About as BOL as it gets.

[cam2s]

This came accross on my local craigslist and I thought I'd share here. I know some people enjoy BOL machines and these certainly fit the bill. The washer doesn't even have selectable water temps in the timer, it's a warm wash cold rinse. The agitator is a lovely shade of grey too.

 

[cam2s]

Galaxy Brand

 

[cam2s]

Grey agitator

 

[cam2s]

Washer controls

 

[cam2s]

Just an auto cycle, no timed dry.

 

[cam2s]

Money shot.

 

[cam2s]

Here's the link to the listing if anybody is interested.

http://grandisland.craigslist.org/app/4406044007.html

 

[wayupnorth]

I cant remember if Galaxy was the first other name the BOL for Sears or Capri but both were the definite BOL.

 

[hippiedoll]

oh my gosh!!!

how much more "basic" can you get than this set of washer & dryer!!??!!?? i don't think it gets any "plainer" than these here!!!

i would have never guessed a washer or dryer would be as basic as these!!!
LOL....

thanks for sharing this post. i really got a kick out of see these pictures.

)

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

The Dryer:

So basic, it doesn't have AIR FUFF!!!!

So no Delicate stuff can be washed in the washer----DELICATELY!!!!

-- Dave

 

[washdaddy]

True BOL machines. I'm actually surprised the dryer has an automatic cycle on it as opposed to just a timed cycle.

Even though the washer has only one temp setting programmed into it (warm wash, cold rinse) you can alter your wash temp to what you want by adjusting the water supply faucets. It just depends on what you want to do to achieve the temps you want. Where there's a will there's a way by all means.

 

[fido]

Yes, I would have thought a clockwork timer would be the simplest and cheapest form of dryer control.

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Warm wash only???? What the f..... NO! I mean really??? Not for me! But you could just close cold water tap and get only hot during filling and adjust faucets to fit your temp needs....as BOL as it gets for real! After this you only have actual semi- automatics!

 

[lebron]

They look very low use, perhaps in a condo or cabin that didn't see many people?

 

[foraloysius]

Temperature selection at the tap and no water lever selection, you're supposed to wash full loads only. I guess you would find these machines in salons for washing towels or so?

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Right,...water level along with it! You can do reduced loads and or few items but you'd waste lot of water it is not needed for them.....

 

[norgeway]

I would just as soon have...

An ingrown toenail....You could get rid of that!!LOL

 

[akronman]

Dryer

I have that dryer. It's got very accurate controls, you just set it at that star and hit the button. No buzzer or anything, but it works well. And will probably run forever.

The washer-----I wouldn't want it, true, but as a college kid it would have been an improvement over carrying laundry baskets to the bus to the laundromat. I would have loved it. It would be easy to turn off the cold water at the start to get a hot wash, then just turn the valve back on once it fills, you'll get your cold rinse.

I bet Sears priced them right in the day.

 

[mrb627]

Capacity

These would be the same capacity as a coin-op machine, right? So why the issues with doing full loads?

Also, that indicator in the timer dial at the 11 o'clock position, is that the last increment of agitation before draining wash water or the dry agitate setting?

Malcolm

 

[combo52]

BOL Sears Washer and Dryer

These were made as an advertising enticement to get people into the Sears appliance department in their stores. The interesting thing is they only cost a few bucks less to make that the pair that was priced for hundreds more that Sears wanted you to buy.

That said I would have NO PROBLEM using these as my only washer and dryer for the next 20 years, I can certainly think of much worse machines to have. Back in the mid 80s when we got a lot of the basic 24" single dial DD washers on product exchanges I would always bring them into my home shop and do all my laundry in them with no problem at all.

The dryer has auto-dry because auto-dry is required on all dryers to save energy and also to help protect against over drying to reduce fire risk.

 

[gansky1]

In 1998 I had a Kenmore version of this washer, but with three water level and temp switches on a darker brown panel.  It was a giveaway, left in a house a friend bought.  It held a surprising amount of laundry and even with the straight vane agitator, turned over nicely and washed well.  It could have probably performed better on very large loads with a dual-action agitator, but I had no complaints.

 

I remember my mother coming to visit and being confounded by my having TWO washers.  What for??

Oh, just wait, Mom

 

[tomturbomatic]

The one thing that dryer could NOT do was operate on 120 volts and shut off automatically because it was a time/temperature auto dry system. The WP-built portable dryers for 120 volt operation all had electronic dry controls for the automatic termination cycle.

 

[logixx]

how much more "basic" can you get than this set?

Kinda off-topic, but this dishwasher has a even more BOL cycle selection than the washer in this thread - only one cycle.

Back on topic: I know some people, who'd only need Wash My Clothes and Dry My Clothes as available options...

http://www.blomberginternational.com/urun_detay.aspx?kat=1466&urn=4184&lang=en-US

 

[cleanteamofny]

BOL Dishwasher is insane!

One cycle will clean most loads if it has a smart sensor to measure water soils condition!

 

[cleanteamofny]

The wash tub holes looks from the era of 97/98 unless the machine is older and the tub was replaced!

 

[fido]

"How much more "basic" can you get than this set?"

Well, you could just have the washer and no dryer. I've washed my own clothes since 1981 and never felt the need to own a tumble dryer.

 

[sarahperdue]

Looks perfect...

For my boys. At 9 and 11, they strive for functional laundry incompetence hoping that we will just take over for them.

And the washer has more features than the functional features of the first washer I had in college. I hooked it up to the garden hose in the garage of my rental house and ran the drain hose down the hill in the backyard. Cold/Cold, but it beat trips to the laundromat any day of the week.

I had a friend in Richmond, VA whose only washer was a Kenmore table top portable. She did laundry for herself and her husband in it. Talk about basic. Hers didn't even have the drain valve at the bottom.

Sarah

 

[yogitunes]

one mans trash, is anothers treasure.....

may not be the dream set we are all used to.....but for some, this may be all they could afford, or felt they needed....

and for some, it may be the holy grail versus the laundry mat, or washing by hand....

this mentality would be no different of a TwinTub in the 60's.....may seem too much of hands on by todays standards, but think back in the day, something this small and simple could have made daily life so much easier for many...

we play with machines today, knowing automatics are readily available....but sit back and wonder, in that era, you used what you had to get by, may not been the best way of doing things, but you adapted to make it as easy as possible...and some task were drudgery...

 

[washdaddy]

Malcolm-
I think that mark on the dial indicates the end of the wash and beginning of the drain and spin before the rinse.

Rick

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Well, If I had to choose among no washer and these ones, of course I'd get these any day....
Just find very weird at how an automatic machine may not have what I call basic essentials like a temp selector, which cannot really believe may have increased the price that much to make it lesser appetible...so I hope to do not offend anyone saying that this is true nonsense....
Load selector is just a plus as it may allow only a water saving feature not affecting the work it has to do as the washer will actually get clothes clean whenever you load it with a full load of towels or just one t-shirt, even though in the last case you'd have water wasted for nothing...
You know, I own a twin tub, and for what concerns the washing I can decide how much water use and just get it from the tap the temp I want it..
But it's a twin tub....
This one is an automatic, it wash and spins itself, but you have to play with taps to get an hot wash which should not miss in any respectable washer worth to be called so IMO, also you cannot fill it less for reduced loads like you could indeed do with any wringer or twin tub machine....so just don't get this, you'd have more flexibility with a twin tub in this sense....I think of me, having the taps hook up under the sink, and cannot really imagine me playing with taps when I want an hot wash with a pair like this....
Since temperature selectors are and were really not a feature all this expensive to install I'd have just found sensed them to have at least this, i can live with a washer with 1 cycle only and a full tub fill only as I could manually play and adjust the cycle according to llaundry i have to wash,, but cannot live with a thing having no temp selector may it be taps or actual selector I can easily reach to select the wash temp I want...that in a machine even if having only one cycle meant as auto WASH RINSE SPIN would make of it an actual automatic...it is just is not completely automatic without a temp selector IMO..