redcarpetdrew
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This was just brought to my attention (Thanks, Dan!). Grab anybody? Can't beat the price!
RCD
RCD
Lady K washer with dryer on Seattle C/L
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Unfortunately, these babies are sold. I contacted the seller a few days ago. The ad is in limbo - we can call it up by its listing address, but last I checked, the machines don't show up in a C/L search on the appropriate city page.
Gordon
Gordon
aldspinboy
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Sorry Gordon...
Shame you could have put the main dress back in the basket...
That BOL Roto-Swirl looks sad in that machine ..
Darren k
Shame you could have put the main dress back in the basket...
That BOL Roto-Swirl looks sad in that machine ..
Darren k
redcarpetdrew
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Sorry, Guys. I should have looked closer!
RCD
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westingman123
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No worries!
They were pretty to look at!
They were pretty to look at!
Funny Darren, but what is a BOL Roto-Swirl? They all were white from the later 70s forward, as well as many in the mid 70s. Once the Super Roto-Swirl came out in 1963 (the standard was discontinued at the same time approximately), I have never seen even a tiny difference in the Super Roto-Swirl from that point until the end of the commercial BDs in 1987. The side ridges in a bakelite Super RS were more rounded than in the polypropylene plastic version, but that's all I have ever noticed.
Personally, I would have left the machine with the RS in it. Not a big RF fan.
Oddly, in only one case in early 1979, a Sears catalog described a 70-series machine as having a Super Roto-Swirl, then it separated that machine from the next down, which was an upper 60-series model, which had a "regular Roto-Swirl". It was odd enough to have a Roto-swirl in a 60-series model, but I don't think the agitators were different except perhaps maybe in their color. I have never seen these separated like that though, before or since.
Gordon
Personally, I would have left the machine with the RS in it. Not a big RF fan.
Oddly, in only one case in early 1979, a Sears catalog described a 70-series machine as having a Super Roto-Swirl, then it separated that machine from the next down, which was an upper 60-series model, which had a "regular Roto-Swirl". It was odd enough to have a Roto-swirl in a 60-series model, but I don't think the agitators were different except perhaps maybe in their color. I have never seen these separated like that though, before or since.
Gordon
Well, a photo of this fabled beast should be posted for archival purposes. The lamp diffuser is quite yellowed on this one! Hopefully this went to a collector.
I've never see a RS with this cap - maybe it was a replacement straight vane, or was this skinny cap used when the scrubber cap was not?
Ben
I've never see a RS with this cap - maybe it was a replacement straight vane, or was this skinny cap used when the scrubber cap was not?
Ben
mickeyd
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Oh don't fret dear, Drew
You've brought us real a beauty, although the cap is a suspicious intruder. Hmmmm. They found the scrubber cap too nubby and tossed it? I thought straight vane too, Ben.
You've brought us real a beauty, although the cap is a suspicious intruder. Hmmmm. They found the scrubber cap too nubby and tossed it? I thought straight vane too, Ben.
Ben,
That cap was used on all Roto-Swirls once the tapered cone-shaped cap went away after 1971 or so.
Here's one in gold. In 1978 when WP went to the short centerpost, they lenthened the height of the cap, and made the agitator shaft bolt more stout, so it could more securely hold-down an air seal to prevent water from rising up the centerpost and poisoning the bearings. The older caps which can loosen in everyday use are not good enough in the short post applications.
Gordon
That cap was used on all Roto-Swirls once the tapered cone-shaped cap went away after 1971 or so.
Here's one in gold. In 1978 when WP went to the short centerpost, they lenthened the height of the cap, and made the agitator shaft bolt more stout, so it could more securely hold-down an air seal to prevent water from rising up the centerpost and poisoning the bearings. The older caps which can loosen in everyday use are not good enough in the short post applications.
Gordon
aldspinboy
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Gordon lol ...
I just ment the CAP which is usally in Commercial or BOL and Midline models.
Not the performance ...of the one of the BEST of many traditional Agitators.
It's funny , how when a agitator in Whirlpool & Kenmore washers...
gets split or broken the repair guy just slaps in anything that is in the back of there
truck.
Or maybe the can't get the proper agitator and but in something that works.
I have seen this in second hand stores yrs ago where the but in a Roto-Swirl
in a Ex..large capcity washer ...it looks very small in there.
And seven holes above the agitator cap I guess when in ex high water
is selected the cap dissapers.
The white pair that you have with the sliding doors.
Well my best friends mom got it repaired and they put in a Surgilator
and but the scrubber cap back on it was two toned lol.
And that model has a Roto-Swirl I was for sure dissapointed.
Thanks for the information
on the Roto-Swirl.
Darren k
I just ment the CAP which is usally in Commercial or BOL and Midline models.
Not the performance ...of the one of the BEST of many traditional Agitators.
It's funny , how when a agitator in Whirlpool & Kenmore washers...
gets split or broken the repair guy just slaps in anything that is in the back of there
truck.
Or maybe the can't get the proper agitator and but in something that works.
I have seen this in second hand stores yrs ago where the but in a Roto-Swirl
in a Ex..large capcity washer ...it looks very small in there.
And seven holes above the agitator cap I guess when in ex high water
is selected the cap dissapers.
The white pair that you have with the sliding doors.
Well my best friends mom got it repaired and they put in a Surgilator
and but the scrubber cap back on it was two toned lol.
And that model has a Roto-Swirl I was for sure dissapointed.
Thanks for the information
on the Roto-Swirl.
Darren k
Ah, the things I've learned on this board. Thanks Gordon! 
I found the fabric softener for the later version small cap off a straight vane agitator in a scrap pile years ago. Now I'm wondering if that scrap washer actually had a Roto-Swirl .
Hum... would love to find a RS now!
Ben
I found the fabric softener for the later version small cap off a straight vane agitator in a scrap pile years ago. Now I'm wondering if that scrap washer actually had a Roto-Swirl .
Hum... would love to find a RS now!
Ben
spinmon
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had it...
I had that washer new when I was 13. I did the laundry in our family & talked my dad into the '67 LK.
Anyway,machine pictured has no R-Flex,missing softener/bleach dispenser,AND the covering of the stainless lidded detergent dispenser makes me think it's f'd up or missing too.
I know it's 'sold',but I just had to voice my disdain for this particular example as I loved my LK.
I had that washer new when I was 13. I did the laundry in our family & talked my dad into the '67 LK.
Anyway,machine pictured has no R-Flex,missing softener/bleach dispenser,AND the covering of the stainless lidded detergent dispenser makes me think it's f'd up or missing too.
I know it's 'sold',but I just had to voice my disdain for this particular example as I loved my LK.
