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[laundromat]

Why is it that the brochure on this "Heavy Duty" washer is showing someone attempting to pour powdered detergent into a liquid bleach dispenser???

"You can be sure...if it's Westinghouse"--------- and this advertisement just showes you of the easiest ways to do that.

 

[cehalstead]

look closer....

it's not powdered detergent. That's some sort of reflection on the surface of the liquid. If you look under the white, it's yellow liquid....bleach!

 

[kenmoreguy89]

It actually looks like powder I cannot see any yellow liquid or similar to bleach....
Anyway I do not like westinghouses washers...they were good on looks and features but those indexing tubs invalidate everything.......

 

[akronman]

2 rinses

It's got 2 deep rinses for the normal cycle, relatively rare. Any idea when this machine was built? And I haven't yet seen a tub that purposely indexes opposite direction of the agitator, was that a Westy exclusive? And did it wash well?  I like all the options with speeds, this one looks pretty high end. And the HandWash second agitator. I've always heard TL Westy's described as un-inspiring, this one looks pretty darn good.

 

[DADoES]

 
I have a mid-line model. Same timer, variable water level but without the "Tiny Load" option, 5-position rotary temp control, normal/gentle timer cycles instead of separate speed control, no Weigh-to-Save lid, no cycle signal, console not lighted. Single agitator was the factory equipment, although a regular/handwash set was also given to me.

1st Rinse refers to spin-spray, not a deep/agitated rinse. There is only one agitated rinse, occurs at the 2nd Rinse marker. It washes well enough IMO. Normal agitation speed is a bit more aggressive than I expected even with the slight "impairment" of an indexing basket.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Westy: Under-rated!!!!

I still wonder why WESTINGHOUSE laundry equipment (along w/ their ranges) were still unpopular, compared to the competition...

-- Dave

 

[qualin]

The weight for this washer is very healthy, a good sign of quality. I really like that spiraled agitator, it washes like an Easy.

If I lived in the late 60's and needed a washer, this certainly would be one of the candidates to buy. Heck, I would even consider this over a GE Filter Flo.

I've attached a link to a video of this washer... I like the agitation but the non-indexing tub does bother me a little.

 

[combo52]

1960s-the mid 1970s Westinghouse appliances

Even though WH had some beautiful well styled appliances during this period the word was out about the reliability of thier appliances among consumers, dealers, and new home builders. I for one always liked thier styling and features and have numerous  WH appliances in our collection from this time period. I felt that thier best appliances were thier electric ranges followed by thier FL washers, dryers, refrigerators and lastly thier TL washers you were very lucky to get 10 years out of the TL washer.

 

Westinghouse started losing big builder contracts in the early 1960s, one big blow here in Maryland was when Levitt who built about 30,000 homes here abandoned HW in favor of GE around 1963. I remember a large apartment building on N Park Ave in Chevy Chase Md of about 400 apartments built around 1975 that had all WH appliances including the stack LF laundry. I was occasionally across the street servicing a 167 unit condo built in 1982 with all WP appliances and I had to laugh as the WH repair person was ALWAYS across the street and he had his own reserved parking spot right in front of the building.

 

But unfortunately the YOU CAN BE SURE ITS WESTINGHOUSE slogan came to haunt them and WH became the largest appliance company to sellout followed by many others. I think that the only other company I remember of the time that had a name so ridiculed was the ESSO oil company, which came to mean [ every sucker stops once ] ESSO wisely changed thier name to Exxon. 

 

[tomturbomatic]

ESSO should have had a bumble bee as their mascot, like EXXON"S tiger. It could have been called the ESSO BEE.