Congratulations! You are going to have fun. Make sure that you put water in the pump before starting it. Let me know if your combo has the flat lint comb or if yours has the curved one. The original pumps were placed above the water level and had to suck air as well as water so they were just about the same as the pumps in the Bendix Economats where they pulled a vacuum for extraction.
My first WP came out of a friend's house. We ONLY had to move it from the carport onto the bed of a pickup. A VERY nice neighbor drove me over to get it. It took 4 teenagers to lift it. The combo rode steady all the way home. At my house, the reception from my parents was very chilly, but my father helped us lift it down on to the driveway. I had no hand truck, so I pulled and twisted the machine on a thick piece of cardboard so that the leveling feet would not tear the rug and dig into the lawn and under that a long carpet runner. I tugged the thing half-way around the house to the sliding door downstairs. I had to make a plywood ramp to get it over the tracks, but I got her inside. It was the Fall of 1968. I had to buy Allen wrenches to remove the timer dials.
You are lucky that yours is the electric drying version (the little red lightning bolt in the tuning fork is the indicator). The gas models of these are prone to porcelain failure where the lower left side of the tank sits next to the burner. It will be interesting to see, when you get inside the machine, if the little baffle on top of the heater box still opens and closes. The one I got was stuck open. Ray & Bob's mother took very good care of her husband and if he walked in the house at the end of the day while the combo was drying, she immediately popped the door latch to shut if off. That left that cherry red heating elements just glowing and the little spring on the baffle lost its springiness. The combo would not be restarted until he left the house, usually the next morning. When the machine is drying, you can look through the window toward the back, I want to say left side, and see the loops of the heating elements glowing where the hot air enters.
Have lots of fun with your monster combo. I wish I had not been forced to give up mine to get Brenda Bendix, but sometimes others call the shots.
