Madam, I like the white one, but do you have something more colorful?

[geextrarinse]

YAY!!!!

Great find Robert - its beautiful! - I'm so jealous!

Good for you - I look forward to the first restored wash pics!

Matt

 

[pulltostart]

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

 

[bethann]

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!

 

[westytoploader]

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! ;-)

 

[gansky1]

Incredible machine, it looks like in mint condition! Nice dry Denver basement no doubt. Those are really the best softener dispensers ever!

 

[Unimatic1140]

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.

 

[Unimatic1140]

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.

 

[Unimatic1140]

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.

 

[Unimatic1140]

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]

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

 

[Unimatic1140]

That would be fabulous Eddy! What color is your tub balance ring on your pink '58 Eddy, gray or pink?

 

[eddy1210]

pink dear

It's a lovely pink. I'll show her inside for all to see.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Thanks Eddy!

Fabulous! So they did use the pink on other color machines besides white, that means it probably was a mid year production change.

 

[jetcone]

Yes from what I remember

growing up in GE town the PInk ring was used in all 1958 machines and I think a turquoise ring was used in all 1959 machines with turquoise cap and filter holder. I bet that grey ring means early production. Nancy Smith bought her 1958 in spring and it was delivered in June and it had a pink ring. Her 1953 GE was spurting oil all over the clothes so it had to go out, but it was SOO cool because I had never seen a GE with a white tub before!

I'll be out to do turqoise wash! Its georgeous!

jet

 

[JerseyMike]

Wow!

What a wonderful find.

That's my all time favorite appliance color!

Thanks for sharing.

Mike

 

[spiraclean]

Very Interesting

Hi Robert,
Thank you for the great pictures. The GE Filter Flo looks quite similar to the UK Hotpoint Top Loader except the GE has a Vitreous Enamel outer tub whereas the UK Hotpoint has a plastic outer tub. The GE’s motor is quite different too.

All the best.
Hugh

 

[westyslantfront]

Hi Robert. Beautiful machines. I like the pink tub ring. They really knew how to make machines in those days. And also real agitators, not those dual action agitators of today.

 

[lesto]

Thanks for the pics, Robert. Now I know what my old 59 looked like inside. Please keep the photos coming as you work on the machine. I love the all-pink activator cap and filter ring on Eddy's. Actually the tub ring on my 59 was a white wire-type mounted below the top part of the spin basket which was black with white specs. The agitator cap & filter ring were the same design as Eddy's only turquoise as was the rubber gasket around the filter-flo spout.

Les

 

[westytoploader]

For some strange reason GE decided to make the anti-indexing pawl out of plastic...

Knowing what GE makes today, I wouldn't consider that reason "strange"...it seems that the "Plastic GE" has been around longer than we thought! ;-)

*Ducks and runs*

 

[pulsator]

**WOW** I cannot believe your luck Robert!!!!!!! XD