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I found my original surgilator and remember why I don't use it anymore because the gasket bolted to the shaft dry rotted and crumbled away to dust. besides the fact that I also did not find the cleaning action to be all that fantastic. especially with a full size load. but I will rig something up to seal the agitator so I can do one last load with it to make everyone happy.
My personal preference for that machine is the double duty Surga later only because of the tremendous wash action it gives with its extended fins and the extreme size of the tub / basket. with the double duty agitator you get a hell of a lot more action and a much more violent swish doing wash and rinse. I don't really remember the washing action of the original agitator being anything to rant and rave about unless you did a large load and not an extra large load.
And this machine does have 83 port pump and not a 4 port pump since I could not find a new magic clean filter to replace the old one. I tried to clean it with some chemicals but to no avail. when the machine would rain it would use almost all of the 4 minutes and they would still be water in the bottom of the basket when it would start to spend so needless to say the draining action sucked! and I could not find a new magic clean filter system for the washer, and had to modify it a little bit by finding a new tub ring with a filter and change it over to a 3 port pump.
I just ordered roto swirl agitator for it from a website called best bids and they also had penta swirl that I will be acquiring as soon as it is available again. unfortunately it was out of stock otherwise I would have bought it too.
I will do a video tomorrow with the original agitator in the machine so keep your eyes posted and look for it.
As for my thoughts on all of the posts, seems like we got a good can worms going here which is pretty cool. I hope everybody enjoyed the pictures and unfortunately me being the way that I am back when I got that machine I really did not want to do to it what I did by modifying its original features but sometimes in order to get what you want you have to do what you need.
I have put that machine through hell and back and it never gives me any trouble at all. I do have a direct drive Roper that you can see in the pictures that I posted and if you notice it is not hooked up. why you ask?!
Because it is a shred more! that machine has ruined more clothes on my wife than any other machine in the history of any washing machine built and I'll go on record for saying that! as far as the wife goes, she loves the harvest gold machine maybe more than I do but that's why I keep the double duty in that so she can do herungodly large loads which I'm always complaining about!
I'm always stressing to her not to overload the washing machine!
I found my original surgilator and remember why I don't use it anymore because the gasket bolted to the shaft dry rotted and crumbled away to dust. besides the fact that I also did not find the cleaning action to be all that fantastic. especially with a full size load. but I will rig something up to seal the agitator so I can do one last load with it to make everyone happy.
My personal preference for that machine is the double duty Surga later only because of the tremendous wash action it gives with its extended fins and the extreme size of the tub / basket. with the double duty agitator you get a hell of a lot more action and a much more violent swish doing wash and rinse. I don't really remember the washing action of the original agitator being anything to rant and rave about unless you did a large load and not an extra large load.
And this machine does have 83 port pump and not a 4 port pump since I could not find a new magic clean filter to replace the old one. I tried to clean it with some chemicals but to no avail. when the machine would rain it would use almost all of the 4 minutes and they would still be water in the bottom of the basket when it would start to spend so needless to say the draining action sucked! and I could not find a new magic clean filter system for the washer, and had to modify it a little bit by finding a new tub ring with a filter and change it over to a 3 port pump.
I just ordered roto swirl agitator for it from a website called best bids and they also had penta swirl that I will be acquiring as soon as it is available again. unfortunately it was out of stock otherwise I would have bought it too.
I will do a video tomorrow with the original agitator in the machine so keep your eyes posted and look for it.
As for my thoughts on all of the posts, seems like we got a good can worms going here which is pretty cool. I hope everybody enjoyed the pictures and unfortunately me being the way that I am back when I got that machine I really did not want to do to it what I did by modifying its original features but sometimes in order to get what you want you have to do what you need.
I have put that machine through hell and back and it never gives me any trouble at all. I do have a direct drive Roper that you can see in the pictures that I posted and if you notice it is not hooked up. why you ask?!
Because it is a shred more! that machine has ruined more clothes on my wife than any other machine in the history of any washing machine built and I'll go on record for saying that! as far as the wife goes, she loves the harvest gold machine maybe more than I do but that's why I keep the double duty in that so she can do herungodly large loads which I'm always complaining about!
I'm always stressing to her not to overload the washing machine!
