Hi, I am Dave. (Not Jesse)

[jesse white]

I did meet Jesse once though. I was a Maytag tech back in the day, 1975-2000. Still have the 1985 Maytag pair I bought from Maytag directly. They used to have a program for dealer techs to buy machines just under dealer cost.

 

[qsd-dan]

Welcome aboard, good to see those who got their hands dirty in the trenches back in the good old days post on the forum. You probably remember when my set was brand new on the showroom floor.

 

[maytag85]

May remember the Maytag 806’s as well from that era.

 

[jesse white]

Wow, those are beauties! So smart to put those lights in the panels.

 

[Alan]

Those are so pretty. More than anything on the showroom these days.

 

[maytag85]

Wow, those are beauties! So smart to put those lights in the panels.

The washer came like that originally since it’s a TOL Maytag A806 from 1979. The dryer is a Frankenstein of sorts since it originally started out life as a 1974 Maytag DE306, ended up getting set off to the side since I had to borrow some wiring off for a Maytag DG407 I restored back in 2019.

Decided it was just better off to put a Maytag DE806 together, however decided to customize it. Put a Maytag DE408 timer in and adapted it to a wiring harness I removed from a Maytag DE407 in an appliance junkyard in Arizona. Even tried experimenting with dual temperatures with a Maytag DE808 console, but that didn’t end up working as intended since it popped the breaker.

Not a true Maytag DE806, but am content with the setup. Allows for flexibility in terms of dryness, can set the timer for 60 minutes for certain types of bedding and will dry it to completion with a exception of spots being just a little damp but otherwise is dry.

 

[dermacie]

Here is my favorite Maytag.

 

[qsd-dan]

Saved these from the crusher, just like the set above.

 

[qsd-dan]

Also saved

 

[maytag85]

Saved these from the crusher, just like the set above.
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That’s the 1967 Maytag A806 and Maytag DE808 you uploaded to YouTube in the fall of 2017 from what I remember.

 

[qsd-dan]

Yep, on the nose. 1967 A806 and 1979 DE808. They were cabin use only, extremely low mileage on both.

 

[maytag85]

I’ll admit mine isn’t quite a true Maytag A806 set since the dryer is a Frankenstein/Hodgepodge, but as you mentioned in the comments section: “Patience and Persistence go a long way, never in my wildest dream I think I would own a Maytag 906 set, but ended up finding one near a scrap pile”. Don’t think that was the exact quote, but close enough.

Patience and Persistence definitely paid off on finding my Maytag A806 set.

Definitely going to put them back into service once I am done recording an extravaganza of videos of my Whirlpools this fall. Only thing I need to do to the Maytag 806 is repaint it and do some cleaning, that’s about it.

 

[pstehle]

Also saved

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How did we EVER do laundry in the dark??!!