Finally found a Rollermatic!

[mickeyd]

Didn't get a price yet, but it's yours

weird that he wanted me to buy three. I said sure, why buy one when you can have three rarities.

Gotta cool rollermatic mystery for you and Joel to figure out, but it'll keep till tomorrow because now I need some serious ZZZZ's. See y'all later.

 

[aldspinboy]

I think your troubles are over! Now want be long before you get washing!
Congratulations on your machine.

Darren k

 

[joelippard]

Jed,

Give us the latest man! What's going on with the rebuild?

 

[lebron]

Well, it's not going great. I can not loosen the tub nut. I am soaking it in WD-40 and giving it a couple of wacks now and then... I took the oil and water bellows of my multi-matic... are these compatible?? It looks as if they are and it would sure be nice if they did. I'm still working on getting the top metal part of the bellows out of the bottom of the pulsator and the agitator nut. Once I get a hold of Todd and if he sells me the pulsator I am going to cut up the pulsator right to the point and see if I can't get things disconnected. Curse old machines and everything that won't come loose DAMMIT!

 

[gyrafoam]

The joys of Frigidaire repair.

Have you heated that bolt? Sometimes that is just the ticket.

 

[joelippard]

Yes!!!

It's hard as hell, that's for sure!!! It's worth it in the end. See if you can pull those bellows out of that pulsator, soak them good... You need to get the PB Blaster, I'm telling you WD-40 is nothing compared to it.

Did you get the correct wrench yet? With the right wrench and the right spray to help loosen it and with enough soaking time you'll be surprised how easy she'll come loose. I know I was.

I worked my ass off for 3 days with a pair of channel locks. I got the correct wrench and soaked it in PB for 2 days and it came right off with about six whacks of the hammer.

 

[swestoyz]

Hang in there Jed. Steve is right, some heat helps out wonders. If you do hack the cone heat up the nut (not the shaft) for about 15 seconds or so, while spinning the nut evenly under the heat. This has helped me out of so many jams in the past.

Also - Joe's advice on having the tub nut wrench is critical. 1 1/2 inch. While the wrench in the link is expensive, slugging wrenches really are life savers if this is going to be an on-going hobby ;-)

Ben

http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/items/1APM9

 

[lebron]

What wrench did you get and where did you buy it?

I'll have to get some PB blaster

 

[joelippard]

Wrench

I had a friend who had the wrench I needed and he cut it in half for me, that's how I got mine. Any 1 1/2 inch wrench that has been cut into so it's short enough to fit in the tub will do, or the slugging wrench is equivalent as well. Be certain you get a boxed end and not an open end wrench, you need to develop even torque without slippage on that nut.

 

[rollermatic]

it's made by grainger

and it's a 1 1/2 inch slugging wrench. i bought it about 3 months ago, it has been invaluable to me! it was worth the 70 bucks or so i paid.

let me look thru old e mails here and see if i can find the model no. on it. or i'll pull up grainger on the web and try to get it for you.

it looks like this

 

[rollermatic]

just go to grainger

on the web and search 'slugging wrench' and you'll see it.

 

[swestoyz]

Jed - sorry for the dud link. I forgot that grainger.com times out any new session, regardless if I'm logged into my account or not. The Grainger SKU is 1APM9 - it is actually a Proto wrench, MFG item number USN324.

Ben