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This is in Davenport, IA and I think it might be a 1-18, but I can't tell for sure.
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I took a closer look at the control panel on the photo, and see what looks like a standard agitator where the water level dial is. It's definitely a WCI, from the way it looks. If the timer could work on a 1-18, perhaps the seller can be convinced to send it, and junk the rest.
NorfolkSouthern
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That is no GM...
This would be the Westinghouse version after GM was done with these. You'll have great indexing action with this machine.
Jon
This would be the Westinghouse version after GM was done with these. You'll have great indexing action with this machine.
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I sent the seller an email asking for a picture of the tub and agitator. If I had the money and a way to get it home I would buy it.
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You can be sure...
it's a Westinghouse. The lid and rust give it away.
it's a Westinghouse. The lid and rust give it away.
Fake Frigidaire!
Yes as soon as I looked at the lid I knew for sure also the water level dial gives it away!
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Peter
Yes as soon as I looked at the lid I knew for sure also the water level dial gives it away!
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Peter
Oooh!
I had one of these. It was a fun machine, with a straight-vane, three-vaned agitator with removable column fins that also could hold an in-agitator lint filter if you had it (plus it had the standard Westy hanging-basket filter.
It was fun and had lots of smackalation, and could do a pretty impressive load of clothes. Totally hopeless if you had to work on it beyond changing a belt, though, and even that was no fun.
For the 2006 wash-in, I had it next to a WC GM 1-18, just to savor the irony.
I had one of these. It was a fun machine, with a straight-vane, three-vaned agitator with removable column fins that also could hold an in-agitator lint filter if you had it (plus it had the standard Westy hanging-basket filter.
It was fun and had lots of smackalation, and could do a pretty impressive load of clothes. Totally hopeless if you had to work on it beyond changing a belt, though, and even that was no fun.
For the 2006 wash-in, I had it next to a WC GM 1-18, just to savor the irony.
Nate---did your WCI Frigidaire washer have the circle-spray fill, like the GM 1-18?
I had an '86 Frigidaire top-loader, and hated the curved, narrow vanes (a design quickly dropped, thankfully), but it had the full-circle spray fill and a nice cool-down protocol for the permanent press cycle. They had also moved to a plastic tub, by then.
I had an '86 Frigidaire top-loader, and hated the curved, narrow vanes (a design quickly dropped, thankfully), but it had the full-circle spray fill and a nice cool-down protocol for the permanent press cycle. They had also moved to a plastic tub, by then.
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Yep, MY first washing machine was 1984 White Westinghouse curved agitator and lint basket. I loved the tub indexing. I carried it out the house in pieces in 1999 because the Transmission was starting to lock. I was given the machine in 1996 by my neighbor. Yes indeed a cool machine, when they work correctly.
No circle-fill
Hi Eugene,
No, the machine I had filled from your normal Westy fill-point at about ten o'clock. They did make a four-spray version of this Westy toploader design that ran with an ad that said "Four heads are better than one," if I recall. Very cool. No jet-circle, though--that's so cool that they preserved that in some of their later designs.
Yes, I know that agitator you're talking about, and it was pretty craptastic. But I love WCI's persistence of parts in their machines--bits and pieces of one manufacturer's design, showing up somewhere else...
Hi Eugene,
No, the machine I had filled from your normal Westy fill-point at about ten o'clock. They did make a four-spray version of this Westy toploader design that ran with an ad that said "Four heads are better than one," if I recall. Very cool. No jet-circle, though--that's so cool that they preserved that in some of their later designs.
Yes, I know that agitator you're talking about, and it was pretty craptastic. But I love WCI's persistence of parts in their machines--bits and pieces of one manufacturer's design, showing up somewhere else...
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