Why yes sir, we do.
Madam, I like the white one, but do you have something more colorful?
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I'll Take It!
I'll Take It!
YAY for Turquoise
Yes here is my latest find, another 1958 GE Filter-Flo but this one is in Turquoise.
Yes here is my latest find, another 1958 GE Filter-Flo but this one is in Turquoise.
Now this is interesting, the White machine has a Pink Tub Ring and the Turquoise machine has Gray Tub Ring??? If you look closely at the picture on the wall hanging above the White 58 GE, it’s an advertisement for this machine but in Pink. It too has the Gray Tub Ring???
I wonder if the Pink Tub ring was only available for the White machines or if the Pink Tub ring was a mid-production change????? Maybe something else, I have no idea. It sure is interesting to wonder about though.
I wonder if the Pink Tub ring was only available for the White machines or if the Pink Tub ring was a mid-production change????? Maybe something else, I have no idea. It sure is interesting to wonder about though.
And before I forget
Here is the automaticwasher.org MANDATORY new washer find interior shot!
Here is the automaticwasher.org MANDATORY new washer find interior shot!
peterh770
Well-known member
What is going on? Is there something in the water? The full moon? Why are all these machines sufacing now?
spiraclean
Active member
Hi Robert,
Congratulations on your beautiful turquoise GE Filter Flo.
I wish you good health and many happy lint free wash loads.
All the best.
Hugh
Congratulations on your beautiful turquoise GE Filter Flo.
I wish you good health and many happy lint free wash loads.
All the best.
Hugh
Cool, Robert! Are you going to keep the white one for parts or try and keep both machines up & running? I like the grey/ pink agitator top on the white machine better than the black one on the turquoise. Maybe soon a 57 filterflo will surface and you can match up your 57 dryer. I thought it was interesting that GE put the timer knob on the left side for that one year.
Les
Les
When it rains it pours!
Two turquoise machines in one month! This is exceptional, isn't it? Congrats! I wonder what your next treasure will be.
Two turquoise machines in one month! This is exceptional, isn't it? Congrats! I wonder what your next treasure will be.
frontaloadotmy
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Dispenser
Robert is that a manualmatic dispenser? Lid or user
activated?
Multiple load storage?
Robert is that a manualmatic dispenser? Lid or user
activated?
Multiple load storage?
Swooning
Oh My Gawd!!!!! Toooooo nice. Congratulations on a great find. All I can say is we must be doing something wrong down here, as these babies never seem to turn up in the southeast.
Lawrence
Oh My Gawd!!!!! Toooooo nice. Congratulations on a great find. All I can say is we must be doing something wrong down here, as these babies never seem to turn up in the southeast.
Lawrence
mayken4now
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I want one too!
Very beautiful. Love the raised control panel on both of your machines. That is super.
Steve
Very beautiful. Love the raised control panel on both of your machines. That is super.
Steve
toggleswitch
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Today's catch-of-the day is.....................
Just Fabulous!
Where does your luck come from? (or is it perserverance?)
Details on the dispenser please!
Just Fabulous!
Where does your luck come from? (or is it perserverance?)
Details on the dispenser please!
Hi everyone and thanks. Here are the details so far, the new turquoise machine has two main problems. The first is a broken fill inlet water flume hose which I suspect made for quite a flood which probably took the machine out of service years ago. The second is not so obvious to a common user, but the anti-indexing pawl has broken and causes the tub to rotate during agitation about 45 to 50 rpm. This speed is fast is enough to throw some of the water over the top of the tub, but since it’s a Filter-Flo GE, the water is brought back into the tub, but still a spinning wash tub cuts out a lot of wash action. The other issue is the pump is not pumping the Filter-flo water stream fast enough to get it all in the filter pan, the rubber diverter flap in the pump is worn, but I have a few of those rubber flappers in stock so that’s and easy fix.
The biggest challenge will be the transmission. 99% of that transmission is made out of metal, but for some strange reason GE decided to make the anti-indexing pawl out of plastic. Every GE washer I have ever seen made from 1955 thru 1959 had the same problem of a broken pawl and the tub turning during wash. In 1960 when they changed to the KER-Clunking brake transmission the pawl was eliminated as the brake now prevented the tub from turning during the wash and it worked really well. The earlier GE models with the double pulley (like my really old 1951 GE to the right of the white ’58 GE) had the anti-index pawl on the outside of the tranny and it was made of rubber and also worked really well. It was really just a problem with the 55-59 GE’s. When I was at the Aberdeen Appliance Graveyard five years ago I stripped a few GE washers from that time period and saved the transmissions. I was able to take a 1960 Brake transmission and use it in my White 58 GE so that machine works great.
So here’s the deal, if I can find one of the farm transmissions, that I saved, has a good pawl and works fine, I will be able to save both washers. If I cannot, I will take the best parts and make one good Turquoise machine. I hope I can save both and find the white machine a good home, but I really don’t know. We will see.
Both white and turquoise machines originally came with a Pink Filter Mount and copper filter pan. The White machine has a replacement gray filter mount that I put on there last year and a copper pan. At some point in the life of the Turquoise machine the filter mount was changed to a black modern mount which takes the later style GE Filter-pans used from 1960-1995.
As for the pink dispenser in the front-left hand corner that’s a one-shot fabric softener dispenser which I love. It uses the incoming rinse water to flow thru the dispenser to overflow the softener into the wash basket. Before you fill the dispenser you need to press the pink button to drain the dispenser tray of clear rinse water before you fill it for the next wash.
I’ll start taking this machine apart tonight and I will take some restoration pictures for all to see. I bet some Appliancevillers’ who have worked on later perforated tub GE’s will find the solid basket machines similar but with some major differences.
The biggest challenge will be the transmission. 99% of that transmission is made out of metal, but for some strange reason GE decided to make the anti-indexing pawl out of plastic. Every GE washer I have ever seen made from 1955 thru 1959 had the same problem of a broken pawl and the tub turning during wash. In 1960 when they changed to the KER-Clunking brake transmission the pawl was eliminated as the brake now prevented the tub from turning during the wash and it worked really well. The earlier GE models with the double pulley (like my really old 1951 GE to the right of the white ’58 GE) had the anti-index pawl on the outside of the tranny and it was made of rubber and also worked really well. It was really just a problem with the 55-59 GE’s. When I was at the Aberdeen Appliance Graveyard five years ago I stripped a few GE washers from that time period and saved the transmissions. I was able to take a 1960 Brake transmission and use it in my White 58 GE so that machine works great.
So here’s the deal, if I can find one of the farm transmissions, that I saved, has a good pawl and works fine, I will be able to save both washers. If I cannot, I will take the best parts and make one good Turquoise machine. I hope I can save both and find the white machine a good home, but I really don’t know. We will see.
Both white and turquoise machines originally came with a Pink Filter Mount and copper filter pan. The White machine has a replacement gray filter mount that I put on there last year and a copper pan. At some point in the life of the Turquoise machine the filter mount was changed to a black modern mount which takes the later style GE Filter-pans used from 1960-1995.
As for the pink dispenser in the front-left hand corner that’s a one-shot fabric softener dispenser which I love. It uses the incoming rinse water to flow thru the dispenser to overflow the softener into the wash basket. Before you fill the dispenser you need to press the pink button to drain the dispenser tray of clear rinse water before you fill it for the next wash.
I’ll start taking this machine apart tonight and I will take some restoration pictures for all to see. I bet some Appliancevillers’ who have worked on later perforated tub GE’s will find the solid basket machines similar but with some major differences.
spiraclean
Active member
Hi Robert,
I look forwaard to seeing the restoration pictures, I love to see the workings of these great American Top Loaders.
Happy restoring.
All the best.
Hugh
I look forwaard to seeing the restoration pictures, I love to see the workings of these great American Top Loaders.
Happy restoring.
All the best.
Hugh
Robert, very interesting about the anti-indexing pawl. That's what went out in my mom's 59. The tub would spin so fast during agitation that the activator made hardly any contact with the water & clothes. I definitely like the original style filter mount. The post 1960 mount just looks so wrong on these machines. Our old 59 had the aqua-turquoise colored mount, same shape as the grey one on your white 58.
geoffdelp
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Oh boy, Robert ... THAT'S BEAUTIFUL!! What a great color!
Thanks for the obligatory interior shot; those are always so fun to look at!!!
Your white one is a quiet machine (if I remember right ... or were there so many running at once that I couldn't hear!!).
Thanks for the obligatory interior shot; those are always so fun to look at!!!
Your white one is a quiet machine (if I remember right ... or were there so many running at once that I couldn't hear!!).
geextrarinse
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YAY!!!!
Great find Robert - its beautiful! - I'm so jealous!
Good for you - I look forward to the first restored wash pics!
Matt
Great find Robert - its beautiful! - I'm so jealous!
Good for you - I look forward to the first restored wash pics!
Matt
Tub Ring
Robert - interesting observation about the pink tub ring in your white model. I have a collection of Filter-Flo advertisements from this period - two showing pink '58s, one turquoise '58, and one yellow '58 - and none of the machines featured have the pink ring, all are grey (no photos of a white machine). I also have one ad for a '57 Filter-Flo, pink washer, and it appears to have the grey ring also. Good luck breaking the code on this one!
Lawrence
Robert - interesting observation about the pink tub ring in your white model. I have a collection of Filter-Flo advertisements from this period - two showing pink '58s, one turquoise '58, and one yellow '58 - and none of the machines featured have the pink ring, all are grey (no photos of a white machine). I also have one ad for a '57 Filter-Flo, pink washer, and it appears to have the grey ring also. Good luck breaking the code on this one!
Lawrence
bethann
New member
Pretty!
Your such a lucky dog! Love the color! OK, What's the scoop? I bet you were driving down the road and looked over and there it sat loaded on a flat bed w/ a lift and they brought it to the house for ya and unloaded it! I'm really starting to think that is the way your luck runs! So, what's the lottery numbers this week? LOL! Great find!
Your such a lucky dog! Love the color! OK, What's the scoop? I bet you were driving down the road and looked over and there it sat loaded on a flat bed w/ a lift and they brought it to the house for ya and unloaded it! I'm really starting to think that is the way your luck runs! So, what's the lottery numbers this week? LOL! Great find!
westytoploader
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YAY for Solid-Tub Filter-Flos!!!!
Congratulations--extremely nice machine!!!!
If you decide not to keep both, I'm sure you'll find plenty of willing homes for the white '58, including this one!! ;-)
Although you already gave me a wonderful Unimatic...so nothing serious! ;-)
Congratulations--extremely nice machine!!!!
If you decide not to keep both, I'm sure you'll find plenty of willing homes for the white '58, including this one!! ;-)
Although you already gave me a wonderful Unimatic...so nothing serious! ;-)
Incredible machine, it looks like in mint condition! Nice dry Denver basement no doubt. Those are really the best softener dispensers ever!
OK, What's the scoop? I bet you were driving down the road and looked over and there it sat loaded on a flat bed w/ a lift and they brought it to the house for ya and unloaded it! .
Hi Bethann, not quite. I've known about this machine for over a year now, a nice woman from Denver had email me about it a while back. She was finally ready to give it up so I shipped it and it arrived last Friday. I was thinking about taking a drive out to Denver to pick it up, but with Beltman shipping being so reasonable I figured I would just have it shipped.
Hi Bethann, not quite. I've known about this machine for over a year now, a nice woman from Denver had email me about it a while back. She was finally ready to give it up so I shipped it and it arrived last Friday. I was thinking about taking a drive out to Denver to pick it up, but with Beltman shipping being so reasonable I figured I would just have it shipped.
OK Here are some more pictures and inner workings of a late 1950's solid basket GE.
In this first shot looking in from the rear of the machine you can seem some similarities to the later style GE's, but the motor is mounted in the center and the pump is completely different. Also the boot is clamped to the outer side of the outer tub, in the later machines to boot is clamped on the inside of the outer tub.
In this first shot looking in from the rear of the machine you can seem some similarities to the later style GE's, but the motor is mounted in the center and the pump is completely different. Also the boot is clamped to the outer side of the outer tub, in the later machines to boot is clamped on the inside of the outer tub.
Check out the Pump
The pump is mounted directly to a hole in the bottom of the outer tub! No tub to pump hose needed here.
The pump is mounted directly to a hole in the bottom of the outer tub! No tub to pump hose needed here.
Now with the top removed you can see the upper parts of the water and dispenser systems. You can see how that pink button in the dispenser raises that flap that allows the clear rinse water to drain out of the dispenser tray and down into the outer tub.
eddy1210
Well-known member
oh that Turqoise!!
It's a beauty Robert! I see you hung a picture of my pink '58 GE complete with it's advertising above your machines. We should have all of them together for a pastel tea party.... here in Canada I think.... eh
Eddy
It's a beauty Robert! I see you hung a picture of my pink '58 GE complete with it's advertising above your machines. We should have all of them together for a pastel tea party.... here in Canada I think.... eh
Eddy
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