THE MAYTAG 806 HAS ARRIVED

[tuthill]

Hi All,
FIRST OF ALL A HUGE THANKS TO BEN (SWESTOYZ) FOR THIS MACHINE!! A center dial tag was the machine I had growing up, and it was got me into washing machines in the first place... Watching the machine literally makes me feel like i'm five years old all over agian. Me and ben met up at Don's house in coon rapids and we had a great time, it was a lot of fun. It was great checking out Don's collection (which was amazing btw!). The machine didn't need much work, except a thorough bath. So without further ado, I introduce the 806...

 

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Here's the front panel on the inside... Very very dirty

 

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And after

Cleaned up nice!

 

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Don was nice enough to give me this hoover twin tub, which sits next to the maytag

 

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Before I took the front cabinet off, I tried to "flush" the bleach dispenser... wondered why it went all over... Simple, the hose wasn't connected.

 

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Before clean

still loos very nice

 

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Laundry room

 

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Up close

 

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Yeah, it has a tub light

 

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and a console light

 

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The Duet IS intimitated

 

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Automatic temperature control

 

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1st Load

 

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I had one house inlet actually hooked up (cold), I had to hook up another "fill" house to the hot inlet to keep water from leaking...

 

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Agitation

 

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suds

ten minutes in... on youTube I have a whole bunch of videos of the first wash

 

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Spin Drain

 

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Remembered one of the reasons we had to get rid of a TL, drain just can't handle it...

 

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adjusted the sink to drain slowly...

...spray rinse it's a lot of fun with an accesory manual operated spray rinser

 

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me

watching...

 

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I have to say the gold Maytag cleaned up VERY nice... look at that chrome shine!

Here's the model number (know already?) (H)A806 and the SERIAL # 761986

Using that info and the pictures, I am asking anyone with knowledge of Maytag's to post or email any brochures, service manuals, or owner's manuals and could someone tell me what time exactly this baby rolled out of Newton, and the model year?

 

[gyrafoam]

Congratulations! That is a great machine!
Since those old 'Tags were meant to drain the whole tub in about 60 seconds lots of people have found their plumbing to be unco-operative so you are not alone!

 

[toggleswitch2]

WAY COOL.

Congrats!

That blue (flex) cord that is submerged and being stepped on wouldn't be a live power cord would it?

*eyes roll* O M G!

FUN MACHINE!

 

[swestoyz]

QF

The last two letters of the serial number are QF, which tells us that it is a March of 1972 machine.

I'm so glad you like it Jed. I'm certain that you will have many years of good fun with her!

I'll shoot you some PN's and stuff back in an email.

Ben

 

[tlee618]

Jed that is a beautiful Tag!! So glad you got the machine of your dreams!! That tub and console light are awesome!!

 

[Unimatic1140]

YAY Jed, congratulations on acquiring one of your real dream machines! How fun.

 

[frigilux]

What a great washer, Jed! The tub and console lights are too cool. It's a beautiful machine. Congratulations!

 

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One question, Jed: I see the the 806 automatically advances from pre-wash/soak to the regular cycle. Does it use the same tub of water, or does it partially drain and refill like a Whirlpool's Super Wash cycle?

If it uses the same tub of water, I'd be using that feature all the time. I think (especially stained) loads always benefit from a pre-wash/soak, but I hate to use extra water to do it.

The bags of Mexican detergent I've used (Ariel, Viva, Ace, 1-2-3, etc.) always recommend a soak-then-wash routine, which makes sense to me, especially if you don't use more water or have to return to advance it to the regular cycle. Even with the pre-wash/soak, a complete cycle probably wouldn't be much longer than a normal cycle is on your FL Whirlpool. By the way, what kind of dryer is that? The door handle and its placement look quite similar to my Frigidaire.

Again, congrats on getting such an awesome, classic washer.

 

[pulsator]

YAY!!!

I just LOVE that machine Jed! Congrats on finding such a treasure! I miss my Maytag terribly, luckily, my step mom has one of the last helical Maytags and I can play with that now and then, but I miss that center-dial control panel!!!

 

[whirlcool]

Now please take that blue electrical cord and suspend it from the ceiling, we wouldn't want to have you shocked while doing laundry.
That was a MESS you had on that floor? How on earth did you ever clean it up?
Could it be that your drain needs roto-rootering?