Is this ad from around 76 or 77? I seem to remember seeing it at that time. My question is about the GE Dispensall washer. Which activator would it have, ramp or straight vane? I think it would be interesting to try the GE again with the activator it did not have to see if the results would be different.
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The AMERICANA Dispensall had the blue staight-vaned activator fitted with one of the large blue filter pans (not a "Super" filter-flo, but the same size as I recall). I know you're in love with this machine, but we had the model immediately preceding it that had both timed bleach and fabric softener dispensers on either side of the tub. Those things worked wonderfully and I think it was the only year that GE offered that before they went to the equally short-lived Dispensall lid.
The Dispensall was introduced in 1973. I have a set of coasters from GE commemorating it's debut. I'll bet the ramp Activator would have made a better showing in the results too. That poor Maytag probably still had detergent on the top of the load at the end of the cycle!
Greg, my thoughts exactly on the Maytag, unless some of the detergent never got wet, in which case it would have blown over the top of the tub during spin and would have landed all over the base plate like in commercial Tags that were overloaded. Unless packed down, the top of that load would have been above the top of the tub.
Ken, It is Greg who has a real thing for the Dispensall lid. Your family's machine had great features, but GE found a cheaper way to dispense the aditives. If lint and minerals clogged the Filter Flo flume and kept it from dispensing, too bad. Of course, the bleach storage system on the front of the TOL GE in the early 60s with the little pump lever that measured the amount added to the load caused the painted metal around it to rust through, sort of like the liquid bleach dispenser rusted the metal around it on top of the TOL Laundromats and that was not even long term storage, just for part of the wash.
Ken, It is Greg who has a real thing for the Dispensall lid. Your family's machine had great features, but GE found a cheaper way to dispense the aditives. If lint and minerals clogged the Filter Flo flume and kept it from dispensing, too bad. Of course, the bleach storage system on the front of the TOL GE in the early 60s with the little pump lever that measured the amount added to the load caused the painted metal around it to rust through, sort of like the liquid bleach dispenser rusted the metal around it on top of the TOL Laundromats and that was not even long term storage, just for part of the wash.
I remember this trip ot Sears like it was yesterday
This POD is from 1976, I picked up this brochure at the Sears store in New Brunswick, NJ when I was 13. They had just introduced their new "Dual Action" agitator and this was the info they were passing out to introduce their new design. When I saw the spiral I first thought maybe it went up and down and I was very interested to see one of these action.
This POD is from 1976, I picked up this brochure at the Sears store in New Brunswick, NJ when I was 13. They had just introduced their new "Dual Action" agitator and this was the info they were passing out to introduce their new design. When I saw the spiral I first thought maybe it went up and down and I was very interested to see one of these action.
