Combo in Arkansas for sale

[retropia]

I have no idea what brand this is, but someone here will know.

http://littlerock.craigslist.org/atq/1932487339.html

 

[retropia]

Control Panel

Here is the control panel. What is it supposed to be attached to?

 

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Drum

Here is a photo of the inside.

 

[retropia]

Combination

Here's what I don't understand. Is the top missing, or was this designed to be a built-in? If a built-in, where did the control panel go? Attached to the countertop? Built-in to the wall above or in a nearby cabinet?

 

[appliguy]

I can tell by the loading door...

It is a Kenmore...PAT COFFEY

 

[washernoob]

It looks like a Laundromat style machine. It was probably built into the wall with another machine on top of it. Maybe the control panel was offset to the right of the machine, with a money machine near it.

Thats my theory.

 

[washernoob]

Didnt read the ad first! Seems like it was put in a kitchen. Probably under a counter.

 

[appnut]

It is a Kenmore

Pat I do agree with you. Look at the knobs. The timer knob is reminiscent of the 1959 & 1960 Kenmores. But what I can't figure out is if this is one of the very early 29" ones. I never saw a 33" one with the round window on the door, they were all rectangular in shape. Also, I've never seen a handle such as that on the access panel. The drum looks like it's for a 33" design though. Hopefully our Kenmore Combo experts will chime in here.

 

[bobofhollywood]

no door gasket

Among other confusing things I don't see a door gasket. Things that make you go hmmm.

 

[combo52]

29" KM COMBO

I talked to the seller a few days ago, its a BOL 1968 KM electric combo that some one reused the controls from a 1961-2 on. They had it installed under a counter top thats why the original top and controls are gone. This was the basic model with no dispensers and no rotospray wash system, instead it had a much higher water level. The machine may be good as a parts donor but I all ready have lots of parts for these machines.

 

[appnut]

Thanks John!! (Bob pats himself on the back fur guessing the 29" machine and not too "off" regarding the controls.) I remember those in the Sears Catalogue. They sure were Plain jane. I remember the MOL one did have 5 water temp combos and maybe selectable drying heat. It may have had timed dispenseers too, but I know it had the roto-spray.

 

[tomturbomatic]

The other reason that it could be built in under a counter is that it is the first design of the 29' combo, the one that used a centrifugal separator for the dryer lint so that it was washed down the drain during the next wash cycle instead of caught in a lint screen. It had no lint screen on top like other KM and WP combos. It has an access door in one perforated panel in the drum to access the wash filter which, in these machines, was in the sump of the outer tub. When that clogged, the machine would not drain and the user had to lift out the driping wet load and go fishing. It is also the model that had a spin speed of 500 rpm. The blower and pump ran throughout the entire cycle and there was a damper that recirculated most of the air during the wash portion of the cycle. During the final spin portion, the heater came on to preheat the clothes for the dry cycle. There were problems with lint clogging and WP retrofitted these machines in the field. They had new trannies so there would be a pulley for both the blower and the pump, the shifter solenoid to switch power from the pump to the blower when the dry portion started, the separate poly-v belt and, most importantly, they had to have new tops and blower housings to accommodate the lint screen for the dryer. People who had them installed under a counter were sol, but only the bol model without dispensers could be installed that way so maybe a whole lot of the retrofitted machines were not undercounter installations except in the cases where they were installed by builders.