Potato Pulley to Reversing Motor...
Hi,
My research has told me that it was somewhere about 1995-96 the WCI people (or Pre-Frigidaire) discarded the old Westinghouse/WCI version who's basic mechanism went back to 1956 for the Spacemates , and 1959 for the Laundromat's.
Frigidiare introduced their newest version in 1997 according to company documents. I find it hard to believe that a year went by with out any new FL machines, by this company so My guess is that they wound down production on the older system,and then ramped up production of the newer models after all the initial bugs had been worked out.
I have both, a potato pulley Westinghouse Spacemate Set, and a late model Frigidaire FL set with rear backslash controls. I will agree that the newer set leaves clothing especially blankets and such much drier, than the older set, but I do not agree with those who feel that the older system leaves their clothes sopping wet.
I replaced all the belts on my Spacemates and this did make a difference. As with any machine, age and "frequency of use", and as motors age, they do tend to loose their spunk if you will...and I feel personally that these are the deciding factors as to how fast they spin.
My set has to be from just before it changed over to White-Westinghouse becasue the manuf. tag on the front panel behind the look in door says Westinghouse Appliance Division, Mansfield Ohio. but then on the inner paper that shows the wiring diagram it says White-Westinghouse, a division of White Consolidated Industries?
Anyway, my older set does fill up with much more water than my newer set does. In fact I adjusted the WLC switch so it would fill up higher than originally specified. I have it set still where the water comes up just to the edge of the door boot and whilst agitating looks like it's much fuller than you think especially when you add in the suds factor.
BUT apparantly becasue of Austin's Dual Tumble machine they must have intro'd the new style earlier...because I have never seen a Westinghouse designed machine agitate both ways so i guess the idea is that it was sometime in the mid 1990's that this occured.
Or did Westinghouse have two styles of inner mechanisms, and i just don't know this? Becasue my Westinghouse printed repair master from 63 and my later one from 74 show the same meachnism's for all machines, the three belt potato pulley system....
Anyone care to fill in the gaps?
Thanks
Chad
. Unfortunately on the Bosch you cant see the water at any part of the cycle :-(.
