What is a Cycle?

[maytaga806]

chet, are you sure that roper is a single speed? Ours from the early to mid 90s was a super capacity as well and it was a two speed, the delicates cycle was called “Knits/Delicates”. Low agitation low spin. On these Ropers it doesn’t specify if the machine is a single or two speed so I guess you wouldn’t know unless using the machine in person but it’s very likely that Fabric Care is just another term for delicates they used badk in the 90s at some point, rather before or after they made our model that said knits delicates.

 

[Chetlaham]

RAX5133A

I am positive these models, at least the ones I've seen with the Fabricare label on the dial, are single speed. Pics of the same washer from a used appliance store advertising online give a model number of RAX5133A. The publicly available tech sheet for RAX5133 shows a single speed motor depicted. The cycle on the timer sequence chart is called "short"

 

 

Normal is labelled at 6 minutes in, I think Whirlpool knows the agitation is rough on high agitation. 

 

 

 

https://shortiesappliances.com/products/roper-washer-6975

 

[Chetlaham]

Here are the pics for the archive.

 

[DADoES]

 
The machine of Chet's photo in Reply 21 is not the same model as Dan's photo in Reply 19.  Dan's is a better-featured model, references Knits-Delicates, not Fabricare, and may be a 2-speeder.

 

[maytaga806]

Yes dad ours was a two speed. I think he’s right, they made a more basic Super capacity model which was a single speed given his evidence. I figured fabric care was another name for delicates they used. Ours had a fabric softener dispenser too and this one Chet shows has a cap, and every model just like mine I’ve seen has a dispenser so I’m very sure that ours was the top of the line Roper you could get and only the top of the line models provided softener dispensers. I think it was the same for the standard capacity Ropers at the time, the basic ones were a single speed and the higher end ones were two speed with a softener cup. We can only make educated guesses from what we’ve seen given I cannot find the damn manual for ours anymore even though we kept it, I’ll have to keep looking but I can pull it up online and confirm this if your interested Chet.

 

[Chetlaham]

RAL5144A

Dan, you are not incorrect, you're right. Fabricare is another word for delicate according to this manual that goes to another single speed model:

 

 

https://s3.amazonaws.com/sm-backend-production-attachments/owners-manual-3357472.pdf
 

 

 

Same one speed wiring diagram for this washer.

 

 

https://shortiesappliances.com/products/roper-by-whirlpool-washer-2154

 

[Chetlaham]

Dan, you are not incorrect. According to the RAX5133A manual, fabricare is classed as being for delicate and knit items.

 

 

https://s3.amazonaws.com/sm-backend-production-attachments/owners-manual-3366860.pdf

 

[Chetlaham]

Dan, was this your machine? Higher end models were two speed.

 

 

 

[maytaga806]

No that photo is of the very first roper washer design they made you just put up. A few years later they redid the control panel and pushed the knobs closer together and the timer farther to the right. The first photo I posted earlier of it sitting next to the dryer was our machine that was taken in the early 2000s by my grandma probably. I’ll attach pics of an identical model to ours I just saw on marketplace recently. Completely identical.

 

[Chetlaham]

Thanks. Your model is definitely a two speeder. Here is the use and care manual.

 

 

 

https://s3.amazonaws.com/sm-backend-production-attachments/owners-manual-3357473.pdf

 

[pierreandreply4]

whirlpool direct drive washer

here a pic of a whirlpool direct drive top load, washer that use to belong to elderly neighbors what is the year of the washer. And if needed to go back to used refurbish as new can this model still be found withe the matching dryer?

 

[Chetlaham]

Those models were offered around the mid to late 90s. A serial number would give an exact date.

 

[pierreandreply4]

here is the model number and serial number

model number and serial number

 

[Chetlaham]

If I got it right year 1999, on the 43 week.

 

An appliance tech can confirm if I got it right.

https://www.electrical-forensics.com/MajorAppliances/WhirlpoolDateCodes.html

 

[DADoES]

 
H eighth model position = 1999 model-year

J second serial position = 1999 manufacture year