I've invited Betty, Gladys and Washerman to help film a load in the '49 ABC. Enjoy everyone...
Betty is Back with another Full Cycle Video the '49 ABC-O-Matic
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phillymatt53
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Thanks Robert, for that highly amusing video.
Amazing how you managed to create those voices... Betty, Gladys, etc.
Did you use some sort of A.I. to accomplish that?
Yes I sure did use AI for the voice narration, and it seems to have advanced quite a bit in quality since I did my last video about 4 months ago.
Thanks Dan. Yes with the early clutch design it did that. When they changed the clutch and put it on the motor around 1953 it prevented the agitator from doing that during spin start up.
Yesterday, I watched the 1935 film Magnificent Obsession, a treacly, over wrought film and BETTY FURNESS plays the doctor's daughter. I never knew she starred in anything except Westinghouse commercials and that fraudulent cookbook that was really written by Julia Keine. Anyway the Westinghouse commercials are more substantive than her role in this pot boiler.
phillymatt53
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All I can say is.......
"You can be SURE............... if it's Robert's Video!"
LOL!
Neighbors told me that they did not trust anything Consumer Reports published after buying the top-rated ABC-O-Matic and getting a machine full of birth defects.
Frankly, I preferred the Splash Shots from Catalina Studios and Bel Ami in the 80s and early 90s, but your splash box in ingenious, Robert. That warm rinsing sure is thirsty. It would be hell on your power bill with an electric water heater. THANK YOU ROBERT!
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Thanks Robert what a great machine! You cant compare it to anything made today!
The washing process is outstanding. I wish kelvinator would have made a bigger one (1/18)
Peter
The washing process is outstanding. I wish kelvinator would have made a bigger one (1/18)
Peter
How did the washer agitate?
Wonderful video! Every wash day can be a party now!
Does the washer drain the outer cabinet during agitation? I ask because at starting at 34:50 the machine appears to oveflow about 12 (?) gallons of water and then at 37:05 starts gyrating. IIRC I remember members a while back telling me these machines pumped out water in both motor directions but unsure if that holds true with this machine.
christfr
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awesome video... absolutely love it ...
It popped up on my YouTube last night and was wonderful. Excellent work, Robert. I wonder if that 2.5 minute neutral overflow is a bit wasteful, maybe they should have just done 2 agitated rinses instead? Amazing turnover of a full load, and excellent film-making! One of the cooler machines around, thanks for the washer history lesson. Did ABC have a drier at the time?
Yes the pump runs in either direction so as long as the motor is running it is pumping out water. It's about 6 gallons used during the overflow. The water valve has a flow washer regulated to only fill 2.4 gallons a minute.
Actually the machine uses just under 30 gallons per load total even with the neutral overflow, just about 1 gallon more than a Unimatic (28.5 gallons) so compared to other machines of the same time it's not really using any more water. In 1950 a GE AW6 uses 34 gallons, the Whirlpool used 36 gallons, the AMC used 46 gallons and the Maytag AMP used 29 gallons as well.
cycla-fabric
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Robert, just have to say you are so creative, that video was great and so informative. Just love the other guests in the film as they made it a bit more special with their comments. Great job.
Doug
Doug
phillymatt53
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Yes, those fau guests show that Robert's got a cool sense of humor.
I suppose including John Waters "Lady Divine" would be a bit much to include, making the video "For mature Audiences" rated.
Oh, if only to have a machine with an overflow rinse. I watch my Maytag start spinning and pumping out…. And I watch all of that scum just settle right in to what used to be my clean laundry. Sigh. Everything degrades.
The trivial extra cost is a price well worth paying to get laundry that is actually clean.
Even in California, where the on peak rates are SIXTY CENTS(!) per kWhr, that extra six gallons of 90 degree water will cost well less than 50 cents.
The trivial extra cost is a price well worth paying to get laundry that is actually clean.
Even in California, where the on peak rates are SIXTY CENTS(!) per kWhr, that extra six gallons of 90 degree water will cost well less than 50 cents.
That's odd. I heard that spin-drain prevents lint/scum problems. ???
Signed: Goofy Glenn
Robert, thank you for putting together yet another creative and informative video. Even my husband enjoyed it even though he isn't into vintage appliances!
What an exceptional job...that was a TON of work and it absolutely paid-off. There were a couple of times in the video I completely forgot it was AI and lapsed into thinking it was a period announcer reading from a script.
Maybe, to some degree? But I’m not sure how any machine that does not overflow rinse could prevent the stuff floating on the rinse water from settling on to the laundry as the water is drained.
I also have a Whirlpool from the same year- 1984- and it essentially does the same thing, just without spinning at the same time. Water level drops, and the stuff on the surface settles on to the load.
Keith
That's why the spray rinse in the slightly curved pattern starts while everything is sitting in the bottom of the tub with the shmutz resting on it.
I suppose it is possible that the spray rinse could rinse that stuff clear through the clothes and out of the basket..,
I recall an advertising graphic that illustrates Whirlpool's premise for neutral drain reducing lint/residue atop the load is that the drain port in the outer tub has the water level in the outer tub drop slightly faster than the level in the spin basket, which has an effect of pulling water through the perforations of the spin basket which in turn has effect of pulling floating lint/residue out through the perforations to minimize it from settling onto the clothes.
Signed: Goofy Glenn
Signed: Goofy Glenn
In my experience neutral drain leaves scum rings around the agi and tub, and anything floating on top of the water is strained through and thus redeposited on the clothes. Spin drain has always provided me with the best results.
Which brings up the interesting point that the original WP direct-drive design was spin-drain, and the question of why'd they go to the effort to develop the Rube Goldberg neutral-drain mechanism if spin-drain is superior.
Signed: Goofy Glenn
I remember being told by a repair tech it has to extend the life of the clutches. Not sure if its true. Ultimately, I'd like to know Whirlpools thinking, I wish I could have been the one listening to engineering decisions being made.
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