Whirlpool's very very first Automatic Washer!
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Wow, what a fab find! Try Midwest timer, for sure - they found a timer for me that I was ready to give up on looking for. Keep us posted!
Nice mo-chine!
golittlesport
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wow...what a beautiful machine! Congratulations! I remember seeing those in a few neighbors' basements when I was a kid.
laundryshark
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Classic Whirlpool Washer Videos
In order to convert these through Online.Movavi.com, I had to scavenge the actual Youtube links. As soon as the online utility is back in service once again, I will have collected virtual demos of this 1950 Whirlpool top loader. It's the oldest Whirlpool washer in my video collection. Congratulations on finding this classic machine and thank you for sharing your demos.--Laundry Shark
In order to convert these through Online.Movavi.com, I had to scavenge the actual Youtube links. As soon as the online utility is back in service once again, I will have collected virtual demos of this 1950 Whirlpool top loader. It's the oldest Whirlpool washer in my video collection. Congratulations on finding this classic machine and thank you for sharing your demos.--Laundry Shark
Jed congrats on a great find
Sounds nice from here. I love how they buried the tubs a foot down in the machine, like they were at the bottom of a laundry chute. Gyrafoam tells me it was to prevent deadly wash water diseases from splasing up and hitting you when you opened the lid!
Sounds nice from here. I love how they buried the tubs a foot down in the machine, like they were at the bottom of a laundry chute. Gyrafoam tells me it was to prevent deadly wash water diseases from splasing up and hitting you when you opened the lid!
"deadly wash water diseases"
clearly Jet is 'trippin.
clearly Jet is 'trippin.
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What a neat machine! I'd never seen a metal Whirlpool agitator, nor did I know they existed!
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That is one beautiful machine. That is the first time I've ever seen a metal agitator. I hope you can get the timer fixed.
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WHIRLPOOL
They sure wanted you to know it was a Whirlpool
They sure wanted you to know it was a Whirlpool
askomiele
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This is inovation! This is revolution! This is the best of engeneering! Look how everything is well designed! And the best thing is it still works after all those years! Can you show how that sudsreturn thing works?
I like the idea of saving water.
I like the idea of saving water.whirlaway
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Oldest?
Who made the bolt down top-loader for Sears in 47or48? My manual for Whirlpool shows one similar in the water valve adjustment section.The oddest thing of all it shows the water pump on an earlier model driven by a seperate electric motor.Does your button on the lid opener glow blu from the germicidal lamp.I luv these machines.Mine has a red cap on the agitator,its either a 53 or 52.
Who made the bolt down top-loader for Sears in 47or48? My manual for Whirlpool shows one similar in the water valve adjustment section.The oddest thing of all it shows the water pump on an earlier model driven by a seperate electric motor.Does your button on the lid opener glow blu from the germicidal lamp.I luv these machines.Mine has a red cap on the agitator,its either a 53 or 52.
The oddest thing of all it shows the water pump on an earlier model driven by a seperate electric motor.
Whirlpool produced those machines under the Kenmore brand starting in 1947. There were two pumps, the drain pump was mechanically driven from the drive belt, but the Suds-Saver Return pump was a separate electrically driven pump.
Whirlpool produced those machines under the Kenmore brand starting in 1947. There were two pumps, the drain pump was mechanically driven from the drive belt, but the Suds-Saver Return pump was a separate electrically driven pump.
danemodsandy
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Memories:
We had the Kenmore version of this machine, plus the matching dryer, in the early '60s. Mom and Dad were in the early years of their first mortgage, plus raising three kids, so there wasn't a whole lot of extra money kicking around. Dad somehow found the Kenmores used. Northwesty (where are you, guy?) has the same pair as his daily drivers today.
I don't remember a heck of a lot about the machines other than their outward appearance; Mom was one of those who believed that children should never so much as touch a major appliance. But I do remember their imposing, rounded Truman-era good looks.
We used those machines until '65 or so, when Mom got her apron in a bunch to get new Kenmores. BOL machines with absolutely no glamour they were, too.
We had the Kenmore version of this machine, plus the matching dryer, in the early '60s. Mom and Dad were in the early years of their first mortgage, plus raising three kids, so there wasn't a whole lot of extra money kicking around. Dad somehow found the Kenmores used. Northwesty (where are you, guy?) has the same pair as his daily drivers today.
I don't remember a heck of a lot about the machines other than their outward appearance; Mom was one of those who believed that children should never so much as touch a major appliance. But I do remember their imposing, rounded Truman-era good looks.
We used those machines until '65 or so, when Mom got her apron in a bunch to get new Kenmores. BOL machines with absolutely no glamour they were, too.
Question for anyone who knows: How does an aluminum agitator handle exposure to liquid chlorine bleach? For some reason I thought aluminum & bleach didn't mix well.
Frigilux, i remember rows of speedqueens, Ladies with hair up in curlers, prouring a "glug glug of bleach in them. i would imagine the exposure was not long. especially in coin ops, but it did discolor and take the glossy shine off the agitator, otoh, you know SQ home machines may have been subjected to chroline soak overnight that i would guess make it worse. IIRC sq went to the plastic gray agitator by the early 70's maybe the chlorine bleach contributed to the decision to go plastic/ as well as cost. What member here says"speed queen Clean"? words to live by. alr2903
sorry to double post: i lost my train of thought or lack of it, Jed was the "loading shoot down to the the washtub plastic or metal, I was wondering if the mechanism and tub lower in the machine lowered the center of gravity, decreasing vibration during spin. alr2903
