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The 1970 avocado Kenmores have landed (in my basement)!
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Maiden (for me) wash:
The happy couple, kept together for their "second life!"
Incidentally, the serial number on the washer starts: C950.....
Would this mean Clyde, OH, 1969, 50th week?
Would this mean Clyde, OH, 1969, 50th week?
Side note...just learned in the maiden wash that the "off balance" switch and buzzer work correctly!
I've picked up those suds valves at the parts place so they are or were available recently. I think they have plastic bodies now, but I didn't examine them that closely. Friends had those machines and those cast control panels are weighty.
Aren't these the very same model machines that were used in Karen Fairgate's kitchen on the set of Knotts Landing?
OOB switch and buzzer working correctly? Uhh, did I spy sheets and towels in that load together? I learned with the 1964 Norge Dispensomat and the 1970 Kenmore 800 you don't mix items like that and not suffer an OOB in almost every spin. Sheets with sheets and towels and underwear together.
I bet the Wrinkle Guard is the style which tumbles 10 or 15 seconds every 5 minutes. Now as to whether it does that for 45 minutes or 2.5 hours? I dont' think Sears "messed" with the Wrinkle Guard feature until the ubiquitous center dial Kenmores emerged with their black faced panel in the mid 1970s. Winkle Guard then became I with 30 minutes of continuous tumbling; II with the inetermittant tumbing on the timer dial for 45 minutes; and III was for the LK and still did the 2.5 hours maximum or until you opened the door.
OOB switch and buzzer working correctly? Uhh, did I spy sheets and towels in that load together? I learned with the 1964 Norge Dispensomat and the 1970 Kenmore 800 you don't mix items like that and not suffer an OOB in almost every spin. Sheets with sheets and towels and underwear together.
I bet the Wrinkle Guard is the style which tumbles 10 or 15 seconds every 5 minutes. Now as to whether it does that for 45 minutes or 2.5 hours? I dont' think Sears "messed" with the Wrinkle Guard feature until the ubiquitous center dial Kenmores emerged with their black faced panel in the mid 1970s. Winkle Guard then became I with 30 minutes of continuous tumbling; II with the inetermittant tumbing on the timer dial for 45 minutes; and III was for the LK and still did the 2.5 hours maximum or until you opened the door.
Love this style of panel. Very different from the "traditional" dial panels at the time.
The "Wrinkle Guard" on this machine is the 15 second tumble every 5 minutes for about 2 hours. At least that's what the Owner's Manual says. So far I've only let it go about 30 minutes before I intervened.
I never bothered to mention in THIS thread that these are my "dream" machines. This is THE washing machine that I grew up with until I was 12 years old, except that our machines was white. Our dryer was a 1967-ish Kenmore model 70. Here is a picture of those actual machines that I took using my Kodak Instamatic in the summer of 1980 when we were remodeling the basement and creating a new laundry room. Our machine was also a suds-saver.
Here is a scan of the washer from Spring/Summer 1970 Sears "Big Book" catalog. To my knowledge, this is the only catalog this machine ever appeared in.
And the dryer from the catalog:
philr
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Nice set! And I think they look great in Avocado!
And another scan from the same catalog showing the same basic console design with (in my opinion) a much more pedestrian set of controls.
Same Set
We had this same set in avocado my parents purchased them in March of 1970 the same month I was born, we had them until 1978 when they where replaced with almond Maytags A408 & DE408 for their new house green wasn't in the decorating with the laundry area of the kitchen, the Kenmores went to our rental house and used by a few families over the years and replaced in 1998. I remember when the Maytags arrived you couldn't just lift the lid to watch, I found if you took a Lego on the lid switch I got my entertainment!! Enjoy
We had this same set in avocado my parents purchased them in March of 1970 the same month I was born, we had them until 1978 when they where replaced with almond Maytags A408 & DE408 for their new house green wasn't in the decorating with the laundry area of the kitchen, the Kenmores went to our rental house and used by a few families over the years and replaced in 1998. I remember when the Maytags arrived you couldn't just lift the lid to watch, I found if you took a Lego on the lid switch I got my entertainment!! Enjoy
The Pedestrian, basic console model
Mark, that model was the one I wanted when it came time to replace the dead 1964 Norge Dispensomat with the 8 programmed cycle buttons I didn't agree with--after all, I'd learned to do laundry the Lady Kenmore way and those 8 Norge cycles didn't match. After all, this machine had everything I thought was basic necessity--could chose all your own options and had all the requir3ed basic cycles. Thankfully the mom wanted something with a bit more dazzle and lighted console to it, the infamous Kenmore 800 and that is what we ended up with. We paid like $249 for the Kenmore 800. What was the price for that one that was Pedestrian Mark?
Mark, that model was the one I wanted when it came time to replace the dead 1964 Norge Dispensomat with the 8 programmed cycle buttons I didn't agree with--after all, I'd learned to do laundry the Lady Kenmore way and those 8 Norge cycles didn't match. After all, this machine had everything I thought was basic necessity--could chose all your own options and had all the requir3ed basic cycles. Thankfully the mom wanted something with a bit more dazzle and lighted console to it, the infamous Kenmore 800 and that is what we ended up with. We paid like $249 for the Kenmore 800. What was the price for that one that was Pedestrian Mark?
A very handsome pair! Too bad about the suds-saver valve. I do love suds-saver machines. Great console/dial styling. Congratulations!
a much more pedestrian set of controls...
and a three position water level control instead of an infinitely variable control.
and a three position water level control instead of an infinitely variable control.
