I received this lovely agitator brand new never been used for Christmas! The date stamped on the bottom says it was made in 1987, so it's older than me and holds one of my dearest childhood memories. My grandpa worked for Whirlpool designing new special features for the TOL washers and thus my mother had a lovely childhood of getting brand new TOL coppertone Whirlpool appliances every 6 months to test out all the new features!! Some of which resulted in disaster, my mom recalls multiple floods from the washing machine and scorched clothes from the dryer. When my parents married and had their first child, my older sister, my grandpa replaced the Kenmore washer that their first house came with with a prototype BD Whirlpool washer that lasted until I was 8 years old. When it broke, (faulty transmission, agitation wouldn't engage and my dad had no clue how to fix it, my guess is a wig-wag issue,) my mom decided that we'd have to resort to the nearest laundromat. She told me that there were rows and rows of washers and dryers and that there were washers that were loaded in the front just like a dryer and had windows for viewing what was happening inside them. I of course, did not believe her one bit, clothes simply could not be washed any other way than with an agitator in the middle of a tub moving back and fourth! We didn't have enough laundry to use the giant dryer-like washers so she told me we'd be using a couple of the toploaders from on of the rows and rows but that I would likely be able to see the front-loading washers running. When we arrived, I will never forget the smell, the flourescent lights, the humidity, and most of all, the rows and rows of washers and dryer, all of the front loading machines with windows showing suds splashing all around, the occassional jet plane take off or landing of the Wascomat double loaders, the loud clunk and screeches from the giant Milnor triple loaders as they took off sending suds all over the window, or the water splashing into the trough between the rows of washers as they drained all the water away. We walked up to 2 topload Speed Queen washers that had giant coinslides for starting and they contained the very agitator I got for Christmas this year and I remember thinking how awesome and industrial looking their agitators were with fins going all the way to the top of the agitator and no decorative cap! They filled all the way up just past where the chamfer of agitators top fins began. I was simply stunned by this!!! And now I can finally see that again 10 years later now that I have the ability to simply buy that washer brand new and that's what I plan on doing!!!! They general design of the machine has not changed much from my understanding and it is even made by a better company now, I only hope that this agitator fits! I believe it should though!!!
