Kenmore Special Edition Washer

[combo52]

Washing machine longevity

Since the very first washing machines more than 100 years ago the root of all problems is WATER, and if it does not get into areas where it is not supposed to be a washing machine could last 50-100 years.

 

This is why clothes dryers can last almost forever and why Dishwashers, water heaters, Garbage disposers and  humidifiers along with washing machines are by far the most problem prone and short lived appliances in homes today.

 

Whirlpool Belt-Drive washers had about the most durable transmission [ after it was beefed up in 1964 ] of any AW unless water gets in, the thing that made it better than about any other AW transmission was NO oil seals that can wear and leak oil out the bottom and cause messy failures like GE, MT, Norge, FD, Franklin, WCI FD and later Blackstones.

 

Early Blackstone, Beam and SQ also did not have lower oil seals that could leak.

 

John L.

 

[losangeles]

Kenmore Special Edition

Hi everyone,
I sold the Special edition for parts. Tearing down a washer for repair is way above my pay grade. I am not that mechanically inclined and limited tools and even watching all the threads and tutorials, it all just left me confused. It was also going to be expensive to buy the parts needed. So it was sold to a used appliance repairman for $50.

 

[jons1077]

Sad

I would have had fun rebuilding it...

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I saw a version of it and it's matching dryer, both in Almond, at a flea market, which was quite a distance from me in Flat Rock, my grandparents' old home town, and it even sat through two visits a couple weeks apart...

This is likely to be concurrent with what I saw in my old, long-discarded 1982 Sears Catalog, too...

-- Dave