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[foraloysius]

Yes

I thought that dial in the center had three positions, but apparently it has only two. I thought water heater was another position that you could select apart from warm and hot.

 

[vivalalavatrice]

No cold!?

So Jon what you've explained to Louis is how it works the wash temperature selector...

But what about the whole temperatures setting system!?
Of course the machine will be hooked up to both cold and hot water (otherwise how to get warm?), but whether is good to wash at least in warm water (cold water is good only form some items specially those you hand wash)...what about rinse temperature settings!? Does this machine cold rinse?

Would it be this the secret of that machine? The water never is less then "warm" so the drying cycle is faster? Yes...but going long like that would it be dangerous for fabrics?

And then...I know some of you will beat me but...if I wanted to keep the drying dial off, and then line dry, well it would be good cold rinses either...

GoodBYE
Diomede

PS: Would it be available a brief program settings table...

 

[jetcone]

hi Diomede

This Bendix only has HOT wash or WARM wash and only WARM rinse or soak like most automatics of the period.
So all the rinses are warm.
There is no cold setting as this machine was made in 1955. There were no cold water soaps or detergents back then so no machine had a cold wash, therefor it had no cold rinse.
The later 1958 Top of The Line machines all had 5 temperature settings.
They are HOT wash, Warm Wash, Cool wash and COLD wash. Rinse has a choice of Warn , Cool, or Cold.
I am not sure who came out with all these choices first ANYBODY know?? I know my 1957 Westinghouse as all these choices. Any machine that had the 3 solenoid water valve is what allowed all the selections.
I don't know if any 1956 machines had that many choices.The valve manufacturers Dole, Horton, had come out with a 3 solenoid valve after cool water detergents were created for synthetic fabrics.

 

[gansky1]

Maytag had cold-water washing/rinse options as early as 1956-57 and claimed to be the first.

Jon, try resetting the timer with a hot wash and the Magic Heater running - it's more powerful than you think. I was able to get quite a temperature rise in 25 minutes!

 

[jetcone]

Wow Greg

I'll try that with my new digital thermometer!!

Tonight even and report back!

Now that I have finally burned off all the stink from the solvents.

OOOhh I opened up my 1958 Econo Model today and am about to replace the deadly asbestos gasket in its heating duct. The duct was SPOTLESS no water stains even!
Albany water was always the best and it shows.
If you use these machines as washers and dryers they will stay in terrific shape after 50 years! Amazing how right Bendix engineers got it 60 years ago!

Hindsight is 20/20.

 

[foraloysius]

Hot, warm, cool and cold. That's only 4 temperatures. Isn't there something between hot and warm?

 

[roto204]

Slapped in public, in a town square

*chuckle* :-D

 

[jetcone]

LOUIS

Don't push your luck!! You are not that far away from slapping distance!

Maybe there was a MEDIUM WARM SETTING TOO! I'll check tonight when I get home from work!

SLPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[foraloysius]

A bit touchy today, aren't we...

 

[jetcone]

HAHAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa

HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

good one now I'LL GO CHECK THE MACHINE

 

[jetcone]

Okay Louis

Here is the photo of evidence:

The TOL Combo has 5 temp settings but the only way to get cold wash is to start on SOAK fill then move to wash.

On the Westinghouse you can do it all from WASH.
The TEMP between HOT & WARM is called MEDIUM on all machines.
Enjoy!

 

[foraloysius]

Thank you for the picture. I just knew there had to be another setting. BTW, didn't Frigidaire call cool tepid?

 

[jetcone]

I don't know >> ROBERT

You are the Frigidaire Expert??????

Any thoughts on Tepid????

Louis has a delicate Frigidaire Question.

I think someone's gonna be Tepid.............soon......