Notice anything different?

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Final spin-drain...did I mention that this one likes to backflush the bleach dispenser in the process?

 

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Rapidry 600

 

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...And check out what fits in here!

The blue straight-vane which I've always wanted to try!

 

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Washing a load of DIRTY rags

 

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With those huge vanes, the action is just WICKED at 100 oscillations per minute...

 

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Now to try the straight-vane on some jeans...

 

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Lots of thrashing and ker-sloshing but not much else.

 

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However...with 3/4-cup of Roma in this load, it did make a sudscake!

 

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The suds eventually got a little too out-of-control, so I had to add some Ensueño. The power-spray rinse took care of the rest...

 

[jasonl]

YAY!

Now that's the kind of GE I remember. Those are great machines and were so different and fascinating from the Kenmores and Whirlpools that I was used to.

Great pix!

 

[appnut]

Perosnally I like the panels with the toggle switches. It just ain't a GE washer without them.

 

[sudsman]

Austin

What color green is that and what brand I do love it... it makes all the machines stand out but is not overbearing and so fresh too..

 

[westyslantfront]

Hi Austin. Congratulations on your new machine. It looks like a fun machine. That was when GE's were still good machines.

Ross

 

[vintagesearch]

The GE filter flo...

Well congrats on the GE i too hope i can find me one of those in the future, anyways my aunt had that same model (exact) I remember it she always used it on the weekends and she always hid the filer in the closet LOL after using it of course. Enjoy it, by the way why did these older GE's use to get rust under the lid? my aunt's GE had to small rust spots under the lid.

 

[petek]

Nice, I love the harvest gold. On mine the 3 buttons are the water temp with the speed selectors on the dial, exactly reverse of yours.

 

[andrewinorlando]

I still think those were some of the best washers ever built. My cousin still has my '82 Filter Flo. She raised three kids with it, and two of them are still coming back home to do their laundry!! Nothing like a filter flo...congratulations, Austin!!

 

[bajaespuma]

I've seen a similar model a hundred times, identical to yours except that around here it was always an "Extra Large Capacity" machine. I'm curious, what's the model # of that beautiful machine?

Here's my version of your find, an earlier filter-flo with the blue straight-8. Unfortunately, I think this one needs a new motor; 2 speed clutch works but the machine's high speed spin is almost too painfully slow to watch.

 

[swestoyz]

Austin - the Harvest GE looks like another fun additon to the studio! Thanks for the shots of both agitators - almost enough to convice me to get to work on my '69 GE. Enjoy ~

Ben

 

[gansky1]

Beautiful GE, Austin! The straight vane agitator is the same one I grew up on. Well, not literally but I spent many an hour mezmerized by that wash action. Do you have the filter pan that goes with it? You would have had suds pouring down the front of the machine if so - we somehow (?) had suds-cakes a lot when I was young.

 

[toggleswitch]

Fabulous GE Autsin!

~Final spin-drain...did I mention that this one likes to backflush the bleach dispenser in the process?

So does mine. I thought they all did. I hear it is best to raise the front legs a bit such that the machine is off-level being slightly tilted back to avoid this (somewhat).