AtomicDirt is Gone in my new Dream Machine
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golittlesport
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thanks for the pictures Jon! Very cool washer...congrats!
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WOW!
Well Jon, Glad you got one of your dream machines! Now that your clothes will be ''three ways'' cleaner, I'll have to don sunglasses next time I see you! Your colors!!! Your whites!!! Your etc.......
Well Jon, Glad you got one of your dream machines! Now that your clothes will be ''three ways'' cleaner, I'll have to don sunglasses next time I see you! Your colors!!! Your whites!!! Your etc.......
Thanks for posting that ad, Jetcone 
Jet---
I believe Jon E. has one like that---I'll have to go back and look at the photo's of my last visit to see.
Kim (formerly 'Duomatic'---- now ---'Washndry'---I think) is another big Bendix wizard ---so he might also know.
I believe Jon E. has one like that---I'll have to go back and look at the photo's of my last visit to see.
Kim (formerly 'Duomatic'---- now ---'Washndry'---I think) is another big Bendix wizard ---so he might also know.
Thanks guys
Mark-- I'll wear grays for you so you don't have to put on sunglasses.
Steve-- I forgot that you had been to the sacred Bendix Museum!! ANd Kim may know too that would be nice to settle the mystery.
Dan-- I knew I had a copy of that famous ad around here somewhere, I think it is one of the Apexes of the Cold War era for sure! "Even our laundry will survive a nuclear attack and come out clean!" YA Right!!
Mark-- I'll wear grays for you so you don't have to put on sunglasses.
Steve-- I forgot that you had been to the sacred Bendix Museum!! ANd Kim may know too that would be nice to settle the mystery.
Dan-- I knew I had a copy of that famous ad around here somewhere, I think it is one of the Apexes of the Cold War era for sure! "Even our laundry will survive a nuclear attack and come out clean!" YA Right!!
Lead-Lined Basement
There was an ad that featured your model Bendix with the Atomic Proof theme as well - from about 1955, I think.
Mixing radioactive isotopes into your test soil? Foolproof! That DynaSurge cylinder makes all the difference!
There was an ad that featured your model Bendix with the Atomic Proof theme as well - from about 1955, I think.
Mixing radioactive isotopes into your test soil? Foolproof! That DynaSurge cylinder makes all the difference!
decodriveboy
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What a beautiful machine! Would love to see a video, hint hint. Those hidden controls were such a cool feature.
Congratulations Jon on finding that machine. She is very pretty.
Where did you get the atomic dirt to do the tests?
Where did you get the atomic dirt to do the tests?
very nice Jon
Wow, Jon, another bendix ...... well you know what I always say ........... good for you ........hahahah, no, seriously, that is a beautiful machine, aside from controls or placement of is it basically the same as the one we picked up in NY ?
Wow, Jon, another bendix ...... well you know what I always say ........... good for you ........hahahah, no, seriously, that is a beautiful machine, aside from controls or placement of is it basically the same as the one we picked up in NY ?
Hello MrTide Hello Louis
Thank you I did not lose any machines ,I have them all up on 6 inch platforms just for that purpose. I did however get the worst flu walking the dog thru the floodwaters I ever had. 2 months later still no sense of smell back only scant whiffs here and there so I know its in there somewhere.
DONT EVER go walking in flood waters if you can help it.I can't imagine what the people of N.O. were walking through last year.
Louis glad to see you are still alive and kicking!! I hung Al upside down by his tail and shook him out over the clothing! That provided enough Fall Out to measure with and now he is sparkling too!
Lately he has taken to digging in my garden and just loves it , he rolls in the dirt and moans--typical Terrier!!
So he was full of radioactivity!!!!!!
gnawty dog!
Thank you I did not lose any machines ,I have them all up on 6 inch platforms just for that purpose. I did however get the worst flu walking the dog thru the floodwaters I ever had. 2 months later still no sense of smell back only scant whiffs here and there so I know its in there somewhere.
DONT EVER go walking in flood waters if you can help it.I can't imagine what the people of N.O. were walking through last year.
Louis glad to see you are still alive and kicking!! I hung Al upside down by his tail and shook him out over the clothing! That provided enough Fall Out to measure with and now he is sparkling too!
Lately he has taken to digging in my garden and just loves it , he rolls in the dirt and moans--typical Terrier!!
So he was full of radioactivity!!!!!!
gnawty dog!
Wooooooo!!! I love that. The Bendix frontloaders have always been my favourite vintage frontloaders - out of anything European or American! The flip up control cover is also very dandy. And I just LOVE those suds!
Jon
Jon
mayken4now
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Jon:
What an awesome machine you have there. Certainly, a beauty for your collection
What an awesome machine you have there. Certainly, a beauty for your collection
jasonl
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Load selector
I was hoping the selections would have been Small Load, Full Load, Bob Load.
AWESOME as hell machine! I can hear that spin already. WEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
I was hoping the selections would have been Small Load, Full Load, Bob Load.
AWESOME as hell machine! I can hear that spin already. WEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Austin
What makes it a dream machine is the control styling but also I find the early Bendix Gyromatics to be "un" designed esthetically from a consumer standpoint. You look at my old '53 which John has and the dials are well..uninspiring.
These last several years of Bendix 55,56,57 all had industrial desgin pumped back into them like the original 1930's models. They were designed to attract the consumer to catch their eye.
And this one is especially dear because it does not say Philco anywhere on it.
I'm not saying I am anti-Philco but I am very Pro-Bendix now that I have read their history.
You know I always overlooked these machines because they were so simple, so basic. I didn't realize that ,that element of simplicity was due to them being the first in everything to do with most automatics -frontload or topload. Their patent base forced all their competition to go in very different directions---just look at the shape of the Westinghouse slant front tub & vanes for starters!!
In 1939 Westinghouse paid Bendix $125,000 to use the flush drain technology for their front loader. In today;s money that is equivalent to $3.0 million dollars to use a patent!
Today we take flush/drain for granted but in 1936 that had to be invented it didn't exist.
And thats just one example of how I have come to admire Bendix Home Appliances.
They also invented the BEST tub damping system ever used for a front loader but hardly anyone has ever seen it!! They only used it for one year in the Gyramatics and I have one I found by accident, it is like no other Bendix ever built,AND it is more stable than any other FL I have ever used.
Again they lost use of the technology because the Home appliance division got sold off from the Aviation division early on and the patent was done by one of the aviation engineers. So that is when they were forced to go to the 4 spring 2 shock technology.
Which is good but not as good as what they had.
I could go on and on.
jet
What makes it a dream machine is the control styling but also I find the early Bendix Gyromatics to be "un" designed esthetically from a consumer standpoint. You look at my old '53 which John has and the dials are well..uninspiring.
These last several years of Bendix 55,56,57 all had industrial desgin pumped back into them like the original 1930's models. They were designed to attract the consumer to catch their eye.
And this one is especially dear because it does not say Philco anywhere on it.
I'm not saying I am anti-Philco but I am very Pro-Bendix now that I have read their history.
You know I always overlooked these machines because they were so simple, so basic. I didn't realize that ,that element of simplicity was due to them being the first in everything to do with most automatics -frontload or topload. Their patent base forced all their competition to go in very different directions---just look at the shape of the Westinghouse slant front tub & vanes for starters!!
In 1939 Westinghouse paid Bendix $125,000 to use the flush drain technology for their front loader. In today;s money that is equivalent to $3.0 million dollars to use a patent!
Today we take flush/drain for granted but in 1936 that had to be invented it didn't exist.
And thats just one example of how I have come to admire Bendix Home Appliances.
They also invented the BEST tub damping system ever used for a front loader but hardly anyone has ever seen it!! They only used it for one year in the Gyramatics and I have one I found by accident, it is like no other Bendix ever built,AND it is more stable than any other FL I have ever used.
Again they lost use of the technology because the Home appliance division got sold off from the Aviation division early on and the patent was done by one of the aviation engineers. So that is when they were forced to go to the 4 spring 2 shock technology.
Which is good but not as good as what they had.
I could go on and on.
jet
blackstone
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Jon,
I loved the Bendix radioactive dirt ad. I think that I have a geiger counter around, too. I never knew it could be used for testing washing machines. Glad to hear that you are feeling better.
I loved the Bendix radioactive dirt ad. I think that I have a geiger counter around, too. I never knew it could be used for testing washing machines. Glad to hear that you are feeling better.
Bendix!
Jon,
This is such a awsome find. Many Best Wishes. I like the controls on the front like this unique setup.
Peter
Jon,
This is such a awsome find. Many Best Wishes. I like the controls on the front like this unique setup.
Peter
Jon, Thanks for sharing pictures of your dream machine. In the shot of the timer dial, I see WARM just before the 9. Did they pull a Westinghouse and put the wash temp selection in the timer? Would you please explain the flush away drain? Do you mean the assured (spray) rinse after the wash or the sump/strainer arrangement? One thing Westinghouse did not buy was the spin between the 2nd and 3rd rinse, a big drawback in my book. In 1956 or so, the cleaners in our new shopping center had a laundry section with a whole line of these machines with the sideways door release. Sometimes when we were in there picking up drycleaning or daddy's shirts, I would give in to my baser desires and make a dash over to the machines if I did not see any of the laundry ladies that ran them. Of course, I always got a talking to by my parents for doing that, but it was worth it. The business put Philco Bendix coin op washers in when they made that part of the operation into self service. The PB machines had two ivory-colored knurled knobs: one for hot or warm wash and one for warm or cold soak and rinse. Later they installed those awful Maytag commercial Highlander washers with the orange light in the middle of the dummy dial in the middle of the control panel.
Beauty!!
Hi Jon
Glad to see another dream machine finds its rightful home...
I take it the slide is the door release, was it just on this Bendix machine that this release as used??
Any chance of a pic of the damper system??
Cheers, Mike
Hi Jon
Glad to see another dream machine finds its rightful home...
I take it the slide is the door release, was it just on this Bendix machine that this release as used??
Any chance of a pic of the damper system??
Cheers, Mike
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