Apparently, y'all only have 10 minutes to read all of this:

[gansky1]

Beautiful! What a astonishing action shots - where do I order the cross-section tub and the clear deomonstrator tub? I think we need both.

Thanks for posting this - more coming from here too...

 

[bajaespuma]

How stupid did they all have to be to believe in a "Soak Cycle". You let the machine fill, agitate a couple of minutes and then push the verkocked dial in. Any questions?

 

[bajaespuma]

I must apologize for my churlishness. Just hungry. Low blood sugar.

 

[bajaespuma]

I miss portable automatic washers. Very entertaining. I will say my first rollermatic was connected to my kitchen sink in a small apartment and worked out very well. Even then I knew because the Frigidaire tub was so small, and solid, that it wouldn't be draining a ton of water into the sink and p-off my landlord.

 

[bajaespuma]

My new career:

 

[bajaespuma]

Hey, 6 out of 7 ain't bad at all:

 

[bajaespuma]

Maybe some cottage cheese?

 

[bajaespuma]

I love buttons.

 

[bajaespuma]

Look for them only in books...

 

[bajaespuma]

for they are gone...

 

[bajaespuma]

...with the wind.

A Happy Fourth of July to All!

 

[joelippard]

Thanks for sharing this

loved every page of it! Overflow rinsing is simply the best.

 

[washernoob]

Oh my not again!

Where do you get these fantastic catalogs!?!?! Just amazing!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thanks, Greg

The shot of the tub with 4 clear paths through the surface foam is either a heavily doctored photo or an illustration. At best it is wishful thinking. There is nothing in the construction of the agitator, as released to the market, that makes those sideways discharge paths possible. I read somewhere that they experimented with an agitator that would do that, but it was dropped either for expense or fragility. I managed to get a washer with that agitator to fire sideways by mounting a Lint Chaser Ring on the Jet Action Agitator. It sat securely just above the 4 openings and flared out just enough to force the water sideways instead of up, out and all over, but those holes are at an angle where the water is forced in more of a vertical direction than horizontal. If the openings had been on the vertical portion of the agitator, it would have had a better chance of squirting sideways, but the construction of the agitator is such that the area of the top cone does not continue into the upper part of the agitator and if the openings were much higher, the water would have shot against the tub collar.

 

[goatfarmer]

Someone needs to show that child how to bypass the lid switch.........

 

[gyrafoam]

I have never seen such a fabric softener dispenser either. I have the "sombrero" looking disk.

I have both types of Jet-Cones--------two of my Rollermatics have the Jet Cones with the square openings and one of my machines (a '68) has the rectangularly shaped openings. I am guessing the rectangular openings can shoot a Jet of water that fans-out horizontally over a wider area.

Anyway, I always wondered why Frigidaire had both types that seemed to be placed in different machines without rhyme or reason. Oh well, GM.

 

[combo52]

FRIGIDARE JET ACTION WASHERS

I recently found one of the early fabric softener dispensers while doing some appliance gathering with Ted. Tom is right on the money about the four square holes at the top of the agitator as far as I can tell they have no effect on lint removal. The overflow rinse is good for removing floating scum and some suds but overall its a waste of water for actually rinsing away detergent and much lint, a second deep rinse is far more effective with little more total water used. I think the holes in the agitator were developed by the advertising department because they needed to be completive with the other companies that all had actual lint filters on thier machines. Its interesting to note they say nothing about heavy soil and sand removal. But all in all the Rapiadry 1000s are still one of my favorite classic washers, I have three of them and three Unimatics that I wouldn't part with.

 

[peteski50]

Frigidaire!

Thank you so much for posting. Many years ago I had this same manual and lost it in moving. I am so Happy you posted it and I downloaded it. This is what you call real Great Washing and cannot compare to nothing made today.
Peter

 

[tomturbomatic]

Softener dispensers

The "fez-type" dispenser had to be discontinued and replaced with the shallower, flatter dispenser because on the low spin speeds, the deeper, "fez-type" dispenser did not empty. On the delicate and wash and wear programs with the Roller-Matic drive, the spin speed after wash was much slower than on the cottons programs. The shallower reservoir of the sombrero type dispenser did empty completely at the lower spin speeds. The trouble I had with them was that they cracked after little use where they latched onto the agitator.

 

[rickr]

Thank you for taking the time to post this Ken.