Frigidaire Gold Crown

[thirtyater]

Wow this is the same washer we had for seven years except in white when I was a child. That really brings back the memories. It was great to see one again, Thanks for all the pics.

 

[filterflo]

Wonderful set, Patrick and wonderful looking Mustang. The shaft of your washer is probably not damaged, its the brass keyway at the bottom of the spin tube assembly that has gotten damaged. The brass keyway serves as both a bearing for the agitate shaft, and also as a keyway to keep it from turning and twisting the bellows. The shaft is hardened steel and very hard to hurt, but the brass keyway is soft and easily snapped. Ive done it many times trying to get the big nut off the pulsator. The noise is usually a bad agitate arm and or a loose agitator cone(s). The best way to remove the agitator now is to unscrew the shaft from the agitate arm (at the bottome of the tranny), unsnap the bellows retainer rings (big one and small one under the pulsator) and remove the complete agitator and shaft in one piece. Its pretty easy to then disassemble the cones from the shaft. Next step would be to find a donor tranny to get a good spin shaft from. Good luck, its really not as difficult as it sounds!

 

[angus]

Great set- where did you find it?

 

[rickr]

Nice catch Patrick! And a fun looking vintage Mustang too!
Hope you can get that Gold Crown set running great soon. With the help of the Frigidaire guys here you should have no trouble in doing so.
Congratulations!

 

[foraloysius]

Great set and great car!!

Louis

 

[mayken4now]

You have found some of my dream machines! Good luck and I am happy for you!

Steve

 

[Unimatic1140]

Nice Find Patrick, hopefully a spare spin shaft can be found. They look like they are in nice shape otherwise! Congrats again.

 

[christfr]

yeah

cool set my friend..i think what you need now is a filtrator dryer..

 

[pdub]

Thanks everyone for your encouragement and congratulations. I found this set on Craigslist and the guy had originally listed them for $75 for the set and then lowered them to $50. I was hesitant at the time to respond but when I looked a couple weeks later they were still listed so I took it as a sign. I was thinking Gold Crown had only been used on 1-18's so when I arrived and saw these I was very surprised.

The guy told me they had come with the house when they bought it last April and were still hooked up and running but he later swapped them for their newer Whirlpool/Kenmore set and stuck these in the corner. The pump and drain hose were still full of water when we moved them so I took that as a good sign they hadn't been used that long ago.

So all you Frigidaire experts, collectors, restorers: Anyone know of a good spin shaft laying around collecting dust? I would be forever grateful. Thanks, Patrick

 

[swestoyz]

Hey ~

Those look like fun!! Nice catch ~

Ben

 

[frigilux]

Wow, they really are beautiful; and you got the Rapidry 1000 spin speed, too. I used to babysit our local Frigidaire dealer's kids and they had a similar pair but with a infinitely variable agitation speed. I used to find an excuse to run the machine and play with the speed knob. You could get the agitation down to a very slow ker-plunk, ker-plunk, then all the way up to the thrashing fast speed and anywhere in between. Frigidaires were so much fun.... Congratulations and may the repair gods smile upon you!

 

[kenmore1978]

variable speed

A very rare thing to have. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Hotpoint the only other maker to ever a totally variable speed control? Ddid the Frigidaire's control work on the spin speed, too?

 

[pdub]

Jimmy-FilterFlo, Thanks for your detailed info. This concurs with what Gansky and Steve Gyrafoam have told me. Now it's just a matter of patience trying to find the parts I need. I am definitely motivated to take this on when I see the other tough projects people here have worked on.

Thank you ALL for you continued info and encouragement.

Patrick

 

[filterflo]

Patrick, glad I could be of help. Email me sometme, I think I know where you could get a couple of spare mechanisms for your Frigidaire. Im almost certain that all the spin tubes for the rollermatics are of the same configuration, even though yours is the Rapidry 1000.

 

[gregm]

congrads

wow, and a rapidry no less, they look great, love the stang too