Wonderful restoration, absolutely wonderful! Hats off! I love the steering wheel door. I love the look under the machine too. They don't come that clean from the factory! Enjoy that Bendix for many years in good health.
I did all that tampering prolly 20 years ago long before I knew better. Anyway - it ran and held water, didn't it~! Sorry 'bout the 1/4 horse motor windings, but that's all I had on hand at the time, and it did work ('cept for going into spin - sometimes).
I'm the fella that woke it up out of it's original coma at that time. You could only imagine what it looked like before THAT~. It was outright rusty - openly - even on the front.
Glad you got it and did your thing with it, though, Jon.
It looks great.
I did this banner photo about 10 years ago, and I had the machine a long time before that.
All of these machines are now in the hands of other collectors - and the cycle continues to advance.