Maytag 906 set

[bajaespuma]

Aferim!

There are nothing like the Pushbutton 'Tags. If these aren't in a National Museum like the Smithsonian or MOMA, they should be.

 

[gyrafoam]

Wow! That's quite a find! I am optimistic for you. Get whatever parts you can and enjoy using them! What good is just looking at them and dreaming?!

 

[bradfordwhite]

The dream is perfect. Effortless. Doesn't require spending any money. Doesn't require getting your hands dirty. There's not disappointment. There's no appliance break down.

Put these on display. The best possible display for you. And be done with it. Accept them as displays. I'd even wire the lights with a timer or something to make them appear active.

I can promise you, it's only going to get difficult after you start tearing into these. Regret and disappointment awaits.

Stick with the dream on something like this.

 

[bradfordwhite]

#30

Ken, you do awesome art work.

 

[jasonlittle]

Thanks for all the information everybody. Yeah I think the machine had a little bit of tinkering done to it before I got it. I can see the drain pump has been replaced and it also appears that the main tub bearing and seal has been replaced also. Whenever I get some spare time I will go through the wiring and make sure everything is hooked up correctly.

 

[jasonlittle]

Found the problem

Well I found out what is making it pause an agitation during the wash cycle. It is the timer. I did my first actual load and it this morning and after it stopped I just tapped the timer with a screwdriver and it kicked on. Then it would kick back off and I would tap it again and it would start right back up. After a few times of doing that it stayed running. So I’m not sure what that is but I know there’s got to be something loose inside the timer or a corroded contact or something.

 

[good-shepherd]

appears that the main tub bearing and seal has been replaced

Thats not necessarily a bad thing if the work was done correctly and before water intrusion/corrosion trashed the agitator shaft and/or trans, which is the way things typically happen.

(As a matter of fact you may want to lay the washer on its back for a day or two to let some trans oil work into the upper agitator shaft bearing).

 

[robbinsandmyers]

Check each push on connector on the timer and make sure its a clean snug fit. If all the connectors are clean and tight I think it may have a burnt set of contacts inside. My A407 did that same thing, 20 seconds after starting its rinse spin the motor would shut off but the pilot light was still on and the timer still running. I would tap the knob lightly and it would start back up and run fine through the rest of the wash. Turned out to be a burned set of contacts. I replaced the timer but in your case if all the connections are tight I would send that timer out and have it professionally rebuilt while there people still doing these relics. To be doubly sure check every connection in the machine to make sure its not loose or corroded.

 

[jasonlittle]

OK yeah I will definitely check all the connections. If I do have to end up having it rebuilt who do you guys recommend. That’s something I have never looked into before. As funny as it sounds it is actually getting better. The more times I use it the better it gets. Now I don’t have to tap it at all. It might shut off and then it will turn right back on. Maybe the connections are getting cleaned off or something. Maybe it got corroded from sitting for so many years.

 

[qsd-dan]

It's probably the timer motor going haywire from the plastic gears breaking down inside which these Model 60's were known for. There's 3 new 204663 timers on Ebay at the moment. You can remove the timer motor from the timer and bench test. Dave from davesrepair.com has all of the internal gearing for these so contact him if you want to fix this yourself, which I highly recommend since the 204663 timer motor has been discontinued. Just an FYI, I have had these timer motors brand new in the bag fail right after installation, so beware of that. Old NOS timer motors with weak plastic gearing can fail immediately.

 

[jasonlittle]

Timer motor.

When the machine would shut down I could still hear the timer advancing through the cycle. Every so often you could hear a click and you could also hear the timer motor running. To me it almost seems like a contact is bad. Sometimes the machine would do a sort of jerking motion a couple times as it was trying to make contact.

 

[turquoisedude]

I'm late to the party here, but wowweee!  Congratulations on finding such an amazing 906 set!  I hope you can get the timer issues resolved quickly!  

I've heard information to the contrary, but there was a company here in Canada, Turners Timer Repair, who were still willing and able to repair vintage washer timers.  Last one I sent in was about 2 years ago for a tune-up on my 55 Pulsamatic timer.  

 

[washgirl]

nice set

nice set upload a video to youtube sometime

 

[newvista58]

MOST EXCELLENT....

Congrats & Best Washes,

Louis