Fabric Softener Dispensers Go To Hollywood

[Unimatic1140]

I just received the following email:

"Do you have the answers to the agitiator and fabric softener quiz? I'm ashamed to admit this, but there are a couple that I don't recognize. "

Maybe you guys and gals can help this person out:

 

[mixfinder]

Quiz on Queen For A Day!

GE
HOTPOINT
NORGE
WHIRLPOOL
FRIGIDAIRE

Kelly

 

[jasonl]

Flying saucers

I ain't never seen a Frigdiare FS dispenser. Which model did those go on?

 

[peterh770]

Bendix
Kelvinator
Blackstone
Westinghouse
Apex

Do I win?

 

[jasonl]

You've just won

A free slap. Provide four more incorrect answers and you get even another slap and photos of you and Steve at the Pensacola Wash-in

(ducks and runs)

 

[Unimatic1140]

Peter, Bendix, hmmph, shameful!

No Kelly has them all correct:

#1: 1960's GE
#2: Hotpoint 1970-1974
#3: 1957-1960 Norge and Hamilton
#4: 1970's Whirlpool
#5: 1959-1962 Frigidaire (goes into the agitator column).

 

[goatfarmer]

What's the blue ragtop sitting behind them?

 

[toggleswitch]

oh child, I was there on that street and did not see those dispensers. Where were they hiding? LOL

 

[frigilux]

Was there a flat, disc-shaped softener dispenser for some Frigidaire's---the 1-18's maybe? I seem to recall seeing one. It mounted over the agitator cap, I think. Have I crossed memory banks or is this true?

 

[shawn]

P.O.D. 8/29

This is the first time I ever saw that kind of front-load
Westinghouse washer. If anyone had info on it I would like to read it.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Frigidaire had the plastic flying saucer style fabric softener dispenser on the cone-shaped agitators and a very similar one on the 1-18 models. They were very brittle plastic and did not last long. The plastic where the two metal clips were screwed into the dispenser would fail. I tried all kinds of glue back then, but could not find anything that would hold up to the stresses of that agitation. There was an earlier dispenser that went on the top of the agitator, but it was not as wide and the softener reservoir was deeper. When installed, the reservoir was down in the agitator, below where the lugs were that locked the dispenser onto the space capsule agitator. They ran into a problem with the wash 'n wear & delicate cycle not spinning fast enough after the wash to spin the softener out of the reservoir. So they had to design the flat one that would work at lower speed. The flat one also contained the splashing a bit.

 

[frigilux]

Thanks, Tom. I thought I'd seen such a beast sometime in the dim, distant past. I always wondered if the softener got frothy from the agitation.