Estate Sale Saturday Was Good Today

[Unimatic1140]

Looks like the "obsession" was acting up today. I couldn't help myself but bring this home, I'll post more pictures when I get it into the basement.

Both a washer and dryer came home (along with a KitchenAid dishwasher but that's for another thread another time).

I'm not planning on keeping the washer and dryer, just want to play with them for a bit and hopefully send them off to a loving home!

 

[kenmoreguy64]

Uh oh! I know what that light is from! It's a GE of course...NOT

 

[kenmore71]

THAT looks like it could be and early to mid-60s Lady K!
That said, I KNOW it's not a 1964 or 1965. Almost looks like it could be a bit later given the texturing on the panel.

 

[hydralique]

Nice . . .

Looks Lady K-ish to me as well, though I'd guess late '60s. I love the fabric texture background on the panel . . . can't wait to see the whole thing!

 

[kenmoreguy64]

The first version of the 1965 Kenmore 700 alphabet washer had a filtering light where mine just says "self cleaning filter". I wonder if Robert's new find is of that generation?

 

[qualin]

I honestly find that's a really strange thing to have a light for.

If it went out, did that mean that it wasn't self filtering anymore?

 

[sudsmaster]

It might be a Whirlpoodle.

 

[whirlykenmore78]

Very cool

Robert, I'm just to your south and will help you out if needed. I would be honored to give a Vintage W/D set a loving home for our esteemed Webmaster if he would give me the honor.
Nick WK78

 

[gansky1]

Terrible tease!

 

[chaskelljr2]

Uni:

Looking at that light that is in that picture above, that has got to be a 1960's Kenmore.

If that is turns out to be that, then this must be a Kenmore weekend here at automaticwasher.org.

Gordon has just received a 1969 Kenmore Model 100 (24") that looks like a step-up model from the 1967 Kenmore 24" BOL Washer I grew up with.

I think your model is MUCH higher up in the line than those machines I just mentioned, being that it has a Self-Cleaning Filter on it.

--Charles--

 

[goatfarmer]

April Fool?

 

[macboy91si]

Kenmore 70 or 700

1966 Kenmore 70 or 700 or whatever the number was then, one alphabet dial, sliding water level, black polypropylene Super Rotoswirl, and that light to the right of the dial. There is a raised section of the control that has the corresponding letter and their cycle names. If this is THAT machine, this was the 1st washer I ever laid my eyes on in my grandparents basement. If you depart with it, please keep me in mind, this machine is very special to me.

 

-Tim

 

[chestermikeuk]

Since When

where Estate Sales open on Sundays?? thought it was a saturday morn hobby...Lol

I`m going for teaser day as well!!

 

[Unimatic1140]

Well here we go, 1965 model 700 series model 7515712 washer. Dryer is an 800 model, in gas.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Both are in reasonable good shape...

 

[Unimatic1140]

Money shot, except for a minor chip, the basket just shines, the agitator also is very mint...

 

[Unimatic1140]

Dryer shows little sign of interior wear as well

 

[Unimatic1140]

Washer seems to work fine, the belt could be changed and the Control Magnet glides need some grease, but otherwise...

 

[Unimatic1140]

And of course being a Minneapolis washer...

Save those suds!

 

[mistereric]

oooooh! Sudsy!

 

[revvinkevin]

 

 

WOW.... VERY NICE!

 

Oh a Sudsy saver... I think I know who is going to DROOL all over these and grab them when you are ready to turn them loose (hint: He's just across Lake Michigan from you)

 

OR.... Robert, can you and Fred put them in your carry-ons when you come out in a few weeks??  

 

 

Kevin

 

[polkanut]

Robert,

Of course it's going to be a suds-saver seeing it is from a Minneapolis or even a Minnesota estate.  Did you think that those thrifty Germans and Scandanavians would let all that hot water and detergent go to waste after just one wash?  NOT!!!  Does the suds return appear to be functional? 

 

Great find!

 

[Unimatic1140]

Does the suds return appear to be functional?

I assume it does, the suds valve works fine.

 

[polkanut]

Sounds like you need to keep this machine, and experience the joys of suds-saving.

 

[aldspinboy]

Wounderful pair Robert !

Ooh they just follow you.. good karma.

For one of the most beautiful agitator system's in the world.

 

 

 

 

 

Darren k

 

[mickeyd]

Just once, just for me

Return the suds and I'll never ask again.

 

[kenmore71]

Robert already has a suds saver. The 1957 pink Lady K will save suds. That said, I don't seem to remember a laundry tub sitting next to it though....

 

[kenmore71]

Filter Light

This seems be a feature that Kenmore put on their machines in the mid-60s. If I remember correctly, it is wired to light whenever the agitate wig-wag solenoid is engaged. For those who may not know, whenever that solenoid is engaged it pushes the agitate cam into place which also flips the pump direction lever to recirculate water (if the machine has a filtering provision).

 

[combo52]

Self-Cleaning Kenmore with Filter Light

Yes the light was on when ever the washer agitate solenoid was energized, the light was a great way to show off this Great Feature. The only time that the light was a lie was when the suds water was being returned to the machine on SS models, as the light was on but the returning suds water was not being filtered as it was came back into the washer. The true back-wash SCFs were first installed on the 1958 LKMs and continued till the last belt drive KMs and WPs on some models [ only suds-saver machines on most models built after 1981 ]. This was by far the most effective filtering EVER used on any automatic washer, far surpassing the well known GE FF machines.

 

There was only one other TL washer that had a filter as effective as these WP built washers and it was a GE machine, it was GEs first automatic washer and Robert has the only one in existence. It is his 1947 GE that my brother Jeff and I rescued over 35 years ago and I traded it to Robert for a Westinghouse Combo that I gave to Jeff.

 

[pdub]

Another Great Find

Wow, these are beauties (aren't they Gordon!)

It just shows to go ya that there are still more of these hiding out there!

Congrats Robert and Fred on these latest machines.

Patrick