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Thats a very nice washer.
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Thats a very nice washer.
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DirectDriveDave
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Good stuff there!
Ahh, all those mechanical dials....
Ahh, all those mechanical dials....
Nice washer
They should pop the lid out before trying to sell it, what are these people thinking? LOL
This (is) a very nice machine, Whirlpool put many step-up features in the KitchenAid laundry that made the Sunday-Ad Kenmo' look like a hillbilly cousin. Probably the finest made of it's time. Galvanized cabinets; porcelain top and lid; bronze bushing motor and dryer drum rollers; gentler agitation; six-rib belt on the dryer (three or four rib on WP-KM); full 2 year entire product warranty... on and on. For the money, stepping up to KA laundry was a big jump for essentially a bargain price. They did have some problems with timers around this era, but not sure which model it was. This TOL model also came in Ebony - a sexy beast with that gleaming white tub and agitator!
They should pop the lid out before trying to sell it, what are these people thinking? LOL
This (is) a very nice machine, Whirlpool put many step-up features in the KitchenAid laundry that made the Sunday-Ad Kenmo' look like a hillbilly cousin. Probably the finest made of it's time. Galvanized cabinets; porcelain top and lid; bronze bushing motor and dryer drum rollers; gentler agitation; six-rib belt on the dryer (three or four rib on WP-KM); full 2 year entire product warranty... on and on. For the money, stepping up to KA laundry was a big jump for essentially a bargain price. They did have some problems with timers around this era, but not sure which model it was. This TOL model also came in Ebony - a sexy beast with that gleaming white tub and agitator!
A very sexy Washer.
A fine example of what WP can do if they want to. (This one might be what will convince Katie to let me bring washers into the bedroom "Sure Scrub Agitator")LOL
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A fine example of what WP can do if they want to. (This one might be what will convince Katie to let me bring washers into the bedroom "Sure Scrub Agitator")LOL
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tecnopolis
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.There a matching dryer for sale here in ebony.
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whirlcool
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These didn't have auto temp control. When you selected HOT you got water heater hot.
For warm cold & hot are mixed. And it even has warm rinse options too!
For warm cold & hot are mixed. And it even has warm rinse options too!
A really neat machine, but I have become accustomed to ATC bumping up the cold temp to 60-65F or so and warm to 90-95F. That's a really useful feature where we live, because incoming cold water temp can get down to 45F in the winter. Down South were you live, that wouldn't be a problem.
But I agree that using ATC to limit the hot temp to something less than tap temperature is a bad idea.
But I agree that using ATC to limit the hot temp to something less than tap temperature is a bad idea.
If you want rinse temps of 60 or so, all you have to do is set it for warm rinses and turn the hot tap way down to almost off after the wash fill. I have done that for years with my KA & Maytag washers to get cooler than warm, but warmer than cold rinses any time of the year.
Clarification
I have this same machine only one model year ahead. I bought it new in 2006. This machine does have temp control. it has 6 temperature selections, 4 of them are standard, hot\cold, warm\cold, warm\warm, and cold\cold. The other two settings are SensorSure Warm\cold and SensorSure Cold\Cold. The ATC warm is set at 95 degrees and the ATC cold is set at 70. BTW, don't be fooled by the "warm" rinse. The warm rinse is set at 70 degrees, the same as the ATC cold setting. I set mine on warm\warm year round. If it needs warm it will add it, if the tap temp is above 70 it will fill with tap cold. In the dead of winter it will rinse with almost 75% warm water. In summer, tap cold.
I have this same machine only one model year ahead. I bought it new in 2006. This machine does have temp control. it has 6 temperature selections, 4 of them are standard, hot\cold, warm\cold, warm\warm, and cold\cold. The other two settings are SensorSure Warm\cold and SensorSure Cold\Cold. The ATC warm is set at 95 degrees and the ATC cold is set at 70. BTW, don't be fooled by the "warm" rinse. The warm rinse is set at 70 degrees, the same as the ATC cold setting. I set mine on warm\warm year round. If it needs warm it will add it, if the tap temp is above 70 it will fill with tap cold. In the dead of winter it will rinse with almost 75% warm water. In summer, tap cold.
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temp assure
The washer does have tempassure the kitchaid lingo for ATC, it also has six temperture setting and it does have HOT water not Hot water the HOT is water heater HOT
The washer does have tempassure the kitchaid lingo for ATC, it also has six temperture setting and it does have HOT water not Hot water the HOT is water heater HOT
jerrod6
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NEVER again!
Perhaps this is a 2006 model. I had one that looked like this from 1996. Mine was crap.
It did not have ATC but the warm water was mixed with hot so it ended up being about 80F. In order to get water I thought was warm I had to run a 3/4 tub full of hot water and then switch the temp to cold.
The cleaning was crap. I could never get white socks clean in the thing even after I soaked the socks over night in LCB before washing them the next day with the whites. Lets not even talk about white underwear.
The rinsing was crappier. After the main wash water was pumped out the tub would start to spin and do a spray rinse. Problem was that the water ran into the machine from the back through a kind of platform shaped thing. The water would pour into the tub as soon as it began to turn but most of it poured onto the agitator and not onto the clothes and as far as it being a rinse during the spin....the water came in for 30 seconds way before the tub had gained any type of spin speed. didn't matter though because the rinse water ran on top of the agitator and right down the drain never touching the clothes. This was followed by deep rinse that took 8 minutes of filling 23 gallons of water, that was then followed by 2 ---TWO minutes of agitation. Turnover? Half of the clothes never got submerged in the water. Eventually this resulted in my breaking out in a rash caused by left over detergent in clothes.
The pump was crap. It lasted two years then began leaking. I called the repair guy and asked that he put in a KA replacement pump. He informed me that even though the machine was labeled KA it was nothing more than a whirlpool and there were only Whirlpool parts...even though I spent more money for this machine as a KA. So much for the slogan KA for the way it's made.
The transmission was crap. After having this machine for 4 years I was faced with a tub full of wet clothes that would not spin after a wash because the transmission came apart. The repair person replaced the transmission. Two years after this the transmission came apart again.
Maybe whirlpool got their act together by 2006.
Never again will I have a KA made by Whirlpool in my house....just NEVER.
Perhaps this is a 2006 model. I had one that looked like this from 1996. Mine was crap.
It did not have ATC but the warm water was mixed with hot so it ended up being about 80F. In order to get water I thought was warm I had to run a 3/4 tub full of hot water and then switch the temp to cold.
The cleaning was crap. I could never get white socks clean in the thing even after I soaked the socks over night in LCB before washing them the next day with the whites. Lets not even talk about white underwear.
The rinsing was crappier. After the main wash water was pumped out the tub would start to spin and do a spray rinse. Problem was that the water ran into the machine from the back through a kind of platform shaped thing. The water would pour into the tub as soon as it began to turn but most of it poured onto the agitator and not onto the clothes and as far as it being a rinse during the spin....the water came in for 30 seconds way before the tub had gained any type of spin speed. didn't matter though because the rinse water ran on top of the agitator and right down the drain never touching the clothes. This was followed by deep rinse that took 8 minutes of filling 23 gallons of water, that was then followed by 2 ---TWO minutes of agitation. Turnover? Half of the clothes never got submerged in the water. Eventually this resulted in my breaking out in a rash caused by left over detergent in clothes.
The pump was crap. It lasted two years then began leaking. I called the repair guy and asked that he put in a KA replacement pump. He informed me that even though the machine was labeled KA it was nothing more than a whirlpool and there were only Whirlpool parts...even though I spent more money for this machine as a KA. So much for the slogan KA for the way it's made.
The transmission was crap. After having this machine for 4 years I was faced with a tub full of wet clothes that would not spin after a wash because the transmission came apart. The repair person replaced the transmission. Two years after this the transmission came apart again.
Maybe whirlpool got their act together by 2006.
Never again will I have a KA made by Whirlpool in my house....just NEVER.
Perhaps I should clarify
Mine is the next model as in design, not one year older than this. Mine was the control panel re-design that came after this. My KA deep rinse is 6-8 minutes long because I have the triple dispenser on mine and it flushes the fabric softener twice
Mine is the next model as in design, not one year older than this. Mine was the control panel re-design that came after this. My KA deep rinse is 6-8 minutes long because I have the triple dispenser on mine and it flushes the fabric softener twice
hmm
Im not sure about temp assure, but mine is called SensorSure
Im not sure about temp assure, but mine is called SensorSure
<blockquote>Maybe whirlpool got their act together by 2006.</blockquote> The Whirlpool direct-drive washer design, of which KA toploaders have always been, was put on the market in the early 1980s ... so they'd been produced for 14 years by 1996, and continued until sometime within the last year for a total of more than 30 years ... with very little mechanical changes.
My 1991 KA is still perfectly usable (although to be fair it has been used very little since 2004). Has had two repairs, motor coupler and agitator dogs.
My parents 1994 KA was taken out of service a couple months ago for a broken timer. It went for 18 years with the coupler replaced twice, the agitator dogs once and the pump once just for good measure, and the lid switch bypassed. Replacement timer is available but I had a 1999 Kenmore 90 fully refurbed and ready to go, waiting for someone to need it.
My KA KAWE 760 (or something like that) agitates in rinse for 4 minutes and pulls everything under quickly with the big agitator operating on the med. motor speed. They must have made some radical changes after they stopped using the black control panel. Mine is old enough to have very traditional temperatures and cycling and has done a lot of laundry, although it is sort of an elder statesman now with the FLs doing most of the work.
magic_clean
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Nope
no radical changes. There were 2 versions of KitchenAid washers. The late 1980's washers that used the 180 & 120 oscillation per min wash action with the 1 piece wavy vane agitator & then the blue dual action agitator.
Then the 1990 through 2007 machines with the Sure Clean big auger agitator with 120 & 90 OPM agitation.
L.P.
no radical changes. There were 2 versions of KitchenAid washers. The late 1980's washers that used the 180 & 120 oscillation per min wash action with the 1 piece wavy vane agitator & then the blue dual action agitator.
Then the 1990 through 2007 machines with the Sure Clean big auger agitator with 120 & 90 OPM agitation.
L.P.
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