frontaloadotmy
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A wonderful find rickr
A wonderful find rickr
Hey! Look what I found.
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Steve, the modern fabrics button was the gentle speed agitation & spin.
Paging BethAnn!! Paging BethAnn!! Road trip up I69!!
Great set,Rick!!
kennyGF
Great set,Rick!!
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Just lovely, Rick!
Congratulations.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
Just lovely, Rick!
Congratulations.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
westytoploader
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Excellent find Rick, YAY for pink TOL appliances!! Nice job on the '56 Whirlpool dryer too!
The washer really looks like the 1957 AMP, IMHO, except for the fact that it's a helical drive. What are the red/black buttons for? I'm assuming you'd use "Modern Fabrics" for fir trees...;-)
So how'd you fit these in the back of the '55?
The washer really looks like the 1957 AMP, IMHO, except for the fact that it's a helical drive. What are the red/black buttons for? I'm assuming you'd use "Modern Fabrics" for fir trees...;-)
So how'd you fit these in the back of the '55?
golittlesport
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Great set, Rick! Congratulations! When I saw the first pictures I thought the washer was an AMP also. I like the handle in the lid personally.
filterflo
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Hey Rick, You are in the pink!! Sure has been a good couple of weeks for finding pink appliances. What do you suppose those date from? My guess would be about 1958?
Hey! Look what I found.
Wow Rick,
What a real great find nice to find a matching set like that
Best of Luck!
Peter
Wow Rick,
What a real great find nice to find a matching set like that
Best of Luck!
Peter
found em while not looking for them!! LOL!
Thank you everyone! I am very happy to find these!
Austin,the red and black buttons turn the panel light on and off. My niece and her husband brought these back from Grand Rapids Michigan for me. They used their 2001 Suburban. Yes I think modern fabrics for fir trees,and regular fabrics for aluminum trees...
Greg, I will take detailed photos to post as I tear these down. BTW does the front panel on this come off just by removing the two screws on the front panel,as the newer ones do?
Jimmy, you are, correct these are TOL 1958 models.
Here is a close up of the washer control panel.
Gotta go get cleaned up again. Big date tonight.And someone is taking me to see the new Star Wars movie!
BTW, message to Gregm.... I found these Maytags when I wasn't looking for them!!!! LOL!!
Thank you everyone! I am very happy to find these!
Austin,the red and black buttons turn the panel light on and off. My niece and her husband brought these back from Grand Rapids Michigan for me. They used their 2001 Suburban. Yes I think modern fabrics for fir trees,and regular fabrics for aluminum trees...
Greg, I will take detailed photos to post as I tear these down. BTW does the front panel on this come off just by removing the two screws on the front panel,as the newer ones do?
Jimmy, you are, correct these are TOL 1958 models.
Here is a close up of the washer control panel.
Gotta go get cleaned up again. Big date tonight.And someone is taking me to see the new Star Wars movie!
BTW, message to Gregm.... I found these Maytags when I wasn't looking for them!!!! LOL!!
Oh Rick, those are WONDERFUL!!!!!!!! I can just hear them now with that pump going---ruuuuump,ruuuuuump like an old Norge! Is that flat-top lint filter gold or is it the way the light is hitting it? Some Meguire's cleaner-wax and those will just look beautiful! Please share more pictures when you get them cleaned up!
Rick,
It's been a long time since I worked on one but it seems to me that the top must be loosened before the front can be taken off. Try removing the screws on the bottom of the front to see if it comes off first. If not look for screws on the back top to loosen the top.
It's been a long time since I worked on one but it seems to me that the top must be loosened before the front can be taken off. Try removing the screws on the bottom of the front to see if it comes off first. If not look for screws on the back top to loosen the top.
geoffdelp
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Rick ... oh my ... what a find, indeed!! How lucky can a guy get, huh? I love that copper-toned lint filter. Matches the pink so well. Now why would anyone leave something like that behind? I guess they thought they were too "dated" or some such foolishness like that!!
IMHO- I have seen people abandon perfectly good machines to get a washer with a "Permanent Press" cycle.
This makes no sense to me when a person uses their dryer for "modern" no-iron fabric. It's the dryer's extended cooldown that de-wrinkles.
Like all plastic articles, polyester clothing (and other "miracle" fibers) is more pliable when warm and less so when cool. The time to fluff out wrinkles is when warm and maintain that into the cooling process.
In effect, then, when machine drying Perma Press items, the Perma Press wash cycle is just a waste of water and time.
As far as PP cycles go.. Whirl-mores were the best (IMHO) with multiple partial drains (that was able to be done due to neutral drains) and fills with cool water. The Norge was nothng more than 4 cold spray rinses while spinning...with the marketing ploy of labeling the spin between wash and rinse on the timer "automatic cool-down".
All washer PP cycles with a cool-down (other than the utility of a slower spin) are USELESS when washing in cold water!
Perhaps another reason washers were abandoned is the desire to get a machine with a larger capacity. However if the dryer does not also "grow" it will not "iron" as well in that the clothing is more cramped in there.
This makes no sense to me when a person uses their dryer for "modern" no-iron fabric. It's the dryer's extended cooldown that de-wrinkles.
Like all plastic articles, polyester clothing (and other "miracle" fibers) is more pliable when warm and less so when cool. The time to fluff out wrinkles is when warm and maintain that into the cooling process.
In effect, then, when machine drying Perma Press items, the Perma Press wash cycle is just a waste of water and time.
As far as PP cycles go.. Whirl-mores were the best (IMHO) with multiple partial drains (that was able to be done due to neutral drains) and fills with cool water. The Norge was nothng more than 4 cold spray rinses while spinning...with the marketing ploy of labeling the spin between wash and rinse on the timer "automatic cool-down".
All washer PP cycles with a cool-down (other than the utility of a slower spin) are USELESS when washing in cold water!
Perhaps another reason washers were abandoned is the desire to get a machine with a larger capacity. However if the dryer does not also "grow" it will not "iron" as well in that the clothing is more cramped in there.
In my prior apt- a co-op- the previous owner had a full-size washer and a compact-portable 110 v dryer. (vented into the room)
30 minute washer load.
120 minute dryer load (1/2 of washer load)
120 minute dryer load (second 1/2 of washer load.)
______
270 minutes. (4.5 hours)
....AND PROBABLY WRINKLED TO H#LL.
I put in a compact washer and a full-size 220v vented dryer
30 minute wash
45 dry
_____________
75 minutes
x two loads (to equal a regular 18 to 20 lb. load)
150 minutes. (2.5 hours)
____________
Moral of the story:
Small dryer, not smart.
30 minute washer load.
120 minute dryer load (1/2 of washer load)
120 minute dryer load (second 1/2 of washer load.)
______
270 minutes. (4.5 hours)
....AND PROBABLY WRINKLED TO H#LL.
I put in a compact washer and a full-size 220v vented dryer
30 minute wash
45 dry
_____________
75 minutes
x two loads (to equal a regular 18 to 20 lb. load)
150 minutes. (2.5 hours)
____________
Moral of the story:
Small dryer, not smart.
golittlesport
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I agree, Toggle, that PP cycles were a waste of time unless one didn't have a dryer. Marketing folks in those days made everyone think that if your washer didn't have PP you would have to iron every piece of clothing. I think the best and most efficient treatment of PP items was the Westinghouse Laundromat's regular cycle set with a cold rinse - a complete drenching of the clothes after wash cycle in cold water before the first spin, and a relatively slow spin at that. Then two cold water deep rinses. Much less water and time than Ken-Whirl's drain-fill-drain-fill sequence.
The only time now-a-days (I've benn Tom Torboized) I use a "cool-down" is when I'm washing either Perm Press or 100% wrinkle free cotton white long-sleeve dress shirts in hot water. I at least wanna cool them down some before the first spin. Hetties and most other FLers (except Fridgemores) fill with more water and have a medium speed tumble for Perm Press or Normal/Casual cycles and also add more water before the first drain to cool them down more. And since I wash everything on knit/delicate (except towels & jeans), my first spin is alays slow. I switch to regular cycle at the tail end of the rinse so there'a a regular fast spin.
Removing front panel...
I was just in the turquoise Maytag the other day. Remove the two screws at the bottom and pull the panel toward you until the clips clear the top.
I was just in the turquoise Maytag the other day. Remove the two screws at the bottom and pull the panel toward you until the clips clear the top.
What model number do you see on that washer?
laundramatt
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Sppeaking of PP cycles, I have seen women who use the PP cycle on their washer and select cold water for the wash cycle. Isn't that defeating the purpose of the PP cycle?
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