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Here is the latest update on the Easy. The good news is the motor and transmission seems to work just fine. But the outer tub to pump hose is bad and its a very specialized hose. I found a good one in my parts-o-rubber box, but in order to install the hose you have to remove the cabinet top and wash tub. I will attempt to do this tomorrow and take some more pictures along the way.

This is not a Beam, nor is it a Hotpoint designed washer, its Easy's very own. You can sort of see the Easy Velvapower Motor/Pump/Tranmssion assembly in this shot below.

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Cool...looks very nice under her skirt! Looks like Whirlpool wasn't the first to use a horizontally-mounted motor to accomplish the direct-drive design, and Easy appears to have done it without a coupler as well as far as I can see!!

This is a dumb question, but is that a separate electric "suds pump" to the right, or is it the water valve?

--Austin
 
Wow!

Congratulations!

That Easy is simply amazing. I've never seen a control panel like that before. It almost looks like a Timeline.

I've always wonder why Easy automatics never enjoyed such a large market share.

I'm also drooling over that Frigidaire co-op. I love the color and the windowed lid. I agree that it looks like the three ring pulsator has been replaced by a Jetcone.

I hope that the restoration of both of these machines is Easy (pun intended).

I'm looking forward to more pics.

Enjoy!

Mike
 
Nice finds there. One question...

"Set cycle indicator to position desired by moving selector lever up and down in "select" section before the "off" position"

...huh?

I'm thoroughly confused. What does that mean, and how does one actually select the cycle and turn the unit on?
 
Amazing!!!!

Hi Robert

Another amazing find, love the timeline control ring, so is it as simple as pull ring out to desired programme and push up to start??

The mechanism is very interesting, its the same as Hotpoint did on their first twinnies and single tub wringer machines from the 60`s, direct drive into the gearbox on one side and the other directly into the Filter Flow Pump...a bitch to work on for me, probably not for you...LOL

ALSO , was looking at some 60`s Washer Reports from The Ideal Home year books and came across a McClary-Easy top Loader, priced £125, dryer £99, 9lb load, Suds Saver etc, this one has only two rotary controls mounted on a black back panel, Where these washers known as McClary and what was the connection??

Cheers, Mike

p.s. Anybody explain "Pachinko"??
 
Austin, no that is the water valve not the suds pump. What is very strange about the water valve in this machine is it is mounted in the FRONT of the washer! You need extra long fill hoses for them to reach the valve! Now that's a silly design.

As for the timer and how it works this should help, I was also confused at first, but its actually very simple...

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Check out this picture of the Easy agitator (foreground) and the Hotpoint agitator (background). The Spiral on the Easy sticks out much further away from the base than on the Hotpoint. This should make for some quite interesting wash action!

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Wow! That gives me hope that there are more Easy washers hidden in the basements of central New York! Yay!

I bet the bigger ramps on the Easy Spiralator give better wash drama than the Hotpoint Silhouette.

The Frigidaire is a Unimatic?

Mike: Pachinko is Japanese pinball. It is played vertically rather than horizontally. They are usually quite ornate and colourful. The older ones are much more cool than the new ones (as it is with washing machines too!). Search "pachinko" on ebay to see a few.
 
Apex Coin-ops

John (coldspot66) wondered "Apex?????? Did they make coin-op machines????? I doubt it!!!!!!!!"

I could have sworn that I once read a post from someone who described the "commercial Apex washers" that were in his apartment building's laundry rooms. It only took me three searches of the archives (pats self on the back) to find it! I've never heard of a "commercial" washer that wasn't coin operated, so I would be surprised to hear that those machines were NOT coin operated. (Unfortunately, the poster doesn't post here any more and is no longer listed in the user profiles, so we can't ask him.) For what it's worth, here's a copy of his post:

"Post# 25217-12/21/2002-09:26 ||| rossroberts (Palm Springs, California)
SUBJECT: RE: POD (POD)
MESSAGE: In the apartment complex where I grew up, they had commercial Apex washers with bouncing tub. The lids had round glass windows. The water would start come into the tub. Half way through the fill up, the tub would start to bounce. You could see the action through the glass lid. Then the wash action stopped and a second or two later, the tub would spin. There was a wash and two rinse cycles, followed by final spin."

How cool is that? It would be awesome of someone from the Club would find one of those machines.

Mike
 
Wonderfull!!!

The ring control it's the funniest control system I've never seen! But I dont' believe it's so easy to use...

Great Robert, CONGRATULATIONS!

Good Bye
Diomede

PS: Will there be any videos nextly?
 
Bob (appnut)posted: "Mike, Rossroberts is none other than our westyslantfront in AZ. I remembered this from him and that's why I guessed a coin-op Apex."

Thanks, Bob. I'm glad that Ross is still around. He comes from the New York area (I had family who lived near where he grew up) and he and I exhanged a couple of e-mails when he first started posting.

Thank again,

Mike
 

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