'64 Norge WASH VIDEO finally

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I tried to upload this months ago and now thanks to youtube.com I finally can share this video, I LOVE the wash action of the Norge. Its my favorite.

 
spin spray vid

ok, this is pretty funny, this is the semi-spin/extract phase first during drain then the high speed spin kicks in and watch the filter come lose and fall into the tub, then spray rinse, cracks me up, shows it doesn't take much to amuse me .............

 
Was that a lint filter or a fabric softener dispenser????? <:
 
self cleaning, haha

perfect Jimmy, "self-cleaning" indeed ............ does your Norge oscillate as fast ? I am sure it washes just as well. Thanks for your comment :)
 
Thanks for the vids, Greg! It's always fun to see a vintage machine in action. But can you imagine what must go through the mind of a non-washerhead who stumbles on washer vids at YouTube? "What the hell? It's a video of a FREAKIN' WASHING MACHINE!" LOL!
 
flying filter

yea, now, I remove the filter during the spin portion, until I figure a way to secure it, it has a couple chips in it, hahaha, now we know why ...........
 
Hi Greg, EXCELLENT video, thanks for sharing!!! While I knew perforated-tub Norges agitated faster than their solid-tub counterparts, your '64 is much faster than I thought and the turnover looked great; to say that I'm impressed is an understatement! Will that BIG spiral-vane fit in this one?

I didn't realize these machines started out on low-speed spin after the partial neutral drain and then shifted to high, amazing!
 
What Happened :-D

Hi Greg, how are you doing? My name is Peter, I am deaf and best friend.

I look drop of the wash filter in the spin tub, what happened? I am little laugh!!
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- Peter (kenmorepeter5ab) ;-D
 
Greg, boy does this bring back memories of a 10.5 y/o boy. The agitation, the small walls of water bouncing back & forth as the top of the agitator fins bats those waalls back & forth and the little bit splashing up to the ring just above on the agitator. I have to admit, our sequence was a bit different. It would drain, a totally neutral drain, then about 20 seconds before the next timer increment move, it would kick into spin and ramp right on up through the "whatever govenor type thing" used as the plateau for the slow spin and continue up to fast spin then the clutch would disengage and it would start coastin and then the spray would come on. As ours got older, the coasting took fewer and fweer seconds--as did the comparable Moneky Wards across the street. And pretty abysmal as a perm press cool down intent with the slow speed spin. did the filter pan survive? Thanks for the memories. Would you mind panning the control panel again so Ican see all the detail? Bob
 
same bob

same drain/extract/spin sequence on this machine as you describe, just not well seen in the vid.

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Ys sirree Greg, that is indeed a 1964. That was a model down a notch or two from our TOL. The gentle speed cycle is where our soak cycle and the suds return on the timer were. And thank you for clearing up the sequence. It just threw me that it seemed to take forever to get up to speed where the spin would kick into normal. Hang on to that washer Greg, it's very rare. BTW, there was a silver looking thing that went inside the timer knob, but didn't have hte red "indicator" similar to the smaller temp & level knobs.
 
RINSE video

Here is the fill and start to the rinse agitation, again, I truly love the turnover and vigorous action of this machine. Plus Norge has all the great clunks, bangs and sounds. :)

 
Oy!

Love those vids, Greg. And some of us with Westinghouse-design top-loaders feel your pain about the lint filter. My Frigidaire faux 1-18 loved to present me with the lint filter floating in the rinse water with astonishing regularity...

*sigh*

It was invariably clean at the end of it all, though... :-)
 
Excellent videos, Greg - those Norges are a treat to see running, lots of water and even more drama with the limp-filter syndrome that was common to these non-burp up designs. I had a couple of Montgomery Ward (Norge built) washers but got rid of them and now regret it!
 
Greg, I honestly thought about permanently cement glueing our filter to the docking bay when our saber-tooth lock finally started wearing down with the resulting lint filter throw out during spin syndrome. For quite a while, it wobbled during spins and continued to wear that "tooth" down. I really did love that washer. My only beef was the cycle buttons pretty much were useful for only 3 settings without button manipulation. The whites cycle, the noncolorfast button, and delicates. W'nW/durable press button used hot water wash rather than warm, so I'd have to fill on warm and switch back to w'n'w button just before agitation started, which my mother thought was bad for the machine and watched me like a hawk NOT to do that. It would have been perfect if it had had lady kenmore button programming. The rinsing was awesome and 15 lbs. was by far the largeset capacity in 1964, everything else was 14 lbs. at best, if not 12. My choice I wanted dad to bring home was the one right below with the felixble speed and water temp combos. But, it didn't have timed dispensers, only on the dispenseomat and mom really awnted that modern touch after the 1955 GE was sent packing. And its cleaning was hell on wheels so to speak. We'd had the washer for about a year when my mom started bringing home linens of all sorts she found in my grandparent's house after my grandmother's death. And I got towash all of 'em. Talk about yellow water from all those years of sitting and turning yellow. And you're right, I miss all that clanking, banging, thunking noises make throughout the cycle. And when it would start the spin and, almost like a unimatic, start a 0 rpms, always knew when it started spinning, especially in the bathroom, cuz the lights dimmed lol. I would have also preferrred the model right below what we got for the dryer. The tol had heat & air fluff on the 4 cycle dial--timed, auto regular, auto w'n'w, and air fluff. The next model down had actual 4 temp buttons lol. I actually shrunk a couple of brand new man-made fiber shell blouses my mom bought in 1966 even with setting it on auto w'n'w. Mom was NOT pleased. But ohh, such a sexy laundry room I had with the room light turned off and the two full-panel fluorescent lights turned on both machines. I still think of it as very romantic even to this day lol.
 
Gregm:Cool! That Norge reminds me of the one my Mom had-hers had the metal lint pan.Loved it when the lint trap fell in during that spin cycle!Its hard to beat the action of those old Norges and their big bladed "angel wing" agitators.It seems the only way I can experience these machines now are thru the video clips I see on this website.Trying to find machines older than 30yrs here is almost impossible.No basements-so they hauled away-or they corrode to nothing from the very humid conditions here.
 
OK - I can't seem to get the videos to download. Do you do this in the usual way? You know, "Save As", etc... or do I need other capabilities? Dying to see those videos......

Thanks

Anthony
 
Great videos Greg! Thanks for posting them. I assume that huge Norge agitator is very powerful! I bet you could wash 10 pair of jeans in that machine.
 

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