hippiedoll
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reply to Kenmoreguy64
thank you so much gordon!!!
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i am so glad that i decided to contact the seller to see if they still had the washer, after all this time had passed by since i had been texting with them. especially since, when i would try to contact sellers on craigslist, for 806's that had been listed in as little as 2 days, and would find out that the washer had been sold already.
i figured that for sure this 608 had to have been sold by now, it had been 3 weeks since i last had contact with the seller. but i thought, "what the hell? i'll give it a try & contact the seller to see if they still have the washer. and if they do GREAT! and if they don't, well, it's no different than all the other sellers that i've contacted so far, that no longer had the washer." and plus, if i didn't at least try to find out if they still had the washer, it would have, more than likely, bugged me, later on down the line, that i didn't find out for sure!!!
so i did try to contact the seller. and i am soooo glad that i did!!! can you imagine, this perfectly good working 608 was going to get hauled off to the metal recycling center, by the sellers father, as soon as he found the time to come by her house and pick it up!!!
i still can't get over how good the buttons & timer dial look! and no wear to the sunglow colored panel either!!!
and i'm over the moon, that the man that was interested in the washer and going to buy it, said that it was "too old for him" after the seller sent him a picture of the washer!!!! ha ha ha!!!
thank God the man wasn't into vintage or didn't like "old" things!!!
LOL......
as for the 208, the story with that is that, my dad wanted me to find him a white washer to match the white dryer that he has. and what i found him was a newer portable washing machine with digital display and buttons to select the wash cycle. it's one of the newer ones, with an agitator, i think a "haier". a guys was giving it away, on craigslist, and when i went to pick it up i asked him why he was giving it away.
he said his girlfriend was going to be having their baby real soon and that everytime he washed in the washer, he would find little things all over his clothes. he said that for him, it didn't bother him but he wanted a better washer for his new baby. so, i took it.
when i got it home, i cleaned out the filter in the agitator and also the little lint filter bag that hung on the side, at the top of the washtub (same idea as the GE filter flo). i ran about 10 wash cycles through that little portable and each time, the lint filters got full of what looked like dried leaf pieces or like thin brown pieces of paper. but eventually, these "floaties" got cleared out of the washer. and i gave that wasther to my dad.
well, i told my dad that i just bought this larger tubbed washer and that if he wanted my smaller tubbed 208 washer, it works, but is in the yellow cabinet. and that if he wanted it, it is a full sized washer (compared to the portable haier) that was in good working condition. the only thing is that we would have to swap the cabinets from the 608 & the 208. and he would get his full sized "white" washer and i would get a "gold" cabineted 608.
so, that is the plan so far. and i told him that i wanted the portable haier back cuz i am planning on giving that to my aunt (who i gave the hoover twin tub to) cuz she said that she is having some problems with the spinner not draining completely. and she thinks that maybe something went over the side of the spinner can, one time that she forgot to place the spin mat in the spinner, when she was washing clothes. at least this way, she will have less work with this portable, automatic haier washer. and i'll get the hoover back and see if i can either find out what's wrong with it, or sell it for parts?? we'll see what happens there?
so, for now, pops is getting the 208. but i told him he has to help me swap out the cabinets. cuz i don't know how hard that is going to be???!!!
thank you so much gordon!!!
)i am so glad that i decided to contact the seller to see if they still had the washer, after all this time had passed by since i had been texting with them. especially since, when i would try to contact sellers on craigslist, for 806's that had been listed in as little as 2 days, and would find out that the washer had been sold already.
i figured that for sure this 608 had to have been sold by now, it had been 3 weeks since i last had contact with the seller. but i thought, "what the hell? i'll give it a try & contact the seller to see if they still have the washer. and if they do GREAT! and if they don't, well, it's no different than all the other sellers that i've contacted so far, that no longer had the washer." and plus, if i didn't at least try to find out if they still had the washer, it would have, more than likely, bugged me, later on down the line, that i didn't find out for sure!!!
so i did try to contact the seller. and i am soooo glad that i did!!! can you imagine, this perfectly good working 608 was going to get hauled off to the metal recycling center, by the sellers father, as soon as he found the time to come by her house and pick it up!!!
i still can't get over how good the buttons & timer dial look! and no wear to the sunglow colored panel either!!!
and i'm over the moon, that the man that was interested in the washer and going to buy it, said that it was "too old for him" after the seller sent him a picture of the washer!!!! ha ha ha!!!
thank God the man wasn't into vintage or didn't like "old" things!!!
LOL......
as for the 208, the story with that is that, my dad wanted me to find him a white washer to match the white dryer that he has. and what i found him was a newer portable washing machine with digital display and buttons to select the wash cycle. it's one of the newer ones, with an agitator, i think a "haier". a guys was giving it away, on craigslist, and when i went to pick it up i asked him why he was giving it away.
he said his girlfriend was going to be having their baby real soon and that everytime he washed in the washer, he would find little things all over his clothes. he said that for him, it didn't bother him but he wanted a better washer for his new baby. so, i took it.
when i got it home, i cleaned out the filter in the agitator and also the little lint filter bag that hung on the side, at the top of the washtub (same idea as the GE filter flo). i ran about 10 wash cycles through that little portable and each time, the lint filters got full of what looked like dried leaf pieces or like thin brown pieces of paper. but eventually, these "floaties" got cleared out of the washer. and i gave that wasther to my dad.
well, i told my dad that i just bought this larger tubbed washer and that if he wanted my smaller tubbed 208 washer, it works, but is in the yellow cabinet. and that if he wanted it, it is a full sized washer (compared to the portable haier) that was in good working condition. the only thing is that we would have to swap the cabinets from the 608 & the 208. and he would get his full sized "white" washer and i would get a "gold" cabineted 608.
so, that is the plan so far. and i told him that i wanted the portable haier back cuz i am planning on giving that to my aunt (who i gave the hoover twin tub to) cuz she said that she is having some problems with the spinner not draining completely. and she thinks that maybe something went over the side of the spinner can, one time that she forgot to place the spin mat in the spinner, when she was washing clothes. at least this way, she will have less work with this portable, automatic haier washer. and i'll get the hoover back and see if i can either find out what's wrong with it, or sell it for parts?? we'll see what happens there?
so, for now, pops is getting the 208. but i told him he has to help me swap out the cabinets. cuz i don't know how hard that is going to be???!!!
