Good luck Steve...you'll definitely have your work cut out for you!
Hopefully the streaking and water on the floor near the machine is condensation from a damp basement and NOT from trying to run the poor machine and having it leak all over the place.
Don't be discouraged, Steve, you'll do just fine with this machine. It might be a "baptism by fire" for your first restoration, but the Westy is a rather simple machine to diagnose and work on. Good luck!
.... could have been right out of the set of something like "Blair Witch!!!" Rather scary basement and quite possibly the room where a murrderr (said with a scottish accent) was committed!
Hope not!
Is that thing as large as it appears? I saw that water running down the front too, guess a few seals are shot.. or is that the overflow rinse...
Any news?
Guys this machine is identical to the one that my aunt Helen had when she lived in Genesee/Hickox, Pa. when I was very small she had it in the bathroom and and I was maybe all of 3 or 4yrs old and it went in to the spin cycle and it would walk the floor. Well you can guess what I did I ran out of the bathroom so fast crying it was going to get me with my pants around my anckles. I did not like the thing when it went into the spin cycle, but loved to watch it wash. It was very entertaining.
It wouldn't even look "normal" without some water dripping down the front! I don't know if I ever remember one that didn't leak water or suds! Part of that Rustinghouse "magic".
It gives it "character". Can't wait to see the photo's.
GyraSteve: I agree; none of those Rustinghouses look normal without a little drip...even my 1993 model leaks from the door!! You would think they could have come up with a better seal between door and machine! ;-)