New Finds, the week for Westinghouse.............

[golittlesport]

Beautiful Westy dryer, Jimmy! I love it. I hope you find its mate!

 

[goatfarmer]

The worst experience I ever had with appliances was cutting up an old GE 'fridge years ago with a sawzall,not realizing that it contained Sulphur Dioxide.That's a smell I will never forget!
You have to be careful,or that knob on the washer looks like it could be a glass breaker! From the serial #,it looks like a 1978 model,nice find!

kennyGF

 

[repair-man]

Kenny, I can relate to that ! I too once made the mistake of cutting open a sulphur dioxide system. Back before anyone cared about reclaiming freon. The junkyard that we used to take the old units to wanted all compressors removed first. So it was standard practice to just cut the lines before we put it on the truck. Truely a smell one never forgets. Kind of like lighting a million matches at once. After we thought it was all clear we were heading back and I guess some was trapped in the oil. Bouncing in the truck it started dumping out again. We had to roll out of the truck right in the middle of the street.

Ed

 

[frigilux]

Great finds! I, too, thought you had a new (old) dishwasher, there.

I love the fixit-guy agitator cap. I admire people who, rather than, say, spending $20 on a new cap, will spend time and effort coming up with a radically different solution to the problem. I'm afraid I'm one of the guys who just has to order a new cap, LOL.

 

[westytoploader]

No Rustinghouse Here!

Awesome new finds Jimmy!! Like I've said before, that dryer has impressive styling...from looking at the first picture I almost thought you found a washer!! It looks like it has had little use too...congratulations! Should November be designated Westinghouse month?

Cool 1-18 as well...looks like the control panel suffered from "Spray-N-Wash Syndrome" though. Also interesting why someone would take the trouble to make a cap lock when new Jet Cone Agitator caps are still available on RepairClinic...

 

[fixerman]

I am one who would try to make something work rather than buy a new part especially at Repair Clinic prices. Guess I am just cheap.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Wow now that's an agitator cap! Congrats on the new finds Jimmy.

 

[lbcarguy]

Thanks

Hi Jimmy,

Thanks so much for thinking of me when you saw the GE dryer. Glad it was pretty easy to get apart and you have a recycler who already took the cabinet and other scrap. I will stockpile the parts for spares when they arrive. I plan to mount the control panel on the wall since my V14 seems to be the next higher model and is different. Too bad it does not light up!

See you in Phoenix in January.

 

[filterflo]

Yeah Mike, the GE dryer was easy to take apart. I could almost do them blindfolded now, Ive done so many of them. I have the surviving parts ready to box and ship to you, and the case is now at the scrap yard, ready to be recycled into another washer or dryer someday. Tim and Scott are coming in January to pick up the Frigidaire 1-18 and the Westinghouse dryer and GE freezer are hibernating in storage, safe and sound and dry thru the winter. Now if we could just find you a Philco set or your GE1050X washer..... someday soon I hope!

 

[westyslantfront]

hi filterflo...i just love those slantfronts......ross

 

[filterflo]

Hey Ross, I share your enthusiam..... I love them too. They really are wonderfully engineered, esp the washer. They come high on my list and probably yours too of high style, with both washer and dryer running at the same time and those round picture windows showing the clothes........The noise of the washer tumbling is quite unique, I sure hope I can find the mate to that dryer. Id love to make a usuable set out of it.