New Toy...White Westinghouse Washer

[oldappliancenut]

Picked this up today before it got crushed just needs the door latch fixed works otherwise!!

 

[tuthill]

cool

what year abouts and could we get some money shots?

 

[oldappliancenut]

more pics

control pics

 

[oldappliancenut]

pic3

another

 

[oldappliancenut]

Spining

This was changes from left to right I had another one just like this but it didn't do that....my old one had more then one belt

 

[Brent-Aucoin]

Very Cool!
This is I think the last Westinghouse Frontloader!
Is is a reverse tumble?
Thanks for the pictures.
Brent

 

[oldappliancenut]

videos

videos YAY

 

[oldappliancenut]

added more

more video

 

[Brent-Aucoin]

Very Cool Video!
So I take it that it is a dual tumble. That spin is so darn fast!
Looks like your machine is in such great shape!
Fun!
Brent

 

[oldappliancenut]

yup

Its a DUAL TUMBLE just needs a spring for the door latch thats why theres a wire on it to keep it closed lol

 

[oldappliancenut]

another video

tumbling

 

[frigilux]

I had two versions of this washer; one was an '88 Frigidaire (I think it was only briefly produced under that name), but I don't recall that one being a dual-tumble. It was a solenoid unit, with the loud CLANK going into each spin. I sold it after owning it for only one year, when I moved to a small apt. with no washer hookup.

A few years later (around 1990-91) I had a Gibson front-control machine which, like this one, tumbled two ways. I remember the light-colored plastic ring around the opening came loose and would fall into the washer, getting tangled in the load. They were cool machines with plenty of splashy drama. And they have a tub light, which is nice.

The spin speeds were not too fast, however; it only looks that way in the video. When I bought the first Electrolux-made Frigidaire (in 1996), I was amazed by the 850-rpm final spin speed. It only ramped up that fast during the last 60 seconds, which I thought was odd. 850-rpm is, of course, considered no great feat, these days.

Enjoy your WW and thanks for posting the videos!

 

[Brent-Aucoin]

Brian,
Thanks for the videos.
Looks like a fun machine! I think these clean better than the 3 belt "potato pulley" versions. I wish we could find out what the final speed difference from your new toy, compared to the older "potato pulley" version. I also heard that these were an AEG designed machine.?
I think that their are a good bit of these dual tumble machines still working out there. They were really good machines.
I see the dryers for this match from time to time.
Brent

 

[laundromat]

Great videos!!! It sounds to me that te tub berrings are shot.What gives that problem away is the rumbling noise it makes during the tumble and spin.It also looks like the reverse tumble isn't working right.Otherwise,great find!!!!You should try to set the tub light to come on while operating!

 

[easyspindry]

Good cleaners

I had one of these machines some years ago. It was very quiet. Cleaned very well.

Worried the hell out of me that there was no spin between the 2 deep rinses.

The spin was slow. If I had discovered the Spin-X spinner machine before I got rid of the Westinghouse, I'd probably still be using it.

I think there were 2 belts. It tumbled in only one direction, but the wheel connected to the belt was not round -- kind of oblong. This made the tub rotate at regular speed, then slow, then speed up -- an interesting concept.

Good luck. It's a fun machine.

Jerry Gay

 

[Brent-Aucoin]

Hello Jerry,
This Westinghouse here, is totally different from yours.
This Westinghouse had only one belt. It was set up basically like the front loaders today. The only thing this washer shared with the one you had was the wash tub.
The machine that you are talking about had three belts, and a potato pulley.
The spin on this washer was much higher than the original design.
Brent

 

[arrrooohhh]

What a great machine! Never knew they were so much fun to watch. Great find and thanks for the videos.

 

[electron800]

Great to see an American style front loader rather than a Eu

but does anyone know exactly what the spin speed of this machine is?

also, how high does the water fill to?

 

[foraloysius]

Thanks!

Wonderful videos, these machines are fun to watch, especially the dual tumble models. I hadn't seen this rear control type before, at the convention in 2002 we saw a dual tumble model with front controls. BTW, that machine had a white on white design. Great find, are you going to watch out for a matching dryer?

 

[tomturbomatic]

With this one, you can take a screwdriver to the water level switch and have it fill as full as the 3 belt machines. I set mine to the minimum level for washing, then turn it to maximum for rinsing which, after my modifications, fills the tub way over the light lens, almost to the bottom of the door. The higher water level combined with a spin between each rinse yields pretty good rinsing. Even though there are European design elements to this machine, the outer tub still retains the shallow sump, covered by a baffle, connected almost directly to a very powerful pump. The three belt machines powered the pump from the main motor. The pump had to be able to pump out water during the spin because there was no way the machine could stop spinning and still pump out the water. This one has an independently powered, powerful drain pump and that powerful pump combined with the direct feed from the sump means none of that silly drain water surging between the inner and outer tub causing the machine to stop to pump out the water like some European machines. This one starts to spin hell bent for leather and keeps spinning regardless of balance or amount of water spun out of the load. The recessed sump with the baffle traps the water as it is spun out so that it does not surge between the two tubs. It is proven technology that Westinghouse used since the late 50s. It is not as sophisticated as many of the front loaders imported from outside the US, but it is a very rugged machine. It's a shame so few were made and sold. If you have one, it it something to hang onto. Westinghouse kept front loaders available in this country during a time when the nation seemed obsessed with huge top loaders. The reason Westinghouse kept producing them was the apartment and condo construction industry and the replacement market demand. There was nothing else that washed and dried a full size load that would fit where these machines had been installed. Unfortunately, the relatively small market meant that no money had been put into updating the design and technology that had not changed for over 3 decades so it is good that Electrolux wound up buying White Consolidated Industries. While this machine was clearly a stop-gap improvement on the original design, I would rather have this one than the thing that followed it. That machine had to stop to drain the water spun out at the start of spin, could not handle suds when it spun and actually shut off the pump before the spin ended when it went into the rinses, probably because of the crappy timers.