Hi All:
Just annoucing another Bendix Duomatic goes back to work!
Thanks go to GregM for helping me lug 405 pound BerthaBendix back from Syracuse in October.
Thanks go to John Eichinger for his help,advice,copies of Doctrine and several crucial parts without which Bertha would not be running right now!
Thanks to MODERN! And Larry for sage advice! Very sage advice!
It runs sooo much better than what I expected and sooo much better than my GE Combo. Bendix really got it right the first time! And they were the first from what the patents say.
And YES JOHN LEFEVER it runs sooo much better than a Whirlpool Combo--especially my WP Combo!!
Wait till you see the floppy wash, the gleaming chrome!!!
It was a struggle everynite but I gave up house maintenance and snowblower maintenance and mailing Christmas cards to find myself in the basement after dinner and all weekend long.
Below is a listing of what it takes to bring a "first floor machine" back to working order. Just think what it takes to bring a Farm Machine back to working order! Congratulations John Eichinger!
She was tired!
- A new Power Cord
- A new tub pulley the old one was split in two -Thanks John E.
-A new top panel as the old one blew off in the truck between here and Syracuse-Thanks to John E.
-A 220V short to the cabinet, heater elements had to be removed and run hot at 110V to dry them out-Thanks to Larry!
-Clean out a huge mouse nest and skeletons and did I mention the droppings througout the machine
-Find 3 110V shorts due to mice chewing on odd parts of the wiring harness
-After first water test found pump valve stuck closed had to be freed up carefully as the seal is 50 year old rubber
-Repair leak around coin trap by descaling and installing a "new" coin trap - thanks to Larry!
-Water valve had inoperative sections and after 3 days of not being there I found a very wet basement due to a very very slow leak. Calcium deposits all inside valve body were too blame
-Rub down inside and outside of all boots with Glycerin to bring rubber back to healthy flexibility!!!
-Spray outside of all boots with silicone- nicw tip from John E.
-New drain hose which on a Bendix is an oddball size
-Found dryer timer frozen , installed a Maytag dryer timer only to find out that it ran backwards! After much cleaning, working by hand and lubing I was able to get the original motor up and running again. Thank gawd for Lubit-8!
-First wash the Cabinet filled up with water! Found that when moving the machine the tub had bumped the air gap on the fill line and so the line was spraying down the whole back of the cabinet!
-First dry cycle the blower motor whipped its rubber cooling fan off and flung it across the basement in a fit! I replaced it with a solid aluminum fan blade from Grainger the is BOLTED to the motor shaft now.
-Polish all chrome and enamel with Simichrome to get some bizarre crud off all the top surfaces.
- The hardest thing to clean off was the "30 year old" Whisk which had been spilt and seeped down in between the top and cabinet. That stuff is like Super Glue!
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jetcone/my_photos
Just annoucing another Bendix Duomatic goes back to work!
Thanks go to GregM for helping me lug 405 pound BerthaBendix back from Syracuse in October.
Thanks go to John Eichinger for his help,advice,copies of Doctrine and several crucial parts without which Bertha would not be running right now!
Thanks to MODERN! And Larry for sage advice! Very sage advice!
It runs sooo much better than what I expected and sooo much better than my GE Combo. Bendix really got it right the first time! And they were the first from what the patents say.
And YES JOHN LEFEVER it runs sooo much better than a Whirlpool Combo--especially my WP Combo!!
Wait till you see the floppy wash, the gleaming chrome!!!
It was a struggle everynite but I gave up house maintenance and snowblower maintenance and mailing Christmas cards to find myself in the basement after dinner and all weekend long.
Below is a listing of what it takes to bring a "first floor machine" back to working order. Just think what it takes to bring a Farm Machine back to working order! Congratulations John Eichinger!
She was tired!
- A new Power Cord
- A new tub pulley the old one was split in two -Thanks John E.
-A new top panel as the old one blew off in the truck between here and Syracuse-Thanks to John E.
-A 220V short to the cabinet, heater elements had to be removed and run hot at 110V to dry them out-Thanks to Larry!
-Clean out a huge mouse nest and skeletons and did I mention the droppings througout the machine
-Find 3 110V shorts due to mice chewing on odd parts of the wiring harness
-After first water test found pump valve stuck closed had to be freed up carefully as the seal is 50 year old rubber
-Repair leak around coin trap by descaling and installing a "new" coin trap - thanks to Larry!
-Water valve had inoperative sections and after 3 days of not being there I found a very wet basement due to a very very slow leak. Calcium deposits all inside valve body were too blame
-Rub down inside and outside of all boots with Glycerin to bring rubber back to healthy flexibility!!!
-Spray outside of all boots with silicone- nicw tip from John E.
-New drain hose which on a Bendix is an oddball size
-Found dryer timer frozen , installed a Maytag dryer timer only to find out that it ran backwards! After much cleaning, working by hand and lubing I was able to get the original motor up and running again. Thank gawd for Lubit-8!
-First wash the Cabinet filled up with water! Found that when moving the machine the tub had bumped the air gap on the fill line and so the line was spraying down the whole back of the cabinet!
-First dry cycle the blower motor whipped its rubber cooling fan off and flung it across the basement in a fit! I replaced it with a solid aluminum fan blade from Grainger the is BOLTED to the motor shaft now.
-Polish all chrome and enamel with Simichrome to get some bizarre crud off all the top surfaces.
- The hardest thing to clean off was the "30 year old" Whisk which had been spilt and seeped down in between the top and cabinet. That stuff is like Super Glue!
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jetcone/my_photos
