When did Maytag start to go downhill?
All modern Maytag refrigerators were made by admiral which Maytag had purchased, the wide by side originally was an admiral you can tell the admirals they had two horizontal controls that went back-and-forth at the top of the refrigerator section.
Once Maytag ditched the admiral plant in Galesburg, Illinois, and went to production in Mexico. They had also purchased Amana by this time and the later wide by side Was made by Amana It was a much better unit. It had the controls group together on the interior divider wall, two dials.
The Norge Rollator compressor disappeared by the 1950s. Maytag never had such a compressor.
Mechanically Maytag’s best dependable care washers were the 1970s, they started to cheapen them by the early 80s even things like that motor pulley that went bad on your washer was an example of them cheapening things, but some things got better. They got away from the Westinghouse motors which hurt the 70s machines a lot and the cheap Robert Shaw inlet valves from the 70s.
Maytag never had a greatly reliable clothes dryer. They were only ever average at best, but once they bought Norge and started using that Norge performer dryer, that thing was just junk. The only thing you can say for is it worked for a while, it was very slow drying because of the low wattage or low BTUs, but it would not sustain heavy use or lots of repairs.
The Maytag Neptune, top loader was an interesting machine, but never should have been built, plastic gears, driving the impellers underwater, and a plastic transmission filled with Weson oil that should never have seen the Maytag name.
The Maytag Neptune front loader was a flawed design and like all Maytag appliances when they first introduced them they had a lot of problems, but they did work a lot of the bugs out of it, but it could never get past the point of its tangling problems in the lack of a window it was never gonna be the preferred design for a good front loading washer.
John L
All modern Maytag refrigerators were made by admiral which Maytag had purchased, the wide by side originally was an admiral you can tell the admirals they had two horizontal controls that went back-and-forth at the top of the refrigerator section.
Once Maytag ditched the admiral plant in Galesburg, Illinois, and went to production in Mexico. They had also purchased Amana by this time and the later wide by side Was made by Amana It was a much better unit. It had the controls group together on the interior divider wall, two dials.
The Norge Rollator compressor disappeared by the 1950s. Maytag never had such a compressor.
Mechanically Maytag’s best dependable care washers were the 1970s, they started to cheapen them by the early 80s even things like that motor pulley that went bad on your washer was an example of them cheapening things, but some things got better. They got away from the Westinghouse motors which hurt the 70s machines a lot and the cheap Robert Shaw inlet valves from the 70s.
Maytag never had a greatly reliable clothes dryer. They were only ever average at best, but once they bought Norge and started using that Norge performer dryer, that thing was just junk. The only thing you can say for is it worked for a while, it was very slow drying because of the low wattage or low BTUs, but it would not sustain heavy use or lots of repairs.
The Maytag Neptune, top loader was an interesting machine, but never should have been built, plastic gears, driving the impellers underwater, and a plastic transmission filled with Weson oil that should never have seen the Maytag name.
The Maytag Neptune front loader was a flawed design and like all Maytag appliances when they first introduced them they had a lot of problems, but they did work a lot of the bugs out of it, but it could never get past the point of its tangling problems in the lack of a window it was never gonna be the preferred design for a good front loading washer.
John L
