let's see those pictures!

 

[trapperjohn]

Here we go:

 

[trapperjohn]

Thanks redcarpetdrew, that was painless and easy.

 

[trapperjohn]

And again:

 

[reo580]

What Beautiful Maytags! Love the back lit panels. I am jealous lol

 

[spankomatic]

Oh! Those are sweet! What year are they?

Jim

 

[trapperjohn]

wooohoooo!!! This is fun!

 

[trapperjohn]

1974, Jim.

 

[gadgetgary]

Real nice!

Good Luck with those beauties!

 

[trapperjohn]

Gotta thank goatfarmer for the replacement timer! The appliance tech that came out said she needed new units and that he would have to junk these. LOL...

Like taking a near-perfect 57 Chevy with a bad starter to the junkyard.

 

[trapperjohn]

just a couple more:

 

[swestoyz]

Trapper - Nice set of Maytags! Glad to see someone here from along I-380.

Ben

 

[gadgetgary]

Since you have become an expert on posting pics....

Would it be possible for a close-up pic of the dial and buttons on the dryer?

TYVM

 

[trapperjohn]

Hey Ben, just down the street from ya.

Gadgetgary, I have one of the washer but not the dryer.

 

[trapperjohn]

ok, one more:

 

[rickr]

Very nice set. They look to be in very good condition!

 

[trapperjohn]

They are in very good condition. I'm not sure why I bought new whirlpools about 4 years ago. I wasn't aware of how much better washers were built back in the day. If I had it to do over...well you know what I'll be doing in a couple years.

I dislike the whirlpools. I work as a technician and get greasy cloths on a regular basis. With the whirlpool I put it on hot on the dial...it selects temp by how long of cycle you choose. I can not get it any hotter by turning up hot water heater or by putting hot valve on more than the cold. It must have a temp probe set @ about 100 degrees. Sure is hard to get some of my cloths clean when they get oil stained. Good thing where I work we make soap and have access to some relly good degreaser for pretreating. With my old units, if you selected hot, it gave you hot (about 130 degrees) right from the hot water heater. It is frustrating and time consuming.

I need to get some new or decent shape buttons for the maytag washer. I need a dial too. Probably hard to come by. I'll keep checking on E-bay, etc.

 

[qsd-dan]

Absolutely gorgeous! I have a '74 HA806/HDE806 and a '77 HA806/HDE808 washer/dryer in the same colors.

It appears that your set may be '75's or very late '74's. Post your model #'s and I'll decode them for you.

 

[beekeyknee]

Fantastic!

I can't believe anyone would suggest throwing those machines away. The repairmen always want to push their new junk off on people. It should be a crime. Hope you're not a appliance repairman. lol.

 

[toploader55]

Stunning !!!

Just Beautiful.

Take Care of those Beauties. Eddie

 

[polkanut]

I hope that either you, or your mother, told that service tech where to go when he said that she would need new machines.

 

[rp2813]

Beautiful Machines

Has it crossed anyone's mind that maybe repairmen tell people they need new machines because the repairman himself wants to get his hands on a set like TJ's gold beauties?

No offense to RCD, who I know is a very ethical guy and finds satisfaction in keeping old machines going for people who love them.

But here's a question for the Maytag experts among us:

When did they stop with the HOH drying system? I noticed TJ's dryer above isn't a HOH type, but he advised his pair are 1974 models. I thought HOH was still happening back then. Could it be that the larger capacity dryers weren't HOH but the smaller types still were?

Ralph