Spacemate

[countryford]

Just found this on the LA area craigslist. Thought someone might be intrested. I know I would if I were closer. I have the matching dryer for this except mine is in pink.

http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/atq/2561540470.html

 

[arbilab]

That other pair sold for $600, "dryer tumbles and heats, washer unknown" and not rusted where you could see it. This one is the same thing, unknown mechanical, clean external, for 1/3 that. Not that I necessarily understand where value lies in these things. Pinkness?

 

[tomturbomatic]

This washer is not the deluxe model with temperature selector buttons and adjustable water level.

 

[arbilab]

I have never known a WH, from 1947 onward, with no control over water temp. Maybe not a button, but at least a timer setting.

Dad was a stinge. Even with employee discount, he didn't buy the variable waterlevel until 1964, when it was universal.

Surely you don't mean that those two features account for 2/3rds of the value of a machine not known to work? OTOH, in collectorland, they could. So could pink, all by itself.

 

[tomturbomatic]

This model had hot and warm settings on the timer. The deluxe model had color buttons for hot, warm and cold wash and warm and cold rinse temps.

 

[arbilab]

We got 'to the moon' mileage out of our slantfronts, but even back then the spacemates had a cloudy reputation. Never saw one in person. Thanks for filling in the niches.

 

[revvinkevin]

 

 

I stopped to take a look at this one on my way back from Tucson this weekend and here is what I found.........

 

It looked decent considering, but I couldn't get the door open.

 

Kevin

 

[revvinkevin]

 

This is why I decided to pass on it............

 

[arbilab]

The boots struggled to survive even in the short term. We had to have one replaced, in roughly 5 years. Materials weren't very advanced back then. The boot in my 13yo Frigiwhite seems good as new.