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swestoyz

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Corn & Maytags!

Today was a good day. The air was crisp, very little humidity - for some reason everything felt like it clicked in place today. I even wondered about karma today - sort of like Earl - except my list isn't anywhere near as exciting as his.

And did it pay off ever.

Today was the delivery day for my kitchen cabinets. If I get enough requests I can post about that in the sandbox. My grandparents actually were dropping them off, so I decided to take everyone out for dinner for their hard work and efforts unloading '22 units' as my grandpa said.

On the way to dinner - drove around back of an appliance store that I've scored a few machines from before.

As I drove up, I thanked God for two things:

ONE: I had the Tahoe
TWO: I just happen to have a dolly in the back of the truck from moving cabinets

As I drove up I mentioned to mom - "oh, there are some goodies up there..."

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Now, after dinner my plan was to drive back and pick them up. But, as I drove up they were still closed. Knowing that I needed to do the right thing, I walked inside the little store and asked about the old yellow washer and dryer out back. After 20 seconds of conversation, she said, 'eh, just take'em'.

I couldn't believe how minty clean this set is.

The washer, as pulled out of the truck.

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The set - just amazing.

Okay - I need ANOTHER lighted Maytag set like I need _________ (fill in the blank). But as I said to the lady at the store, "I'd hate to see such a nice set go to the crusher."

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Contents of the washer - removed. Tub is in pretty good shape still.

Remember folks, I just pulled these from behind an appliance store. I haven't had time to even wipe them down - but they look like you could get service from them right now!

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Behind the washer - again, no rust anywhere. All the screw bolts, pulleys - everything on the underside looked like it just came from Newton.

This set appears to never have lived in a basement.

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May, 1972. I just love how they really are a matching pair, only a few months apart!

This was the second version of this tag as used on the '06 series machines. Notice that the model and serial are quite small, maybe a 10 point? Later in 1972 or 73 (can't remember), due to the complaints of the service folk - Maytag went back to the larger stamp so the service guys could read the model and serial tag better. This is buried somewhere in the service bulletins.

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Not sure what I am going to do with the set - but if they need to be moved, I'll post something on the board.

Final shot - very funny that the matching refrigerator at the appliance store was the very same refrigerator that we had growing up in Cedar Falls (less the Harvest)! Coincidence - or Karma? ;-)

Enjoy (and you vacuum folks have a fun weekend too),

Ben

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Very, Very nice!
Congratulations!
Amazing that something so nice and minty would be turned into scrap!
Great Save!
Brent
 

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