POD 12/15/2014 "Budget-Priced" Frigidaire

[murando531]

You can't buy a budget priced washer with features like that these days!!

It's interesting to compare advertising for BOL machines today to the way they marketed low-end machines back then. Today you would NEVER see a company 'talk up' a cheap washer and showcase its features compared to a high end machine. Instead, nowadays it's all about what details and features they can leave out, like "this washer will only drizzle water on your clothes for a minute on the rinse cycle, rather than agitate them in actual standing water".

 

[tomturbomatic]

I have a similar model except that instead of a soak cycle, it has a delicate cycle with the slow speed. Unfortunately, it was made in the second half of 64 so it has a rollermatic transmission with the space capsule agitator and with the space capsule agitator, the slow agitation is so weak that it is most effective on the small load setting.

 

[philr]

I have a similar single speed washer from 1964 (with the Multimatic transmission) but unfortunately, mine doesn't have it's original agitator. 

 

It has the remote timer and suds-saver features.

 

 

 

[tomturbomatic]

Nice looking pair

The single speed machines could use that deeper softener dispenser, but the slow spin on the gentle speed of the rollermatics did not spin fast enough to throw the softener from the deep inner cup into the outer chamber for dispensing so they had to come up with the saucer-shaped dispenser that had chronic problems with the plastic locking tabs breaking off. I never used mine for dispensing, but to prevent the splashing of water up on the lid which led to rusting between the lid and the gasket that went around three sides of the lid to control noise.

 

[murando531]

I've always been curious as to how the softener dispenser worked on Frigidaires. With the rapid up and down movement it seems that any liquid inside the agitator would be long gone within the first few minutes of the wash.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Surprising enough, they engineered it to where that did not happen.

 

[philr]

The instruction manuals advised against using the softener dispenser on slow speed, even the flying saucer type!