Bradford find

[askolover]

We had a Grant's store in Lawrenceburg, TN when I was little, my neighbor worked there. But I don't remember major appliances being there nor have I ever heard of Bradford other than the Bradford White water heaters. That Grant's store became a Kmart later.

 

[launderess]

From the archives:

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?32786

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?31429

Another scary Bradford…

Had this Bradford offered to me, seems sketchy though. Person says it’s been in the yard for a year but still works (somehow). Despite that the tub is full of water as shown. I am thinking I should probably pass on it but I’m still somewhat intrigued by this one as the other results don’t show...

www.automaticwasher.org

 

[swestoyz]

This is such a fun save, Justin. I hope that the washer has some life left in it, even if it's for fun in the driveway. I'm dying to know if there is a light in the panel.

Does anyone know if both of these were made in Webster City, Iowa, at the now defunct WCI/Electrolux plant?

Ben

 

[golittlesport]

Congrats Justin! As other have said -- those sure cleaned up nicely!

 

[combo52]

Reply to reply number 18

Hi Sean, the other time I ever heard of this type of thing happening was many years ago. I was working on a late 60s whirlpool gas dryer right here in Beltsville and the customer told me a story that they had bought the gas dryer. It was a floor model from Washington gas, and when the men came out and installed it and first fired it up, flames came out of the back of the machine and went all the way up the wall behind the machine, they shut it down immediately and discovered when it was sitting on the showroom floor apparently somebody had stolen the orifice out of the main burner jet and left it out.

Yes, normally I would expect that the orifice is screwed in sufficiently so that it won’t fall out but the Gibson dryer I was working on was not much of a dryer.

We had another experience with a Gibson electric dryer like this customer bought it because it was low priced and they thought they were getting a bargain. They had us go and hook it up level it up etc. and when I push the start button, the machine shimmy and shook so badly with nothing even in it that it walked away from the wall over 2 feet scared the heck out of me.

These were not very durable dryers the front bearing on the drum was dragging in such a way that it caused a horrible vibration however when you put a load of wet clothing in it actually worked she didn’t keep dryer. We replaced the washer in the dryer with a pair of whirlpool 9800s this was around 1980.

I really don’t have any experience with this WCI built washer from this. I’ve only seen about three of them in my life and I think they were all on the junk pile or ones that we were hauling out of a customers house when we were selling them a new machine Hopefully Justin can get it to work. It would be cool to see one run.

John

 

[maytag85]

The lesson of the day is to always double check everything when you by a floor model of anything, parts could have been taken off of it which will cause it to not function, or pose a dangerous situation as John mentioned where the orifice had been removed on a Whirlpool dryer from the late 60’s. Not trying to go off topic, just replying to John.

A Bradford set from the 70’s is something you don’t see everyday. Congratulations on your find, Justin.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Saw and got up close to a Norge dryer and was surprised at how similar it was to our Bradford dryer, the third Grant's appliance to leave the house after the washer and dishwasher did...

 

A few things looked a bit of shared parts with that Norge by Fedder's, or at least something here and there to me resembled, and maybe a washer compared to ours we had would have had some same stuff, if I'd gotten to see...

 

Have that same Consumers Reports magazine with that Automatic Washers review, Bajespuma is showing those pictures from that they're in...

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

[dominic20]

question

can i see some videos of it washing a large load