When I was in elementary school, a friend's father worked for GM in Doraville. His mom had the DI56 and a special drop in model 57 washer that looked like the Deluxe but had the Unimatic mechanism and the 3 ring agitator instead of the Pulsamatic with the solid agitator. Being the deluxe model, it did not have the rinse water temp selector. Anyway, something was wrong with the escapement in the timer. The pointer would proceed through the wash and first spin, then when it started the rinsing, the pointer moved backwards, so it ended up where it started, but to start it again, the pointer had to be turned 360 degrees. It also had some problem with, as his mother explained, something jumping the track in the machine (?!?) which rendered the whole machine powerless until the father fixed it, but I never got to ask the father about it. I tried the reset button, but it was not that.
