POD 5/4/2017

[brucelucenta]

One of the most attractive looking sets that Frigidaire/GM made. This was the last of the unimatic washer made for regular home use to my knowledge. They were multimatic and pulsamatic machines after this year. Pretty as they were, they had very little selection. One speed, hot or warm wash one cycle washer and only time dry on the dryer with a variable heat dial.

 

[appnut]

The Custom Imperial washer actually had hot, warm, cool wash water temperatures, and maybe even medium and cold.  Robert has this set in turquoise. 

 

[tomturbomatic]

and warm, cool and cold rinse water selections. The Imperial certainly offered the selection of a cold rinse. I used to wash peppermint press shirts and pants in my WCI58 and dry them in the DCI58 and if you set the dryer at the right heat, they came out looking perfect, the 1140 rpm spin speed notwithstanding. Slow spin was needed if these things were line dried, but just an energy waster if they were dryer dried. I never messed around with pulling the Filtrator cartridge out part way. I was just there to pull them out and put them on hangers during the cool down. They no doubt showed the Imperial Model in the ad because the vented dryer was easier to use for the "no-iron" fabrics.

 

[gyrafoam]

IMO the best looking of all Unimatics. Considering the fabrics available back in the day, there wasn't much these machines couldn't handle. There was also the assumption that certain things such as sweaters and lingerie shouldn't be machine washed to begin with.

What I discovered about laundering PP Clothes in a Unimatic is that if you remove the clothes right away once the cycle has finished, wrinkles are not a problem.
If you leave them in the washer overnight and then try to dry them the next day you will have a wrinkle problem.

 

[twintubdexter]

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">As far as checking the parking lot for trade-ins worthy of being rebuilt for the resale floor, a 58 matched set of Frigidaires was always the prize. Unimatics were easy to work on and after a good de-linting the Filtrator dryer normally didn't need all that much. All of the used appliances had to be guaranteed for 90 days so anything Frigidaire was a good choice. The 1958's were a good selling tool for the new stuff since Frigidaire was the store's main bread & butter. Salesmen could show customers how great 10+ year-old Frigidaire appliances looked. Of course the all-porcelain cabinets did that. They always cleaned up beautifully. </span>

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