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.

 

[yogitunes]

what you need to find is a Surgilator from a D2000 washer, the one with the built in lint filter, and not so much for the filter, but it's the only Non DA I have ever seen that will move a load in one of these......don't understand it, it just does!.....

 

[tecnopolis]

I shot some video of the wash, drain and rinse actions.

Wash Cycle:
 
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[tecnopolis]

Deep Rinse:

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[tecnopolis]

Neutral drain and 2 spray rinses:

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[tecnopolis]

Yogi, The surgilator is prob my only favorite Whirlpool agi, as I detest DA's.
There is always this one.

 

[tecnopolis]

Part numbers that "Supremewhirlpool" posted in thread #406188
Looks like lots of options available.

Part numbers are as follows:

2-piece Straight vane agitator:
p/n:63749-WHITE
ASSY.:63750-WHITE
P/N:3362647-GRAY
ASSY.:3362650-GRAY
FSP:WC-2

Flex vane:
P/N:3348593-BG
ASSY.:334859I-BG
FSP:WC-1
P/N:64209-WHITE
ASSY.:64214-WHITE
P/N:3348372-GRAY
ASSY.:3348373-GRAY

 

[randycmaynard]

This is what my wife and I started with back in the mid 90s.

Actually a decent low end Kenmore washer and dryer. We put ours through hell durning the early years of our marriage - kids at home and laundry running, at times, morning, noon and night. My wife had these 3 or 4 years before we met and married when she was working for a chalet rental business in Gatlinburg, TN in the early 90s and ended up going thru a nasty divorce that left her bankrupt and single with 3 kids to raise. The folks that ran the chalet business were really good folks and really liked my wife and they gave her their Sears card to go and purchase a washer and dryer after her old ones quit and these are the models she bought and they deducted from her check over time and they were paid back.

After we used the machines and moved to new housing and appliances - her son took the washer and one of her daughters took the dryer. Altogether, between us all, we got nearly 20 years out of both machines before they wore out. We now have a large GE front-load and dryer set from 2008 - both still going strong after 5 years. Only issue has been the dryer heating element which was replaced about 6 months ago. My next set, when the time comes, will probably be the large Speed Queen front-load and dryer in stainless. SQ seems to be better built with better material and here in the states as well - wish I had known this 5 years ago as I probably would not have gotten the GE set.

My vintage machines right now are 1963 Kenmore 600 washer just like my mother had and a White-Westinghouse Spacemates front-load and matching dryer from the late 70s or early 80s.

 

[yogitunes]

Alex

that's exactly the one......must be something about those spiral vanes that makes all the difference.....it's the only single one I would ever use....

but my preference would be a DA, also prefer the PLUS version with the angled down spiral