Pic-O-Day 8-29-06

[Brent-Aucoin]

What a great picture of the day.
I never ran into one of these Westinghouse Commercial machines. Was it built by Westinghouse? Reason I am asking if it was built by Westinghouse is because I remember seeing large Milnor machines badged Westinghouse, and I was curious if this was built by Dexter or someone else.
It is cute though. If it is a Westy, funny that they put reversing drum in the commercial machines, but not in the home style unit.
Brent

 

[chestermikeuk]

Solid!!!

That sure looks one mighty solid machines and with simple solid features...does anybody have one of these??

Those square doors always do it for me...

Mike

 

[unimac104]

westinghouse coin-op

yes these machines were made by westinghouse. wci made them for a year or two after they took over also, until they got out of the coin-op business. i had many of these machines in some of my coin laundries. they were great machines for cleaning and had a good extract for that time, but they went through tub bearings like crazy.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I used this model for throw rugs in the now gone Wesinghouse equipped Laundromat in the little strip of shops behind the Awful Waffle on Piedmont. The window was plastic. The door lock was electric. The relatively deep non-flexing boot (no suspension system) would accumulate small items like wash cloths and small socks that landed there at times during the cycle. Maybe they were taking a break. A few turns later, something large would tumble by and knock it back into play. This place had several of the Wesinghouse coin-op dry cleaners, including one that was not behind the counter. It was always a heartbreaker because the door was the beautiful one like on Greg's WH combo. I looked through the super clear, unscratched glass into the drum and just thought how sad it was that such a beautiful machine was such a dud as a combo; not unlike thoughts we all have had about other beautiful things and people, thoughts that are better if not learned through painful personal experience.

I wonder if the 1/4 hp for tumble and 1/2 hp for spin meant that it had two motors like a TROY Big Boy?

 

[peterh770]

I used these machines several times. The very strange part about them was that they did not pause when reversing. They must have had a one-direction motor with some kind of mechanism and a solenoid because every 20 seconds there would be a SNAP and the tub reversed. No pause, no rest, clockwise, SNAP, counter-clockwise, SNAP, clockwise, SNAP, counter-clockwise...

Wash, spray rinse, 2 deep rinses, spin. I don't remember if they spun between fills or not.