It's new to me AND it's a GE...

[turquoisedude]

A wee video....

I was also filming during yesterday's maiden wash - here's a quick view of the washer filling and starting up.  

 

 

[philr]

The video has been uploading for hours... Here's the link but it hasn't finished uploading yet!

 

[jetcone]

Whoa!~

Our baby has been well taken care of! She's a beaut-  I have never seen that kind of "sudskill" in a GE before! The '56-60 just spin down to a stop and start again.

 

Seems a better system - but as we know Suds are a thing of the past Today !! 

 

One more person of mention you didn't know about Paul is that John E. Gyromatic meticulously restored that front panel- thats all his work. So this is a Club Class Machine .

 

 

 

 

[turquoisedude]

Jon,  thanks for the info about gyromatic's work on the panel - I know John L told me that he had restored the panel but I could not for the life of me remember his name.  So, John E, if you're out there, thank you!!

 

[jetcone]

John E is

A HONEY !!

 

[combo52]

First Belt Drive GE Automatic Washer

Tom And I bought this washer from Weavers Maytag in Rockville Md. around 25 years ago for $40 which seemed like a lot for a broken washer off the scrap pile. the transmission was locked up and we just looked at it for years. I finally sent it to Robert in Minneapolis and he got it running.

 

A few years later I sent Robert the real prized 1948 GE AW that he had always wanted when he found the only Westinghouse Combo know in the world at the time and we traded.

 

After Robert got the older GE AW he gave me the BD GE Washer back, and I sent it to Jon C and Paul after I got a mint 1950 GE DD washer and did not need two  that looked so similar.

 

This GE always looked like crap till John E restored the painted control panel [ Smitty also took a dent out of it before John E repainted it ]

 

Glad the washer has found new life.

 

[philr]

The transmission seems to work very nicely now! It's very quiet and quite an impressive machine!

John, did you get the PM I sent you?