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The first instruction should have been " First, open a beer"! and the final "do a shot of Tequilla" What a lot to go through for a hose. I guess that's the price of love for wonderful rare things. Congratulations and thanks for the education on this fabulous machine! Phil
 
Robert, this brings back memories of 1968 when I dismantled my WP combo. I had to go buy a set of Alan wrenches for the dial set screws and that two part timer dial was a wild thing to deal with. I have a question. Were you not able to take the heater mounting off the sump and go in through the front? Does your machine have the sight glass down there also? The WP serviceman who helped me with mine said that was the way they went into the sump. It was sort of like laproscopic surgery. They would pop out the gasket holding the sight glass, too. I never would have been able to dismantle the machine like you did. When I discovered that mine had some junk in the sump, I removed the cover plate for the heater; mine did not have the heater, and reached in to get the pen and other things.

Does your 1958 have the flat lint filter or the one that is curved downward like a scoop. I think it was only the first year or two that they used the flat filter and the pump like the Economat that would suck air as well as water since in that model, the filter and pump were above the water level in the sump.

Thanks for the fantastic pictures. They brought back lots of memories.
 
Almost crying for happyness...

I was almost crying for the happyness looking at the great pics you shonwed us!
Thery were indeed the best explaining work pics I've never seen before! Thank you very very much :-))

BTW, I have alwasy loved WP combo, because it remember me deeply old Italian 50's washers exteriore case... although that Sangiorgio was the first using the spary they called it GEYSER... but in the 90's!!! And the first combo here was CANDY Alisè... in the 1986!!!!! Nearly half century after...

Well, take care of your WP... we all love it very much indeed :-))

Good Bye
Diomede
 
Hi Tom, unfortunately Whirlpool discontinued that port in the Heater mount cover plate in the 1958 line otherwise it would have been much easier. The heater is mounted through two small holes into the outer tub on this model only. I have no idea why they did this and taking out the see thru suds glass wouldn't have helped as its too small and you need to hands to get out that retaining ring. Yes and as for the filter they only used the flat filter for '57 as well.

For those who haven't seen this before, here is the suds window, you are suppose to bring the suds 1/2 up this see thru window.

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Robert,

Forgive my stupidity - but that window is placed such that you would have to bend over each time to read it. Now as aesthetically pleasing as that may be in your case, for me it would be a pain in the neck. Was this just a one-shot thing which you did when you bought the machine so you knew how much soap to use? Or did women really take these things that seriously?
A beautiful machine and thanks again for sharing.
Keven
 
WALTZING WITH THE DRUM

Hello Robert/Samantha/Lawrence Welk

My favorite is photo #16; During the last slow dance, your're firmly eyeballing your date saying; "After all I've gone through to take you this far, you'd better put out tonight, Baby!"

I'll have more time to study later, a machine I know nothing about, but are you saying that this Dreamboat, shoots the clothes with a stream of water as it tumbles thru wash and rinse, and that most of the water is in a sump?

If so, that's pretty amazing technology that only a washer lover could have thought up. The shot of the stream inside the machine is dazzling. So much work! So much love! All for us. Thank you so much.

Myron Florian on the accordian
 
Wow

What were they thinking when they designed this machine? Talk about planned obsolescence! That being said, once again my hat is off to you Robert. You never cease to amaze me. Thank you for saving this awesome, awesome machine. The after pictures are especially gratifying.

Mike
 
16 simple steps my ass! What a pain! Glad you have so much patience. The machien really is remarkably clean inside. Glad you got it up and running again.
 
Robert, were you a wrestlier in school?

With the outfit you are wearing in the third photo you look like you are a wrestler - high school wrestling, not WWE.

How much did Whirlpool combos hold? The drum looks as big as a Duet.
 
Robert...

Do you make house Calls? And if you do could you wear that same outfit?

All kidding aside, We all appreciate the time you take to photograph your various projects and share them with us. While I'm sure its time consuming and hard work, you make it less daunting for those us that hope to find that dream machine someday and just can't wait to get our hand dirty.

Thanks!
 
so this machine relies heavily on the stream of recirculated water? is this unique? how does the wash results compare to a machine with a pool of wash water in the cylinder?
 
Working-out with the WP combo...........

L: I don't think your hose would quite do it for them.

Robert: Thank you so much for taking the time between 'cuss words to document this. FASCINATIING.

Is there now a screw/worm clamp on the outside? :-)
 
David and others who aren't familiar with the Whirlpool Combo, yes it simply washes with a stream of water. There water level does not come up to the bottom of the drum. Actually it does a really good job of washing, and can wash a really large load with only 15 or so gallons of water. Its great with pet hair and really sandy clothes as well. The problem is the machine only spins at 200rpm, so it takes a long time to dry.
 
If Whirlpool could make a washer work with a stream of water, I have to wonder why they don't do that with the Duet (or do they?). If so, how could the combo not oversuds since they didn't have HE detergents back then. I think they discontinued combo washers when the manufacturers came up with laundry centers.

As for wrestling, I have watched it, but I could never do it. Like Bill Maher said once on "Politically Incorrect" I always tried to get out of it becuase, like him, I could not stand to touch other men. But you look like you wrestled!
 
thanks robert. i saw the videos of the machine running for the first time yesterday and saw the spin. i figured robert ran out of recording time and wasnt able to recored the full speed of the spin. i now know that WAS the full speed! this machine looks like it really NEEDS *Dash*. though Dash is before my time, seems like Dash was P&G's answer for machines that tended to oversuds, like tumble action machines. perhaps this Whirlpool combo came with a box of *Dash* when new?
 

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