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Turqoise Maytag DG702 Dryer + TA702
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I'm thinking the same thing, a lot of money! I'd be interested at about half that figure.
Yikes!!! is all I have to say.
It's all about what the market will bear. I wish them all the luck in the world. I an certainly say that I don't need them at that price. (Not that I was looking)
It's all about what the market will bear. I wish them all the luck in the world. I an certainly say that I don't need them at that price. (Not that I was looking)
redcarpetdrew
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This has been shown here before...
This has relisted multiple times with the price starting around $2500 and slowly dropping with each relist. The seller also checks in here, IIRC, to monitor comments...
RCD
This has relisted multiple times with the price starting around $2500 and slowly dropping with each relist. The seller also checks in here, IIRC, to monitor comments...
RCD
danemodsandy
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IIRC Means:
"If I Recall Correctly."
"If I Recall Correctly."
Turquoise Maytag's
Cool set in a great color, but given that they not only need a complete repainting and likely a full rebuilding as well, I would not consider paying more than $200-400 for the pair.
Maytag's { and almost every other washer and dryer brand ] of this era need usually need a lot of work to put them in good condition, but the added problem with MTs of the mid 60s is you end up with very primitive machines that really don't work as well as most other brands from the same time period. The good thing about MTs is they are easier to find many parts for.
Cool set in a great color, but given that they not only need a complete repainting and likely a full rebuilding as well, I would not consider paying more than $200-400 for the pair.
Maytag's { and almost every other washer and dryer brand ] of this era need usually need a lot of work to put them in good condition, but the added problem with MTs of the mid 60s is you end up with very primitive machines that really don't work as well as most other brands from the same time period. The good thing about MTs is they are easier to find many parts for.
These turquoise Maytags are here in the Los Angeles area. It's nice to see he has come down $1000 since he first listed them. I will wait for him to come down another thousand dollars before I consider buying them.
Kevin
Kevin
redcarpetdrew
Well-known member
Primitive?
Sigh...
I'm curious, John. What brings you to the conclusion that Maytag's are 'primitive' ?
So basic in design that doing just about any repair is simpler than just about anything else out on the market at the time (or even now)? Such a simple design that the mechanism for washing or spinning is much less complicated than the competition? Draining and spinning at the same time to prevent the nasty stuff floating in the suds at the top from re depositing back on the clothes as evidenced by the typical nastiness I have to clean off of the inside of the tub cover and upper main tub with a putty knife on Whirlpool/Kenmores? Having tops and cabinets that, as a rule, hold up better over the years than the painted machines?
I'm confused...
RCD
Sigh...
I'm curious, John. What brings you to the conclusion that Maytag's are 'primitive' ?
So basic in design that doing just about any repair is simpler than just about anything else out on the market at the time (or even now)? Such a simple design that the mechanism for washing or spinning is much less complicated than the competition? Draining and spinning at the same time to prevent the nasty stuff floating in the suds at the top from re depositing back on the clothes as evidenced by the typical nastiness I have to clean off of the inside of the tub cover and upper main tub with a putty knife on Whirlpool/Kenmores? Having tops and cabinets that, as a rule, hold up better over the years than the painted machines?
I'm confused...
RCD
I'm Confused...
Andy you hit the nail on the head, spin draining on a top loading washer with a perforated wash basket has always been a crude and primitive system. Anyone with any engineering experience can see why more dirt and floating lint will leave the basket with the water if the basket is stationary with the clothing floating in the water as it drains as apposed to having the basket trying to spin at the same time.
This is why that every manufacturer that ever made a TL perforated basket washer that had the capability of draining before spinning, did so, it just produces cleaner better rinsed clothing. The only machine that currently is sold in the US that does a spin drain drain is the SQ TLers and even though we sell these and feel that they are a good machine I would label them as crude and primitive is design and they diffidently do not perform as well overall as a WP built DD super capacity washer with a dual action agitator.
Andy you hit the nail on the head, spin draining on a top loading washer with a perforated wash basket has always been a crude and primitive system. Anyone with any engineering experience can see why more dirt and floating lint will leave the basket with the water if the basket is stationary with the clothing floating in the water as it drains as apposed to having the basket trying to spin at the same time.
This is why that every manufacturer that ever made a TL perforated basket washer that had the capability of draining before spinning, did so, it just produces cleaner better rinsed clothing. The only machine that currently is sold in the US that does a spin drain drain is the SQ TLers and even though we sell these and feel that they are a good machine I would label them as crude and primitive is design and they diffidently do not perform as well overall as a WP built DD super capacity washer with a dual action agitator.
I would label them as crude and primitive is design
Well there you go Andy... <span style="font-size: large;">GOD</span> has spoken.
We ALL know his word is ALWAYS the truth and should never, ever be questioned!
It's obvious to everyone else the all mighty Whirlpool is a far, far, far superior design to ANY and ALL other brands, makes, models, styles and designs of ANY clothes washing machine EVER created! (Not!) I beg you to open your eyes and see.
So now Andy, bow in the presences of the almighty Whirlpool and heed his word, or he will conjure a bolt of lightning to strike in your direction and ZOT you where you stand!
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Well there you go Andy... <span style="font-size: large;">GOD</span> has spoken.
We ALL know his word is ALWAYS the truth and should never, ever be questioned!
It's obvious to everyone else the all mighty Whirlpool is a far, far, far superior design to ANY and ALL other brands, makes, models, styles and designs of ANY clothes washing machine EVER created! (Not!) I beg you to open your eyes and see.
So now Andy, bow in the presences of the almighty Whirlpool and heed his word, or he will conjure a bolt of lightning to strike in your direction and ZOT you where you stand!
[this post was last edited: 9/26/2013-16:24]
Good Lord,
here we go AGAIN.....
here we go AGAIN.....
redcarpetdrew
Well-known member
Ok, ok...
I'm not sure I'd go quite that far... Debate can be healthy as long as it can be civil and not just be an arbitrary opinion used to beat someone over the head.
I'm not sure about the engineering standpoint but from a just looking at it from experience standpoint, and the countless hours spent watching different washer designs fill, wash and spin/drain for both work and fun, I've seen some really nasty loads where there is just all sorts of unholy nastiness floating suspended in the suds at the top and the Maytag spins and drains so I see that stuff swirl away thru the spin basket holes and be drained away vs. watching the water drain down first and seeing that sudsy nightmare drop down with the water level, exiting the tub THRU THE CLOTHES. What sense does it make to work to wash the dirt, etc, out of the fabric to just put it back in? What is the use of a fancier agitator system when it is capable of redepositing soil? Kinda like designing a fancier doorknob while it still can't keep the door latched.
At least the spin/drain machines have a better track record of keeping themselves cleaner. The swirl away action rinses the tub out even to the tub cover. The neutral drain machines leave all sorts of smelly, disgusting residue inside the outer tub up top near and even ON the tub cover. You, I'm sure, have had to do service calls where the customer complains of a foul, moldy smell and simply had to take a putty knife to scrape what I call the 'Kenmore Krud' off. If that's the mark of a 'sophisticated' design, I'll stay with my 'primative' Maytag (and similar spin/drain) system.
I own both systems and have nice things to say about both but the neutral drain systems, as a rule, tend to be more complicated mechanically . More to wear, break and be fixed (sometimes expensively).
Primitive. Sometimes it's just more efficient to use a club. Clean, simple and gets the job done without any repairs. To the club, anyway.... Lol!
RCD
I'm not sure I'd go quite that far... Debate can be healthy as long as it can be civil and not just be an arbitrary opinion used to beat someone over the head.
I'm not sure about the engineering standpoint but from a just looking at it from experience standpoint, and the countless hours spent watching different washer designs fill, wash and spin/drain for both work and fun, I've seen some really nasty loads where there is just all sorts of unholy nastiness floating suspended in the suds at the top and the Maytag spins and drains so I see that stuff swirl away thru the spin basket holes and be drained away vs. watching the water drain down first and seeing that sudsy nightmare drop down with the water level, exiting the tub THRU THE CLOTHES. What sense does it make to work to wash the dirt, etc, out of the fabric to just put it back in? What is the use of a fancier agitator system when it is capable of redepositing soil? Kinda like designing a fancier doorknob while it still can't keep the door latched.
At least the spin/drain machines have a better track record of keeping themselves cleaner. The swirl away action rinses the tub out even to the tub cover. The neutral drain machines leave all sorts of smelly, disgusting residue inside the outer tub up top near and even ON the tub cover. You, I'm sure, have had to do service calls where the customer complains of a foul, moldy smell and simply had to take a putty knife to scrape what I call the 'Kenmore Krud' off. If that's the mark of a 'sophisticated' design, I'll stay with my 'primative' Maytag (and similar spin/drain) system.
I own both systems and have nice things to say about both but the neutral drain systems, as a rule, tend to be more complicated mechanically . More to wear, break and be fixed (sometimes expensively).
Primitive. Sometimes it's just more efficient to use a club. Clean, simple and gets the job done without any repairs. To the club, anyway.... Lol!
RCD
Maytags:
Don't understand Maytags being "primitive" aside from whatever technological elements, either... Other than what's been said & pointed out, in which case, then "It IS, what it IS!"...!
Otherwise, I would say this is the most advanced washers had ever come, in terms of the Temperature & Speed selections, ease of operation, & even workmanship out-doing the competition, if the product itself, in terms of aesthetics, tends to look humble & plain...
The dryer to me is another story, w/ the lint-filter way in the back & crawling through that small door to get to it to empty it & it was nearly the late '70's before Maytag ever changed that design...
But that nitpick aside, the dryers were nearly equally as good, along w/ whatever deficiencies the Halo of Heat design were admitted to having, hence a more conventional system being offered & the remaining industry standard for that brand...
They're simply the '57 Chevrolet Bel Air or Kellogg's Corn Flakes of washers & dryers!
-- Dave
Don't understand Maytags being "primitive" aside from whatever technological elements, either... Other than what's been said & pointed out, in which case, then "It IS, what it IS!"...!
Otherwise, I would say this is the most advanced washers had ever come, in terms of the Temperature & Speed selections, ease of operation, & even workmanship out-doing the competition, if the product itself, in terms of aesthetics, tends to look humble & plain...
The dryer to me is another story, w/ the lint-filter way in the back & crawling through that small door to get to it to empty it & it was nearly the late '70's before Maytag ever changed that design...
But that nitpick aside, the dryers were nearly equally as good, along w/ whatever deficiencies the Halo of Heat design were admitted to having, hence a more conventional system being offered & the remaining industry standard for that brand...
They're simply the '57 Chevrolet Bel Air or Kellogg's Corn Flakes of washers & dryers!
-- Dave
OH SHIT! Sound the air raid cycle signals
John and Andy are bombing eachother again! The agitator missiles are flying between Reno and Beltsville. We're going to need some powerful DW's to douse the residual fires. CAREFUL GUYS! a few Powerfins and Surgilators just flew over Burnsville! I don't want to be collateral damage so I'm going to hide in a SQ equipped Laundromat.
WK78
John and Andy are bombing eachother again! The agitator missiles are flying between Reno and Beltsville. We're going to need some powerful DW's to douse the residual fires. CAREFUL GUYS! a few Powerfins and Surgilators just flew over Burnsville! I don't want to be collateral damage so I'm going to hide in a SQ equipped Laundromat.
WK78
Flames???? Quick, throw WATER on 'em!!!!
And don't forget WATER CONSUMPTION!
I think Maytag was one of the first to go from being at the mercy of where you set the timer to caring enough to devote three or four push-buttons to a metered fill (hence it's not the MORE washing time, the more WATER!) and hard to believe that a lot of machines such as Whirlpool & Kenmore would offer a timed fill (though on their bottom-most machines!)...!
Right down to Maytags using the least amount of water, while offering reasonable capacity!
(There I hope some WATER helped!)
-- Dave
And don't forget WATER CONSUMPTION!
I think Maytag was one of the first to go from being at the mercy of where you set the timer to caring enough to devote three or four push-buttons to a metered fill (hence it's not the MORE washing time, the more WATER!) and hard to believe that a lot of machines such as Whirlpool & Kenmore would offer a timed fill (though on their bottom-most machines!)...!
Right down to Maytags using the least amount of water, while offering reasonable capacity!
(There I hope some WATER helped!)
-- Dave
Not to complicate matters here, but the BOL Maytag Highlanders used a timed fill all the way up until 1965.
That said, Maytag WAS one of the first to offer a metered fill. It appeared in 1953 on the A2MP and used that damned finicky agitator float which activated a variable tension carriage in the lid with 3 mercury switches in it!
That said, Maytag WAS one of the first to offer a metered fill. It appeared in 1953 on the A2MP and used that damned finicky agitator float which activated a variable tension carriage in the lid with 3 mercury switches in it!
