BOL Centerdials

[bajaespuma]

Any of you have an older style(pearl grey trim, sea mist blue) A106 or A206 (no "7"'s or "8"'s, please)that you might want to expurgate?(learned that word from Morgan Freeman(my hero)in "Lean on Me")

give me a holler at [email protected]

 

[pturo]

Sorry Ken,
I have an A107, which is above the BOL just because it has a fabric softner dispenser, fabric matic dial, and chrome trim, not dove gray.

A great machine.

 

[saltysam]

Hey Ken

I have an A206 BOL Center Dial.......
sorry the picture is so big.
Mark

 

[appnut]

Mark, don't apologize for the size. That is beautiful. And a A206 is far from BOL.

 

[tuthill]

That looks pretty much exactly like my childhood washer!!!!! Except mine didn't have a PP cycle. I assume it was an early model.

Yes like Bob said, it's certainly not BOL. It has EVERYTHING you need. Yes everything.

 

[brettsomers]

Salty's was my childhood washer too. I loved the gentle agitation for things like delicate bath rugs, or cotton blankets. I also loved that you could change the motor speed at the push of a button without stopping the machine.

 

[70series]

A206

My childhood washer also, but without the pilot light fixture. I agree with Appnut, this was not BOL. The A206 had flexibility that lower end models did not have. The ability to change speeds without stopping the washer was a benefit. We did that a few times without a thought.

Have a good one,
James

 

[bajaespuma]

I beg to differ:

In most of the Maytag brochures from 1967 to about 1972 the A206 was the "listed" BOL. Even so, you got practically the same good value as with the higher end models and, unlike most brands back then, you could still buy the BOL's in any color they offered. During those years it didn't seem that Maytag was using the term "Highlander". The first Maytag brochures I collected only had the 906,806,606 &206. I think single speed models like the A106 and the A406(single speed versions of the 206 and 606, respectively)were being sold then, as incentive models for cheapskates(Maytag had a rep as being the top dog machine with a premium price). The only difference between those model pairs was the lack of a gentle speed. I think Maytag re-introduced the "Fabric-Matic" versions of those machines a little later and made them distinct models. I remember seeing the infamous "Automatic" phony-button in the early seventies and scratching my head as to its function.

The first Maytag I ever used was an early A206; it had two speeds, a blue tub, the black and blue power-fin, but only one cycle. I would deduce that the permanent press cycle was added in 1969.

 

[pturo]

Maytag seemed to experiment with the '07 vs the '06 models with added low cost features. The A107 was a single speed washer, but had chrome trim and a fabric softner dispenser, unlike the A106. I have an A407, which is still a one speed, but larger capacity, and it has a bleach dispenser and a fabric softener dispenser.

I do remember my mother, when purchasing the almost BOL Maytag at Goldberg's, said it cost about as much as a top of the line Whirlpool at the time, while she was shopping around. Maytags were sort of considered to be like Mercedes Benz at the time, kind of smaller, and somewhat ugly, but built like brick shithouses.

I guess she made a wise choice, the 1973 machine is still in use, with only a belt replacement, new fill solenoid, and a tub to pump clamp replacement.

35 years later, still a daily driver.