Poppy comes to Boston

[toploader55]

If General Motors was still...

If GM was still building appliances, they would be fools not to have you head up the engineering and design department.

Just fantastic Jon. Can't wait to hear Poppy in action.

John and I will try to make it up this week.

 

[jetcone]

Wow

what a compliment Eddie -- thank you!

 

See you sooner I hope.

 

jon

 

 

[combo52]

1-18 Noise Reduction

Jon, there was only low pile carpet in it when you last heard it, but the gloves are off now, you will really need to do your homework to catch up now.

John L.

 

[toploader55]

Oooooooo !!!

This ought to be good !!!

The Great Silent 1-18 Soundproof Off !!!

An AW.org First.

 

[jetcone]

Will I - Mother Superior!!!

Good video Eddie !! Stay tuned everyone for the "SOUND OFF" !

 

What did you do now John, line it with that lime green shag carpeting you remodeled your home with ??

 

 

 

 

 

[combo52]

Secret 1-18 Noise Reduction Program

Jon just for that I am not even going to let you see inside my 1-18, but you may want to get a new hearing aid before you visit. I am incorporating several Whirlpool patented sound reducing ideas on the 1-18, and one from Maytag's Norge-Tag division.

And don't think of sneaking down here early to get an advanced look, Jason has installed a camera surveillance system to keep the appliances safe.

I hope this doesn't keep you up past your bedtime, LOL.

 

[jetcone]

Beware

Customer59 Always gets his man !

 

 

[philr]

Jon, do you have any spare stainless steel sub top clips? I noticed that one is missing from my WCD3T washer.

I just replaced the agitate roller in my other 1-18, I had it waiting in it's box for a few years! (mine doesn't have the swiper like yours).
I should have replaced it before, much less noisy now! I didn't attempt at adding any insulation, I was tempted to do something with the springs like you did I'll wait to see your and John's results first!

Here are my latest videos:

http://https//www.youtube.com/channel/UCfzIOjgBfLiZBKgtEE7ZdJQ

 

[roto204]

Sound-deadening carpet

Use the shag from the Kenmore catalog kitchen.

 

[jetcone]

WOW Phil

Beautiful set there ! TOL lighted controls !!   Is that a 3 speed washer? 

And your spin brake is way ahead of mine - how much play does the spin wheel have ,how tight did you crank the wheel nut? I've misplaced my special socket and can't get a good purchase on the nut on my spin wheel !! Help !!

 

And its amazing how noisy that agitate roller is in spin !! 

 

I just found a set of steel sub top clips in doing a parts inventory. 

But I don't have a set of ss clips. Sorry

 

 

 

[gansky1]

This is a great thread!! I'm now able to discern from the sounds of my 1-18 what it needs to restore it to it's true reliquary status.

 

[jetcone]

You better duck n cover

Mister Nate there ! SHAG indeed !

 

 

 

[jetcone]

GAWD GREG

your Indexing looks perfect !!! A+++++++++++, H++++

GAH thats beautiful TOL 118

 

 

 

[philr]

Jon, mine is just a few months too new to have a 3 speed motor. This is a set that I also got in Queensbury 3 years ago.

The agitate roller had a flat spot on it and it wouldn't agitate. I did order one at that time but I couldn't wait to get it so I tried to fix that with my bench grinder.

It worked well enough that I never bothered to install the new one until last week!

 

[scrubflex]

How big (width and length) is the 1-18 washtub compare to the Maytag's 806 or 712 tub?

 

[jetcone]

So I pushed, heaved, measured

hip checked and re-measured. And the machines were groaning back at me discontended with being shoved from their sitting places. BUT I  was able through 'washer-determination' to squeeze another bare 27 inches out of the basement !!

 

Now whats going to go there?? I wonder.....

 

 

 

[jetcone]

Ta Da! Drum roll please

You guessed it !

 

[jetcone]

The virgin load

goes in!

And its a race between two flappers!

 

 

[jetcone]

It seemed

everything went perfect with the virgin load-- videos to follow.

 

But the second load revealed something.

The deadly burning motor smell. Something I've never had with a 1-18

 

Back to Doctrine- In rebuilding the spin wheel I noticed the factory setting for the clutch and decided on a whim to move it up two notches since it was 40 years old. 

Tsk tsk ! Doing things by caveat is never a good idea, always follow Doctrine in new territory! 

 

After some serious digging-- and you have to do that with Frigidaire Doctrine because not every edition has all the information you need!

You do need several years worth of doctrine to get to the bottom of things from time to time.

Quote me "Yes not all service manuals are complete and Frigidaire is notorious for this !! "

I had to read the "S" manual which was not complete and turned to the "T" manual and found what I needed.  It is obscurely buried even in the "T" manual- but it is there. 

There is a torque setting that needs to be checked for the spin clutch. The value has to be 18-24 inch-pounds. That's right" inch-pounds".  Since my current torque wrench only reads "foot-pounds" it meant a trip to that holy of holies "Harbor Freight". 

Once secured I set up the torque wrench to discover my clutch was set to 55 inch-pounds. ( absolute horror at myself )  I had cranked it up so much by moving the settings 2 increments up -( by caveat I might add )- that I had put the motor in jeopardy because the clutch was no longer doing its job of letting things slip so the motor could come up to speed under light load.

Tomorrow we go back in for adjustment !

 

 

 

 

 

 

[toploader55]

Inch Pounds...

Instead of Foot Pounds ???

Oy !