The Poppy

[jetcone]

Ken

This is an early 1-18. I bet it is either and S or T model. But someone must have changed the drive roller in the tranny as your Urethane rollers are nice and round and in great shape for its age.

The white plastic tube was an early interation, it connects directly to the pump and prevents any kind of air lock before drain begins, later models didn't use this.

The powder in the snubber bowl is just from a loose belt flapping against the tranny and creating belt dust so check its tension. These should be snug BUT never tight on these machines.

I have service lit if you need it. Your clothes will never be cleaner believe me and I can say that as a Bendix fanatic!!

LOVE YOUR BACKSPLASH LG there I would love to play with that thing for awhile!!

Nice color machine, they added the cold water feature after the energy crisis in 1974 so this machine is before that.

jon

 

[bajaespuma]

Thanks to everybody for the congratzes and the information. I love this machine already. I have the water and recirculation system taken apart and I'm acid cleaning everything. Wherever this machine lived the water must have been hard as rocks as there are amazing wads of scale everywhere including inside the inlet spray tube as only 5 out of 12 jets are working. I don't miss the Cold Wash setting as my cold water pressure is much stronger than the hot; when I select warm I get what is an ideal lukewarm water temp. I took a couple of pictures of the model plate, but they were all out of focus because I'm a bad photographer. The model # is WCDT; the serial number is 20E8 8332 so I guess this is a 1972 model. I used to have the first run of brochures for these machines, but they're either lost or gone. Chuck, I think you're right about the spin speed looks a lot more like 780 rpm that even the high 600's. Jon, thanks for answering about the white flume, makes sense. If anyone has a spare 1-18 bleach cup that they'd like to sell I'd sure appreciate it. Anything else anyone wants a picture of, just ask. Jon, here's a photo of the LG panel; it's my daily driver and (sorry Pete, I think I was just lucky)it's the best washing machine (in the US) I've ever used:

 

[pturo]

The machine was used in the lake cottage I bought in 2002, with unfiltered and untreated water, pumped directly from the lake. While a beauty, it was way, way oversized for my septic and pump system. Upstate NY water, untreated, is very very hard, but very clean. They sell a lot of water softeners in this area.