Today's POD - 10/2/10 - what brand of washer washer?

[revvinkevin]

Sure it's an ad for Borateem, but what brand and model of washer is that, Frigidaire, Philco?
I don't remember ever seeing that control panel before, nor do I recognize the top of the agitator.

Thanks!
Kevin

 

[appliguy]

Kevin

That is a circa 1966 Philco Blades of Water Automatic Washer....PAT COFFEY

 

[supremewhirlpol]

Philco confil

 

[mickeyd]

The fabulous Philco Flapper

A much sought after washroom gem. This is Jimmy of Canton's. You've really never seen a Philco?

 

[revvinkevin]

OK... I delete too....

 

[mickeyd]

The Fabulous Philco Flapper

A much sought after gem of the washroom. This is Jimmy's of Canton, OH

 

[mickeyd]

No, I found a better pic, and misread. thought you had ne

I have never gotten over what this machine can do. his model spins, drains, sprays, and FLAPS all at once. Darren had one like this in his childhood. The pic obviously does not do it justice.

 

[mickeyd]

DANG IT! This is the one I want.

There.

 

[appnut]

I believe TCOX63912 in New Olreans has this exact model. It was aunt of his where it sat out on a back porch for decades because I don't believe she had washer hookups to the house she moved to just a couple of years after buying the machine.

 

[mickeyd]

Hi Bob

I was talking to Darren the other day, and he said that his Nanny had a Flapper at her house, but she wouldn't let him get too close. When she wasn't looking, he remembers how surprized he was to see the machine spinning, draining, spraying, and flapping all at once.

When we were in Canton, a bunch of us witnessed this extravagant washer phenomenon, and thought maybe the machine was malfunctioning; but no, this model of Jimmy's does just that. Won't it be great the day we get HD vidage of this! I'll have another pic in a minute. Really crazy about this machine. Could not stop talking about it.

 

[bobofhollywood]

actually . . .

It is a Ford Philco Flex-a-Wash much like the one I once owned and got running a couple years ago. It's been moved along to a new home now so it is gone but not forgotten. Flex-a-Wash.

 

[mickeyd]

Tania's white pants--I gladly did her wash for her ;->

She had spilled something, but they came out without a trace. Again this is another cycle of the spray, drain, flap, spin sequence.

 

[mickeyd]

FLEX-A-WASH

Thar' she be. What a beauty. How you must miss her.

 

[mickeyd]

Got the big one back. iphoto--sheesh! Can you see at the ver

I wanted everyone to see the two parts that compose the flapper, gray and black curving fins, inter-laid, creating the scallops.
In person, the quick waving fins look and move like a small, speedy manta ray, undulating the water in the same way. For me this the ultimate dream machine.
Well, actually I have five ;'D

 

[bajaespuma]

I would die, DIE, I tell you

if I ever found one of these. Have heard nothing but bad things about them from old repairmen, and what's with that idiotic lid that doesn't open all the way, but just to have all that blue, that lovely blue, on blue on blue. Must be one of the rarest birds to find, although some of the Easy machines that have been featured in the POD's I have never seen anywhere else. The TOL's had the coolest juke-box styled control panels ever. Someone(Jimmy, most likely)once posted a Ford Stockholder's report that had several pictures of the washers and the matching dryers.

 

[cfz2882]

philco-ford

At the dump in'82,took the motor and pump off of a '60s philco
-ford washer;never looked in the tub-it was probably one of
these...The motor had a black turbine style pump,much like
the drain section of a 4-port westinghouse T/L pump on one
end and the other end had the pulley with a spring over the
shaft end-reminded me of the old,old ford starter motors...

 

[mickeyd]

A good friend, Big Ted

has a "Jukebox Philco." He says he likes to pull up a chair and just sit in front of it, all lit up, with a cup of tea, and savor its beauty. It's the Philco all lit up, not Ted. Smiles.