What a ditzy lady that was. She called John after one of the newspaper articles about our collection. The machine was in good condition at the end of the counter in the kitchen in one of those 1950s modern things built on a slab. It actually has a porcelain top with a soap door so it was was more counter high than undercounter, but with no backsplash. We had to do something with the pump and John asked her if she had a towel (to catch the cup or two of water that would be in it). She handed him a single paper towel. We should have known then that she did not know enough to run the machine and should have just removed it after telling her it could not be fixed, but NO, we had to try to be good guys. The machine was in very nice shape. Due to its compact design, the fill flume goes into the tub right behind the controls on the front. There is a timer and pushbuttons for hot or warm wash, 3 buttons for the dryer and the master OFF button. Well she went to wash clothes using good old Tide. The suds came up the fill flume and shorted out the controls buttons. So we were called back and hauled it away which we should have done while it was working. Of course, if we had stayed long enough to put clothes in it to wash, we could have warned her about detergent use, but we did not do that. Our bad.
The undercounter combo was made in both gas and electric, but the electric was no vent with no blower, just a stream of cold water to condense the steam and it took a very long time to dry. Near the end of production, the electric model was CE-7GO and the gas CG-7GO
