The Wantings Delivered

[mickeyd]

Wringing

The Blackstone Dryer makes a perfect no-bend-over catch-all. Wrung and Hung coming up later on-- and Fred's lights.

 

[redcarpetdrew]

Washing apps...

There are a couple on iTunes. One is 'Laundry Tycoon' for both iPad and iPhone. Another is called 'Washing Machine Emulator' jfor iPhone/iPod.

RCD

 

[mixfinder]

Wow

That is some amazing water movement. I get such a kick out of the way you love to spray and splash. Thank you for the great pictures.
Hugs and Kisses[this post was last edited: 5/30/2013-20:11]

 

[mickeyd]

sun kissed

`Waiting till the sun cones 'round and letting them bask produces a sun fragrance that lasts all night long, nothing quite like it.

 

[mickeyd]

Fred's lights

Got the hood up, but haven't figured out how to get the bulbs out yet.

 

[mickeyd]

The fury of the Blackstone

Never ceases to amaze me. Neither does ots beauty.

 

[blackstone]

I forget, but...

….I think to change the bulbs, you take off the knobs and the metal plate behind them.

 

[alr2903]

Mickeyd, if i had that deck and beautiful view. I would almost be tempted to craigslist my dryer I am guessing that is morning sun from the east? Sheets outside drying on a sunny windy day best sleep ever! alr

 

[mickeyd]

ots, cones, them, etc, LOL and a run-on ! YIKES !

Fred, somewhere in the house is a manual you sent me years ago, a good sized, stapled copy from your now sold archives. I'll find it and see about that steel plate behind the lights. The machine is so solid and well-built, that document will come in handy. Thank you.

Greg, according to the urban myth and oral tradition, this machine hails from the smelting furnace of none other than Jon Jetcone, one of the founders and patrons of our order,

Phil, Verizon, my carrier, has a store just two miles away. If the greeting rep can't solve the problem fast, your name is entered on a tablet, it goes up on a monitor, you find out the approximate wait time, and they actually keep a record of how long you've been there. No wait the first visit, ten minutes the second.

Kelly, what wash batter or dough can I mix up for you next?

 

[mickeyd]

It did get windy, Art

And I went to snap a pic of the load blowing, but got distracted. Later on, during the sun-kissing, I snapped one. The sun sleep was wonderful last night.

First line pic was around 3, and the second around 7; the house tips toward the northwest.

 

[DADoES]

 
Spiffy detail pics! 

The screw-on knob on the Whirly timer doesn't appear to be the original style for the machine.

That Visimatic panel is yummy!

 

[oldskool]

Mickey

I am just amazed at your wonderful collection, but the deck and view is to die for. Congratulations on your new phone. Great, great pictures.

John

 

[mickeyd]

Thanks John, I waited and saved money half a lifetime to live on the lake, and then it came to pass. Grateful every day.

Speak of the devil, Glenn: I was just telling my 90 year old friend Jasper how you could date his old Whirpool by the numbers; he can't remember when he bought it. Aunt alice had no repairs to the Gold Pool, nor have I tinkered, so the knob should be factory issue. Interested to hear more.

 

[mickeyd]

Back in a thread when the Norge agitator

was attached to a Speed Queen spline, someone asked to see the front of the machine. Here it is, but something interesting is coming up.
Notice: the factory put the decal on crooked!

 

[mickeyd]

A guy dropped off an older SQ with many issues. Here, you see the tub-to pump hose, AFTER I had pre-soaked and gouged out the soap cement. At first, there was no space in the hose's opening as there is now; it was completely cemented over, hard white rock.

 

[mickeyd]

It wouldn't agitate, either.

So with stuffed hoses and a seized pump, it can't drain, can't wash; but Eureka!--the timer worked perfectly, so I kept it. And now I'm in the maelstrom of "fixits."
Look at how minimal the wash times are. Interesting and provacative.

 

[mickeyd]

PROVOCATIVE

LOL!

 

[mickeyd]

Remembered Robert's Rule

of going to the auto parts store. Bingo: they sell it by the foot, I need 18 inches, so I bought the two foot piece to cut, and two nice new steel clamps.

But the drain port is clogged, and I can't get at it so far. Poured boiling vinegar into the port last night. Still hasn't budged--not on drop of vinegar had seeped thru. Oh what's a washer man to do?