Beautiful restoration-------
When you said this was your next serious project I knew you were focused in on it!
These machines used to be quite popular back in the day, and like throwing a light-switch, began to disappear quickly in the 1960's. I haven't seen one in operation in probably five decades until watching your vid.
Interesting how much trouble Bendix went to, to try to educate Harriette Homemaker on the proper dosing of detergent/soap. All for naught. Most of them just dumped some down the chute and got used to seeing the machine choke on suds throughout the whole process. I can't tell you how many times they would just automatically send everything through a "rinse cycle" because "this machine just can't rinse very well".
The mere suggestion that Tide or Cheer, or Ivory Snow might not be the best choice for use in the machine fell on deaf ears. Besides you could get drinking glasses from DUZ, and towels from Breeze. The manual washer mentality of "plenty of suds" wasn't an easy habit to break.
Older, taller women did not like to have to bend and reach inside the machines to feel for a sock or some other garment stuck against the back of the cylinder.
Anyway, the people who sold top-loaders threw plenty of shade on the front-loaders, and with the exception of Westinghouse, and the other brands (Combinations) the last popular front-loaders I recall were some of the gazillions of GE Combo's installed during the new "condo craze" of the 1970's.
Ben, like all of your restorations, your gift to tackle issues of mechanical or electrical complexity is amazing. The attention to detail, the cleaning and cosmetics very thorough.
You really did a great job with this one. I hope you get some fun out of it for years to come, and thanks for sharing, in detail, the steps of the process.