Frigidaire

[appnut]

"Lint Away Lamp"

Wasn't that just simply an idiot light on the control panel to let the user know the lint-away-rinse (overflow rinse) was in progress? Kinda like the "filtering" idiot light or "self-cleaning filter" light on the Kenmore and Whirlpool washers that lit up while it was agitating during wash or rinse.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Were we not living high on the hog in 1968. Every corporation was building and selling their usual domestic products and building material for the war also. Friends told me that when they were about due to leave Viet Nam and come home, representatives of the BIG 3 auto makers would visit them to sell them a car that would be waiting for them when they got back.

Scooter: The Lint A Way lamp came on during the overflow rinse period at the end of the wash and rinse in the upper end models. In the metered fill machines, the rinse was not a constant overflow like in the time fill machines. The lamp was one more doo-dad like Kemore's "Filtering" light during agitation. Thanks for sharing the magazine. We had LIFE delivered for years along with lots of other magazines.

Did anyone check out the GE appliances on pgs 44 & 45? That's a nice 30 inch range there and what looks like Greg's favorite laundry pair. Check out the GE lamp timer on pg 87 and the WP air conditioner ad on pg 94.

Please take a look at the little boat on pg 100 and tell me if anyone has seen a boat like it.

The morning after I graduated from high school, I turned on my new Westinghouse TV and heard the news about Robert Kennedy's death. I was up early to start my first day of work at the local hospital to earn money for college. We had the quarter system instead of semesters and tuition for each quarter was about $100 for 3 courses and PE.

 

[cornutt]

I'll bet the clutch control didn't actually pulse that much. Between that honkin' 1000 uF cap and the inductance of the clutch coil, it was probably fairly well damped. Plus, it looks like they put some negative feedback in the control circuit to stabilize it more. Still not smart to do speed control by slipping a friction clutch, though.

 

[supremewhirlpol]

Do you think an eddy current drive would have been a better solution?

 

[tomturbomatic]

It is all kind of moot because, as John has said, the third speed on WP/KM washers, especially with the Kenmore's Vari-Flex fins retracted, could give the gentlest wash you would need without restorting to gadgetry, but to be able to put a little sticker on the control panel saying "solid state" in the late 60s was a real attention grabber for the male shopping with the woman for an appliance. GE even made a "solid state" controlled Versatronic toaster oven.

We briefly had one of the infinite speed Frigidaires as a loaner while ours had to go in for service. It would wash and spin the first load fine, but if you tried to do a second load right after that, it would not spin fast enough to even completely empty the tub of water.

 

[mickeyd]

Scooter, thanks for the effort

We say Frigidaire so often, we can forget the blended word's origin, frigid+air. When I was very young, some of the wonderful seniors in my life called the refrigerator, a frigidaire, and my ears would perk up thinking they were talking about what was for me the very best topic, washers.

Your link reminded me, when I saw the sitting lady.

When I type automatic washers, or rollermatics etc. in the search, I strike out.

Would you tell me how to access the materials. Thanks again.

 

[mickeyd]

PS: There were pleny of filty rich in 1968

I went school and was friends with many of them. If only I had asked to see their washing machines ;-> Perhaps I would have encountered a cherished X-file. "The truth is out there." At that time we enjoyed a 66 Coppertone Custom Deluxe. That's as far up the Frigidaire hierarchy we ever got. Had I known about these wonders back then, there's no telling.....