More GE Versatronics............and pics for GEextraRinse

[toggleswitch]

Does the "soak" button stop the agitation in the "extra rinse" cycle?

 

[Versatronic]

Absolutely Awesome

Thank you so much. The Dryer control panel is configured slightly differently than mine.

That washer is my dream machine. If anybody discovers one up for sale, please, please email me. I really need one to finish off my laundry room.

 

[peteski50]

More GE Versatronics

Jimmy,
Real nice set Best Of Luck,
Peter

 

[gyrafoam]

Jimmy, thank you for sharing the photo's. I think those are a great looking vintage pair of GE's.

 

[toggleswitch]

BTW, The schmutz on the filter (brownish- beige) is the by- products of natural gas combustion- the type I rant about with gas cooking that ends up on the walls, ceiling and cabinets.

 

[pulltostart]

Now THIS is what a washer and dryer are SUPPOSE to look like!!!!! Great-looking pair.

Lawrence

 

[frigilux]

Beautiful pair, Jimmy! This is my favorite era for GE's. However, given their vigorous agitation at high speed, I'd almost be afraid to use that extra wash cycle, ha-ha!

 

[Hometechdoc]

operaton questions for GE washer

What does pushing the soak button do? It seems superfluous if there is a soak cycle on the timer dial. It would seem logical to have it marked soak and wash if it were to automatically advance into the wash cycle. I assume if you dial up soak, the machine does not advance into the cycle.

Also, why is there an * on the timer dial in the wash cycle sequence.

 

[DADoES]

Notice, there's a colored dot beside the Soak button, and at the start of the Soak selection on the timer. It may control what happens during and after the Soak section on the timer -- whether the machine shuts off, or there's an automatic advance into prewash, and also perhaps whether the soak water is spun out or used for the prewash. If it's spun out, that'd potentially be three water changes!

With the EXTRA RINSE button pressed, the Soak part of the timer probably functions as the 2nd rinse.

 

[Hometechdoc]

Another question about

Since the "Versatronic" word only appears on the dryers, I wonder if GE used that word to signify an electronic sensor control to terminate drying. I would assume the TOL Versatronic would, but I am not sure if the MOL model shown today would have electronic sensor dry

 

[washoholic]

Jimmy, correct me if I’m wrong (I grew up w/ a G.E. a little less fancy than yours), but I think when the soak button is pushed and the washer is started at the dot on the dial marked soak; the washer fills, agitates and then soaks with out spinning until you go back and change the settings (the soak button turns off the final spin). I think the asterisk marks the “normal” wash setting.

I love those machines! I COMMEND you for your detailed pictures! Thanks a million!

Jeff

 

[appnut]

OK, I am going to go out on a limb here. I could be wrong, but here goes. I vaguely seem to rememberer GE had an automatic extended soak cycle. This was the era of Enzyme Pre-soaks (axion & Biz)and enzyme pre-soak cycles (Kenmore 800 & above, some versions of Maytag Frabric-Matics). I venture to say that when the soak button with the * is pushed and the timer dial is aligned on the 8 minute mark, it does an automatic presoak of filling up, briefly agitating, and then "soaking" for about 30 minutes quietly progressing through the dial and when it got the "2nd rinse" "pre-wash" it resumed with that agitation and then final spin. There could have also been a brief agitation period between the beginning & the last "pre-wash".

I liken this to the KDI18 dishwasher that had full cycle and soak & scrub on the same timer dial. When soak & scrub was selected, the machine did that proper sequence through the timer and ended up with the wash and rinse portions being further along the dial and thefinal rinse ended up within the dry poriton of the full cycle button. Or not so complicated an example, when rinse & hold was used, it did the one or two fills and "stopped" and the timer quietly continued to move back to the off position.

 

[Washaholic]

Growing up my mom had a GE like that with a suds saver cyle

 

[southernmdgeguy]

Right from my dream list

Almost like the ones I grew up with, but ours had the toggle switches on the washer, not the automatic system. Awesome to see them so well kept! Errr... let me know if you want to get rid of them..

 

[thirtyater]

yes and we will all be fighting over them ;-)

 

[toggleswitch]

Good points people.

the extra rinse portion of the timer could be at the end of the cycle, or a pre-soak at the beginning of the cycle.

GENIUS!

 

[zzzzz]

Great set, but I'm wondering why the washer has the "Super V14" Activator while the control panel identifies the machine as a "Heavy Duty 16". Was the washer's agitator replaced at some point, or were some 16-lb machines designed around 14-lb agitators?

 

[filterflo]

Jeff Washaholic, you are correct about the operation of the soak cycle. Here are some pics of the lid instructions that tell about it better than I could............

 

[filterflo]

Mini-Wash instructions.............

 

[filterflo]

Conventional load guide............