Kelvinating the New-Fangled Way

[roto204]

Here's a movie of the WCI-Kelvinator. I just got a camera with movie capabilities as a "Christmas" present, so my videography skills need to improve...I'll work on the lighting next time.

http://home.sprynet.com/~nmesoft/Kelvy.mov

 

[roto204]

For Austin's turnover question, a blue shirt graciously volunteered to float around the outside for a few turns before getting snagged by the angel-wings and pulled down, at which point turnover starts really going.

The angel wings tend to nab and hold things so that they can get pulled down.

You know, sort of like Dual-Action, minus the yawns

It's no spiral-ramp Activator, or even the deep-ramp Westinghouse, but it's not anemic by any stretch of the imagination, either.

 

[westytoploader]

Wow, what a neat machine...sounds just like our old White-Westy TL with that "groan" I've been talking about!!! Not to mention the "waah-waah-waah-waah" on the relatively short backstrokes due to the indexing tub...ours didn't do that, but I used an early WCI-Frigidaire Skinny-Mini on vacation last summer that did.

 

[frigilux]

That Kelvy is very, very similar to the mid-80's Frigidaire TL I had, with a different agitator design. You're getting more rollover than I did. I always felt the rollover would improve if the tub didn't index. The tranny was giving out by 1986. It used to have to drain half the water before it would start spinning. The circle-fill was very cool, but otherwise I was glad to move on.

Thanks for the video, though, roto! It's always fun to see machines at work, regardless of brand or personal preference.