I'm back - Part 2

[steve1-18]

Please excuse all the dirty pictures. Today, I finished moving all of the frigidaires out and replaced them with a line of Maytags. I am linking you up to the pictures and make sure you read the captions. There's one machine that needs a good home. Look carefully.

Weather permitting, tomorrow I'll get into the storage building and take more pictures. I've got a classic Maytag dryer (circa 1969)[mint condition] (just got it last week) that's got to go. Two kitchenaid DW, and a mint GE double wall oven [self cleaning] with matching drop-in cook top. Great for someone who wants to do a retro kitchen.

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[gyrafoam]

Great pictures! That AMP sure is pretty all cleaned-up!
I am so glad to see you getting some of your wonderful collection up and running!

That Frigidaire dryer is actually a "Filtramatic" rather than a "Filtrator" which came along a bit later (1955?). It looks like it would clean-up well.

 

[lesto]

Welcome back, Steve. I miss you here in Atlanta. I love the 57 AMP, the last year of that design. I sure wish I had it.

Thanks for the photos!
Les

 

[golittlesport]

Ta!

Thanks for the pics, Steve. Great to see you back.

 

[swestoyz]

Nice machines Steve! Hasn't the 140 AMP traveled across the US - IIRC it was at Greg's at one point, and even Jon Charles had it for a while? That tub is just MINT. The 140 I recently picked up from Cory is in great shape but the tub is shot.

The 140 AMP is a first for a lot of Maytag features that would continue for years, most notably the center dial, full backlit panel, cold water wash and rinse (via a thermostatically controlled 3 way valve), and the first factory Maytag sudsaver. The 140 debuted in the summer of 1956.

Good luck on the Unimatic rebuild. Will be a stunning machine when all is said and done!

Ben

 

[steve1-18]

Ben, I also rescued a '57 Duomatic. Mine is gas. Will have to call on you when I start the restoration.

 

[appnut]

Well, I have been wondering what that DuoMatic has been up to since you rescued it October 2006 on that long haul from here to midwest and back in one day!!!

 

[steve1-18]

Duomatic

The Duomatic spent a month in the van when I got it back home. Terry and I moved it into the test area of the studio [I can't imagine carting one of those machines downstairs into a basement - wish Greg would have filmed it when he brought his home] and there it sat until about 2 weeks ago when Robert and I moved it into the shop. I have no immediate plans unless a tornado should happen to blow thru in which case I'll be strapping myself to it and putting the babies inside!

 

[swestoyz]

I can't imagine carting one of those machines downstair

...when I saw it (the Duomatic) coming down the stairs at me, I threw my shoulder up at it, put my hand over my eyes, and started wimmpering like a little girl.

Somehow it was Cory's attempt to stabalize the Bendix on the cart, or me putting my life on the line, or a combination of both, as the only reasons why I am alive while trying to get the 1957 Duomatic in my basement.

I don't know how in the hell it will ever get out ;-)

Ben

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