The Maiden Wash

[bobbyderegis]

Awesome, Ken.
What better than a turquoise GE pair and a pink Maytag pair. Congrats on the sets of twins! When do us New Englanders get to sneak a peak in person??????
Bobby in Boston

 

[turquoisedude]

Love that GE set

Congratulations on your find! Did you get them locally or did you have to trek to the other side of the universe to get them?

General Question: How long was turquoise offered as a colour for major appliances? I thought it vanished in 1965 when the 'new' colours like avocado green were introduced.

 

[aldspinboy]

Hello great find there ken! Imagine a little boy in 1969, looking at 15 of them all in a row with the filter flow on the leads and that color it was washer heaven my mom had to rase me up to whatch them and dont rase the led to high or know filter flowing LOL dont u just love that loud BA BUCK sound when breaking ONLY G.E. HAS IT ENJOY.Thanks Darren k. Great collection How about a control panel shot if u can?

 

[toggleswitch]

Amazing.

Just the sounds of the tranny at first gearing up and shifting only to finally settle-in are heavenly!

Never understood why GE, a maker of motors, just didn't have a two-speed motor instead of a one-speed motor and a multi-speed tranny.

 

[bajaespuma]

Two Speed Trannies:

I think that's a question for Robert, although I'd venture a guess that a two-speed motor is more liable to break down than a one-speed. I've rarely heard of GE motors breaking down although I know they have had frequent transmission problems. Our 1962 GE Filter-flo lost its two speed ability fair early on because so many people were using it. I'm sure somebody just flipped the speed switch back and forth so many times they just broke the clutch. Nobody except me, of course, noticed it. Two-speed trannies are just too quirky:

 

[bajaespuma]

Front Panel

Here's the front panel shot you requested:

 

[tnmike]

Two-speed trannies are just too quirky

Hilarious!!! They do look like two really bad drag queens.

 

[gyrafoam]

Beautiful GE's.
I miss both of those Fat Ladies. Really enjoyed their show.

 

[bobbyderegis]

Not a two speed tranny, just a simple pair of clutch shoes. These were very easily repairable. The shoes tended to wear out with a lot of use, but the biggest problem was folks changing the speed selector from fast to slow while the machine was running. This was also an easy fix. The two short knocks as the machine kicked into high speed were the two clutch shoes making contact with the clutch cylinder.
Bobby in Boston

 

[DADoES]

It's my understanding that a one-speed motor with two-speed clutch was used so that full-speed water circulation was always running for the FF. Yes? No?

 

[coldspot66]

Yes. The speed was controlled by the centrifical clutch(and speed control solenoid and lever) attached to the 1 speed motor. Ge also had a 4 speed clutch for a short time, and the "versatronic" variable speed clutch. Both didn't last long.

 

[toggleswitch]

~I think that's a question for Robert, although I'd venture a guess that a two-speed motor is more liable to break down than a one-speed.

Maybe, but I'm of the opinion that a two-speed motor is better/ more reliable than an unecessarily complicated tranny. (Aren't all trannies complicated, if your think about it? *LOL*)

For the longest time mannies used only one motor in a washers and dishwashers or even dryers, because in the beginning it was felt that mutltiple motors was less reliable, overall. Today two motors is not at all uncommon in some appliances.

~The two short knocks as the machine kicked into high speed were the two clutch shoes making contact with the clutch cylinder.
No idea what this means mechanically. Maybe one day we'll get into it!

 

[mickeyd]

I loved the too! fat ladies, especially the gentler fatter o

Alas, she has gone on to the great banquet

RE; GE TRANNIES

One year, one manual--1972 ??? they warned you NOT to switch switch agitation speeds during agitation. Yet it was was impossible not to, with that inviting toggle-switch right under your nose. And they meant it; only a few mad toggle swipes and the tranny was forever fast. Luckily, no one noticed that I "broke" the machine the first week. We got a GE after the Uni Tower died; have to ask Geraldine why we didn't get a 1-18, after I confess to breaking the GE--I wonder if she'll spank me!