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Found this a while back in an old house I was contracted to liquidate........no model number is listed on the manual, appears to be GE's first automatic washer just like Roberts!
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Remember, your washer is ALL Automatic! yeah!
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Hi Jimmy, that's actually the 1950 AW6 model, which is the cheapened version without the recirculation system and self-cleaning filters.
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Ah! 1950 model? I guess what thru me off was the screen system in the top of the tub.........interesting GE didnt put any model number reference on their instuction manual. I sure was hoping I would find this washer in the house, but alas it was long gone..........
This is a very cool manual Jimmy, thank you for posting that. Actually now that I see more of the manual it shows the tub having the filters and the balance ring cradle. What it doesn't have is the seperate selector for the wash time. It makes me think maybe this manual is from 1948 or 1949 when they started to take out features but they still included the self-cleaning filters??? This is quite interesting.
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Hi Robert, I was very excited when I found this manual. Also interesting is that this model still could store the rinse water, hence the EMPTY part of the control dial and instuctions on how to empty the tub at the end of the laundry chores........
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Jimmy ... that's a cool manual! I love how Mrs. Homemaker can literally take the top portion of this machine apart and clean it. I wonder how many women did that?
They talk about a "mild cleaner"; what do you suppose in the late 1940's/early 1950's that was? Mr. Clean? Bon Ami?
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They talk about a "mild cleaner"; what do you suppose in the late 1940's/early 1950's that was? Mr. Clean? Bon Ami?
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Could the average (model-thin!) housewife in the 50s lift the basket, did she have the strengh?
I do this all the time!
It's too bad the machine isn't still there - that would make it a GE summer of savings!
The Blacstone 150 owner's manual instructed Mrs. Homemaker to clean her machine similarly, but with the help of a MAN or two to lift the 90 pound tub out of the machine and run the screwdriver of course! A copy of that manual is on file here:
http://www.automaticwasher.org/owners_manuals.htm
It's too bad the machine isn't still there - that would make it a GE summer of savings!
The Blacstone 150 owner's manual instructed Mrs. Homemaker to clean her machine similarly, but with the help of a MAN or two to lift the 90 pound tub out of the machine and run the screwdriver of course! A copy of that manual is on file here:
http://www.automaticwasher.org/owners_manuals.htm
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Where in the world would Mrs. Homemaker find TWO men in her household to help her with this task?? My guess is that if she wanted it done, she had to nag her hubby to help her and he probably swore a lot and came out looking like the hero!! 
After all, she was used to dragging heavy, wet clothing out of the basement from her wringer washer to the clothesline before she got her automatic washer and dryer.
After all, she was used to dragging heavy, wet clothing out of the basement from her wringer washer to the clothesline before she got her automatic washer and dryer.
The Blackstone was
designed to be marketed to people who practiced: divorce, infidelity, serial marriages and polygamy so the housewife would have two husbands around all the time.
Didn't you read the fine print?
designed to be marketed to people who practiced: divorce, infidelity, serial marriages and polygamy so the housewife would have two husbands around all the time.
Didn't you read the fine print?
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Jon ... I always fail to read the fine print; see what happens when you don't? You always a-s-s-u-m-e!!
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Thought the Blackstone manual was interesting
I noticed that there was a grease cup in the machine and that one should put oil on the agitator shaft. I noticed on the 1953 hotpoint some sort tube with a little flip open device on top of it that went to the pump, I think. Is there some routine maintenance on all these old machines? I think I'll put a little wd-40 on that nut that holds down the agitator shaft, for instance, just in case I want to take it off some day.
I noticed that there was a grease cup in the machine and that one should put oil on the agitator shaft. I noticed on the 1953 hotpoint some sort tube with a little flip open device on top of it that went to the pump, I think. Is there some routine maintenance on all these old machines? I think I'll put a little wd-40 on that nut that holds down the agitator shaft, for instance, just in case I want to take it off some day.
