Retro automatic washer

[DADoES]

 
Kitty,

If I'm properly aware of the history, Fisher & Paykel pioneered the use of stepper motors in washing machines circa 1990/1992 with their SmartDrive toploader.  Whirlpool used the SmartDrive motor and design for introduction of the Kenmore Oasis, Whirlpool Cabrio, and Maytag Bravos.  Some Cabrio and Bravos toploaders still use it ... as do frontloaders from Whirlpool and others that you have mentioned.

 

[yogitunes]

todays solid tub.....well, not exactly today, but is it possible to convert a GE FilterFlo back to a solid tub design?.....

granted it would not be fool proof......and most likely wash full loads....but in reality, didn't GE just add a perforated tub to their machine to change it over?....I mean the outter tub never changed, and most of the mechanism should be the same.....

all you would need to find or create would be to make the perforated tub solid again.....

you would need a MiniBasket water level machine.....once the machine filled, and enough water overflowed into the outter tub, to trigger the pressure switch and allow for the filter flo to function.....

it would still be able to operate at two speeds, if available, and the plus side is the pump operates at full speed at all times...

would this actually be possible?....or is it to farfetched?...

 

[norgeway]

GE..

The mechanism actually did have oe change, the solid tub machines dont have the latch slide brake, they coast to a stop.