Submit to the 906

[mickeyd]

Bought the Ephemera for this machine Saturday, and was stunned by the first cycle, Delicate, whose wash is only 3 minutes long and in a full tub of water, no less!

 

All the cycles are interesting, and locked with no cancel button. You lock and load, then Maytag is in full command, and there's nothing you can do about it. This is a humbling exercise if you are a habitual cycle manipulator.

 

They say if you make a mistake, selecting the wrong cycle, immediately press the one you want.

 

This machine looks perfect. The first two buttons and the last two, all have one word cycles. Such Symmetry. All two-worders are in the middle. Again, so cool and logical that the first cycle is delicate: slow, short, and easy.

 

Big Ted once said that when people came into his studio, they all first noticed and admired his 900, the earlier version.

 

Wondering if any of you use the illustrious 906, and if it is the pride of your fleet. And have you tried to trick it in any way, like getting a partial fill for a Delicate cycle, by somehow outsmarting the buttons?

 

Lit up and spray rinsing, a real dream machine for me. I will submit to the 906.

[this post was last edited: 12/10/2012-20:36]

 

[d-jones]

What, no pictures? I'm still working on a DG906 that I got a while back. I'm kind of persnickety so it's taking a while. Still, I'd love to see photos of your washer.

 

[mickeyd]

Hi Dave,

Don't I wish I had one here and working. It's a dream machine I hope to have one day. Could I see pix of yours?

 

[bajaespuma]

I'm pretty much done collecting Maytags but if a 906 pair ever came along, I'd grab it so fast. I've always been curious to see how those machines worked.

 

[d-jones]

Sorry Mike. I misunderstood your post.

I thought you were saying you'd downloaded information for a machine you already had. Here's a photo of the control panel for my parents dryer. It's in really nice shape for the most part, but I'm getting myself bogged down in replating and hardware replacement. I can be a bit of a perfectionist and that just adds to the headaches, but I want this thing to be as close to new as possible when it's finished. I had posted some photos of the tear-down and the work that followed in an earlier thread(see the link) but I'll wait to post the rest of the photos until it's finished. I hope you like it.

DG906 Work Finally Begins

Some of you may recall that earlier this year, Christina(cmlrobison)found a DG906 for sale on Craigslist here in the Los Angeles area, and posted it on the blog. (Thank you Christina!) Well, to make a short story even shorter, I bought it and took it to my folks house knowing I couldn't work on...

www.automaticwasher.org

 

[mickeyd]

Beautiful, Doug

and gas, my favorite. Showering after I posted, realized that DG means gas dryer. But thanks anyway. Psyched to see some washers, and hear about their curious operation.

 

How do you cancel a cycle? If you pull the plug, then plug the machine back in, would that cancel the cycle, or would it resume. The Ephemera says that if your next load or washday starts with the same cycle you last used, you just press it in hard. In other words, the button does not pop out after the cycle completes. Interesting.

 

[danemodsandy]

I Have Often ....

....Said I would do anything legal or moral to obtain a set of 906s.

As the years go by without a pair turning up, I am beginning to feel my standards slipping....

 

[toploader55]

Just Smacked me in the back of My Head

Just Looking at that beautiful dryer, I just Locked in on it, out of nowhere, It's so Clean, Futuristic, Old Fasioned, Gorgious,and Built so Soundly, as machines were back then.

I just have to take a deep breath , Savor, and Sigh... That this was the end of an era, which no one will ever will see again. Thanks to all of you, we all want to Preserve and Treasure these Beauties.

 

[appnut]

"Canceling" cycle on Dx906 dryer

If the dryer is empty you can push the damp dri button and if the sensors are actinbg properly will "sense" dry and turn off in a matter of seconds.  Otherwise, air fluff has about a 7 or 15 minute cycle and shuts off. 

 

[mickeyd]

Agreed, Gentlemen: The Lock On Indeed ~

So sleek, so elegant, so simple, so boss. "We are 906. We will assimilate you. Resistance is futile." The Borg from Star Trek.

 

Even the text of the doctrine is elevated in style and diction. I'll copy some later.

 

[appnut]

"Cancelling" a cycle on a 906 washer

I've never really played with one.  I personally don't like their inflexibiloity.  Only the cottons cycle has water level options of partial or full.  "Washing for Dummies".  Not sure if their might be some sort of "stem" on the backside of the control panel to manipulate the timer.  the only thing positive I can say about the 900 series is that it was the only Maytag model with a "cooldown" phase--on the Wash'n'Wear cycle long before Maytag added a Permanent Press cycle on the 06 line, what in 1968, 1969. 

 

As far ass "cancelling" a cycle, hitting "Spin Dri" is about the only option to let it spin drain and finish that final spin cycle. 

 

[kenmore71]

There is a cancel button on the back of the panel. You have to hold it in until the light goes out. It rapid advances the timer to the next "off" position.

Also, as noted above, pushing the "Spin Dri" button would stop any cycle, drain and spin the tub for about 5 minutes.

 

[qsd-dan]

Maybe the earlier 906's had the cancel switch, but my 1972 doesn't.

Kinda annoying when I show it off and have to select "Spin Dry" and let it finish the cycle in order to reset the timer to shut the machine off.

 

[redcarpetdrew]

Awwww, poor Dan!

If that 906 washer is giving you such a bad time, I'll reluctantly take it off your hands. It won't match colors with my CDE906 but I'll suffer it for you...

RCD

 

[mickeyd]

Oh you wonderful man, Mark ~

revealing the wizard behind the curtain. Nowhere in the ephemera is this mentioned. That. Is. Awesome. What fun one could have with that switch. Thinking it through, you get a partial fill from button 4, hit the cancel button. Then hit Delicate. Uh-oh, it will continue to fill. Oh rats! Hmmmmm......how can I manipulate those switches to get a partial fill?

 

Thank you, kindly for the secret switch all blown up and revealed. Who knew?

 

And Bob, before the switch appeared, the Spin Dry push is a thoughtful idea, and the only way out. Let the fun begin. What else can we get this <span style="font-size: medium;">King of Tag </span>to do?

 

[kenmore71]

So...they dispensed with the "cancel" button on the back panel in the 1969 timer revision?

 

[mickeyd]

Simluposting ~ -er composing.

<strong> DAN--treat us poor 906-starved beggars to a few hot shots.</strong>

 

[DADoES]

 
Dryer can be canceled by simply opening the door.  IIRC on mine, the selected button will pop-out after a brief delay.

My CA906 doesn't have the timer advance switch.

 

[redcarpetdrew]

CA906?

Could you please put up a picture or several of it so I can dream of how the matching washer to my CDE906 would look? Finding a 906 washer is hard enough but locating a coppertone 906 is proving to be near impossible...

RCD