Todd - Kenmore model number do read that way from 1973 and earlier. But from 1974 and newer, there is an extra digit in the model number so that they decode very differently. 82294800, reading from left to right decodes as:
8 - decade
2 - 29 inch cabinet (1 indicates 24-inch)
2 - 1982 year for year of original release
9 - 90/900 series
4 - 4th model in the series (these did not always climb incrementally)
8 - Almond color
00 - engineering revision (this always starts at 00, and increments by 10)
As to the production date Glenn, yes indeed, this was toward the tail end of production. I think the earliest 27-inch large capacity direct drives were in production by week 34, as there is one in a local CL ad right now which is about the oldest I have seen. Belt drive production continued in limited form until April 1987, but seems to be limited from what I have seen from Fall 1986 to one Whirlpool model, the LA7800XP and KM's Lady K 110.82592800. I was once told by a WP employee that at least the WP model was kept in limited production on a minor assembly line at Clyde plant to produce a run of LA7800s that were kept on-hand as replacements for DD model buyers who could not be satisfied with their DD purchase, so a supply of BDs was kept on hand for a couple years until they were gone.
Gordon
