The Blackstone BA600 is back!

[blackstone]

Paul,

Let me scrounge around the old sales receipts from our store for the early 1960s; maybe I can find a serial number close to yours. Other than that, I have nothing specific about dates of manufacture.

 

[stricklybojack]

Love that sound..

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Why? Cause, well, this:



where that line came from was driving me nuts! Thanks for giving me an excuse to look it up..

 

[philr]

I hope to see it washing clothes soon! Maybe next week?!

 

[jetcone]

Eddie is

correct they stole the Easy Fill System directly !! 

 

Nice machine, and fully functional. Now I think we need to search for a pump bearing.

 

I like the porcelain tub, mine had a SS tub. And yes that agitator ( a direct Easy copy too BTW) does move the clothes for a Blackstone Clean !!

 

[blackstone]

BA 600 Serial Number, Postcards

Paul,

Apparently, your BA600 is 1965 or 1966. Closest I could find is we bought a BA600 from the factory in September 1966, with a serial number 3564. Wholesale price was $144. We sold more of the 650s; the cost of those was $162.

Did I ever give you one of these postcards? If you email me your mailing address, I could send a few. Same goes for anyone else; I have a pile of these postcards. Of course, I would mail 'em inside an envelope.

 

[turquoisedude]

Thanks, Fred!  That makes sense to me - I reviewed the restoration photos I took of the washer and its components and noticed a date of 65-11 on the water valve so it's got to be a late '65 or early '66 model.  

 

I do indeed have some of those promotional postcards - you sent me home with quite a few promotional items when I picked up the Tappan microwave, thank you!!   I still think the woman in the photo is an early prototype of the Karen Walker character from Will & Grace... LOL  

 

 

[jeb]

Blackstone photo

I thing we had that same linoleum in our laundry room when I was growing up !