Maytag A712 & DE 712

[gadgetgary]

They arrived safely yesterday. Toggles and I found that these machines were originally in Iowa, then moved to Texas. From there they went to Ohio, and then to Connecticut. There are in great shape for being moved so much. We cleanded them up nicely and proceeded to do 4 loads of laundry in them.

 

[gadgetgary]

Cleaning the washer interior

Kirkland Detergent, hot water and bleach. The lint filter was disugstingly dirty and moldy.
We even caused a 'suds-lock'!

 

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In the dryer

Lint, buttons,coins, hair clips

 

[gadgetgary]

Interior shot

Washer is in great shape

 

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Interior shot

Dryer

 

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More Dryer

Interior

 

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Dryer

Heating Element

 

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Dryer

Schematics

 

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Dryer

Schematics

 

[coldspot66]

WOW.............. What a catch!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[peteski50]

Maytag!

Gary,
What a real Great find.
Best Wishes,
Peter

 

[gadgetgary]

Dryer Control Dial

Steve and I were a bit confused and thought that the timer on the dryer was not working properly. We were going to order another timer until we read the manual that stated that even if you set the dryer for Timed Dry(ex. 40 min), the pointer would move to the end, but continue till the clothes were dry. So what is the point of having timed dry? Guess the Electronic Dry controls were on every cycle.

We turned the pointer thru the cycles and it would not shut off. We thought the dark markings were the shut-off points to each cycle.

 

[gadgetgary]

Ding!Ding!

There is also a mechanical 'bell' that rings to let you know that the clothes are done.

We took off the back panel to find exactly where that ding-dong was........

 

[gadgetgary]

The rest

of the dryer workings....

 

[gadgetgary]

My Plug Queen

created an outlet to convert a 220 dryer to 110.

We did a load of PANK jersey knit sheets in the A 712 and dried them in the DE712 on 110V. They took a long time to dry, but, came out perfectly.

 

[gadgetgary]

The Maiden Load

Sears Detergent

Lots of real Maytag action

 

[gadgetgary]

Suds Lock

And a LONG spray rinse......YAY!

 

[appnut]

We took off the back panel to find exactly where that ding-d

The Steve version?

I'm assuing the dryer temp buttons are air, delicate, and regular. The other two buttons are press care on and press care off.

 

[toggleswitch]

How dry I am...how wet I'll be, if I don't find the

Gary wanted to see the ding-dong. I pretty much know what the different versins look like, and how they work at this point.

The temperatures are exactly as you stated.
The other buttons are actually "Dry" and "More dry."

The more I see what these Maytag (And Kitchen Aid, too) beauties are all about, the angrier I get with Whirlpool for killing their engineering.