Dominion Day!
I've been down in Ogden since the long Canada Day weekend (preparing for a mega garage sale with my neighbours) and since Canada Day was once known as Dominion Day, well I just had to take a run at getting the 58 Dominion Automatic to fill by itself.
The NOS three-solenoid water valve I got in June for this machine was not a direct replacement, alas. The first attempts to use it to fill the machine resulted in a tub only 3/4 full of water. We can't have THAT now, can we? I bounced ideas around with John (combo52) and Phil (philr) about this - I should, thanks to John, be able to rebuild the original valve soon, but for the moment, I tried swapping the flow washers from the old valve into the new one. It did the trick! However, I was still not happy with the temperature of the warm water selection... I tried shifting the wiring on the solenoids around in various combinations and permutations but it just made things worse. I fiddled, futzed, finagled for forever... After so much f-ing around, I said 'Forget this!' and decided to reinstall the valve in an 'almost working' state.
HA!
Had I bothered to look at the positioning of the solenoids on the NOS valve, I might have noticed that when reinstalled the terminals for the warm solenoid would touch the wash tub. Real smart of me... OY!! I flipped it around and had to re-arrange the wiring to suit. Well, I lost whatever warm wash options I may have had... The wash came up as Hot (when the hot button was pushed) or Cold (when the warm button was pushed). Rinsing is now only in Cold (but that bugs me less)...
I'll get this right someday soon but for now I had to get the washer back together and out of the middle of the basement floor...
