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Stories like yours always make me hopeful as well as happy!
Stories like yours always make me hopeful as well as happy!
I Got Tag'ed This Weekend...
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Thats a gorgeous machine! Congrats Tim!
What a great find Tim!.....your doing a great job with the cleanup.....and learning new stuff as you go....what a treasure.....congrats and sucess with it!
Great story Tim
I could almost see the tag being delivered to that house in 1950! Glad you stalked a little, just to see where it lived before LOL Love the machine, so glad someone who appreciates has it. Keep us updated.
I could almost see the tag being delivered to that house in 1950! Glad you stalked a little, just to see where it lived before LOL Love the machine, so glad someone who appreciates has it. Keep us updated.
NICE! Congrats
What a beauty
Congratulations, Tim! That lid is the very rare transition from the AMP style to the modern one piece lids. They took the water level control out of it, but kept the lid switch in it. Very shortly, Maytag put the lid switch in the machine top below the timer and had no further need for the two piece lid.
That wear to the tub in the section with no holes is opposite the high fins on the agitator. It is proof that the agitation in these machines tended to drag the load back and forth in this zone.
Congratulations, Tim! That lid is the very rare transition from the AMP style to the modern one piece lids. They took the water level control out of it, but kept the lid switch in it. Very shortly, Maytag put the lid switch in the machine top below the timer and had no further need for the two piece lid.
That wear to the tub in the section with no holes is opposite the high fins on the agitator. It is proof that the agitation in these machines tended to drag the load back and forth in this zone.
A very cool
Maytag there. Do you have a tranny shot?
Love the fact you tracked down the original install home! 94! this is proof Washing machines don't cause cancer!!
Maytag there. Do you have a tranny shot?
Love the fact you tracked down the original install home! 94! this is proof Washing machines don't cause cancer!!
Washers Causing Cancer
Actually Jon the owner did die of Cancer LOL.
Actually Jon the owner did die of Cancer LOL.
Super great find - that must have been a very dry basement. 54 years of exposure to the cancer waves radiating from that machine is pretty good overall, if she bought a Whirlpool with that oversized motor and all those solenoids, she'd have died long ago!
macboy91si
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Dry Basements and Trannies
The basements in these houses are walk-out rears, but this machine was on the 1st floor in use according to the guy that sold it to me from the estate. This machine was in a back porch, sun-room thing with the louvered glass windows. There was a laundry sink in there. I picked up a Coppertone 1976 407 set that came from the same house, but they were in the basement. Only one half of the house has a basement (left half). This house is actually a duplex, hard to tell from the pic, but it has 2 front doors. The 142 was on the back porch on the right side, and the 407's were in the basement on the left, the owner lived in the right side of the duplex with no basement.
I don't know if she bought the 407's or not, I have not torn into them, but they are mint, and soon as I get another chance in the garage I'll make a post. The spanner nut under the agitator on the washer has NO BUILDUP of any kind, the nut is still shiny aluminum and you can even see the embossed MAYTAG and part number logo, tub is still gleaming and the aluminum dials have not been exposed to any moisture. Supposedly the washer doesn't pump water and the dryer doesn't heat, but we'll see what the deal is soon. I will probably move the Coppertone set along after inspection and repair, I just don't have the room.
Jon, here is the best pic I have of the transmission, you can't see it all, but it looked like a normal Newton Power Unit. Also I do not know what the lady died of, but at 94, I'd take what I get I suppose.
-Tim
The basements in these houses are walk-out rears, but this machine was on the 1st floor in use according to the guy that sold it to me from the estate. This machine was in a back porch, sun-room thing with the louvered glass windows. There was a laundry sink in there. I picked up a Coppertone 1976 407 set that came from the same house, but they were in the basement. Only one half of the house has a basement (left half). This house is actually a duplex, hard to tell from the pic, but it has 2 front doors. The 142 was on the back porch on the right side, and the 407's were in the basement on the left, the owner lived in the right side of the duplex with no basement.
I don't know if she bought the 407's or not, I have not torn into them, but they are mint, and soon as I get another chance in the garage I'll make a post. The spanner nut under the agitator on the washer has NO BUILDUP of any kind, the nut is still shiny aluminum and you can even see the embossed MAYTAG and part number logo, tub is still gleaming and the aluminum dials have not been exposed to any moisture. Supposedly the washer doesn't pump water and the dryer doesn't heat, but we'll see what the deal is soon. I will probably move the Coppertone set along after inspection and repair, I just don't have the room.
Jon, here is the best pic I have of the transmission, you can't see it all, but it looked like a normal Newton Power Unit. Also I do not know what the lady died of, but at 94, I'd take what I get I suppose.
-Tim
macboy91si
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Maiden Wash
I filmed and for a change, edited together a video for the maiden wash. Lot of talking and a truncated complete cycle. Still not the video editing quality of some of the other vids, but I thought it turned it ok.
Enjoy hopefully!
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I filmed and for a change, edited together a video for the maiden wash. Lot of talking and a truncated complete cycle. Still not the video editing quality of some of the other vids, but I thought it turned it ok.
Enjoy hopefully!
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GREAT video Tim! I am enjoying Maytags more and more. Nicely done too... Looks like the washer landed softly and found a great home.
Gordon
Gordon
macboy91si
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Soft Landing
Yes, I got very lucky with this machine. Aside from inspection and cleanup, this machine needed very little. The machine still needs a few things but is fully usable as of right now. Scott, I am envious of your L5 find and that WP machine you got is also going to be very nice.
Gordon, LOL @ Maytags. I never had a real center-dial Maytag until November or so last year. We had one when I was a kid that replaced an older Kenmore 70, which was my 1st washer I ever had been around. I thought the Maytag was neat looking, it was a 106. The machine was irritating to me because I could not watch it and it did not make the woo-woo Kenmore sound of the previous machine. The machine lasted only a few months before something died and that was that. There was always something that I thought was classy about it. That has stayed with me, and now that I have a few (lol!) I really like them. I now have Maytags from the 50's, 60's and 70's. I have no interest in 80's/90's aside from maybe getting a Neptune at some point.
I like all things, I like Westinghouse F/L's as well as WP/KM and GE machines, I like how different they all are.
-Tim
Yes, I got very lucky with this machine. Aside from inspection and cleanup, this machine needed very little. The machine still needs a few things but is fully usable as of right now. Scott, I am envious of your L5 find and that WP machine you got is also going to be very nice.
Gordon, LOL @ Maytags. I never had a real center-dial Maytag until November or so last year. We had one when I was a kid that replaced an older Kenmore 70, which was my 1st washer I ever had been around. I thought the Maytag was neat looking, it was a 106. The machine was irritating to me because I could not watch it and it did not make the woo-woo Kenmore sound of the previous machine. The machine lasted only a few months before something died and that was that. There was always something that I thought was classy about it. That has stayed with me, and now that I have a few (lol!) I really like them. I now have Maytags from the 50's, 60's and 70's. I have no interest in 80's/90's aside from maybe getting a Neptune at some point.
I like all things, I like Westinghouse F/L's as well as WP/KM and GE machines, I like how different they all are.
-Tim
Great job on the video! That washer does look to be in pretty close to exceptional condition! This is the first time I'm ever seen the lid mounted tub light, VERY COOL!
Congrats on finding this 142 Tim.... it's awesome!
Kevin
aldspinboy
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Like Kevin said Tim I never saw or knew that a Maytag lid had a light inside.
It is so cool the different lighting the control panel does.
I think Robert once demod that the lid switch can be bypassed by the consumer...
is that correct or...
I remember Robert in the video put he's hand down in the washer basket
And the agitator jerked his arm very hard ...then he laughed .
That was sooooo funny.
Great video Tim as always.
Darren k
It is so cool the different lighting the control panel does.
I think Robert once demod that the lid switch can be bypassed by the consumer...
is that correct or...
I remember Robert in the video put he's hand down in the washer basket
And the agitator jerked his arm very hard ...then he laughed .
That was sooooo funny.
Great video Tim as always.
Darren k
