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Oh Roger

Congratulations on your Blackstone! What a year for Blackstone.
I can't quite see but is your tub Stainless? I have not seen a Blackstone 350 with a white top before. Nice machine!

And Congratulations on your WO-65, now your clothes will be really dry!

Isn't it amazing how sturdy those Blackstone's are?? I heard a 1/2 hour clean up and you were ready to go!
Be sure to fill the oil reservoir up on the drain pump,you don't want to lock up the belt on those westinghouse motors they don't like that! They tend to burn out easily.

I had to completely disassemble mine and build it up again to get it to work. It was a heavy use machine. But they are SOO quiet aren't they?
And I am always looking for aluminum marks on my whites from that agitator but have yet to find any! Why is that when you can take an aluminum pot and write your name with it on paper,yet an aluminum agitator leaves no marks on sheets??

have a blackstone ball!

jon
 
Frigidaire Fool-Ya Washer

Thanks for the pics Roger, that WO-65-2 looks beautiful - the tub just shines! You'll have so much fun with it, with that Rapidry spin, you can toss out all your dryers and make room for more washers. Clothes will dry on the line faster than in a machine in that dry, Arizona heat! The Blackstone is beautiful, I can't believe it worked so well right out of the box!

Nate, that Frigidaire is really great, what do you think of it's performance? The agitation looks like it would be a lot gentler with the center fins removed and full tub of water. On slow speed, none of your veils will get even the slightest snag!

Have fun guys - they are all great machines!
 
Thanks so much for the great pictures Roger, and Congratulations to all you guys on the GREAT Finds. Seems like 2006 is going to be fantastic year! Can't wait to see the machines in person. Terry
 
Help me up, I just passed out!
I just love that Frigidaire/Westinghouse agitator.

One of my tenant years ago had the the White Westinghouse with that same agitator and I wondered what those vents did at the bottom of the base and it just more for show than catching lint.......

Thanks for helping me up and the show and tell!!!
 
Congrads on the new babies! Their just beautiful!

Roger: Please don't let Ross near the WO-65! Or at least don't let him touch the dial! LOL!
 
Roger - the machines look great! Looks to be quite the time. Nates Westy-Aire is the EXACT Frigidaire I saw behind a box store a few months ago, minus a GM style window lid. I was quite bummed out that I didn't get the machine - but glad someone else out there has one!

Ben
 
LOL

Thanks, everyone!

Yes, thanks to a fun late night, all the veils are washed and folded neatly :-). Roger's Blackstone is just insanely fun.

The Designer-Impostor 1-18 had a nearly severe rust issue due to a teensy-tiny leak out of the fill flume (it's shaped rather like a large plastic kazoo, and if the hole at one end where the water comes it limes up, it pees water all inside the machine. It rusted the left-side bottom, and would have eventually popped one of the tub supports off had it not been caught and corrected, thanks to Roger's extensive expertise and spare-parts stash :-) To that end as well, the water valve had to be replaced--no cold water means no spray rinses, and that's icky.

Greg, the agitation is somewhere between the Westinghouse-ramped design for speed and the typical angel-winged WCI-Kelvinator for splashiness and turnover. I think the Franklin machines (with the good agitator) turned over better, but it's very splashy and tends to drag the clothes all over the place, kind of like a Norge. It's too much fun, and is so quiet. It, like the WCI-Kelvinator, also holds a lot of clothes. I like the lint filter better, though. Plus, the machine backflushes the lint filter when it spins, ridding the recirculation system of sudsy water. The WCI-Kelvy loved to barf soapy water (and a LOT of it) right into the rinse water as the rinse began (since it held a lot of water in the recirc system), and it made using fabric softener in that machine an almost impossible proposition (instant goo!).

The Fake Frigidaire without the fins is great if you keep the load ultra light. It still turns over well, although the drama is almost nil :-) It is lovely and gentle, though.

Larry, that's interesting...I wondered if it was really supposed to be a lint filtration system. It would probably work pretty well, but the holes are gigantic, and you could drive a truck through them, so they don't tend to hold much lint after an average washload.

The design of the machine is interesting; it has nice porcelain and steel tubs, and everything looks and feels substantial. Of course, WCI touches are everywhere--stainless-steel hinges but not screws; a cinder-block strapped to the tub as a counterweight; tape used as a fastener (where does tape EVER belong in a washer??). But overall, it's de-lovely.

Thank you all so much; I'm glad you enjoy the pics :-) I feel immodest but saucy without the veils ;-)

--Nate
 
OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY!!!!! I finally get to see a Blackstone, I"ve wanted so badly ever since I knew of its existence. I"m gettin' excited for sure!!

Nate, you look incredible without the veil!!! (but then again, I"m biased)
 
So many machines, so little time!

WOOHOO!!! CONGRATULATIONS TUCSON GANG--THE EXCITEMENT IS BUILDING!!!

Such awesome machines; 2006 has been a WONDERFUL year so far and I hope the new finds keep coming in at this rate!! First the bolt-down Kenmore, now a FULLY OPERATIONAL BLACKSTONE 350!! To say that this machine is incredible is an understatement...does this make the second working machine in the club? I never dreamed I would see one in action so soon; you can bet I'll be glued to it the whole time (just like the '59 Norge at the Convention LOL)!

The 1980 WCI 1-18 is very cool as well...I love that removeable-top agitator! The 1981 and 1985 Monkey Wards catalogs I have show that agitator for their "Montgomery Ward" branded lineup (alongside the Norge-made Signature series); I thought it was just an MW exclusive! It also reminds me of that Servis agitator that Mike posted; add the upper column for aggressive action! And Ross, since you hadn't mentioned the WW "Eighteen" yet, I thought that was the 1980 machine you were referring to but wasn't going to say anything!!

And another WO-65-2--YAY!!!! And with the original pulsator as well; how's the working condition?

Keep us posted...I CAN'T WAIT!!! :)

--Austin
 
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I just love the Blackstone. I always wanted to see one of these babies in action. Is it true that the tub or the adj actually lifts up when the washer goes into drain mode?

As for the Fake Frigidaire this one looks like the first fake produced as I remember (what a sad day) It was early in 1981 when these came out not 1980. They started to produce the plastic tubs in 1983. I never realized that part of the adj was removeable. It took them to long to get rid of the GM look. They should have made them look completly different from the start so maybe it wouldn't have been as much of an insult.
Peter
 
Thank you everyone one for your comments. My washer karma was defintiely good the day I got both of these machines. Nate and I both agree that doing a load in the Blackstone is such an experience you almost need to have a cigarette afterwards.
Jon- it does have a stainless steel tub- the same rib pattern your's has. Thanks for the pump info too. I hope to get a lot more technical info about these machines along the way. All the machines I have seen here have painted tops- I too thought they were all stainless.
Peteski- the tub does lift to drain and then lift more to engage the spin
Austin- the Frigidaire works but the spin bearing is noisy- that machine probably won't be running at the convnetion- I won't have time to do much to it before then. It is fun just to look at though- first one I have seen in Az in 35 years!
Roger
 
:-D

Thank you both so much, Jon and Robert!

Bob--LOL!! ;-) Is it cold in here, or is it just me?

Austin, YES, you're absolutely right. In fact, outside of the same place in Phoenix where the Faux-1-18 was found was a Montgomery Wards machine with the same agitator--but MISSING the fins! (Can you imagine the poor soul who ends up with that machine? They'll be doing six-pound loads forevermore!)

Apparently the MW machines--at least sometimes--had the agitator in black, too.

I thought it was odd because I always equated Norge with Monkey Wards things. You never know, I guess!

If you like the WCI 1-18, you'll love Ross' Westinghouse top-loader. The ramped agitator really has a different wash action altogether. It's less splashy, but really moves those clothes. It also has a few other fun quirks that the WCI 1-18 doesn't, but I'll let Ross demonstrate those when you're here :-D

--Nate
 

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