What year would this literature & or the machine have been published for the Maytag A902?
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Early to mid 60's Bob,
it looks like the one on the Beverly Hillbillies. The console is for sure.
Whirlpool top loaders are like that now with touch pads. No control of temp. All you can choose is soil level and fabric type.
The Maytag must have had timer cams to index the mix valve for the selected cycle temp. Hot for whites, warm for colors, cool for delicates. I can imagine the rapid advance motor clicking through the indexes when spin only was selected.
it looks like the one on the Beverly Hillbillies. The console is for sure.
Whirlpool top loaders are like that now with touch pads. No control of temp. All you can choose is soil level and fabric type.
The Maytag must have had timer cams to index the mix valve for the selected cycle temp. Hot for whites, warm for colors, cool for delicates. I can imagine the rapid advance motor clicking through the indexes when spin only was selected.
Bob---
The literature reads: the "built-in" Fabric Softener Dispenser, so I would assume is a '65. A fine machine. I know so many people whose families had this and other models of '65 Maytags and they were stellar performers lasting years and years longer than their competitors.
My best friend's mother had one she regularly overstuffed (Jeans) and over sudsed (Lemon-Fresh FAB which was EXTREMELY high-sudsing back in the day). She never could kill that machined. It is STILL doing laundry for their Grandchildren and the enamel is worn off of the bottom part of the tub from all the turbulence and zippers and who knows what else rubbing against it. I offered her a new tub and she refused. "Nobody was going to do anything to her baby that might change it!"
I know how she feels. I have a (like new) '64 Highlander I wouldn't part with for 'nothin!
The literature reads: the "built-in" Fabric Softener Dispenser, so I would assume is a '65. A fine machine. I know so many people whose families had this and other models of '65 Maytags and they were stellar performers lasting years and years longer than their competitors.
My best friend's mother had one she regularly overstuffed (Jeans) and over sudsed (Lemon-Fresh FAB which was EXTREMELY high-sudsing back in the day). She never could kill that machined. It is STILL doing laundry for their Grandchildren and the enamel is worn off of the bottom part of the tub from all the turbulence and zippers and who knows what else rubbing against it. I offered her a new tub and she refused. "Nobody was going to do anything to her baby that might change it!"
I know how she feels. I have a (like new) '64 Highlander I wouldn't part with for 'nothin!
Odd accessory.
Did anyone notice the listing in the ad of an optional accessory set of locking casters? I cannot imagine how much of a pain it would have been to level a full size washer on casters, or what might happen in the spin cycle if it wasn't leveled properly.
I Imagine the casters were not popular,
Dave
Did anyone notice the listing in the ad of an optional accessory set of locking casters? I cannot imagine how much of a pain it would have been to level a full size washer on casters, or what might happen in the spin cycle if it wasn't leveled properly.
I Imagine the casters were not popular,
Dave
It's a Handy Dandy model--wheel it around, so it's always there when you need it! And one of the few washers that you just push a button and it does it all! Just remove everything & put it in the just as miraculous "one-touch-operation" matching dryer!
A dream appliance that even washer & dryer shopping in Maytag's hey-days when my mom bought hers, I had never seen in stores...
-- Dave
A dream appliance that even washer & dryer shopping in Maytag's hey-days when my mom bought hers, I had never seen in stores...
-- Dave
inflation adjusting
Assuming 1964, the $409.95 price on the brochure is equal to $3,136.12 today.
Assuming 1964, the $409.95 price on the brochure is equal to $3,136.12 today.
