Blackstone POD

[kenmore1978]

I suspect that P & G getting so many washer manufacturers to put TIDE in their new automatics in the early days was key to Tide's success. No other detergent has been able to equal the success of TIDE. Its market share has been eaten into over the years by other brands, but never surpassed.

 

[pulsator-power]

Tide/Blackstone

I thinks it's because it works the best, plus my mother used to use it. (she passed it on to me!)
But, anyway, back to Blackstone, the tub looks severely ribbed
(with stainless steel), what effect did that have on clothing?
Looks like it would be tough on fabrics. Blackstone hailed from Jamestown, NY, along with the also famous Lucy Ricardo. (I can't remeber how she spelled her maiden name.)
Jerry

 

[jaxsunst]

Blackstone Drain

I think I read that Blackstone had an unusual neutral drain. It had something to do with the agitator. Am I right?

 

[pulsator-power]

Didn't the agitator pop up & the water drain out beneath it, or am I thinking about the Bendix rubber tub?
Jerry

 

[kenmore1978]

Tide popularity

Remeber, also, that Tide was the FIRST detergent. So getting washer manufacturers to put samples in their new machines just strengthened Tide's position in the marketplace. Ingenious.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Man, lookit the knobs on that sucker!

 

[westytoploader]

Now Blackstone made some IMPRESSIVE machines in the 50's! That would look GREAT in an all-SS kitchen...right next to the Sub-Zero fridge or Vulcan-Hart range! And to top it off, the only solid-tub washer that neutral-drains by lifting the agitator up!

Hey Jon, do you mind bringing your Blackstone to the Convention? ;-) (just kidding, but I know it would definitely entertain us for hours)

 

[jasonl]

Blackstone Drain

Yep, the agitator would pop up and the water would dump into the outer tub. I've never watched this in person but I'd love to see it.

 

[jetcone]

Film at eleven!

Hi all Robert is planning to come out next month and film my 1955 Blackstone for a DVD he is making so you can all see it in action with noise!!

Actually the entire Agitator and Tub lift up the wash water and 8 holes drilled through the bottom of the tub weight let all the water slip away. It just quietly dissappears VERY unlike the Kemore "Coffemaker" neutral drain and much much quicker too!

The ribs you see are very deep grooves that are there to allow the water to flow up & along during extraction.

The machine is all cast iron and very silent in all cycles and VERY heavy. In fact it is so heavy that Blackstone specifically designed it so that the top, agitator, and tub can be taken out in 5 minutes so that the rest of the machine can be moved into place!!

Jetcone

 

[Unimatic1140]

Hi all Robert is planning to come out next month and film my 1955 Blackstone

I'm am?

First I've heard of this?

Oh wait, I get it now, Jon you big sweetie, surprising me with a free ticket, and announcing here in a post on the club! Isn't Jon just wonderful everyone?

 

[wringingwet]

Jon your a pretty good sport treating Robert that way .. I cannot wait to see the DVD .. By the way Jon are you going to throw a suprise wash in when robert arrives in town? ???

Philippe

LOL go get em Uni .....

 

[jetcone]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now WAIT A MINUTE HERE! ----------- last September he told me he was coming out to film the Blackstone for all the club! And what is it already??????????????? ---its March already!

You do the math!

No tickets here!

"I buy enough food already!" And cook it too!!!!

jetcone

 

[david]

Blackstone-a couple of questions

Quite an interesting machine there. I've heard of them but never actually saw one. It (I did look at this the other night) had an unusual looking basket-did it spin dry or squeeze dry? And on that neutral drain, what prevented clothes from getting caught underneath the agitator when it raised up to let the water out? Just curious.

 

[Unimatic1140]

"last September he told me he was coming out to film the Blackstone for all the club!"

Of course I did dear

, now go take you medicine.

 

[gansky1]

Who's getting a free ticket?? Where's mine??

 

[Erkjoey]

Blackstone was just down the street from our house in Jamestown. Just about everyone in my family, with the exception of my grandparents and parents owned one. Lobucks was really the only major appliance and electronic store in the area at the time. My grandparents purchased their first Whirlpool Imperial automatic from Lobucks in 1954. They also purchased their Tappen Doughboy oven from there. I have their Zenith console radio/record player which also came from there and the tone arm looks like a little snake. Its from 1947. Still working well, after all of these years.

 

[jetcone]

Neutral Drain and Slapping!

HI Joey,

The neutral drain works like this: the entire tub , agitator, water, clothes are lifted up at once, so there is no change in space relation to all these elements. The agitator has large holes all around and the water flows down through there to holes in the tub bottom on out to the outer tub. It actually gushes out, not at all like a Whirlpool drain.
The tub spins somewhere around 550-650 rpms on one pivot point up under the agitator so it rocks around like those amusement park rides. It has a very heavy weight molded into the bottom of the tub and so it never goes unbalanced.

Someone in Minneapolis is gonna be "slapped and tenderized with all his face icons!!"

 

[jetcone]

Excuse me

Where did I get Joey?? It must be that man in minne has me rattled!

 

[pulsator-power]

Jetcone

That's okay, I think it's just what they call
a middle-aged brain fart.
.....but that Blackstone sounds REALLY interesting!
Jerry