Frigidaire 1-18 matched pair/original owner!

[hippiedoll]

the agitator.....

i must be needing glasses cuz in picture #3 (with the snake skin) it looks like the agitator is solid & smooth all the way down. is it just because of the angle that you took the picture??? or are there "ridges" down the sides of the agitator, to push the clothes down, when the agitator is moving up & down??

i don't know why, but this agitator looks like it doesn't have any of the grooves or "rings" like other agitators i've seen on the frigidaire "thumpers"???

i'll be waiting for any replies.

as for that snake skin, YIKES!!!
if i would of opened the lid and seen that, i probably would of jumped back 2 feet and clutched my chest!!!
LOL.......
(i do not like snakes or reptiles! something about their skin just makes me cringe!!!)

D

 

[rm23j8g]

agitator

I'm going over to the building they're in this evening, so I'll take a couple more detail pics of the agitator.
I have to call ahead and tell the snakes I'm coming......
Anyone want any other detail shots while I'm there?

 

[rm23j8g]

more pics

Okay, tried to get a decent shot of the agitator, but limited with my phone. It was too dark in there for no flash, and the flash kinda blows out the image. I'm posting what I shot, however, along with some of the lint filter.
The snakes only allowed me five minutes with the machine today.
Oh, there are definitely ridges on the agitator!
By the way....ever hear a snake growl? Hint: It ain't pretty.

 

[travis]

Very nice set, though not interested in hearing a snake growl at all!

 

[hippiedoll]

rm23j8g...

thank you for taking pictures of the agitator. now i see how the ridges are designed on the agitator. sorry about the snakes "growling" at you though. scarey!!!

i wonder if there will be any snakes hiding in the washer???

again, sorry about you having to go over there to deal with snakes, just to take pictures of the agitator. i thought you had these in an extra backroom in your house or something.

thank you again for the pictures. i greatly appreciate you taking them so that i could see the design & ridges of the agitator.

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[rm23j8g]

No problem...I had to go over there anyway this afternoon to show some people other stuff I'm clearing out of that building.
Snakes said I can't come back before Monday, however. Seems these Frigidaire snakes are a bit "uppity".

 

[classiccaprice]

Lol. Ok, I still stand by my comment, I'll take them if you have no alternative. . Cool machines.

 

[ken]

Christina's earlier question concerning the agitator brings to mind something Ive often thought about. Did that later style agitator create as good of a roll over as the earlier style with the rings?

 

[mitch]

Jon, this is a fun thread!

Growling snakes...hmmm, none for me, thank you! Snakes be darned, I LOVE this set!! The more I look the more I want!!! That is one fine set of Frigidaires!!! I am really tempted to get the check book out!! Atlanta to Richmond--a day trip, right

Mitch

 

[whirlcool]

I would guess that this W&D set was stored in a barn. If you have snakes you have mice. While there may not be any snakes inside the machines, there probably are mice.

I once helped save a 1957 VW Bug from a barn in the Texas Hill Country. We removed it from the barn, trailered it back to Houston. When we opened the passenger door just before putting it into a storage shed literally hundreds of mice came flowing out the passenger door. And then we heard a rattlesnake rattling inside of the car.
The car was filled with all kinds of straw and barn debris. I left and never went back as I was only helping a friend out with moving it.

BTW, why is there so much debris inside the washer? You do know that kind of reduces the price of offers you'll get for the set. Is the dryer also filled with more of the same debris?

 

[rm23j8g]

Deadline.....tonight.

I'm going to let these go for the best offer I receive before midnight EDT tonight...Sunday, June 8th.
Monday morning, they'll have a new home!

 

[rm23j8g]

All done

They have a new home!

 

[rm23j8g]

Take 2....

Sadly, it looks like the original buyer is not going to come through on this set. It's sort of funny, in retrospect, that he warned me that some on this site would probably talk a good game to me about buying these, and then never follow through....hmmm.
Anyone want to step forward on these? First $400 takes 'em. Otherwise, I'll probably put them on eBay.
Live and learn.....

 

[whirlcool]

$400 for the set? Broken spin, snakes & possible mouse nests inside machines? Stored outside in unheated/un air conditioned spaces for lord only knows how long?

Dream on brother, dream on. I think you'd be lucky to see $125.00 for this set.

 

[bwoods]

beware of mice damage

Mice can do great harm to wiring. I had a GE Elec-Trak lawn mower and had a rather incompetant person paint it for me. He had it almost a year in his barn. When I got it back (rather badly painted) I found a mouse nest under the hood next to the control panel and the mice had chewed through many of the wires in the wiring harness.

 

You may have mice or rat or snake nest in those machines and may have wires where the insulation may be chewed.  Even if not chewed through their knawing on it may cause a short later.  I would beware.

 

I agree, $400 is a way too ambitious price for this set.  They haven't been taken care of at all.