Unusual Dole Valve - Does Anyone Know What it Fits?

[d-jones]

I thought about putting this in Shoppers Square, but since I'd really like to know what machine it goes to, and this is the forum most visited by all the vintage experts, I decided to put it here instead. The listed part number is 2-4226, but I can't find anything on it in any of my parts manuals or on the internet. It's possible I've managed to overlook something, but at this point I give up. At first glance it looks like a typical three solenoid Dole valve, but looking a little closer one quickly notices that this valve has only two solenoids. A check of the patent number(2620133) leads not to a depiction of this valve, but rather to a two solenoid valve that bears a striking resemblance to the valves used on AMP type Maytags. So what's the deal here? Is this a newer version of the old brass and nylon AMP valve, or does it go to something completely different?

 

PS. The same patent number seen on the round brass bottom cover of this eBay valve appears on the brass bodied valve in the second picture. It may be on the other valve as well, but I couldn't read those numbers without a magnifying glass.

 

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/361152264162?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

[turquoisedude]

I have a funny feeling that the middle solenoid is missing...  It really does look like a Maytag valve.  The orange solenoid coils struck a familar note - this is what I remember was on the original valve on my '65 A702 washer.  

 

[jetcone]

its a thermostatically

controlled valve but I don't remember ever seeing a 2 solenoid version. I think at most you'd get tempered cold, warm and hot out of it. But those solenoids are very late with the orange plastic coverings and not wrapped lacquered cloth.

 

 

 

[d-jones]

Jon and Paul

As I mentioned in the opening paragraph, I also thought this was a three solenoid valve when I first saw it, but it's not. The way the valve is sitting in the above photo the third solenoid would be clearly visible. Just out of curiosity I went out to the garage to have a look at one of my three solenoid valves and was surprised to see that it has the same patent number referenced on the little round cover plate that this one does. That patent number brings up data on the two solenoid valve seen below in the drawing from the patent documents. As you can see, it's a two solenoid thermostatically controlled valve. I know that valves of the type seen in this drawing were used on the very early Maytag's, but I've never seen this eBay valve before, and I guess it's safe to say you guys haven't either. Of course you're right, Jon. This is clearly a newer valve, but I was hoping someone here could offer some definitive information on it. If it is a newer replacement for the older two solenoid valve, that sort of thing that might turn up in an issue of "Let's Talk Service," but I only have a few of those and none of them mention it.

 

[swestoyz]

More than likely this is a thermo-controled Hot/Warm valve that could be used in place of the brass units.  Very handy for most washers made with only a HOT & WARM wash temp selection. 

 

In the past, when I haven't had a valve like this to use, I've used a three temp thermo-controled valve on the earlier machines by hooking up the hot and warm solenoids and leaving the cold solenoid disconnected.

 

Ben

 

[d-jones]

Hi Ben

Thanks for chiming in here. I'm sure you're right about this valve, though it'd still be nice to find something in writing to properly nail it down. But that may be asking too much.