BOL fans in SF area: Galaxy W/D set

[davek]

$125, and look to be in good shape.

These are shockingly ugly and defiantly BOL, but unique. I always thought these were built to make the first upsell to a regular Kenmore very easy.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/app/1811456208.html

 

[davek]

And the picture for posterity. CL ads never last long.

 

[seeitrun2006]

When I worked at Sears

in 2002 I worked in the lawn and garden area across from appliance central. Washer and dryers stared at me all day long. I over heard a conversation about a woman who bought this same exact set. I think she had 2 or 3 kids and a husband. She came back two weeks later rising all kind of heck with the sales person who sold her the machines. She told the sales person these machines don't clean, the capacity is too small....etc. She also complained it took the dryer forever to dry clothes.

The sales person plainly told her "if you would spend a little more money on a set you will get better results"! The customer would not swap them out for higher end machines.

I think Sears at the time had a 30 day complete satisfaction gurantee so the customer could have swapped them out with no hassles.

Total complete ignorance!

 

[mixfinder]

360 days

In the 60's Sears had a 1 year no hassle replacement or refund if you were unhappy with your washer. In 1972 I had friends who made Sears take theirs back and they repaired their old model 70 because she liked it better.

 

[gmmcnair]

I would almost guarantee...

"in 2002 I worked in the lawn and garden area across from appliance central. Washer and dryers stared at me all day long. I over heard a conversation about a woman who bought this same exact set. I think she had 2 or 3 kids and a husband. She came back two weeks later rising all kind of heck with the sales person who sold her the machines. She told the sales person these machines don't clean, the capacity is too small....etc. She also complained it took the dryer forever to dry clothes."

I would almost guarantee that this woman overloaded the machines, thinking she could get a super washload into a $200 washer. A friend of mine had a similar set years ago....I was in an apartment with no hookups then, and she was kind enough to let me do laundry at her place if I was in a pinch. I think hers were branded Capri, but the same machines. They washed just fine with a normal load. Dryer didn't take an inordinate amount of time either. User error still accounts for most of these folks wailing and raising heck.

 

[davek]

Size

Yeah, that washer is pretty clearly a 24", which wouldn't have but about 2.5 cu ft. My portable is 1.5, but I know that they built a 24" with a regular console that was bigger. If memory serves, those have timed fill, so they could be run with a dangerously low water level, which wouldn't make customers happy.

The dryer is probably a regular 29" dryer with the tiny door from the portable dryer on it. It looks insanely big next to that washer.

 

[mrb627]

Pressure Fill

That washer is a pressure filled machine. Only one preset water level, full. Should perform about as well as a coin-op Kenmore machine.

Malcolm

 

[kenmoreguy64]

The washer is indeed a 2.5 cu. ft. model - that's all they could put in the 24-inch cabinets I think. It may have had the solid blue tub and a gray straight vane agitator. I know that its precedessors surely did, but I don't know when those two items were replaced for inventory simplicity by the speckled basket and white agitator of the same design.

I'm not sure why Sears discontinued these models. They were the mainstay of the BOL models for about 30 years with that same plastic panel design. I believe they sold a slew of them too. Before this ugly orange/tan panel, they were beige, then walnut, and finally white.

The dryer door is the standard 29-inch side-swing plug door, which Whirlpool made tens of millions of and still offers one or two models, I think in the Estate and Roper lines.

Gordon

 

[randycmaynard]

Yep..... very familiar with both.

When my wife and I started dating back in early '96 I found that she had this same set with the gray agi and the one water level and the matching dryer too. She had went through an ugly divorce that left her nearly bankrupt with three kids at home and in school. The chalet rental company that she worked for was ran by an older couple who were very helpful to her during this time and they allowed her to purchase this exact type of Kenmore set on their Sears account and just subtracted the monthly payment amount for the machines from her pay check.

My wife's son still uses the washer and it's now about 16-17 years old - still goin strong and one of her daughters has the dryer. Funny story on this is that about a year or so after we married we had an incident with the washer. I was working night shift and came in one morning and put some laundry in to wash and went on to bed and was awakened about 2:30 p.m. by my step-son to come downstairs immediately. I did and found half the downstairs floating in water! The water valve had stuck open and the thing overflowed and flooded the place - what a mess that was..... serious wet/dry shop vac work for awhile.
Thing is - the machine didn't short out and, as mentioned above, is still running and has not given one problem other than the flood!

They may be BOL but it got us through tons of laundry during our early years and now doing the same for my step-son. Great machines they are.