Bendix Economat Video
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Over years we've had a few members or others from Brazil appear now and then. Machine in OP might belong to one of them...
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Finally my collection in Brazil
Hi everyone. My name is Rodrigo; I am Brazilian (model: Italian descendant!!). Finally come the pics of my collection. My first time here I show you the new Electrolux washer “Wash Tennis”, in 01/01/06. Recall
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Instructions say to fill tub without load to ensure full fill and only add load after agitation starts. The water level switch is a metal part of the tub frame and the tub presses against it when full. The undertow action of the agitator and the flexing tub is remarkable.
Two of my aunts had those Economats in the '60's and that rubber tub never got clothes barely squeezed. I remembered that both of theirs had a second rinse on the dial. Neither aunt liked them
Batch/tunnel washers use press method for extraction of wash and achieve high rates of low residual moisture. Needless to say such systems are streets ahead of Bendix's rubber bladder system.
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We had a neighbor that had one of these - they washed very well but didnt do well in extraction. I used to like watching it wash but I remember they had to put the lid down to drain the water out. It was a automatic. I know some of them were semi-automatic. This washer brings back so many memories!
Peter
We had a neighbor that had one of these - they washed very well but didnt do well in extraction. I used to like watching it wash but I remember they had to put the lid down to drain the water out. It was a automatic. I know some of them were semi-automatic. This washer brings back so many memories!
Peter
13 years ago I made a demonstration lid cover for the Bendix Economat to reveal the extraction cycle...
The first automatic washer that my family owned was a Bendix Economat that they purchased around the summer of 1954 when I was 3 1/2 yrs old and we moved into a new home in Richmond, Ca. that had a basement. Before we got the Economat Mom had a GE Wringer washer.
I clearly can recall Mom doing the laundry in the basement in the Economat then hanging it to dry either in the backyard if the weather permitted or on the clotheslines that Dad strung up along the support posts and beams in the basement. I especially recall how the clothes would be all mashed up against the agitator when the lid was opened at the end of the cycle.
Mom usually used either Tide or Cheer. But when my sister Mary was born a year after we got the Economat she switched to Ivory Snow to wash the many loads of her diapers.
When we moved again in 1958 the Economat was replaced with a Hamilton Time Line automatic.
My paternal grandma also had an Economat, hers was yellow. When Dad bought us a vacation cabin in the Sierras in ‘59 he bought grandma a new Montgomery Wards Signature Front loader and we took the yellow Economat up to the cabin in the mountains. I think that both of our Economat’s must have worked pretty well extracting because I never recall seeing any dripping water coming off of the laundry after it was hung up to dry,
Thanks Robert for posting the video showing the extraction cycle thru the clear lid you fashioned. Also, I was particularly impressed with how amazingly quiet the Economat was in the video posted by Glenn. That machine is newer than the one my parents bought in 1954, I’d guess it was about a ‘57 model judging from the Formica top and the owners manual, which would make it approx 67-68 years old and about all you could hear was the water filling, a very slight swishing sound while it agitated and soft clicks as the timer advanced. That’s mighty impressive for such an old automatic washing machine.
Eddie
I clearly can recall Mom doing the laundry in the basement in the Economat then hanging it to dry either in the backyard if the weather permitted or on the clotheslines that Dad strung up along the support posts and beams in the basement. I especially recall how the clothes would be all mashed up against the agitator when the lid was opened at the end of the cycle.
Mom usually used either Tide or Cheer. But when my sister Mary was born a year after we got the Economat she switched to Ivory Snow to wash the many loads of her diapers.
When we moved again in 1958 the Economat was replaced with a Hamilton Time Line automatic.
My paternal grandma also had an Economat, hers was yellow. When Dad bought us a vacation cabin in the Sierras in ‘59 he bought grandma a new Montgomery Wards Signature Front loader and we took the yellow Economat up to the cabin in the mountains. I think that both of our Economat’s must have worked pretty well extracting because I never recall seeing any dripping water coming off of the laundry after it was hung up to dry,
Thanks Robert for posting the video showing the extraction cycle thru the clear lid you fashioned. Also, I was particularly impressed with how amazingly quiet the Economat was in the video posted by Glenn. That machine is newer than the one my parents bought in 1954, I’d guess it was about a ‘57 model judging from the Formica top and the owners manual, which would make it approx 67-68 years old and about all you could hear was the water filling, a very slight swishing sound while it agitated and soft clicks as the timer advanced. That’s mighty impressive for such an old automatic washing machine.
Eddie
YAY, the washer that washed my diapers! The very first washing machine I saw, touched and used in my life.
After many tubs damaged, my mom got tired of that crap and bought another Bendix that I don't remember the model name. It had some sort of pulsator on the bottom that would vibrate the water. My mom hated that machine since first use. It alsohad a rubber bellow around the pulsator The rubber bellow was crappy like the economat tub, would be damaged very easily. My mom got tired and bought a pink westinghouse laundromat in Brazil.
I realized Kevin had similar machine only maybe 6 weeks ago. I thought "well, it's a spacemate, so it's different than my mom's laundromat" then I looked his machine closer (it spent years buried behind many other machines) and I saw the laundromat logo and realized the spacemates was also named laundromat. My mom also had a slant front laundromat along with the bendix.
Years later, my mom bought a blue Brastemp Super Filtromatica, that was the latest model just released.
The bendix (or what's left of it) was abandoned under a tree I our family's ranch. Last time I saw it, 20 years ago, the control panel and the dials were still there, the rest of the machine was probably 80% already dissolved in rust.
Nowadays probably nothing is left.
After many tubs damaged, my mom got tired of that crap and bought another Bendix that I don't remember the model name. It had some sort of pulsator on the bottom that would vibrate the water. My mom hated that machine since first use. It alsohad a rubber bellow around the pulsator The rubber bellow was crappy like the economat tub, would be damaged very easily. My mom got tired and bought a pink westinghouse laundromat in Brazil.
I realized Kevin had similar machine only maybe 6 weeks ago. I thought "well, it's a spacemate, so it's different than my mom's laundromat" then I looked his machine closer (it spent years buried behind many other machines) and I saw the laundromat logo and realized the spacemates was also named laundromat. My mom also had a slant front laundromat along with the bendix.
Years later, my mom bought a blue Brastemp Super Filtromatica, that was the latest model just released.
The bendix (or what's left of it) was abandoned under a tree I our family's ranch. Last time I saw it, 20 years ago, the control panel and the dials were still there, the rest of the machine was probably 80% already dissolved in rust.
Nowadays probably nothing is left.
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