The Case of Sympathetic Spin ...OR..A 1956....

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Okay, this is cool on so many levels! Sort of a combination learning tool and video extravaganza.

Thanks for the tips and eye candy. I cannot wait for Robert's response!
 
deep...deep...competition.

ohhhh, is it! That's OK dear, I'll just go downstairs and treat my clothes to a gentle bounce off of nice soft Fiberglas. You should try that Jon, its really fun, ***pauses*** ohhhhh wait.

But anyways, I digress, wonderful transmission restoration Jon, I plan on doing the exact same thing. Why can't the 1960 part fit on the 1956 hub? They look very similar.

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The dramatic pause before the spin, and

The grand silence with the pitch black side screens and the ominous drip...... drip..... drip..... into the outer realms sent me back to those scenes in the "Alien."

Total freak-out!

So so nice, finally, to see someone loading a machine correctly, in the vintage, classic way. Look Mom, no air pockets, no tangling, no unbalancing.

All good agitators know exactly how to do this. What fun it is to watch their magic.

Indeed, the smart Blackstone Corporation demanded this method of loading in their first automatic doctrines. Huge kudos to you, Jon.

A sterling, striking performance with a percussive finale! BOOM!

Thank you Cecil B. de Jetcone.
 
Amazed Again

The 56 seems quieter than some later solid tub models. Our first automatic was a
59 GE keyboard but the tub indexed and turn over only good if you held the tub still. The washer was 7 years old when we got it and I had no idea it had any type of brake. Your photography is superb.
Kellyv
 
thank you all

<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>it was a near and dear project to say the least.

 

Robert the brake for the 1960 was moved out to the rim of the transmission and so was the spring/tang also moved out to the rim. And unlike the '56 brake band which you just snap on to the center hub grove, the '60 you have to glue in place with Plio-Bond before you reassemble.

 

The upper part of the tranny is the same but the baseplate is all new. 
 
Nice, nice work Jon. I'm impressed that you went after getting new brake material crafted up!

After looking through Robert's post from years ago, it sounds like the brake system on your '56 is applicable for 55-59, with '60 having the revised brake.

Does anyone know if that '60 brake is a one year only set-up, or can a brake from a '61 and later transmission be used?

 

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Great Job Jon!
Beautiful GE.
I love the sound on your video. This is the type of sound I hear
in my dreams when I am fooling with vintage appliances. I am sure
it stems from my Childhood, sneaking to play with machines I should
not have!
Brent
 
Great Job!

You did a fantastic looking job on that machine, and good to see you were able to get some parts manufactured for you :-)

 

I noticed that the tub on this machine is solid, and only has holes at the top. Does the machine fill both compartments to get the "filter flo action" during the washing cycle, or does it fill enough to fill an area in the outer tub that allows the machine to operate?
 
111 the fill flume

which you can see in#15 extends over the rim into the tub and it fills to overflowing into the outer tub. In pic#12 you see the outer tub and tranny, at the bottom at the 6 o'clock position the large black disk is a rubber diaphragm with a weight sensor under it.

The outer tub fills, and water presses down on the sensor until the weight triggers the water valve shut off and wash begins. However for small loads there is a water saver button you can hit and start wash at any level.

 

 
 
Okay Safari is STUPID!

For some reason it deleted my original diagnosis video so YOU could see Sympathetic Spin in ACTION when I edited some text.

SO switching to CHROME>

I am putting the starting video here so you can see what the problem was and how it was corrected in the thread.

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I hear ya 'bout Safari, but have a nagging question.

The Hear Ya:

Couldn't get the vids yesterday on Safari so I switched to Firefox where there was no problem, and where they are safely recorded for posterity. Have no fear.

The Nagging Question:

Obviously these early GE's can't overflow rinse, because of the the filter flo circulation, right.

And it seems that lately, some of the older GE's we've seen do not spray rinse either, with only the perf tubs doing the spray. Is this the case?

I only ask, and you may find this interesting, because: My sister's new TL GE with a mammoth tub will fill up all the way for wash and even for the rinse if you hit the right buzzer, but there's no spray any where, any time, and I thought, how cheap.

But then it slowly occurred to me that some of these early machines were not spraying either.

Yes or No, Father General ?
 
Mike, it may not be considered a true 'overflow rinse' but I think these solid tub GE Filter-Flos had water constantly flowing out from the top drain holes for recirculation through the filter pan. At least that's the impression I got from the literature I have on the '57 model.

Hubby had already generously volunteered to cut a hole in the side of the waiting-to-be-reborn GE in the garage so that I could say for sure, but I graciously declined his offer...

I didn't see any mention of a spray-rinse in the cycle chart for the '57 model; I can't say for sure about the '56 but the perf-tub '63 does for sure!
 
Just so I'm clear. These early machines are wonderful and I'm not finding fault with them, more with myself for accusing the new GE's of being cheap, when in fact, some of the earlier models are working exactly like the new ones. No overflow, and no spray. but as you imply very generous recirculation on the early machines.

Hubby cutting holes. Too funny. Keep his saw away, lest he cut too far, accidentally. "Oh, Paul, I don't know WHAT happened. HONEST!!!"

The outer tubs on GE's have always been so roomy and now the newer ones have pushed the inner tubs outward into that nice big space. Oh, the giant loads of towels could dry a herd of elephants.
 
You guys are right

All the solid tub machines never had spray rinse. When I saw my first Kenmore do that at 8 I went back home and next spin cycle I hauled to drain hose out of the sink and sprayed it back on the clothes. My mother must have noticed cause right away she hollered down the basement stairs "what was i doing down there"??

Nosey mothers!! They're everywhere!

Actually I still have yet to see a GE spray rinse. I guess Gregs' did it at N YEars when I turned it on but I wasn't there for the spin drain cycle so I missed that.
 
The solid tub GEs did not have a spray rinse. They all had the suds kill pause during the first spin.
The trany problem was what we had with our old 59 GE. The tub rotated clockwise during wash causing the activator to agitate mostly clockwise as in your pre-restored video.
Great job and I'm glad to see the timer does light up on the 56.
 
Hmmm, you've given me a wicked idea, Jon:

Starting the spin spray with a full tub of water AND hooking the hose over, we'd beat the LG Wave force in water drama,
and the machine, a sturdy GE, would not BLOW UP. LOL

PS: Will have to google the Merrill woman; drawing a blank there--ah, the wisdom of age.
 
Poking harmless fun at myself, not you! Ah the wisdom of age, but I can't remember who this chick is, even though I'm supposed to be old enogh to have wisdom. NOT. hahahahah

Here Jon, have a piece of bedtime GE sponge candy.

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