Another washer comes online after many years

[jetcone]

Here is a peak:

It needed a new agitate arm, new spin bearings, new pump, new belt, new solenoids, water valve,. Who am I?? You can see me through the steam of my first hot wash in 10 years.

I was owned by a chronic overloader! Why did I fail??

 

[brettsomers]

photographed using the vintage "lucille ball" glamour lens!

 

[jetcone]

good point Brett

actually that was the steam from the fill cycle, I couldn't resist the eerieness of it all!

 

[eddy1210]

spooky

Why does this look familiar. Hmmm, I'll ask my 57 Kenmore tonight and see what she says.....
My guess as to why it broke down after chronic overloading- agitate arm stud broke off down in the tranny hence need for new shaft.

 

[appnut]

It's a Kenmore, Frog-eyed with yellow-starburst in the eye.

 

[exploder321]

It's defently a Kenmore..

 

[mickeyd]

Kenmore

This machine was just featured in a thread in the last few days or so. I forget which, but I distinctly remember the color-coded lit up oblongs.

What smarter person can remember the reference?

 

[eddy1210]

kind of like...

But not quite. What's eerie Jon is that we were both bringing similar machines to life at the same time without knowing it. Just got this running recently. Mine needed almost the same things your did.

 

[foraloysius]

Very nice frog-eye Eddy!! Hopefully Jetcone doesn't wait too long with pictures of his.

Ducking and running...

 

[appnut]

Eddy, that is such a beautiful shot.

 

[exploder321]

Wow

 

[Unimatic1140]

Jon are you on a Budget? No Lady Kenmore?

1957 Very Nice.

 

[frigilux]

Great pics of your '57! I notice the tub is lit from the back; I've only noticed them lit from the front---that's interesting. On my '59 LK (sadly departed), the ultraviolet lamp was in the rear-left area and the regular bulb was front and center, as was the '60 Model 80 I grew up with. Many happy (suds-locked, LOL) loads! It's a beautiful machine.

 

[jetcone]

Thanks everyone!

Eddy, Uni you got it a 1957 with modifications can you guess??

 

[jetcone]

more pics

ooooooooooo what a coincidence EDDY!

 

[jetcone]

more pics

heres a wash shot, nice waterfall filter

 

[jetcone]

more pics

it had been covered in coal grease as Libby heated with coal so that acted as a coating to air and it kept the machine pristine once i cleaned it up.

 

[jetcone]

inplace

running

 

[jetcone]

a clue to the mod..

look closely

 

[jetcone]

Eddy you have the locking

filter that is nice, this machine does not.

Libby overloaded after wash start. How do I know this?
Because the damage was water getting past the top post seal. The only way to do that is to load her up after she started into wash.
SO Libby was running around the house looking for things to throw in after wash start. Naughty naughty!!
The tranny was full of water!!

 

[jetcone]

LOUIS

you will be slapped-------------hard!

 

[petek]

Memories...moms first washer but I think ours must have been a couple of years prior as she had it before my 56 arrival I believe. It died in 1974

 

[jetcone]

Robert

thanks for the vintage ad! I'm so glad it has the "sealed gear case" So that it never gets water inside and when you tip it over to make adjustments there is never a chance of oil leaking out all over the place.....................

 

[golittlesport]

Wow...very cool! Beautiful machines! Both have rotoswirl agitators, not original to this model. And Jon's has colored lights for the holidays! That seemed to be a popular model when I was a kid. Our neighborhood was built in 1957/1958 and several neighbors had this Kenmore model. There were also a couple neighbors with Pulsamatics....everyone seemed to go for those "budget" models in the Pittsburgh working-class suburbs.

 

[customline]

Yessereeeeee !!!!!!

Nice pictures of a nice washer.

 

[appnut]

The modification was the tub light. Jon, our friends in Dallas had this exact same washer (ya know, the people with teh 1950 or 1952 Hotpiont dishwasher); they had the frog-eyed dryer which had a more blueish greenish facia. Dryer was replaced with a 1958 or 1959 westinghoust which had a timeline knda timer display--I remember this because I really couldn't see what was on the display, I just knew I turned the knob until it got to a certain point on the display (auto dry); and this washer was replaced with the nearl BOL oval window-shaped slant-front westy. Anyway, I never remembered this washer ever having a tub light or the temp & water level displays lit up. I used anything form Tide to AD in this washer everytime we wnet to visit and I always was doing wash, hey 7 host family members and the 5 of us lol.

 

[appnut]

Richie, I remember our friends' machine having the preggo agitator.

 

[appnut]

I was about 4 & 5 at this time.

 

[rickr]

Congratulations Jon! Glad you got the restoration finished. She looks mint!

BTW: My mother had this same model as her first automatic.I do not recall any light on this machine, but it may have burned out by the time I started checking out the machine. It was used for about 12 years, and I can recall my father rebuilding the transmition on it once.

My grandmother got a mid 1960's Rollermatic to replace her little used 1958 Kenmore Cycla-Fabric. She gave the 58 Kenmore to us, so when our 57 Kenmore broke down again, we started using grandmas 58. The 58 Kenmore Cycla-Fabric was still in use when I left home four years later.

I parted out the 57 Kenmore myself, and can remember saving the motor,pump, and some of the switches.
The 57 KM had a str8 vane, but the 58KM had the Roto-Swirl.

Great job on the restoration Jon, and it looks like the coal grease kept the finish in great condition, just as you said.

 

[mickeyd]

Wicked thought

Too bad the coal grease isn't as protective of our lungs!

Speaking of damage, am I hallucinating again, or clairvoyent in having seen these colored oblong lights very recently. Eddie says they're not his. Whose? Please tell. Middle-aging and afraid.

What beautiful Kenmores. Makes you think that the Whirlpool/Kenmore family will be around forever, and will always make a top loader.