Sometimes you have to be COMBODACIOUS!

[jetcone]

Yes Combodacious and think outside the OEM parts box!!!

I hit the wall last week and thanks to all your words of encouragement!! We have over come the battleship syndrome.

After getting most of the seals to work properly I came home to find that the "restored" water valve had a S L O W leak to it. Just like my 58 did! Water had backed up the condenser tube and was running across the floor.

A mess!
So not wanting to install another 50 year old valve and face that OR lukewarm water throughout the rest of the house I put on my thinking cap staring at a NEW Maytag water valve.
How could I get that into my Combo and get HOT or WARM water out of it?

Then it hit me: A RELAY A SOLENOID RELAY!!

Off to Radio Shack and $13.99 later I had all the parts I needed.
You wire it in the circuit so that whenever the washer calls for warm water it will call to the COLD water solenoid and then you have the relay activate the HOT solenoid and PRESTO warm water always!!!

I hate thermostatic valves, I hate paying $60 smackers for a 50 year old valve and I hate lukewarm showers and baths at my house.

Now all the problems are solved and I can use a nice $4.99 water valve off ebay that was made only months ago!!!

see the photographic evidence:

 

[jetcone]

Both condenser seals are

good to go now as I already did a test load today. No leaks.

The door boot needed a tuck up of the band clamp and that took care of a new little drip too.

 

[jetcone]

A money shot

Here is the first successful load that was washed and dried today.

ADME let me have the afternoon off YAY!

 

[jetcone]

The dry cycle

As you know the hot box leaked like a sieve when I first tested this machine.

I used JB Industro Weld and Hi Temp Silcone and prayed to the washer gods in the sky and drains!!

IT WORKED see the photographic evidence!

I also tested the temp range with my meter and found the box only reached 230-240 degrees WELL BELOW the 650 degrees of the JB Weld and WELL below the 600 degrees of the silicone

 

[jetcone]

You can see the smoke rising

off the Heater Box after all the oils and penetrants are burned off .

 

[jetcone]

In the process I also got

rid of the nasty deadly asbestos gaskets so now I have a mint 50 dryer with no deadly asbestos YAY!

BEFORE

 

[jetcone]

AFTER

and away goes trouble down the drain

 

[laundryshark]

After You Get a Well-Deserved Rest...

Would ya mind sharing a video demo of your restored Bendix? Sounds like you went through the wringer to get her working up to snuff. Big Congrats on overcoming all those annoying leaks and other issues. Many Thanks.--Laundry Shark

 

[jetcone]

I would but I need to find a video camera

I dig around my friends.

jon

 

[tlee618]

I'm so proud of you Jon!!! I knew that you could do it. Can't wait to see it when you have it all installed in its new spot.

 

[jetcone]

Thank you Terry

now I can walk away from wash day just like those ladies in the 1930's ads!!

 

[appnut]

Jon, congratulations. I knew you could do it!! Good ol' Yankee (literally and said lovingly) ingenuity comes to the forefront and saves the day!! YEE HAW!! And see, everyone is so proud of you and thrilled with your success, you earned the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval!! What a man!!! Bob

 

[mickeyd]

Perfect creases on the t-shirt, Jon!

Such grooming !

And Al is an excellent photographer.

 

[golittlesport]

you are combobulous, Jon!!!!

 

[Unimatic1140]

Beautiful restoration work Jon, brings a tear to my eye! I love JB Weld as well, I always carry a couple of tubes with me in my purse just in case.

 

[jetcone]

I love that Robert

in your purse good for you!

I must make a bag with Felix on it for my bag of tricks.

Thank you Rich now you'll HAVE to come out and do laundry!

Mikey I didn't even notice my T was creased thank you and thanks to Bendix auto dry.

Alitle closer to a wash-in now folks!

 

[jetcone]

Oh and Bob

I'll have some nice close ups for you once I get the top back on and it is in service!! Thanks Jon

 

[gansky1]

Wow! Look at that butt on that Bendii-Boy! You'll be in the AW.org calendar for sure...

Nice work on the combo, do you have a wiring diagram and parts-list for your water valve relay? It might be helpful to post that for collectors in future civilizations to get their excavated Bendix combos (and any machine with a pesky water valve) running again.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Jetcone:

He's Combolicious!