Out with the OLD! And in with the NEW== People !!

[jetcone]

Ken

I found the red stuff to be invaluable for old rubber - some rubbers it won't bond to but they are few. 

The filter flume I tried at first to use super glue and it all peeled off the next day. This red stuff is handy, because this machine is a 'weeping wanda', she had weeps in every hose !! 

So I've used it liberally and now not a drop weeps out.

 

Its made by Permatex and carried in auto parts stores. Permeated makes very useful stuff.

 

How did Max Headroom just fade away?? He was everywhere.

http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/...g_12425515822_w_pla-73681271542_h_1018132_ii_

 

[toploader55]

I Loved Max...

 

[bajaespuma]

Aferim!

I have the same bleach dispenser for the previous year's model and I think it is very cool. I wish I could figure out how to reconfigure/rededicate it to store and dispense fabric softener in the rinse. I've followed John LeFever's warning and I don't store Chlorine bleach in there; I load it when I want to use it and at one point I stored liquid peroxide bleach in it. I do hope you are successful in getting its mate.

 

[mrb627]

Switch - Far Left

What is the switch on the far left of the control panel. Looks similar to the water level dial, has the word Wash over it.

Malcolm

 

[bajaespuma]

That's the COLD WASH option dial; when it's set on WASH you get cold water for the wash and the rinse. There was on the previous year's TOL a toggleswitch located underneath the control panel that gave the user COLD, AUTOMATIC and WARM rinse choices, but I don't think that carried over to 1961.

 

[jetcone]

Yes it all goes cold on the cold

setting. Hey that brochure in pic #2 has different numbers on the controls- they are serif numbers whereas in reality they are block !!! Haven't heard back from dryer guy yet...tap tap tap ....

 

[qualin]

Here's an old thread on the other half of the equation, the dryer.

I seem to recall the mechanical design for the console was very unique and probably cost a lot to engineer. There are a few good threads on here about it. The pointer was a chain drive with a complex system of geared pulleys.

Kind of makes me wish that GE had used the "Timeline" version of the cycles for the washer, instead of a conventional round timer. It probably would have cost too much. I also admit that those big buttons are neat. I love this design from that era, where everything had those wide, flat buttons. (I saw the same design on a '58 Edsel.)

Do they make a considerable "THUNK" when you push on them?

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?36257

 

[jetcone]

Yes Bud

they do THUNK and you don;t really have too push them down they kind of flop down with  a slight touch too.

 

Video to come .....................

 

[revvinkevin]

 

 

Wow Jon, very cool!   CONGRATS!

 

Yeah that other raggity old washer is SO... 1960's.... Ugh, it needs to get kicked to the curb, HARD!   

 

Ducks & runs? 

 

Kevin

 

[jakins]

Saw this

I saw this while checking craigslist. Thought yoou might be interested.
John

http://https//rochester.craigslist.org/app/5457146204.html

 

[revvinkevin]

Bad Link

 

 

Hey John your link isn't working.   What state is it in, NY, MN, or MI?

 

[stricklybojack]

.
Here, in NY:

http://rochester.craigslist.org/app/5457146204.html

 

[jakins]

Lets try this again

It is in NY
http://rochester.craigslist.org/app/5457146204.html

http://rochester.craigslist.org/app/5457146204.html

 

[jetcone]

Hi John

Thanks I already contacted the owner but have not heard back yet.

It would be a perfect match to my washer.

 

Kevin will be SLAPPED!! In GOOD ORDER TOO !

 

 

[stricklybojack]

What pray tell does the "Air Freshener" switch do?

 

[jetcone]

I don't know

but its definitely on! Did this have those little bottles of "stink" you inserted into the machine like KenWhirls??

 

It might be a no heat switch to things a tumble with air flow??

 

 

 

[gansky1]

GE Air Freshener button

Ken will know for sure but I think they were small aerosol metal bottles that sprayed out a squirt of goodness.  Probably to cover up the smell of the cigarette you were holding while starting the dryer ;-)

 

IIRC, if you pull the toggle out, the small canister was inserted into the panel (?)  It's been a long time since I saw one.

 

 

[swestoyz]

Late to the party - but dang, what a beauty!  Have fun!

 

[mayfan69]

Quite gorgeaus!

Quite gorgeous there Jon

Very impressive!

Cheers
Leon

 

[bajaespuma]

Air Freshener feature

It's a curious little gimcrack: there is indeed a small pressurized canister-ette of air freshener that gets squirted directly into the body of the backsplash when the user presses the KEY (GE's term for those over-sized white plastic toggles) downward. Purely by aerodynamics, the chemical gets sucked downwards through the hollow pedestals into the dryer's air stream to do its job. In the 1957 model there was a little pan behind the switch that held a solid tablet like the ones they still sell for some vacuum cleaners. In that model there was a flexible rubber tube that conducted the juice to the dryer drum.