Popped up near me. The condition is stunning, and I have a set of nos bellows.
Finding a unicorn
- Thread starter lorainfurniture
- Start date
Help Support :
Wow!! You going to go get it? Looks like a WO65-2.
I already got it. And yes I think you are spot on with the model
repairguy
Well-known member
Very nice!
Congratulations!!!!!!!
Beautiful!
And congratulations! That was my parents very first automatic.
And congratulations! That was my parents very first automatic.
northwesty
Well-known member
Any
Backstory on it. It looks great.
Backstory on it. It looks great.
WOW!
Please do a load of clothes for us!
Please do a load of clothes for us!
Wow - what a find! Amazing what is still out there, especially in this condition. Does it need transmission help?
Also - that 58-62 lint chaser ring is in really, really good shape. It would make a great canadate for Bud’s repo efforts. He has molds for the correct black cap and ring for your WO-65-2.
Ben
Also - that 58-62 lint chaser ring is in really, really good shape. It would make a great canadate for Bud’s repo efforts. He has molds for the correct black cap and ring for your WO-65-2.
Ben
Have him chime in, I’d love to have a new cap or two, my friend bob could use one too.
No collection is complete without one. Congrats, it's in remarkable shape.
You sly puss!
Such fun!
Enjoy
Such fun!
Enjoy
Congratulations! I am curious about your diaphragm or pulsator or energy ring. It seems to be the tan one of a later model, not the black one original to this machine or even the gray one used in 56. If that one works in this machine, Bud would not have to worry about dealing with the problems he had in trying to reproduce the one for the WO65-2.
Yes Tom .....
that is an interesting question! It may be an old reproduction one made by Customline that was a dark gray neoprene when new .... and has turned that dark tan patina like all the old neoprene parts do. I added a picture below of a nos gray Customline energy ring that was once made to replace these old "shorter" pulsators.
Ben, I came across a NOS yellow ring still in the sealed plastic package ..... but hard as brick. The mold I made out of the old one I had actually turned out pretty good. You have one of those yellow rings I did. The pink one too. The pink mold came from a pristine pink ring Tom let me borrow which made a beautiful mold!
Bud - Atlanta
that is an interesting question! It may be an old reproduction one made by Customline that was a dark gray neoprene when new .... and has turned that dark tan patina like all the old neoprene parts do. I added a picture below of a nos gray Customline energy ring that was once made to replace these old "shorter" pulsators.
Ben, I came across a NOS yellow ring still in the sealed plastic package ..... but hard as brick. The mold I made out of the old one I had actually turned out pretty good. You have one of those yellow rings I did. The pink one too. The pink mold came from a pristine pink ring Tom let me borrow which made a beautiful mold!
Bud - Atlanta
norgeway
Well-known member
I dare anyone
To find ANY new washer that will last that long and still look that good!! LOL NOT!
To find ANY new washer that will last that long and still look that good!! LOL NOT!
The washer in the video above was a WO-65.
Congratulations Eugene!! This is such a fun machine, especially with no outer tub the sounds it makes going into spin are super cool. Is this your first Unimatic?
The pulsator looks nearly new, did the machine come with that Pulsator or did you change it?
that is an interesting question! It may be an old reproduction one made by Customline that was a dark gray neoprene when new .... and has turned that dark tan patina like all the old neoprene parts do.
Frigidaire made replacement pulsators in that exact light gray color (which have a tendency to turn beige over time). The Customline ones are a very dark gray.
The pulsator looks nearly new, did the machine come with that Pulsator or did you change it?
that is an interesting question! It may be an old reproduction one made by Customline that was a dark gray neoprene when new .... and has turned that dark tan patina like all the old neoprene parts do.
Frigidaire made replacement pulsators in that exact light gray color (which have a tendency to turn beige over time). The Customline ones are a very dark gray.
searsbest
Well-known member
Wow! That is stunning! Congratulations!!
My first
I’ve worked on one, but it was a much newer 1-18 with a perf tub. My friend bob has one and I helped get it going.
I honestly don’t know much about it. The bellows that I got are the water seal and an oil seal, not the large diaphragm agitator bellow.
I’ve worked on one, but it was a much newer 1-18 with a perf tub. My friend bob has one and I helped get it going.
I honestly don’t know much about it. The bellows that I got are the water seal and an oil seal, not the large diaphragm agitator bellow.
