maytaga806
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Greetings everyone! When I was a child from the age of being a newborn til I was seven years old we had a 90s Roper in the household, and I’ve been wondering for many years when Roper was first introduced, and if the first two photos below is of the first series of Roper washers? I saw a scan in here about 1991 Roper Washers and Dryers with this same console as what I’m about to share so I’d assume it was 1991 Roper washers and dryers were launched? I’ve never seen another variety of Roper machines other than direct driven (from before the new belt drives). This is such a rare, never spoken about direct drive line on here, and even though they didn’t come with all the bells and whistles as others did they were very nicely styled machines still and I loved the chrome lining on ours and red and blue logo, but that turquoise agitator the most! Back form when washers were allowed to be fun looking, instead of bland and all white. This was such an iconic looking machine for something more on the basic side and our family loved this machine dearly, the extra options you find on other machines were just unnecessary for us because that machine provided more than exceptional performance in every load given the cycles it did have.
Clearly they updated/refreshed the console at some point in the 90s, our machine was the refreshed model that had the black console still but with the two knobs on the left now closer together to each other and the bleach dispenser was the updated more popular triangular style. Ours still had the turquoise dual action agitator, and the old style pump. Will attach photos of what we had so you can see the difference and make more sense of it. Hopefully someone has some insight on when they were launched, and maybe when they were slightly refreshed? I’m aware all the whirlpool made machines underwent that slight refresh not just the Roper machines. Ours had to be rather a 1994-1996 model cause I’m aware the older pumps stopped production around 97 or 96.
First two photos are of the style in question of whether it was the first Roper models, pic credit from Shorties Applainces, the third pic is a real photo of our machine, and the last two photos are of another listing from shorties of the same identical model as ours just so you can see it more closely as well as the interior.
Clearly they updated/refreshed the console at some point in the 90s, our machine was the refreshed model that had the black console still but with the two knobs on the left now closer together to each other and the bleach dispenser was the updated more popular triangular style. Ours still had the turquoise dual action agitator, and the old style pump. Will attach photos of what we had so you can see the difference and make more sense of it. Hopefully someone has some insight on when they were launched, and maybe when they were slightly refreshed? I’m aware all the whirlpool made machines underwent that slight refresh not just the Roper machines. Ours had to be rather a 1994-1996 model cause I’m aware the older pumps stopped production around 97 or 96.
First two photos are of the style in question of whether it was the first Roper models, pic credit from Shorties Applainces, the third pic is a real photo of our machine, and the last two photos are of another listing from shorties of the same identical model as ours just so you can see it more closely as well as the interior.
