EASY SPIN FILTERING: Pix here; vid pending

[mickeyd]

Control Panel

 

About the filter which is next:

 

Does it get a lot of lint out? Of course not.

 

Does it work as a toy and provide lots of fun at varying levels and speed. Hell yeah!

 

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[mickeyd]

red black white chrome

Sudsy sheets in waterfall

 

[mickeyd]

Top view

Gentle speed is less splashy and dramatic

 

[abcomatic]

Mick

Great pictures of your Easy. Mine has 3 big buttons at the top of the control panel marked: Off, High, Low. I wonder what year mine was made? The Spiralator is large,black bakeolite and is not tapered at the top. I have another new Spiraltor to use in case this every fails and is tapered at the top, not like the other one. Thanks, Gary

 

[abcomatic]

Mick

Here is a picture of the control panel of mine. It looks different than yours does. Any idea as to the age of mine? Thanks, Gary

 

[mickeyd]

HI Gary

I wish we had encyclopedic knowledge about Easies the way we do for Maytags and Frigidaires. There are so many models and years of the Spindrier.

 

That and the fact that there seems to have been a few owners, The Murray Corp, Hupp, and another makes it hard to get an accurate chronology of years and models. A future project--huh!

 

In fact, talking to John today about the last year of production, he thinks he saw them for sale into the early seventies.

 

I asked you in the Dick's thread, is your pump mounted inder the agitator or is it located in the center front of the tub, just beneath the control panel, If it is, then you have one of the later later models that does not spin as fast. Is your agitation or spinning ever slow or are they brisk.?

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[abcomatic]

HI Mick

Here is a picture of under the Easy. It looks like the pump is under the tub? I have another question to ask. Does your machine have a cover plate on the bottom of the pump that is removeable? You can see it in the picture that I am attatching. I would guess that has to be taken off and cleaned?
Still lots of things to learn about the Easy.Thanks, Gary

 

[mickeyd]

Had that model

The pump base had a thumb screw, just like yours and just like the SQ wringer. When I took mine apart, the gasket was shot, had to seal it up with some type of blue gasket dope from True Value. That was about 25 years ago. If yours is fine I'd let it be, unless you're in the mood to fashion a new gasket.

 

The pump Easy used for years is a big mother with about 8 big screw holding the halves together, like a big heart. It works off a belt and pulley independent of agitation and spin.

 

I'm glad your machine works well; mine did not. The pump is too small works off the agitator and made agitation sluggish in my machine. It was a really bad one. The spinner had a really tough time getting going. Whatever this last company was drastically changed the engineering. Even the sounds are all diferent. Again, my was a lemon. Yours sounds fine.

 

[akronman]

Lesson learned

this is news to me, and great pics! Mine just don't work like that, but fun amyhows--

 

[arbilab]

Gary, is it possible to scale that underside view such that it fits within 2 pan frames instead of 5? I can't get any perspective on a pic that large. My Flintstones computer will not manipulate it in small/smooth increments.

Does look like highspeed drainfaucet aimed at the filter is too splashy-washy to do much good, blowing the lint back out of it. Can the valve control be throttled to work more like a GE Filter Flo?

I love Easy SD but my perspective on them is limited to grandma's 1950 and what I've been able to find and read.

 

[mickeyd]

Mark & Arilab

Thanks, I've got the video loaded, but can't get it up--ha ha. It's in an email from my niece Meegan's Blackberry. Gosh, these new phones take nice vids. It's only 10 seconds, but I don't know how to go from email to Youtube.

 

If anyone wants to see the vid I'll email it to you, and if you can get it up, please do so and we'll pretend it's your video. :-D The vid shows that the water flows right through the bottom of the filter with some splashing but no overflow; in other words, the filter manages the whole volume of water coming in.

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[perc-o-prince]

What a great looking machine!!

The only time I have had the pleasure of using one was when Ron (Kenmore58) got his. What a lot of fun and a hell of a work horse. I would like to have one but I think that I'm out of room

Enjoy!!

Rich

 

[mickeyd]

"but I think that I'm out of room " Thanks

What's that old saying.... "There's always room for one more!"

 

The main thing about the Easy Spins is that there are so many options and possibilities in the way to use them--their versatility, mind-boggling.