Appliances From The Aberdeen Farm
Hi Kevin, I believe that Jon C. & Robert S. and I brought around 18 appliances back to the east coast. I ended up with around 8, none of mine have ever been fully restored, the 1960 TOL WP Gas Combo from the pictures has been striped down and the main body is being used to restore a 1958 WP Gas Combo that John E. in St-Paul is working on for the museum.
I still have the TOL 29"WP Electric Combo with the orignal lint separation system still intact. I want to use parts from this machine to convert my first combo a 1961 TOL KM back to the orignal separation lint filter system. The first 29" WP built combos used the air heaters to maintain and heat the wash water temperature, they also used the heaters to warm up the clothing in the 2nd stage of the spin cycle if the machine was set to go automatically into the dry cycle.
these early 29" combos also did not have a lint filter that required cleaning by the customer, instead they used a centrifugal separation chamber that collected the lint and held it till the next wash cycle was started at which point the machine flushed the lint down the drain as the washer was purging the cold water out of the supply lines and this process also helped warm up the washer for the wash cycle that was beginning.
Out of all the machines we brought back none have been completely restored, eventually I found better condition examples of several of the cool machines we found.
