mayken4now
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WOW Nathan! Get her up and running, and please, don't be lazy about posting those pictures!!!! Good going.
Steve
Steve
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mickeyd
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still excited and waiting
Should have said that is the original pulsamatic pulsator. The pulsator in the earlier picture Robert shows is not the first rendition. Yours is.
Robert's later picture of the very first pulsator looks like sculpture. It there an older thread, pics, video, or the story of this machine? Know nothing and would love to learn.
For those of us who love both pulsamatics, twintubs, and semi-automatics, isn't this machine a dream?
Did you know that Frigidaire also once made a wringer version: navy blue speckled porcelain in and out--very unusual--you had to push or pull the head of the pulsator to engage and disengage. No kliddin'!
Should have said that is the original pulsamatic pulsator. The pulsator in the earlier picture Robert shows is not the first rendition. Yours is.
Robert's later picture of the very first pulsator looks like sculpture. It there an older thread, pics, video, or the story of this machine? Know nothing and would love to learn.
For those of us who love both pulsamatics, twintubs, and semi-automatics, isn't this machine a dream?
Did you know that Frigidaire also once made a wringer version: navy blue speckled porcelain in and out--very unusual--you had to push or pull the head of the pulsator to engage and disengage. No kliddin'!
Pump it through the Wringer
WOW
I always wondered in Frigidaire ever made a wringer machine.
I have seen some picture of Austratian machines, from the outside, but it never showed the inside to see what kind of agitator they had.
Now, that's amazing.
Do you have any pictures, Mickey, or does anyone have any idea where to find more information?
Kelly
WOW
I always wondered in Frigidaire ever made a wringer machine.
I have seen some picture of Austratian machines, from the outside, but it never showed the inside to see what kind of agitator they had.
Now, that's amazing.
Do you have any pictures, Mickey, or does anyone have any idea where to find more information?
Kelly
mickeyd
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Interesting
Rose B. had a Multi-matic with the "Clock" control dial, and her Mom Mary W. came to live with her. I held my breath at the site of the navy speclked tub because it looked like an automatic Friigidaire with its frame removed. I asked Mary how it worked and she said you push the pulsator down to make it wash. Being a little boy, I kept saying How. A helfy pretty woman with a strong melodious voice, she led me right over and showed me a metal ring surrounding the shaft which jingled a little, she pushed it and it clipped. Unfortunately the machine was not "Hooked up"--as much as you can hook up a wringeroanyway, but was off against a wall, since Mary had been using Rose's Multi. A One time deal, have not seen or heard of Frigi Wringer since. I'm sure someone else has.
Maybe Geoff knows
Footnote: the original pulsamatic pulsator, as distinct from the unimatic, has a solid head, no cap, no opening, no jumping water, no dispenser, just the slits of a Phillip Screw. Ladies and kids forgive me, bit it is unmistakeable because it is jet black, narrower on top than any other pulsator and looks like the head of a penis.
Rose B. had a Multi-matic with the "Clock" control dial, and her Mom Mary W. came to live with her. I held my breath at the site of the navy speclked tub because it looked like an automatic Friigidaire with its frame removed. I asked Mary how it worked and she said you push the pulsator down to make it wash. Being a little boy, I kept saying How. A helfy pretty woman with a strong melodious voice, she led me right over and showed me a metal ring surrounding the shaft which jingled a little, she pushed it and it clipped. Unfortunately the machine was not "Hooked up"--as much as you can hook up a wringeroanyway, but was off against a wall, since Mary had been using Rose's Multi. A One time deal, have not seen or heard of Frigi Wringer since. I'm sure someone else has.
Maybe Geoff knows
Footnote: the original pulsamatic pulsator, as distinct from the unimatic, has a solid head, no cap, no opening, no jumping water, no dispenser, just the slits of a Phillip Screw. Ladies and kids forgive me, bit it is unmistakeable because it is jet black, narrower on top than any other pulsator and looks like the head of a penis.
trainguy
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Dueling '57s
Hi Robert,
What a great shot of your two 1957 washers overflowing in unison. I'm as green with envy at the agitator cap. I can still remember when you found the pulsamatic.
Rich
Hi Robert,
What a great shot of your two 1957 washers overflowing in unison. I'm as green with envy at the agitator cap. I can still remember when you found the pulsamatic.
Rich
mickeyd
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Yes
and the screw looks just like the slit. Robert's has a condom.
and the screw looks just like the slit. Robert's has a condom.
westytoploader
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Hilarious, that could also explain why it was called the Pulsamatic in the first place...
*Ducks and runs*
*Ducks and runs*
laundromat
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semi-automatic FRIGIDAIRE washer
My Aunt Margaret had one like this.She lives in Anne Arundel County(Glen Bernie),Maryland.It was from 1960-1962,DeLuxe and would agitate as long as you wished untill you changed over to spin. Hers had no booster/heater and the agitator was the "3 Ring"with the rubber cap and plastic cup bleach dispenser.She replaced it with a semi automatic Speed Queen twin tub spinner.Then after her surgery she got a FRIGIDAIRE Jet Action 1-18 Imperial washer and dryer (1973) and just recently replaced them with a Whirlpool Duet pair.She was the angel who got me started in my love for washing machines and to this day,I still have the sprinkler 3 ring agitator she got with her original washer/dryer.Thanks Aunt "Maggie"!!!!!
My Aunt Margaret had one like this.She lives in Anne Arundel County(Glen Bernie),Maryland.It was from 1960-1962,DeLuxe and would agitate as long as you wished untill you changed over to spin. Hers had no booster/heater and the agitator was the "3 Ring"with the rubber cap and plastic cup bleach dispenser.She replaced it with a semi automatic Speed Queen twin tub spinner.Then after her surgery she got a FRIGIDAIRE Jet Action 1-18 Imperial washer and dryer (1973) and just recently replaced them with a Whirlpool Duet pair.She was the angel who got me started in my love for washing machines and to this day,I still have the sprinkler 3 ring agitator she got with her original washer/dryer.Thanks Aunt "Maggie"!!!!!
mickeyd
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fond memories--Thanks!
My Aunt Margaret got me started on the Easy Spindriers. She was an Angel too who went to heaven on Christmas day a few years ago. We called her "Marge."
Small world, huh?
And now a Speed Queen TT. Was it like the Hoover or did it have an agitator? Until yesterday, I did not know that either of these semi-automatics existed.
My Aunt Margaret got me started on the Easy Spindriers. She was an Angel too who went to heaven on Christmas day a few years ago. We called her "Marge."
Small world, huh?
And now a Speed Queen TT. Was it like the Hoover or did it have an agitator? Until yesterday, I did not know that either of these semi-automatics existed.
sudsmaster
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Robert,
It looks like the original '47 Frigidaire had a perforated tub... is that true? So it must have had an outer tub, which in turn would have meant no overflow rinsing... ?
Cool that the peforated inner tub is hydrodynamically shaped to encourage maximum roll-over. Makes a lot of sense!
It looks like the original '47 Frigidaire had a perforated tub... is that true? So it must have had an outer tub, which in turn would have meant no overflow rinsing... ?
Cool that the peforated inner tub is hydrodynamically shaped to encourage maximum roll-over. Makes a lot of sense!
Sorry, forgot to link. It is in "Member Collections" on the home page.
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-...sh [email protected]&dir=/COLLECTIONS/FIXERMAN
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-...sh [email protected]&dir=/COLLECTIONS/FIXERMAN
It looks like the original '47 Frigidaire had a perforated tub... is that true?
Hi Rich, no it was a perforated liner around the solid tub. But Frigidaire washers didn't start overflow rinsing until 1952.
Later on in the week when I have more time I will start a new thread about the '47 Frigidaire with some good pictures. Its a very different and primitive machine than later Unimatics.
Hi Rich, no it was a perforated liner around the solid tub. But Frigidaire washers didn't start overflow rinsing until 1952.
Later on in the week when I have more time I will start a new thread about the '47 Frigidaire with some good pictures. Its a very different and primitive machine than later Unimatics.
sudsmaster
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"it was a perforated liner around the solid tub"
Sounds kind of like this turned the solid tub into an outer tub for a perforated inner tub... or liner... or whatever. Except I guess the whole thing dumped into the outer cabinet during spins. Weird!
Sounds kind of like this turned the solid tub into an outer tub for a perforated inner tub... or liner... or whatever. Except I guess the whole thing dumped into the outer cabinet during spins. Weird!
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