A Maytag Grows in Brooklyn: Part Two

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<span style="font-size: medium;">This time with the LoadSensor agitator. A big thank you to RayJay and Yogi!</span>

 

<span style="font-size: medium;">Estate Sale Find! (Original Thread):</span>

 

<span style="font-size: medium;">http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?23042</span>

 

<span style="font-size: medium;">A Maytag Grows in Brooklyn Part 1:</span>

 

<span style="font-size: medium;">http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?37327</span>

 

<span style="font-size: medium;">Maytag A107 Timer Won't Advance:</span>

 

<span style="font-size: medium;">http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?38391
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<span style="font-size: medium;">There he is, so innocent and unassuming...</span>

 

 

 

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<span style="font-size: medium;">Powerfin:</span>

 

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<span style="font-size: medium;">A nekked shot:</span>

 

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<span style="font-size: medium;">LoadSensor...all you need to do is tighten the set screw. </span>

 

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<span style="font-size: medium;">All tightened up and ready to go.</span>

 

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<span style="font-size: medium;">Yep, I know, a bit too tall for a standard tub.</span>

 

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<span style="font-size: medium;">Long ain't it? The agitator you pig. </span>

 

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<span style="font-size: medium;">However you can remove the softener dispenser.</span>

 

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<span style="font-size: medium;">And the lid would close just fine. Of course you'd need to use the Downy Ball. </span>

 

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<span style="font-size: medium;">And now the fun begins...</span>

 

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<span style="font-size: medium;">YES Yogi, I tossed in the jockstrap...</span>
 
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<span style="font-size: medium;">First Spin. Hear the timer running and clicking?</span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Final Spin Part 1:</span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Final Spin Part 2:</span>
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That's all folks!

 

[roto204]

Holy schnikies!!

Wow, I didn't know you could even get the LoadSensor in a standard-capacity machine, much less on a non-set screw post.  It looks like it works really well, too!

 

[Ultramatic]

It did work rather well...

<span style="font-size: medium;">the only downside was I had no lint filter, and of course too tall to use with the fabric dispenser on if I wanted the lid closed. Another plus, no splashes, well compared to the Powerfin. </span>

 

[tomturbomatic]

The drive shaft is the same, just missing the black agitator-retaining ring in set screw agitator models, but you don't have to remove the retaining ring to use a set screw agitator. I run a black powerfin with set screw in my 102 Highlander with the ring on the shaft. It seems that the only black power fins you find today are from commercial applications where they used the set screw, maybe to prevent agitator theft.

Running the load sensor without the 50 cycle pulley or the orbital tranny is sort of counter productive since the shorter fins depended on faster agitation than the helical drive tranny supplies.

 

[combo52]

MAYTAG AGITATORS

The neat thing about MT agitators is that they are all somewhat interchangeable including the ones used in the AMP style washers as far as fitting on the agitator shaft. At some point in the 1980s all MTAs started using a retaining screw, this was to prevent their flying off when the washer was in use. Usually when one came off it was because someone had removed it and not pushed it down all the way on the retaining ring or the ring was worn or missing. But they would fly off at times and their were a few injuries associated with this. I have seen times where this happened and the flying agitator would knock the lid off the lid balls and the lid would be chipped when it hit the basement floor. This type of event did not make for a happy house wife when it was a less than year old MT washer.

 

But Toms right the Load Sensor agitator is not a great performer in the older washers unless you at least speed the action up a little. It probably is a lot more gentile however than the over sized Powerfin agitator with its long strokes tearing at delicate fabrics in the one speed A107.

 

[peteski50]

Maytag!

Louie Thanks for posting these great videos
Peter