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I ordered that Frigidaire boot that was mentioned above. I had chased the Westinghouse boot for a couple years and gave up.
 
5303261132 is mostly called the old Westinghouse front load

The Frigidaire boot 5303261132 Q133321 is for newer 3 belt Westinghouse, White Westinghouse, Gibson, Kenmore, Wards, J C Penney and Frigidaire machines of the 1960's thru early/mid 1990's. It might fit the 1950's spacemates too.

Austinado16 up the thread mentions using the newer boot on the older machines RE :

""When I rebuilt my '53 LB-6 I used a grey boot off a later Westinghouse front loader. The only "mod" needed to use this boot, was that the inner lip had to turn inside out, and then be clamped to the tub's rim using a banding clamp." "

An actual 5303261132 Q133321 Boot one buys has new old stock can have the Westinghouse, Frigidarie, Sears, Monkey Wards on the box; or just the part number. One I got 2 years ago had the wrapper marked with every Electrolux brand name under their umbrella.

5303261132 is most often called the boot for older front load westinghouses by most folks, and they forget about the older boot.

5303261132 shows up on ebay usually several times per year; the black boot for the 1950's L units shows up maybe once a year.
 
zoo of part numbers

In the zoom of old part numbers the latest 5303261132 boot is the same as :


* Q000047969

* Q000047970

* Q000047971

* Q000133321

* Q133321

* WQ133321

* 08015218

* 3261132




Thus an ebay or old parts house part is often listed by an older obscure number too
 
This is becoming a great thread for us Westinghouse Laundromat lovers. IMO, it's not being able to get a boot that will ultimately be the death of these cool machines.

It'd also be nice to find a source for the rubber gasket that goes between the 2 halves of the outer wash tub. I've reused mine now twice and doubt I'll be so lucky next time.
 
The tub gasket for my 1976 Westinghouse LT570 is 5303261135 old repair clinic 622756 old Q000127581.

I could not find any 5 1/2 years ago via the Internet. Several places like repair clinic and 1-1 parts said they had them, then they got back ordered, then the orders got canceled after 2 months. I ended up getting one from Cashwells in North Carolina via a phone request; when I was buying some other parts. Now they are better linked to the web and they show they have 9.

The old Tub Gasket part number for the B and C series was 1145078 and 1465275 for models L4 to LV114

I have no clues if the 5303261135 is even remotely close to either tub gasket or not.

One could just place a big wide bead of RTV on one piece and let it dry; then use that as the gasket too.

 
WESTINGHOUSE PRE 1959 MODELS AND TUBS

The later models at the bottom of the list are 3 belt machines.

But are they a round or potato type pulley?

The pulley's part number of Q51167 shows little google details. Its federal NSN: 5120-00-632-2026 Part No goes "This NSN was canceled on 05/30/1974, reason: - ITEM IS CANCELLED-INACTIVE"

The OVAL potato pulley is Eccentric Pulley

Part Number: 5300198194 Q137175

* 08015219
* 3261152
* Q000048031
* Q000051211
* Q000071816
* Q000133591
* Q000133592
* Q000137175
* Q000198194
* Q137175
* Q198194
* WQ133592
* WQ137175
* WQ138642
* WQ198194


A fellow on ebay had a round slow speed pulley with the clutch spring last month.

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POTATO PULLEY

Was introduced in 1959 on full sized models only, it was never used on the slanted tub [ clothes tanglers ] I think 1959 was the biggest improvement in the performance of WH FL washers. I do like the early machines however but they were a different beast.
 
Guys that's the set!!!!

Above in the 1956 Ad is a picture of the '56 Washer and Dryer Deluxe set - that is exactly the machine that my grandmother had that used to stand in front of with a flashlight just mezmorized at the wash/spin/rinse/spin action. Someone in another thread was asking what the '56s looked like - that's it! It's that '56 Deluxe washer that is the final piece to my small collection - that's the one to find and I'll be done!
 
behind the scenes image

The link here has a behind the scenes image before a Westinghouse commercial. Betty got paid about 100K per year in 1950 by westinghouse

 

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