The PINK Westinghouse pair......

[revvinkevin]

Thank you!

 

 

THANK YOU so much for all your comments Eddie (yes we need to catch up), Eugene, Tom, Paul (thanks for the Modern Parts info, I'll give them a call), Jon, Phil, ALR, Louis, David (Great meeting you last December!), Kenny, John (I've sent you an e-mail!), Paul-Imperial70, KW and ovrphil (great ad!)!

 

Tom: thank you for all the great info about these and the water temps info!

 

Phil: Matched pairs are nice, and I wouldn't want to leave the matched, stacking dryer, especially when it's in pink! 

 

I think they are very saveable.   I have to replace the power cord on the dryer as someone cut it.  It's kind of a nice surprise that this dryer has a "autodry" section.  I prefer that on a dryer, set it and forget it.

 

Thank you again all!

Kevin

 

[chaskelljr2]

And what about using bleach.....

Kevin:

Being that the earlier Front Loaders did not have dispensers back then (save for the deluxe Philcos and/or Bendexes I saw), if you were washing a load which needed to be bleached inside this machine, how did you add bleach to this machine when you didn't have a dispenser to do it for you??

Did you have to start the machine first, then open the door and added it through the porthole??? Or did you added the bleach after the machine was full, and then when there were clothes loaded inside the tub?? Pouring bleach directly on clothes has risked damage to them if the bleach came in direct contact with the clothes.

I was just wondering.....

--Charles--

 

[tomturbomatic]

People were bleaching in Westinghouse front loaders long before there were bleach dispensers. One method was to dilute the half cup of bleach (for a full load, less for smaller loads)in a quart of water, push in on the timer knob to stop the tumbling, open the door and quickly pour in the bleach, shut the door and pull out on the timer knob to restart the tumbling.

The way my home economist teacher friend did it was to carefully pour the bleach through a small area at the bottom of the tub then pour the powdered detergent on top of that spot, load the laundry and start the machine.

Either way prevented damage to the laundry.

 

[perc-o-prince]

Great machines, Kevin!

Could the rust marks have been caused by tape that was on there for a while then unceremoniously ripped off, taking the paint with it? The one on the right seems to have a more defined edge. Maybe the original owner had the tape on there to mark where to turn the knobs for a favorite setting?

Chuck

 

[chaskelljr2]

@ Tomturbomatic....

But then, depending on how high you have set the water level, was there any chance of any wash water spilling out onto the floor when you stopped the washer to open the door??

Or did the water go down to the outer tub to JUST below the porthole when you opened the door just like the modern Miele's tend to do??

--Charles--

 

[revvinkevin]

 

 

Charles, it has nothing to do with the water level because it's always below the window.   It does splash onto the window while washing/rinsing, but the level is never as high as the window.

 

This video is a newer Westinghouse, but internally (water levels, etc) is identical.



 

>> Or does the water go down into the outer tub.....like the modern Miele's tend to do??

This is not a Whirlpool / Kenmore combo, the water level is the same if the washer is on, off, door open or door closed.  There is no separate "outer tub" for the water to "drain into".   The outer tub holds the water in place just like any / every other washing machine with a perforated inner tub / wash basket, so the water level stays the same.

 

Kevin

 

[alr2903]

Kevin, is there much difference in this Westy systems ability to wash, than the "little yellow spacemate"?  I remember that the water level came up quickly on the older spacemates.  Arthur

 

[keymatic3203]

Hi kevin

lovely washer and dryer set you've got there.

We had the english electric version in the early 70's.

From what i remember and observe from your vidoes, is that the centre of the wash drum is lower than the centre of the door, therefore the water level doesn't reach the door gasket, so the door can be opened and forgotten items can be added after the wash was started. As far as i'm aware all other front loaders in the uk had the door centred on the tub and the same water level would have been up to a third of the way up the glass porthole.

Also one thing i do remember about our machine was that with the flat glass door, socks and small items would get stuck on the door gasket. the other memory i have is the spray rinse, I was only 6 or so when it was passed on so it could just have been it filling and coasting to a stop, but again I don't know of another uk front loader to do to incorperate a spray rinse.

i'm sorry to say it didn't last more than 6 or 7 years, looking back it was probably only a succession of easy repairs, and the last year or so mum would hand wash and just use it as a spin dryer. With the way inflation and interest rates were back in the late 70's we couldn't afford a new machine for several years, the flip side was mum took the hot washes to the laundrettes and the frigidaire jet action machines, and of coure I went to.

So all the best with this set, look forward to seeing them wash again.

mathew

 

[tomturbomatic]

Mathew is correct. If you look at the front of the outer tub, the opening is not centered across the mid-line, but rather is centered above the mid-line. This can also be easily determined by measuring the distance from the upper edge of the door opening to the top of the cylinder and then measuring the distance from the bottom of the opening to the bottom of the cylinder. Unless it was severely oversuds, the door could be opened while the tub was filled. Of course, the Bendix Duomatic made the same claim with a shallower wash pool.

As for the one minute spray rinse between the wash and the first spin, it was spraying water into the basket while the basket was turning at tumble speed. Jon Charles, I believe, told us how much money Westinghouse had to pay to AVCO (Aviation Corporation), the holder of the Bendix patents, to use the spray-flush feature which made it possible, especially before low sudsing detergents, to wash, rinse and extract in a tumble-type washer. The spray, coupled with the powerful Westinghouse pump could eliminate all but the worst oversudsing before the first spin. Unfortunately, Westinghouse, unlike the Bendix tumbler washer, did not spin between the two deep rinses, probably again because of patents.