Westinghouse Slanties!

[jersey-johny]

$195 in Spokane
Poor babes been knocked around
But nevertheless... There They Are!

No real money shots, but heres the few from craigslist ad:

http://tinyurl.com/y97dn8zt

 

[peteski50]

Westinghouse

wow Johny those are awesome!!

 

[northwesty]

Yeah

I got them. They are in RRRROUGH shape.

 

[northwesty]

Hopefully they can help keep this one and the dryer going

Is there a link or something on how to replace the boot in these? It doesn't seem to be in the repair manual. I remember Christopher doing it but I can't recall a real step by step process in his thread. Thanks for any advice. I will experiment on the rusty one. Will keep everyone posted.

This one runs but the boot is bad. Brian

 

[appnut]

Brian, I indeed hope these will help yours keep going. 

 

[ea56]

Brian,

These are my absolute favorite vintage machines, bar none. They fascinated me as a 5 year old boy and now they entice me because of their beautiful simplicity. I hope that you will be successful in getting them up and running and restored. And that you will enjoy having and using them. They are a real treasure. Congratulations on your excellent score!

Eddie

 

[northwesty]

Well I have had my first major success

I put the timer from that super rusty dryer into mine and it now works!. I have probably had the timer out of my 54 about 54 times, trying to finesse it but I could never get it to work, it was very frustrating. Anyway I have had this machine for over ten years I think and this is the first time it is running, though I did get my timer to work for about a week once.

BTW the motor on this timer has the all-time weird motor, as it does turn one direction rather freely and has a super large gear on it. It will be a challenge to keep this machine going. I hope it will manage for a few years anyway

I also had to replace the motor on this unit. I was most fortunate to find one on ebay. When I first got this dryer it was basically dead. This machine came up from California. Thanks for looking, Brian

 

[northwesty]

Here is some more good news

I was able to salvage the fill tube from the donor machine. It is a weird shape and would be hard to mock-up. It goes from the Hot-Cold control to the tub.

 

[northwesty]

I wanted to

See if the machine worked before I started to worry about the Boot. Anyway it did have problems from sitting, as the pump didn't work. It has this newer one on it, the front comes off and is sealed with a large O-ring. Some hair had gotten around the shaft, but after cleaning it still didn't work right, so I bumped the back up, apparently the solenoid wasn't going up all the way, it worked after that.

 

[northwesty]

A real major problem

Was the timer wouldn't advance. More timer problems! So I swapped out the timer motor from the donor machine. Anyway I thought I had tested it but it decided not to work either.

 

[northwesty]

Here

Are a bunch of timers, one motor from a old other donor machine did actually work.

 

[northwesty]

I still want to have a working backup

that motor on the left is from a Maytag but I think I can get it to fit into the base of the Westinghouse. The Maytag base gear it too big for the Westinghouse

 

[northwesty]

Here it is all together

that motor works so I hope that timer is usable now.

 

[northwesty]

Here is a shot

of the machine on spin. It has gone through all its cycles on it's own and seems to be working. That repaired boot is working right now, but I don't think it will stand up. I post if I do anything with it. Happy days!

 

[northwesty]

I am looking for a part though...

the knob on mine broke, it had a dent in it so it musta been whacked at some point. Unfortunately the donor machine's knob was 100% plastic and is stripped out. So, I might try to drill it out and put the metal part in it but I am doubtful it will work. If anyone out there has a spare knob in their stash of stuff I would love to hear from you. Thanks so much and thanks for looking.

Also, thank you Jersy Johny for posting this as I wouldn't have been looking is Spokane.

 

[arbilab]

Very nostalgic photo tour Brian, thanks.  First largescale machine I mastered the in-trick-assees of.  (But we had a guy come change the boot.)

 

[panthera]

Timers

I can't find it now (of course), but there was a first rate posting on rewiring the motors used on a lot of these. A lubricant which turns to solid cement and motor windings with a near 100% failure rate.
When it's working, the timer is not at all stiff to turn, by the by. When we got ours, I doubt I could have budged it with a 2 meter cheater bar.
Our dryer's timer works, thanks to Greg. But, oh, my, I think I put more time into the timer than the entire rest of the dryer together.

 

[combo52]

Great progress Saving the WH Slant Front pair

The old black timer motors are all failing, it is easy to just use the next generation smaller silver cased [ approximately 1955- the late 60s ] Mallory timer motors on these older timers, the only thing you have to change is the wiring connection.

John L.

 

[jd]

I am having this same timer issue with a Bendix I just picked up. The black motor sounds bad. As an engineer, I see a number of bypasses to this issue.

1: High dollar approach: send the motor to Mike Murray in Oregon. I have confirmed through several sources in-person and online that he is the only person in the country that can open these motors and service them. However, your motor has to have a good field winding for him to fix it and it is $250. This is his site:
http://www.telechron.us/eingraham.html

2: The fun approach: take it apart to clean/lube it yourself. I am planning on being the second person in the country to know how to take one of these motors apart because I found a running one for $20 online and if I torch it getting in, I will learn from my mistakes when I go do the motor I care about. If anyone is interested, I will post pictures of this adventure when it happens.

3: The mild Mod approach: fit a different motor in. As John L above states, there are other motors that fit. I found a brand new one for $18 that looks like it may fit with minimal mods as well. From Home Depot of all places. I may buy one of these as well just because I am curious to see if it does actually fit.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/TORK-12...gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CMnFqrLj7d0CFZR8wQodHUgIsQ

4: Heavy mod approach: press off the gear from the old black motor, press it onto the shaft of a servo, and control the speed with a cheap microcontroller like an arduino. This would require some fabrication of a servo mounting bracket.