drh4683
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I was searching Craigslist the day after Thanksgiving and spotted this Frigidaire LC-3 unit from 1975. The listing was 17 days old by the time I found it, so I didn't have high hopes that it was still available. I later noticed that someone had previously posted the listing for this machine in the Shoppers Square forum. After inquiring about it, the seller got back to me and said "It's in my garage waiting for you". So off to Lanark, IL to go pick it up which is almost a 2 hour drive from me in the Chicago suburbs.
The people I got it from recently bought the house that the machine was in. They said this machine was in the master bedroom closet since they bought the house. The people who lived in the house before them were older and bought this machine so they wouldn't have to go up and down the stairs to use the machines in the basement. (There were no older machines in the basement by the way!)
I paid the $40 asking price and got it all carefully loaded up and wrapped in a furniture pad for the ride home. It cleaned up well even though it was pretty clean to begin with. I've yet to try it out yet and the previous owners said they never bothered trying it either.
Notable problems are the lint filter is shot, the plastic frame is melted and broken in two pieces, so a lot of lint got past it over the years and completely plugged the blower motor and flex hoses inside the unit. I've yet to take it apart to thoroughly clean that. The "Agitub" is also being pulled off to one side, perhaps a spring came detached. It was like that when I first looked at it and have yet to investigate the issue there.
As a fan of GM era Frigidaire appliances, I was happy to add one of these to my small collection. It's one of those machines I'd look at in my brochures and wonder if any were still left... Being the Poppy (or Terracotta?) color was a plus since finding a machine in this color was on my want list.
The people I got it from recently bought the house that the machine was in. They said this machine was in the master bedroom closet since they bought the house. The people who lived in the house before them were older and bought this machine so they wouldn't have to go up and down the stairs to use the machines in the basement. (There were no older machines in the basement by the way!)
I paid the $40 asking price and got it all carefully loaded up and wrapped in a furniture pad for the ride home. It cleaned up well even though it was pretty clean to begin with. I've yet to try it out yet and the previous owners said they never bothered trying it either.
Notable problems are the lint filter is shot, the plastic frame is melted and broken in two pieces, so a lot of lint got past it over the years and completely plugged the blower motor and flex hoses inside the unit. I've yet to take it apart to thoroughly clean that. The "Agitub" is also being pulled off to one side, perhaps a spring came detached. It was like that when I first looked at it and have yet to investigate the issue there.
As a fan of GM era Frigidaire appliances, I was happy to add one of these to my small collection. It's one of those machines I'd look at in my brochures and wonder if any were still left... Being the Poppy (or Terracotta?) color was a plus since finding a machine in this color was on my want list.
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