Monkey Norge, AKA Ugly Wards
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Really cool. Hard to see in the picture but does the control panel where the dial pointer is light up in the area it's pointing at? or whichever of the 3 programs it's running I mean.
Love Wards Signature!
Thank you for saving this wonderful machine! And too cool the lint filter is intact and functioning. Great restoration and love the pics!
Thank you for saving this wonderful machine! And too cool the lint filter is intact and functioning. Great restoration and love the pics!
Rick, thats a great job, i always admire your restorations. I may have missed the info what year is your Touch & Wash from, was wondering if it was in the "Big Book" M.Wards catalog, or if this model was sold only in retail stores. I was a catalogue junkie in my youth, I sure do not recall the Touch-N-Wash. yeah buddy that ones a keeper, i don't recall seeing that machine. I wonder if the dryer had the same touch-N-dry feature? great work, Thanks for sharing. It POP's NOW, i bet the first owner showed it to every lady on the street. arthur
Wow Rick
Wonderful job sometimes it's really rewarding to take a ghost machine and revive it all the way back to show!!!
That is my favorite Norge with the Vorpulator it really slams things around in that tub! We had a laundromat full of these in avocado in the 60's at our summer home. But the lids would lock on spin, I worked my way around that pretty quick!
The laundromat machines had black Vorpulators in them not white!
Rick great choice on the Blue light! I tried that with my Sub Zero but the film was not dark enough it had no effect at all on the color.
Enjoy!
Jet
Wonderful job sometimes it's really rewarding to take a ghost machine and revive it all the way back to show!!!
That is my favorite Norge with the Vorpulator it really slams things around in that tub! We had a laundromat full of these in avocado in the 60's at our summer home. But the lids would lock on spin, I worked my way around that pretty quick!
The laundromat machines had black Vorpulators in them not white!
Rick great choice on the Blue light! I tried that with my Sub Zero but the film was not dark enough it had no effect at all on the color.
Enjoy!
Jet
Thanks for the nice comments guys!!
Hey Jon, let me know what colour gel tube you want, and size, and I will send it to you.
Hi Arthur, This machine was manufactured in 1969. I think this one must have been the TOL model. Don't know if the matching dryer had the touch button, but guess that would/could have been a start switch for the dryer. And please, everybody, do NOT find me a matching dryer....lol!!
Hi Pete, the dial for all three cycles lights up anytime the light is on. The camera flash washes part of the light out on the dial, so the blue light is not visible on the entire dial in the photos.
Hey Jon, let me know what colour gel tube you want, and size, and I will send it to you.
Hi Arthur, This machine was manufactured in 1969. I think this one must have been the TOL model. Don't know if the matching dryer had the touch button, but guess that would/could have been a start switch for the dryer. And please, everybody, do NOT find me a matching dryer....lol!!
Hi Pete, the dial for all three cycles lights up anytime the light is on. The camera flash washes part of the light out on the dial, so the blue light is not visible on the entire dial in the photos.
Restoration!!!
Hey Rick, great job on the restoration, that machine looks like it could run for the next 40yrs!!! why are they nicknamed "Ugly Wards" to me that looks a real stylish control panel & machine, especially for its time??
Enjoy, Mike
p.s. Vorpulator?? Jon Jetcone are you making that name up or was that what it was called??
Hey Rick, great job on the restoration, that machine looks like it could run for the next 40yrs!!! why are they nicknamed "Ugly Wards" to me that looks a real stylish control panel & machine, especially for its time??
Enjoy, Mike
p.s. Vorpulator?? Jon Jetcone are you making that name up or was that what it was called??
Amazing restoration. Never saw one of these before. Very impressive for Wards or Norge. The cycle selectors, are they actual switchs or more of a touch pad type switch? I can see that it really thrashes the water and clothes arounds. Thanks for pics.
Jon
Jon
autowasherfreak
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Great Restoration!
Great job! I like the touch n wash control and the light is just too cool!
James
Great job! I like the touch n wash control and the light is just too cool!
James
Super cool, Rick! I'm glad you saved the machine - I love Rapid-Advance timer machines. Don't you love the recirculating filter? It's a nice change from the burp-up but if you get to longing for that, you can add it anytime and have both!
mickeyd
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HEY RICK--TOO BAD YOU DIDN'T MAKE IT TO CANTON
Walsh University, home of the Hoover Museum would have drafted you on the spot. Walsh is the sole university in America offering a major in Antique Restoration. Surely, you would be offered instant professor emeritus status.
I'm going' crazy lookin' at you stuff here. You know every brand lifted itself up to prominence perfecting al least one aspect of engineering, and I think the Norge Company reached the apogee in agitation with that fabulous baby you have here. No other agitator creates such turbulent currents.
Not sure, but seems as if you touch the cycle "buzzers" on the left, then hit Touch N' Wash, yes? Love to know the operation and not quite sure. Humbly. Can usually operate blind-folded. Not on your Kissed Frog Now Prince.
I'm totally into portable lighted controls. Where can I buy the light the you have?
This white thing is nothing after your blue with envy;'D
Walsh University, home of the Hoover Museum would have drafted you on the spot. Walsh is the sole university in America offering a major in Antique Restoration. Surely, you would be offered instant professor emeritus status.
I'm going' crazy lookin' at you stuff here. You know every brand lifted itself up to prominence perfecting al least one aspect of engineering, and I think the Norge Company reached the apogee in agitation with that fabulous baby you have here. No other agitator creates such turbulent currents.
Not sure, but seems as if you touch the cycle "buzzers" on the left, then hit Touch N' Wash, yes? Love to know the operation and not quite sure. Humbly. Can usually operate blind-folded. Not on your Kissed Frog Now Prince.
I'm totally into portable lighted controls. Where can I buy the light the you have?
This white thing is nothing after your blue with envy;'D
Step two..
Press the Touch N' Wash button in and hold it until the desired cycle is reached. I always use "Cottons and Linens"
Press the T&W button again and advance the timer needle to the desired water temp. (Hot Wash or Warm Wash) The water temp will be hot or warm wash, and a warm rinse.
If a cold wash, and or cold rinse is wanted, there is a toggle switch between the water level lever, and the timer control panel. The only way to move the timer forward is to use the T&W button.
The timer advances only in a clockwise direction.
Press the Touch N' Wash button in and hold it until the desired cycle is reached. I always use "Cottons and Linens"
Press the T&W button again and advance the timer needle to the desired water temp. (Hot Wash or Warm Wash) The water temp will be hot or warm wash, and a warm rinse.
If a cold wash, and or cold rinse is wanted, there is a toggle switch between the water level lever, and the timer control panel. The only way to move the timer forward is to use the T&W button.
The timer advances only in a clockwise direction.
Thank you for the great comments guys! I really do love this machine! It is a fun one
Greg, I would LOVE to find a burpalator agitator for this bad boy! It would be so cool to run both filters at once, wouldn't it??! Gregm sent me a newer Norge burp up filter long time ago, and it will fit on with the lint basket in place just fine. Just need a burp up agitator. (I think anyway)
If anyone has burp up for a newer Norge, and you want to get rid of it, please let me know. I will purchase it from you.
Mikey, I sent you an email.
XYZ, I did not use any Bondo on this, but I could have! lol!!
Thanks again!
Greg, I would LOVE to find a burpalator agitator for this bad boy! It would be so cool to run both filters at once, wouldn't it??! Gregm sent me a newer Norge burp up filter long time ago, and it will fit on with the lint basket in place just fine. Just need a burp up agitator. (I think anyway)
If anyone has burp up for a newer Norge, and you want to get rid of it, please let me know. I will purchase it from you.
Mikey, I sent you an email.
XYZ, I did not use any Bondo on this, but I could have! lol!!
Thanks again!
mickeyd
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thanks a lot Rick, i really was stumped
so if you're wash happy like me, and can't leave the buttons and dials alone, you can press the TW button in mid cycle to advance to the drain n spin if you so wished.
so if you're wash happy like me, and can't leave the buttons and dials alone, you can press the TW button in mid cycle to advance to the drain n spin if you so wished.
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i dig the norge's! just like the filter flo's i want one eventually!!!! great find and great work!!!
*applause*
*applause*
Wow what a clean panel compared to my mom's Signature 18 that was a year or two older. That one had two large banks of buttons for speed and water temp combinations. I'd never heard of the Touch & Wash system until now.
Great job rescuing this one!
Great job rescuing this one!
Mike
I'm not making it up! A Vorpulator see the Vorp in Rick's machine it has the famous "V" SHape that flings the clothes around the tub. Surgilator that is a Vorpulator!!!
Jet
I'm not making it up! A Vorpulator see the Vorp in Rick's machine it has the famous "V" SHape that flings the clothes around the tub. Surgilator that is a Vorpulator!!!
Jet
frontaloadotmy
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Rickr I have a vorpulator that I
will cheerfully send along...as soon as I figure out
what size and style of socket to use for extraction. I don't have the filter though , good thing you have one. It's from a
early mid 80's almond color machine. Vorpulation....the only
way to go!
Arthur... you must have been snoozing at the catalog junky
flop house! I went to work at the local MW catalog store
in the late winter/early spring of '69 and we were offering the touch and wash; maybe it came out late in the spring of that year. I remember thinking Wards was so much more clever than Sears!
will cheerfully send along...as soon as I figure out
what size and style of socket to use for extraction. I don't have the filter though , good thing you have one. It's from a
early mid 80's almond color machine. Vorpulation....the only
way to go!
Arthur... you must have been snoozing at the catalog junky
flop house! I went to work at the local MW catalog store
in the late winter/early spring of '69 and we were offering the touch and wash; maybe it came out late in the spring of that year. I remember thinking Wards was so much more clever than Sears!
