Blackstone 350 Rebuilding

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Rebuilding is complete, ready to be shipped out. There is a problem with the clutch plate slipping, a problem that I don't have time to fix. A complete restoration does take a long time, but at least I got this machine all put together and able to go through a cycle. The heavy inner tub spins slowly. The clutch plate is on the center post of the transmission, below the belt-driven pulley, somewhat visible in the earlier picture showing the transmission.

 

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Close up view of the front panel, showing water temperature knob, and stainless steel top.

 

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Just in case you didn't know that it was a Blackstone. Better view of the stainless top, inner tub, and agitator cap.

 

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Original advertising flyer for the 350. Note the optional red "Petticoat" that could be placed on top of the agitator, in order to have a gentler agitation.

 

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Your Blackstone Washer Is Only This Wide

So says the yardstick, pointing to the 26" mark.

 

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Finally, a display sign for the wall.

 

[hilovane]

Any possibility of a legible pic of that advertising flyer?
-thanx!

 

[gansky1]

Great signage, Fred! Are you going to use them as artwork in your house? They would be great in the kitchen - stairwells - so many places!

 

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Maybe I should have used this curtain as a backdrop....or is it overkill?

 

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Here's the advertising flyer that I scanned in.

 

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The 350 inside the flyer.

 

[hilovane]

Thanx for the pic; very interesting stuff. I remember my grandmother had a Blackstone 150 when I was a li'l kid. Occasionally, she'd "save" a load of laundry for me, so I could watch it (at the time, my family lived in an apartment, and didn't have our own washing machine). I can vaguely rememeber that hollow sound of teh flume sparying the water into the empty tub; my grandmother adding her "witches' brew" of additives. And then watching her load it up as the agitator sucked everything down deep into the tub. I also rememeber that if it had an unbalanced load, it would vibrate and "walk." It scared me sh**less the first time I saw that. I mean, hell; I was...how old? I must've been all of seven, or thereabouts. Anyway, she replaced it with a Norge, and I remember roughly when she got it; about a month or so later, JFK was shot.