Where to find reasonably priced Maytag Wringer Gaskets?

[scoots]

I have a "red bar" N2L Maytag wringer washer that I'd like to do a re-build on.

I checked on eBay and the price of the gaskets and belt is astronomical... about $120 for the washer end alone.

Can anybody direct me to a place, possibly Amish, where I can get these supplies at a more reasonable cost?

many thinks Bill

 

[swestoyz]

Check out Cottage Craft Works. They make or have sourced just about every item necessary to rebuild an E2, as well as most J2 and N2 parts.

Maytag Wringer Washer Parts - Self Sufficient Living - Home Goods

Your source for old-fashioned, hard-to-find vintage non-electric products for off-grid survival, back-to-basics sustainable self-sufficient living.

cottagecraftworks.com

 

[qsd-dan]

Parts prices have astronomically gone up for E/J/N Maytag wringers in the last 5 years. It really isn't worth restoring them now unless you plan to use it a bunch, keep it for decades, or make it a daily driver. It's cheaper to get an entire machine for a needed part or parts (gaskets don't apply here) than getting a single part either new or sometimes used.

I see these becoming crusher fodder again in the near future. It's like high end European vehicles, parts and labor to get them fixed cost many times over than what the vehicle is worth. The days of fixing vintage appliances for reasonable prices ARE OVER! The days of easily finding parts ARE OVER! The days of shipping them for reasonable prices ARE OVER!

 

[scoots]

Thanks to both for your answers...

I'd like to thank both of you for your answers regarding spare parts for the Maytag ringer washers.

Dan's opinions about the availability of reasonably priced spare parts is disheartening while his prediction of wholesale scrapping of wringer washers is ominous but believable.

I started collecting vintage appliances back in the 1990s were all I had to do was drive by a dumpster and take my pick of midcentury washers left at the curb. I could go into Maytag service centers where they would gladly give me older parts for machines that they would rather not service. My Maytag ringer collection includes an NX, a N2L, and an E2LP. They were my daily drivers for many many years until my mother got sick and different arrangements needed to be made for household laundry.

She passed several years ago and my hated General Electric stackable washer dryer set has now given me one too many problems and has a date with its fate, so regardless of replacement part cost I intend to bring my "middle child" N2L back online.

Getting back into circulation with vintage washers however has been a real eye-opener. I look through Facebook marketplace and I am absolutely appalled at the insane prices that are being asked for broken down, half rotten machines – and they all cannot be turned into lawn planters.

 

[qsd-dan]

Sounds like it may be worth the time and money if it's going to be a daily driver. You're correct that most want top dollar for scrap metal now. E/J/N machines are pretty hot at the moment but ridiculous prices in both machines and parts are going to either force lower their prices in the future or send them to crusher...again.

Another option is to get an earlier, pre E/J/N Maytag wringer. The gray ghost wringers are cheaper in price and simpler/easier to repair, especially the wringer assembly. They're also more durable, believe it or not. I had a Model 80, Model 90, 2 Model A's, and 2 Model 30's with a pump. The Model 80 and Model 90 was the easiest to work on and bring back to life. The Model 80 sat for over 40 years after literally 45 years of being put through hell on a farm with a big family (owners son, whose father was the original owner admitted to it). Swap in the better Model 30/32 agitator and Model 90/Model A/Model 30 wringer assembly (fatter wringer rolls, better design) and you got one heck of a nice durable machine. Also, no possibility of water intrusion into transmission on the Model 80 and Model 90 washers as the transmissions are totally divorced from the tub unlike the Model A through 1983 E/J/N wringers.

 

[launderess]

"Parts prices have astronomically gone up for E/J/N Maytag wringers in the last 5 years"

Oh I don't know...

There are NOS Maytag wringer parts at reasonable prices out there if one knows where to but look.

There have been a few auctions posted of late on group where entire job lots of NOS Maytag parts, including those for wringer washers, went for very little money.

Granted auctions aren't exactly up everyone's street, nor always practical, but there you are.

Much of what was purchased ended up on fleaPay or other online sites at reasonable prices. Much of it sits for quite some time as demand isn't what those who purchased goods imagined.

Few years ago a former Maytag repairman was liquidating his stock, and via posting in group generously offered NOS parts at very good prices.

 

[launderess]

Transmission gaskets: https://www.ebay.com/itm/3732179084...DATAGHYg7UWxwhJJPd-9m4hlR_z0SbV-hWAXpz7bkqU6E

Wringer head gaskets: https://www.ebay.com/itm/3132229560...pAtJiST4BeyWetIBvyKjcl_oDVApeWL3QfiEvTxtABtuw

https://www.ebay.com/itm/145433704349

And so it goes...

 

[scoots]

Help with finding date of manufacture for Wringer

I have a model Maytag N2L Serial Number J327669P with red details. Can anybody look up the date for me? Thanks

 

[scoots]

I've started to break down this machine

I've removed the tub and this weekend I'll be removing the transmission. The tub gulmite screws came out easily, and a loosened slightly the two hold-down plate screw in anticipation for late. I will probably have questions...

 

[swestoyz]

Serial number - August 1958.
J - 1958
300000 - model N
P - August

Good luck on your rebuild!

Ben

 

[scoots]

Thanks for the date of manufacture

The transmission came out easy today. I'm draining the oil, which oddly looks in very good condition, and I'll open the case tomorrow.

I'll report on what I find then.

Bill

 

[stan]

Fun project

I’ll stay tuned for pics and your progress!