Great Find Phil!
And a nice shade of brown as well, how fun!
And a nice shade of brown as well, how fun!
An Amazing Find Right Out of the 1965 Wards Catalog!!
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philr
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Wow Robert,
This set looks brand new! I enjoyed the pictures you sent me but to see them installed and lighted-up, that's awesome!
This set looks brand new! I enjoyed the pictures you sent me but to see them installed and lighted-up, that's awesome!
ovrphil
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Frozen
in amazement...that there are appliances in this condition YET somewhere out there
in the time and space appliance zone. Beautiful find.
(Fireworks and Pans Rattling)
in amazement...that there are appliances in this condition YET somewhere out there
in the time and space appliance zone. Beautiful find.
(Fireworks and Pans Rattling)
Thanks everyone for the well wishes. The washer had a few minor issues from sitting unused all those years that I corrected, but otherwise now works fine. The machine has a four minute rinse agitation cycle but the fabric softener dispenser is injected during the last minute of rinse agitation directly into the recirculation system. I didn't think that was a very smart design, so I took my Dremel tool and gently modified the softener cam inside the timer so it dispenses in the 2nd minute of rinse.
The dryer is gas and I put a splitter on the gas line so I could hook it up. It works just as it should to dry clothes, however since it was never used the rubber drive tires that the drum sits on have flat spots and the dryer thumps quite loudly. All those years of the drum sitting stationary on the one side of the rubber tires has pretty much killed those parts. Heating the drive tires does very little to quiet it down. The other problem is it seems to leak water out of the filter port due to dried seals. I tried replacing them with closed cell foam, but it doesn't seem to have made much of a difference.
Here was the original ad for the washer...
The dryer is gas and I put a splitter on the gas line so I could hook it up. It works just as it should to dry clothes, however since it was never used the rubber drive tires that the drum sits on have flat spots and the dryer thumps quite loudly. All those years of the drum sitting stationary on the one side of the rubber tires has pretty much killed those parts. Heating the drive tires does very little to quiet it down. The other problem is it seems to leak water out of the filter port due to dried seals. I tried replacing them with closed cell foam, but it doesn't seem to have made much of a difference.
Here was the original ad for the washer...
WOW! $20.00?
j/k, I know it was probably just a smidge more!
Well, I'll make an editorial comment. The softener dispensed rapidly and we never felt it was too late in rinse cycle. Gave a chance for residual suds to be agitated out of the load and the final minute the softener neutralize said suds--i.e. suds killer. That was the only thing I didn't like about the Kenmore 800--2 minute rinse. Kind of a come-down from the Dispense-o-Mat.
The dryer is pretty noisy when tumbling even when in proper working order. Sometimes I'd stop the drum rotating just so I could hear what a normal dryer sounded like. Always kind of a ka-thunka thunka. After about 5 or 6 years of age, the safety switch would stick "on"/"in" unless you pulled on it when you opened the door. I never bothered. Open the door to that first notch and permanent press would billow out with that forceful air blower/circulation. Kind of like a butler handing me a garment or two to hang up while tumbling. (always while using fluff when hanging up clothes). That routine kind of conditioned me to this day. All my dryers I let finish the cycle and then put on air fluff and keep tumbling and pull out two or three garments to hang up, thus no non-tumbling wrinkles. that 3 position hamper door spoiled me for life being able to lay the door flat against the bottom of the dryer to unload the load into laundry basket. Thus I'll never own a drop-down Whirlpool dryer model again (the Lady Shredmore's mate. If I ever have to get one to replace my Maytag Dependable Care, it will be a Maytag with side-swing door and top-mounted lint screen.
The dryer is pretty noisy when tumbling even when in proper working order. Sometimes I'd stop the drum rotating just so I could hear what a normal dryer sounded like. Always kind of a ka-thunka thunka. After about 5 or 6 years of age, the safety switch would stick "on"/"in" unless you pulled on it when you opened the door. I never bothered. Open the door to that first notch and permanent press would billow out with that forceful air blower/circulation. Kind of like a butler handing me a garment or two to hang up while tumbling. (always while using fluff when hanging up clothes). That routine kind of conditioned me to this day. All my dryers I let finish the cycle and then put on air fluff and keep tumbling and pull out two or three garments to hang up, thus no non-tumbling wrinkles. that 3 position hamper door spoiled me for life being able to lay the door flat against the bottom of the dryer to unload the load into laundry basket. Thus I'll never own a drop-down Whirlpool dryer model again (the Lady Shredmore's mate. If I ever have to get one to replace my Maytag Dependable Care, it will be a Maytag with side-swing door and top-mounted lint screen.
Wow
Now that is a find! They just follow you home!
Now that is a find! They just follow you home!
hippiedoll
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WOWZERS!!!!!!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS on such a beautiful coppertone set! and in such pristine condition, that is just too awesome!!! can't wait to see a washing video.
again CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!
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CONGRATULATIONS on such a beautiful coppertone set! and in such pristine condition, that is just too awesome!!! can't wait to see a washing video.
again CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!
Dtwintubber
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Absolutely Amazing!!!
Beautiful machines and in such pristine condition.
Congratulations to you. They look great in the Coppertone.
I must admit, I love some thing about this group. In reading all the well-wishes to you on this awesome find, it's like a huge Family where one Member just "adopted" a child. That shows just how special these machines are to us all and how close a group of caring people for them are when another finds one.
It's quite wonderful actually.....
Beautiful machines and in such pristine condition.
Congratulations to you. They look great in the Coppertone.
I must admit, I love some thing about this group. In reading all the well-wishes to you on this awesome find, it's like a huge Family where one Member just "adopted" a child. That shows just how special these machines are to us all and how close a group of caring people for them are when another finds one.
It's quite wonderful actually.....
