This is my dream to see such fascination with Easies--what a valentine and happy Saint Valentine's Day to all of you lovers. Washers are so lucky to be the object of so much love.
There are two Easy threads developing, On one, Jetcone says his Easy has 8 spray rinses, no mention of overflow. Can't help you there. Bit I can help with the following.
Regarding alunimum: Again, the economy models and perhaps all models of some given years used aluminum, and unless I am elementally challenged, --a distinct possibility--my spirilators are either cast iron or steel. The aluminum agitators I have held are very light while mine are distinctly heavy. They kick the feces out of jeans and cordoroys. Doesn't aluminum dent? These definately do not.
TRUST ME: the black plastic and the white metal Spiralators are interchangeable; if not I wll buy Jetblue tickets for a Key West wash-in for all comers.
My Easies were made in the late sixties. They have a center control panel with four levers; Wash, Drain, Spin, Drain, off/on buttons atop the controls, a timer in the middle, and a normal /gentle switch below the controls. The controls have no resemblance to the posted pics of Gregm's machhine.
The spiralator's stroke is swift: the clothes keep moving downwardsand inwards--spiraling like a football-- toward the center, but the difference is that ALL of the water keeps moving circularly as if the tub itself were turning. It's fast and fun and really different, but not as dramatic as an ABC-O-matic.
If you look at Robert's posted daigrams of Drive Shaft 09090, it is virtually identical to the shaft in my two Easy spins.
Please read the other Easy thread, esp., elephant trunks. Valenitnes to all.
Mikey
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