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I just posted an early WCI-Frigidaire washer service manual. This is probably the first or second manual produced to fix Westinghouse made Frigidaire top-loaders after the big change over. There was also a Franklin made washer, model WJ, that is included in the manual at the end.

I'm ducking for even thinking of posting such a thing LOL!

1981 Frigidaire Washer Service Manual

1981 Frigidaire Washer Service Manual
www.automatice.org

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I need help for Lady Kenmore apartment sized wringer/washer

A brand new here.
B can't see how to start a new thread
C My "jewel" a mint 1950s 3/4 or 1/2 sized Lady Kenmore in mint condition complete with manual is stolen. She is round with 4 legs...small size huge heart!

D Cops say it is so unique even without seriel numbers etc. they maybe able to track her down. I lost $000 to this druggie/scraper and this is the one item that is a part of my heart and I need pictures. PLEASE HELP ME post, start a thread, find some pics of this unqiue old girl still in showroom condition to fit in the back of my Crosely Pick Up Truck for parades and grandkids bragging rights.

THANKS!
 
Pish! How COOL!

Thank you SO much for scanning this, Robert, it's gold. We've run into some hellacious issues on these machines (surprise, right?) and we've never had doctrine to help us through it.

The seals are generally biggies, although other stuff can go wrong in the tranny. I'm guessing the parts are long NLA, but how cool to see what's going on inside there! I had thought at first that WCI would have been like, "Transmission problem? Swap it out! (Good luck with those tub bolts, btw.)"

Nice to see they dive in. Great resource! Lots of good pointers, too. Thank you again!

Nice to also see I've owned an example of both designs (and prefer the Westinghouse clone).

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Well

Even the Edsel was hated at one time.
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Joe

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Frigiscare!

Actually I was going to purchase thinking it was the last GM service manual. I am thankful I reread the description so I made a better decision!
 
It's an evolutionary hobby

I remember waltzing with Roger and Ross through stores, and we'd ignore machines because they were passe at the time. (Rim-Flo Hotpoints, for instance.) Or these. I bought the Fraudgidaire 1-18 to put next to my GM Frigidaire 1-18 as a joke at one of our wash-ins. It would have been funnier if the cabinet wasn't only three-quarters as deep as the true GM's, making the side-by-side comparo akin to identical twins where one was five-eight and one was six-three.

I'm not saying these machines are any great shakes, particularly clothed in a patina of perceived betrayal :-), but with modern offerings, even this stuff looks pretty good. And on the plus side, a lot of the WCI stuff seemed to be divided into two categories--it died off the starting line, or it survived all the run-in pains and ran for a looooong time.

Now, bear in mind that, should anything actually require repairing, taking these machines apart is a fresh hell; they used incompatible metals for the tub bolts and hubs, and glued the hoses onto the pump ports and fittings. In all honesty, unless you find one unused and NIB, if you need to do more than remove the agitator on these or put in a new water valve, you have to use the special WCI tool below, which allows you to relocate it to the curb. ;-)

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Or this method as an alternate if you don't want to disturb the cat but you risk it coming back to haunt you as yet another Frigidaire product...

RCD

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Nice one Ken but...

You forgot to share the picture of the WCI Frigidaire engineers hard at work planning the next 'easy to repair' washer design...

Remember Robert, you opened the bottle and let out the genie first...

RCD

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