I have parts & panels from those washers but got rid of the rest, can't keep everything.
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cny4
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One reason Norge may have been an also ran is the noise. Our Wards version was noiser yet; easily the noiser washer I have ever heard.
exploder321
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I hope some one in Tucson has one...Which i think they do... Never have seen one "Live"... Can't wait
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it would be nice to see a video of one of those 
maybe the brown one jiji
maybe the brown one jijiburpilator . . .
Since this is a Norge thread I thought I'd ask a question: exactly what is a "burpilator"? I don't know much about Norge washers and have wondered if it is a specific agitator model used only on TOL washers, or something used across the line for a number of years. Do these machines have a conventional back and forth agitation like Maytag and WP, or more like the old Frigidaires?
It would be totally cool if Norge had embossed "burpilator" into the top of the agitator like WP did with "surgilator", but I kinda doubt that . . .
The word burpilator is sooo funny, it makes me think that the machine might eat a load of clothes and then burp as it digests them!
Since this is a Norge thread I thought I'd ask a question: exactly what is a "burpilator"? I don't know much about Norge washers and have wondered if it is a specific agitator model used only on TOL washers, or something used across the line for a number of years. Do these machines have a conventional back and forth agitation like Maytag and WP, or more like the old Frigidaires?
It would be totally cool if Norge had embossed "burpilator" into the top of the agitator like WP did with "surgilator", but I kinda doubt that . . .
The word burpilator is sooo funny, it makes me think that the machine might eat a load of clothes and then burp as it digests them!
bpetersxx
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peterson is in the process of fixing his Norge videos
frontaloadotmy
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hydralique
There might be a see it wash video of a Norge or MW Signature
with burpilation lint filtration, I haven't checked recently.
I don't know if "burpilator" was coined by an AW.Oite or it
was slang made up in the service tech world. If you look at a
norge/signature agitator of sometime in the '60's and I think
even up to the early 80's circa you will observe that one quadrant of the top side of the agitator has a nice little bed of uniform holes therein. There is a considerable degree of hollowness in these agitators that continues up the shaft
to the top. At the top there are slits. A filter pan is placed over the top of the ag and is supported by stops below afore mentioned slits. During agitation water and lint are pumped up the hollow inside the agitator and "burped" out the slits; it is a very appealing business like sound that assures
the washee that indeed, minimal lint will avoid being sucked up and expunged into the filter bowl and left behind as the water returns through pin holes to the tub. The sound it makes
is somewhat reminiscent of walking on heavily water saturated moss. A few other automatics might use this method and possibly even the last era of Easy Spin washers, but of this last statement I am not 100% sure. If some one hasn't beaten
me to the punch with a link, now you know.
There might be a see it wash video of a Norge or MW Signature
with burpilation lint filtration, I haven't checked recently.
I don't know if "burpilator" was coined by an AW.Oite or it
was slang made up in the service tech world. If you look at a
norge/signature agitator of sometime in the '60's and I think
even up to the early 80's circa you will observe that one quadrant of the top side of the agitator has a nice little bed of uniform holes therein. There is a considerable degree of hollowness in these agitators that continues up the shaft
to the top. At the top there are slits. A filter pan is placed over the top of the ag and is supported by stops below afore mentioned slits. During agitation water and lint are pumped up the hollow inside the agitator and "burped" out the slits; it is a very appealing business like sound that assures
the washee that indeed, minimal lint will avoid being sucked up and expunged into the filter bowl and left behind as the water returns through pin holes to the tub. The sound it makes
is somewhat reminiscent of walking on heavily water saturated moss. A few other automatics might use this method and possibly even the last era of Easy Spin washers, but of this last statement I am not 100% sure. If some one hasn't beaten
me to the punch with a link, now you know.
bpetersxx
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burp
The early 'Noge "Burpalators" had a long slow stroke compared to other machines of their time. It was aggressive and what it couldn't roll-over it was quite content to drag back and forth---mercilessly. The mechanism of that era was not so noisy but the constantantly sucking pump, and "whack" of the solenoids changing cycles, more than made up for it. A great memory of that era.
The more modern 'Noge's (also manufactured for many other badges) still had that long-stroke agitator and had increased the strokes per minute (makes me sweat), those machines are every bit as aggressive as the old ones were, but have much better roll-over capability.
People thought because these machines were "cheapies" as far as the price point when purchased new---that they wouldn't last. But these old soldiers keep showing up all the time on the used market and many of them are still in perfect working order----if in need of a good clean-up. Rust was always 'Noge's worst problem.
ka-chooooog, ka-chooooog, ka-chooooog----------
The more modern 'Noge's (also manufactured for many other badges) still had that long-stroke agitator and had increased the strokes per minute (makes me sweat), those machines are every bit as aggressive as the old ones were, but have much better roll-over capability.
People thought because these machines were "cheapies" as far as the price point when purchased new---that they wouldn't last. But these old soldiers keep showing up all the time on the used market and many of them are still in perfect working order----if in need of a good clean-up. Rust was always 'Noge's worst problem.
ka-chooooog, ka-chooooog, ka-chooooog----------
Go into our Cyber Museum for Norge, and scroll to the right to see a list of videos of Robert's classic Norge and Burpilator action.
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Oh yes, I can't wait to see more perforated-tub 'Noge action in Tucson!
At the 2005 Convention, Robert brought along his sunny yellow 1959 Norge, which I believe he said was the first year for the Burpalator. It had 4 slots at the top of the agitator, and the water would burp up vertically instead of spray out to the side like the later versions. It was quite cool to watch, and I have to say that was probably the machine I spent the most time playing with, aside from the '63 Hotpoint.
At the 2005 Convention, Robert brought along his sunny yellow 1959 Norge, which I believe he said was the first year for the Burpalator. It had 4 slots at the top of the agitator, and the water would burp up vertically instead of spray out to the side like the later versions. It was quite cool to watch, and I have to say that was probably the machine I spent the most time playing with, aside from the '63 Hotpoint.
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And here's said Burpalator in action...
bpetersxx
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I have to know too is my Norge MW a burpilator since it has a lint filter agitator
gocartwasher
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whats the bottom of it look like?
some say this is a norge on my scrap load
some say this is a norge on my scrap load
