A sought-after Kenmore found!

[appnut]

Gordon, our 1970 or 1971 Kenmore 800 had the two minute drain and the two minute spin with the the 4 spray rinses and then it stopped and filled for the main rinse. Always a suds lock on a load of towels, even with low-suds All. And our 19775 or 1976 series 70 large4 capacity had the 4 minute drain and the two minute spin with the 4 spray rinses and then stop for the rinse fill.

 

[kenmoreguy64]

tbolt - Yes, this machine has an off-balance buzzer. Most of the better Kenmores do, but in 1980 you had to have the third or fourth 70 series (out of four) or better to get one.

Greg - Yes, the detergent dispenser IS cool, however yesterday I wound up cursing a storm at it. I used the machine in the morning to wash the towels that I dirtied during the testing and install of the '82 60. That went fine, but somehow the detergent solenoid got wet (I did let the 82 drain into this machine with its test water), and since it had more of that detergent residue that was everywhere else in the machine, it stayed wet and gooey. Every time I would plug the machine in, immediately the garage GFI would blow. Without a working test meter, I wound up eliminating one thing after another trying to determine what would cause this. Couldn't believe that the solenoid in this machine is hot all the time. I knew the timer and cycle modifier switch would be, but the detergent solenoid? WOW Without the solenoid in line, the timer is dead in the first 6 minutes of wash in Normal, all of Delicate, and the first 4 minutes of Perm. Press. The function of the Pre-Soak and Pre-Wash was unaffected since the dispenser is not used in those cycles.

I'm going to have to get the solenoid out of the machine, clean it completely, and cross my fingers that it isn't shorted out. I worked on that problem for at least four hours!! Talk about frustrating each time I'd plug the machine in and hear the instant 'pop' of the GFI. Glad to know it works though, lol. By the time I disconnected the solenoid, I was getting pretty punchy.

Another note to self - get new batteries for the test meter!

Gordon

 

[kenmoreguy64]

I learned something interesting about this machine this morning while looking at machine parts diagrams on Sears's site today. This machine as I've said is a 1980 model, and is an 80-series. I was thinking it was a pretty fancy model to be an 80, then I compared the 1979 version, which was a 90 series and found an interesting difference.

My machine (110.82082100) has a standard bleach dispenser that drains into the outer tub, and came with an agitator mounted softener dispenser in addition to the mechanical solenoid operated detergent dispenser.

The 1979 version (110.72992100) had the same solenoid operated detergent dispenser, but instead of the two separate other dispensers that the 1980 version had (kinda lame ones for a TOL machine) the '79 had the dual sump, dual solenoid operated bleach/fabric softener tank on the left front cabinet corner. It may have been one of the later models to have this feature.

I previously thought these two machines had been clones, but now I see why one is an 80-series and the other a 90.

Just for grins, I checked the 78 model and found it to have the two separate switches for soak and second rinse, instead of the multi-function cycle modifier switch.

Kinda thought this was cool...

Gordon[this post was last edited: 5/30/2010-23:59]

 

[appnut]

Gordon, that's what I was getting at. Kind of pointless to have a auto detergent release at the beginning of the main wash after prewash or soak and not having timed release softner and bleach dispensers. That's why I asked about the dispener in the front left because it had the exact same space of real estate as that of the timed dispeners in the 1979 90 series model. The 1979 90 series may have also had a light over the tiemr dial. The 1978 series 90 did. I hated to see them combine the two outer knobs on the 1978 90 series into one single cycle modifier in the 1979 model. Kind of blew the panel symmetry. The corresponding 1978 90 series dryer had the four little knobs--start button, variable signal, temp selector, and winkle guard II on/off control. That 90 series dryer was the only one in the line with a medium heat setting. All others had either high or low only, in addition to air fluff.