GE NON-FilterFlo Set

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The other set that I brought back with me from DC was this 1955 GE Washer and Dryer Set. This is a 1955 set, just before the FilterFlo wash system was introduced........This is still the double belt set with a double clutch pully system.........I have the trim piece from the front of the washer, but it was loose so I removed it so it would not get bent........

 

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General Electric Washer........

 

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Matching dryer

 

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Washer timer........

 

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Water temp switch......

 

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Water saver button.........

 

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Tub opening..........no Filter Flo!

 

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GE washer lid and instructions...........

 

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Dryer Timer.........

 

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Dryer heat selector............

 

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Dryer door........

 

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Door port opening.......This dryer is working and actually needs nothing but a good cleaning up and a little cosmetics. Tom Anderson helped me move it and hook it up and we were both amazed by how quiet it was. It was almost silent!

 

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pic of the washer motor and clutch. The clutch shaft has actually broken in two...again, this was GE's two belt system and double action clutch..........the next years models went to a single belt tranny and single clutch. A much simpler and more dependable design.........

 

[filterflo]

I had an extra motor and double clutch on a scrap washer that I had saved. Its hard work hunting down, saving these parts and then hunting them up when needed, but boy do they come in handy when you need them!. I almost tossed this out several times, after tripping over it moving it from here to there.........now I need it and GLAD I saved it! Yay!

 

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Backs of the GE set...........And yes, like a lunatic, I bought home ANOTHER set yesterday! I just cant quit! Well, got to save them when we find them.........will post pics of them soon.........another great find! Jimmy

 

[agiflow]

Very nice pictures. Nice to see GE also had a center timer dial. Love the look.

 

[alr2903]

They ARE VERY NICE

Is the dryer a perforated drum with a lint screen at the toe kick area? or is the screen somewhere else? thanks nice pics. alr2903

 

[gregm]

very nice

love the simplicity, center dial and copper accents

 

[nasadowsk]

Ok, I give up. how does the 2 speed clutch on the older ones work? I sorts remember the later 2 speed clutch - the one on my mom's old GE flaked out in the late 80's, but I remember how it would start out slow for a few seconds, then click into regular speed. I think the bearing for plate the high speed arms ride on siezed up, so it was forever stuck in high sigh speed after that...

The other thing it did in it's later years was make a horrid grinding noise when startingh in either activate or spin (but it ran smoothly)...

Ok, anyway, I'm guessing the early model GE transmissions were different than the later ones? Did they change this with the two speed clutch change, and oh yeah, how did the Versatronic one work?

Anyone got pictures showing these things? I love seeing internals on stuff.

(and where's the GE wash videos? I'm curious as to how the earlier solid tub ones worked, esp the filter flows and AW6..)

 

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Its not a two speed clutch, its a double belt clutch. One belt was for agitate, and the other was for spin. Its one speed and one speed only..........