Easy Does It -- The Mechanicals of the Easy

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I'm thinking a sold tub machine HAS to be timed fill; at least in terms of a pressure-activated switch as we know it today.

Other than a device like early Maytags that floats to trip a switch in the lid, how would you *measure* the water?

Just can't see it. Am I missing something here?
 
Measured Fill

My Simpson fills into the outer tub, where it measures the water level with a pressure switch.

Once the switch is satisfied, it then pumps the water into the solid tub where it washes. The rinses however are overflow.
 
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These are two fascinating machines! I'm surprised at the similarities of the Easy to Speed Queen. How many strokes per minute does the Easy agitation have and what's the degree of arc? I bet it will be a washday drama for sure. What kind of clutch system is used for spin? Can't wait for action pics...
 
Did the pump hold water?
So far so good, only a few drips through the cork seal, but that is normal until it gets saturated again.

overflow rinse?
I'm not sure yet, maybe its like the Philco that does a spin spray rinse and then a deep overflow rinse.

Was this a metered fill machine or a timed fill machine?
This is a METERED filled machine. If you look at the second picture I posted in this thread you can see where I pointed out the water level sensor. When the tub is full and it overflows a gallon or two into the outer tub, the rubber bladder on the water level switch is pressed down by weight of the water and starts agitation.

How many strokes per minute does the Easy agitation have and what's the degree of arc?
Hi Eddy, I have no idea, but since the Transmission is completely different from a Beam style tranny, I would think there would not be much similiarities there.
 
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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And here is the water flume reinstalled, boy it sure is close to the tub, I sure can see how if you overload the machine that clothes might just snag it.

Soon the first real wash will be done in the Easy, I just can't wait, this is going to be fun.

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Splashy Splashy

See what you mean about the flume, you`d only need 8 spray rinses with that spray action...lol, I bet 8 sprays doesnt fill the tub up like 1 agi rinse would..

That is some massive agi I must say, and wings as well, looking forward to the action.

Jon jetcone, whatever are you thinking , keeping that Easy in "Secret Storage", haul that neptune out straight away and replace...LOL
 
Well the last thing mechanically to do was to clean and oil time line roller as it was squeaking when I pulled the ring. Much better now with a bit of oil. The first few washes were cool! I will post pictures in a new thread shortly.

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You're amazing!

Thank you for saving this treasure. (And, for everything else that you do.)

I can't wait to see the pics of the machine in action.

Mike
 
to Veg -- missed ya

Hey Veg

I've got a tiny basket with three of those chrome caps. They're cool, huh?

Maybe there's a heavy grade aluminum that looks like cast iron or steel and i just don't know about it. You got me wonderin' Man.

Mikey
 
Okay

Mike my EASY is a priority I'll be digging it out shortly. Now where oh where am I going to put it???

I can tell you it does not have an overflow but it doesn't need one!
AND that spiralation is amazing for an agitator machine! My first load was sheets Queen size and she pulled them completely over and around so all surfaces were spiralated in the wash. The 8 spray rinses were so forceful it was like taking a shower with the lid up!!

When I get back home I'll take some comparason pics for here.

Cheers everyone
jet
 
The Spiralator always looked small in the big tub of the SpinDryer, but that same size in the automatic's tub must be wild. If anyone has them, Better Homes & Gardens from the early to mid fifties feature Easy ads, some double page, with Arthur Godfrey promoting them. People placed a lot of stock in him then and Easy was a HUGE name in laundry because of the popularity of the SpinDryers. The ads showed a kind of confusing diagram of the path of the clothes circling the Spiralator with a broken line and arrows with a segment of it dipping down and then rising up. With the fins continuing in the curved spiral to the edge, it would give the circular motion seen in GEs with the spiral ramp agitator, but lots more.

On a sad note, Easy was so convinced that the combinations were the real future of laundry that they put the majority of their resources and marketing behind them. Easy made that first WH top loader, but I think the last of anything Easy I saw were the washer and dryer marketed under the AMC (Allied Merchandising Corporation) badge that department stores back in the mid 60s sold as their "own house brand" like Rich's of Atlanta and Woodward & Lothrop in Washington, DC. They could make higher profits on them than the major brands. I remember that the dryer had some good design elements in that the heated air entered through the perforated back at about the 1 o'clock position and exited through perforations in the front of the drum at about the 8 o'clock position. There was a pull out lint filter in that position in the collar-type opening between the front of the cabinet and the drum itself. The filter was almost a square shape, made of screen on a fairly heavy frame. The handle was covered in something like a red vinyl or plastic that I guess would be less likely to burn fingers than just a bare piece of metal. I could tell that the air flow was pretty effective, but the drum was zinc coated and the door opening was quite small. The dryer design was not that much behind the WP design with the perforated back and probably more efficient with the across the drum air flow, but it was also prone to lint buildup in between the drum and outer tub.

The motor-tranny-pump package was beltless, more like wringer washers, far ahead of anyone else, even Frigidaire. They made commercial coin-op washers that lasted a long time also, so it was not that the design was not rugged. That base with the 4 arms supporting the ring is Speed Queen all over. It would have been interesting to see how they might have modernized the Easy line, but maybe it's just as well that we did not see it go to hell like the Kelvintor washers did.
 

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