REALLY BOL Whirlpool Top Loader

[joeypete]

Just saw this listing on CL. It doesn't even have hot water! lol. Just warm and cold. One cycle.

Has anyone seen this before? Very simple and I'm sure it cleans great. If you put it the cork screw agitator with FS dispenser, it would actually make a good machine.

http://nh.craigslist.org/ppd/5033707972.html

 

[yogitunes]

surprised they went that far with a separate knob for the temps.....normally you find a water level and the temps built into the timer selections......but yeah, as they dub down temps, Warm and Cold are your only options.....in the case of this machine, one fill level....

then again, willing to bet there is no AutoTemp control, so you could manually get a Hot wash by turning off the cold faucet as it fills....

willing to bet though that the water valve is restricted to give Warm a Luke warm temp.....

and true, just by switching out that agitator, you can beef up the action of this machine...

 

[supersurgilator]

I thought the same thing, just put the temps in the timer. I remember seeing a Filter flo at Sears around 1994 that just had the timer knob, and it also only had warm and cold settings.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

This Whirlpool's stablemate: A Real B.O.L. Kenmore I saw

I miss the Kenmore I saw a picture of, years back, that had a "legend" on the control panel which told what parts of the dial controlled the water temperature as opposed to a true knob and where one would be...  The water level, at least had a knob & two levels, Lo & Hi available...!

 

 

-- Dave

 

[joeypete]

I don't really understand why Warm and Cold as opposed to Hot and Cold. At least you could switch the knob half way through filling to get "Warm" water. Doesn't make much sense.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

The BOL-most, LOWLINE KENMORE, please...! o- : ) /-o

I always thought that these washers operated on Hot/Cold for the wash & rinse for the Regular Cycle, myself...  (And a Cold/Cold wash & rinse on a shorter cycle or Permanent Press...)

 

The Montgomery Ward that I went to, the sales lady would even say "this washer only does HOT WASH" when a customer she was selling to would be at a BOL model, apparently buying his first machine...  (This was an old bachelor, doing lifelong laundry at a laundromat, or perhaps widowed, and in charge of replacing the broken machine his late-wife left behind & perhaps having no children from their union to help him shop...)

 

 

-- Dave

 

[glenfieldmathk1]

Yes
But warm on thats probably hotter than Hot on Todays models

 

[foraloysius]

I really wonder how much Whirlpool saved on the production of that machine by giving it two temperature settings instead of three.

 

[henene4]

Not a lot...

But they could market it better that way.

You see, customer sees 2 machines side by side. One is 300$, the other 330$. Both are simmilar, but the more expensive one has a hot wash. So the customer is easy convinced he has to get the more expensive machine ("No hot wash?!? That is useless to me as a housewife! See, this one is only little more expensive! Husband, buy this one!"), while WP makes 25$ more profit.

 

[joe_in_philly]

It could be used in a rental property where the landlord pays the utilities and wants to save energy by preventing a hot wash.

 

[yogitunes]

isn't it ironic, like a funny time capsule......remembering a time long ago when most BOL units offered Hot and Warm washes only?....and a warm rinse?......

cold was available by turning off the hot faucet manually....

how times have changed.....