Video of a 1957 Philco-Bendix Duomatic!

[a440]

Thanks Kevin for the information.
Love the pictures! So CLEAN!
What a play pin!
Brent

 

[ovrphil]

Duomatic serenade

...Caffè Roma (The Italian Soundtrack)…(sorry, missed the obvious on YouTube).

 

[electron1100]

WOW

You guys across the pond definitely had the best machines, every time I see another machine I am gob smacked by the style and functionality of these beautiful beautiful machines..................

Yours Gary who is sort of envious
but thankful you have them safe and can show them to us.

 

[keymatic3203]

Just wonderfull

Well done John on a fantastic restoration of such a beautiful machine, and such solid and well engineered one too.

Thanks for making and editing this video Kevin, coming from the uk, most of our laundry appliance influence has been the front loading type, so i find myself drawn to these American front loaders, and whilst many indepth films have been made of the top loaders, not so many for these, i have looked forward to seeing such a film for many years and you have done a great job here.

I also enjoy the one you have of your westinghouse laundromat `spacemate'.

Thanks again, have a great year of restorations and wash parties all of you,

Mathew

 

[strongenough78]

Such a beautiful machine! I would love to try using one sometime. I'm curious as to how the washing results are with just the one direction of wash tumble.

 

[revvinkevin]

One way wash tumble

I'm sure the washing results are just as good as the majority of other FL washers. Bi-directional tumbling has less to do with cleaning ability and more to do with preventing tangles and big balls of clothing.

Kevin

 

[frigilux]

Fantastic footage of the Duomatic! What a beautifully restored machine.

A 9-minute wash tumble! My 2010 front-loader washes for 20 minutes at the normal soil setting of the Normal cycle. It tumbles for 70 minutes at the heavy soil setting of the Sanitize cycle, LOL.

 

[combo52]

Bi-Directional tumbling in Washers and dryers

Has almost no proven advantage in either washers or dryers, I have seen plenty of loads of clothing balled and knotted in dryers that reverse as well as tangled balls of clothing in Duet FL washers, the only reason that FL washers reverse is that it is so easy to do with modern designs and it does help get the clothing wet with low water level machines.

For the most part these old Bendix and Kenmore combos with thier large tubs had almost no probling with tangling or cleaning.

 

[jetcone]

Bendix especially

had minimum tangling problems , they had a patent for irregular tumble patterns by making 2 large baffles and 2 smaller baffles in their tubs so clothes tumbling would hit an irregular pattern on the drum.

Thus constantly breaking up the load.

 

 

[a440]

John...

Why Whirlpool has not come out with a modern Gas or Electric Combo?  In this day and age it seems like it would be so simple for them to accomplish a great reliable machine.