ANOTHER Maytag find: The Highlander

[foraloysius]

Wonderful set. This is the first time I have seen this particular model here. And then a matching dryer. Great find!

I found the video you made on Youtube. Here it is.

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[westingman123]

Beautiful, Tim!

 

[kenmore71]

What I never realized is that the Highlanders were only accessible from the back. I was scratching my head for a bit when I saw the motor, pump, fill valves and suds valves all on one side of the machine. I guess you had to move up a couple of models to get "front panel" service access!

 

[mistereric]

Those are lovely machines! I've never seen the suds valve mounted there either, but it makes sense. I still ned to find a good valve for my 700 series at some point.

 

[turquoisedude]

Wow, Tim, that is a great find indeed!  Congratulations!!

 

[mickeyd]

An "S" for suds--how nice?

 

 

Tim, have you thought of saving the suds right in the other Tag, so you can see if the system works.

Enjoyed the video, gives a better sense of how a Highlander differs from what came next for those of us who don't know.

 

Betting that the black bakelite will put on quite a show as the suds return.

Thanks for the video and to Louis for linking it.

 

[MaytagA710]

Its nice to see a Highlander video on YouTube, thanks for sharing and congratulations on a excellent and rare find! They are beautiful machines.

 

I have the complete parts breakdown and list/diagrams for the A502S if you ever wanted to see them. Unfortunately, that is all I have. I do have a complete service manual for the 06 series machines, and they are somewhat similar to the "02" series. Let me know anytime and I can scan in whatever you want to see!

 

[revvinkevin]

 

 

Hey Tim,

 

CONGRATS on finding these!   They look AWESOME!

 

I wasn't a huge fan of the "Highlander" models, probably I usually saw the BOL versions (and I grew up with an A700), but I have to say this 502 version is very, very nice!   And a suds saver model too, WOW!

 

Congrats again!

 

So now you are going to have to change your screen name to Maygatboi91Si..... LOL

 

Kevin

 

[combo52]

MAYTAG HIGHLANDERS

WOW  Tim it is neat to see a pair of these that survived so well. Between 1956-1965 3/4 or more of all MTs washers and dryers were Highlanders and yet we seen to see more of the top two lines these days that had the nice glass back panels with florescent lights.

 

I must have worked on hundreds of Highlanders in the 1970s and a few in the 1980s. They were the same machine as the better models mechcanlly, if fact your A502 does every thing the A702 does except for the bleach dispenser and lights. All the Highlanders had the Suds-Saver valve mounted on top of the water pump. Buy the early 1960s these were pretty durable machines after they worked a lot of the problems that they had in the late 1950s machines. The main thing we did was replace broken motor rollers, the fill U tube hose, inlet valves and timers. Unlike the more expensive models these had real metal SS hinges so we didn't even have to replace the plastic lid balls that were always breaking on the TOL models.

 

[macboy91si]

The "Super-Highlander"

I did not realize this was an actual model, but I was looking around on the interwebs and found this that Ben (Swestoyz) had posted. Apparently these were actually called Super-Highlanders! How neat.

 

John, this machine actually has the nylon ball hinges, not the SS hinges like Steve's had when we visited him. I was expecting the SS hinges as well.

 

-Tim

 

 

 

[macboy91si]

Lint Filter Agitator

Also in the same brochure found an explanation of the agitator and what the baffles are for. It seems like I've seen this cutaway before, but here it is. That said I'm not entirely sure how the baffle aides in lint collection. It seems to generate no more or less lint than the A408 with the Power-Fin. Still cool though.

 

A belated thanks for posting these Ben!

 

-Tim