RCA Whirlpool, not CA, this time I checked my typign

[akronman]

Here's a few more pics, I fooled with the machine while waiting for Ebay to deliver the new pump and wig-wag. However, after 10 minutes running, the pump now works, and I think the wig-wag too, but only $40 spent, so I'll have them when needed.
I already cleaned an 1/8 inch layer of crud from tub top, will CLR do the rest?
And I've seen the fabric softener dispenser plunger operate properly, don't know yet about the bleach. But with all the spray rinses, isn't it kinda dumb to bother with softener?

 

[akronman]

Lid Shot

Pretty self-explanatory. I'll try CLR for all the soap scum/mineral deposits on the lid

 

[akronman]

wig-wag

The pic ain't great, but I think it still has the 1959 wig-wag, and it seems to work. I'm gonna lube the sliding cams with a bit of Vaseline, and if the first few loads seems to run correctly, I'm gonna leave the new wig-wag in its box til needed.

 

[akronman]

paint

I've repainted worse ones than this

 

[akronman]

Surgilator

Who comes up with these names? It says SURGILATOR, Patent pending.

Is this considered about a 12 or 14 pound machine? Quite noticeably smaller than the 1979 Maytag or 77 Filter Flo.

 

[combo52]

1960 WP IMPERAL MARK 12 WASHER

Hi again the cam bars should be lubricated with automotive type grease the wig-wag with light machine oil [ turbine oil zoom spout etc ] there is a hole on the top of wig-wag on each side that is for the purpose of oiling these.  Vaseline is not a recommended lubricant for any mechanical part of this washer, These machines were originally considered to be 9lb capacity machines you could probably put a little more in but I consider all bigger claims to be false. Try weighing a pile of cotton clothing and see how big a pile of 9lbs is. It is an 18 gallon machine WP made the same capacity machines from 1947-1987, it was later called large capacity but of coerce they also had super capacity machines starting around 1967.

 

[appnut]

Thank you for the close-up of the lid chart and instructions. 

 

[bugsyjones]

Completely unrelated to your washer....

What's that book to the far left in the last picture?

It looks familiar from my youth.

~Tim

 

[akronman]

Off subject

Book is my 6 year old god-daughters. My 25 year old partner also remembers it from his youth. I, on the other hand, remember Captain Kangaroo in black and white.

 

[akronman]

rear cover

1 pic

 

[akronman]

Now the good stuff

IT's down in the basement, new fill hose, felt bumpers on feet, and running pretty well. I used an autmotive liquid gasket around the tub port for the water level hose, cured that small leak, only to find another minor leak at the other port, tub-to-filter-pump. That will be a chore for tomorrow, it's about a drop per minute.

It sure is a smaller tub than I'm used to, but turnover for appropriate load seems great.

 

[akronman]

Magic Mix Dispensing Filter

This was with low-suds detergent, but a load with Tide had foam in that plexiglass window

 

[akronman]

wig wag

One of you pros, let me know if this is maybe the original wig-wag. It's working perfectly well, I will get a dab of lithium grease on the cams/slides

 

[akronman]

filter

Blurry pic, but filter doing its part

 

[akronman]

mostly a working machine

Agitation in high and low speed is good, it clunks properly when shifting and wigging-wagging, neatral drain is powerful, and spin is not quite Filter Flo or 'Tag, but adequate. It does 4 spray rinses for almost every single spin ( I've only tried 4 of 10 cycles so far) which about halfway undoes the fabric softening, typical for Kenmore, I think.
And the spray seems to slow down the spin considerably by the 4th time, though the pumping and hose seems fine for neutral, hmmm...???? But then there's enough time to get back up to speed fully in the final spin.

The fabric soft dispenser plunger works but seems, so far, to go off during the initial spin, dropping softener into the tub port-to-filter pump hose, maybe it collects there and gets into the deep rinse once recirculating begins? I don't yet believe that the bleach plunger works, and I think I may just leave that assembly as is, don't know.

So there is still some work to do, I like a fun project, but for $50 and no ability to plug/plumb it in when I bought it from a dusty unused corner of a basement, I lucked out incredibly. But I am a bit unthrilled with the 9 pound tub in that HUGE machine, 29 inch, and the sprays undoing the fabric softener, and the only medium extraction speeds typical to Whirlpool, but then SOMETHING HAPPENED. See this pic first, then down below

 

[akronman]

I remembered I bought a new light bulb

I finally realized I left a new light bulb in the trunk, ran to garage, and GLORY BE.

 

[akronman]

Lighted console

Now I'm sold on it! There's stuff for my Filter flo, other loads for the Maytag, and there will always be something just perfect for a load in this old beauty.

 

[akronman]

more lights

Also, my name is MARK, and this says IMPERIAL MARK XII right there in perfect flourescence. Who else has their name in lights right on a washer? Once I got that bulb in, I decided to forgive this machine any of its idiosyncracies.

 

[akronman]

night light

I think that light will stay on forever, it'll make the other machines jealous but safe in that old basement.