this was my set from 1993 to 2004 when i switch to frontloads

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or if you look at older washers as well that where made in the us or canada the water temps where eather writen cold warm hot with cold rinse or warm rinse or color coded when it came to washers made before today just look at the folowing pic to see whet i mean

 

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Explanation of color code for water temp

Red= hot water

Yellow= Warm water for wash water (*and rinse water on some models)

Blue= cold water

this was how water temps where indicated on some canadian inglis whirpool washer before they wen back to writing