Bought these this morning...

[tecnopolis]

I've has my eye on this set which had been hanging around craigslist for a few weeks now. This morning the seller made a serious price drop which made them to good to ignore. not to mention he was willing to deliver them to me at no cost.
Very basic BOL Kenmore set, with no water or dryness level adjustments. Just a clean set of daily drivers. I plan on giving them a thorough going over and then flipping them. These cost less than the sales tax would have been on a new HE pair or the interest charged on the credit card. Not to mention the cost of an extended warranty.

 

[wiskybill]

Good catch, Alex. They look pretty clean.

 

[electron1100]

Dissapointed

Aww i thought it would be a pare of chaps :-(

 

[jmurray01]

Those look very good, I'd love to have a pair like that to use on a daily basis. Unfortunately I have no room to collect dryers or washers, just vacuums!

 

[frigilux]

A good friend and mother of two has had the same BOL pair for many years. The dryer gave up the ghost, but the washer with its little straight-vaned agitator is still going strong. A very basic but reliable machine. Nice find!

 

[tecnopolis]

I thought I had an issue when I first plugged in the washer. Turned the dial to fill and nothing happened. Check all connections and power and still nothing. Come to find out the dial was 180 degrees out of sync. Turned it to the off position, which is the whole lower half of the timer dial, and it came to life. So I disassembled the timer knob and found the skirt was installed incorrectly. Got it lined up and worked as it should, aligning with the marks on the dial. It also looks like the previous owner damaged the timer knob, as there was some glue on the underside indicating a repair. So I ordered a redesigned knob that has metal threads instead of the plastic threads on the original.
Prices varied widely for a new one. Anywhere from $27, down to 6.49 on Amazon with free shipping. Should be here in a few days.
Other than this issue with the knob, it's been working pretty good.

Washing Machine Timer Knob for Whirlpool, Sears, Kenmore #3362624

 

[tecnopolis]

While I had the console apart, I raised the water level an inch or so.

 

[gansky1]

A good, no-nonsense washer for sure. I had a similar one but with water temp and level selectors. Still had the straight vane agitator. I don't remember where I found it but it was minty-clean and worked perfectly. I used it as a second washer for a couple of years and was constantly shocked at how much that small-looking machine could handle. Even purposely overloaded, it performed admirably.

Those KM & WP knobs were a bit of a weak spot, I still see ads for washers that state the knob is indeed broken but the machine works just fine with a pair of pliers. I used to grab good knobs from machines in the discard piles to have on hand.

 

[akronman]

dryer

I have that dryer. It's no frills, no nonsense, a sturdy basic machine. I set the dial on NORMAL and push the button, never a problem, no matter what the load.

 

[tecnopolis]

The new washer timer knob arrived yesterday. Here it is installed.

 

[tecnopolis]

Can someone tell me what the production date is on this model?

 

[DADoES]

 
Serial CC43 = 43rd week of 1993.

 

[tecnopolis]

As Always, thank you DADoES!

 

[tecnopolis]

LOL@electron1100. Been there, done that.

 

[yogitunes]

there is a five blade Dual Action installed in some of these smaller machine, actually almost any DD DA would work......it really helps move the load in these tall thin tubs.....

nice set you got there.....I like the machines too!....lol

 

[cfz2882]

i have that washer in my lineup-mine made in 1995

 

[ovrphil]

Clean minimalist look. My mom would have bought such a pair, she hated frills...

Nice pair, good luck!

 

[mark_wpduet]

I had a set

that looked almost EXACTLY like these I purchased from Sears in August 1995 (used them for a year) then moved to Lexington and sold them to my new Landlord at the time for their other apartment. The one I moved into already had a washer/dryer and she needed another one.

 

[tecnopolis]

Water level revisited

I reset the water level back to where it originally came up after getting some weird results. Although I raised the water level to just below the top of the agitator, the surface water just had an eerie stillness to it. Flat and devoid of any vortecies. The lint kind of floated on top and never got sucked down into the mix, leaving a kind of scum slurry on the surface. Before, the water surface would break and roll the lint back down into the wash tub. I guess this agitator doesn't have the rollover force to create a choppy surface, even though you could clearly see the clothes rolling over just under the surface.
The moment the washer went into drain, all that stuff floating on the surface would drain down and just deposit on top of the clothes. A main reason I don't care for neutral drains. There is no spray rinse between the wash and final rinse so all that lint would reappear in the deep rinse cycle.