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It was cool to have a set like these. But as a daily driver, they were just too trouble prone. I finally quit using them after the spin shaft got chewed up by the sure spin clutch roller. The dryer was never that terrific and took a long time to dry a big load of clothes. Seems like there was always some problem with them.
 
It was cool to have a set like these. But as a daily driver, they were just too trouble prone. I finally quit using them after the spin shaft got chewed up by the sure spin clutch roller. The dryer was never that terrific and took a long time to dry a big load of clothes. Seems like there was always some problem with them. It's a shame because they were so intriguing to use and watch operate. Just not really very durable as daily drivers. Maytag of that vintage had them beat on that. [this post was last edited: 12/2/2016-13:40]
 
I had this model in white. The strangest feature was it agitates on a slower delicate speed until the water is at a certain level to keep the high splashes down. Great top loader though. I always wondered what would have happened if GM had introduced a front loader.
 
Yay! Glad it works, even on a rogue color machine.

If you cancel all options; wash time, options, etc., the timer will just run around in a circle, buzz and stop back at off.

There is a switch in the water level control that keeps pulsate speed on low below the small load level.
 
Eie like it!

Qualestei! Some former G.E. design ingenuity from Schenectady above the waist? Omaha too.
Dayton Ohio below the waist. Good appliance dna. Love the poppy red too, since they didn't ever do royal blue or plum crazy.
 
I have two 1-18's in perfect working condition. I have one hooked up and the other as a back-up. Right now I use the hooked-up 1-18 for perm press and large loads and a late 60's solid tub Speed Queen for sheets, towels and smaller loads.
 
Last TOL 1-18 Washer

Thats really cool Jon, now all I have to do is install the Zone Of Silence Kit that Jason and I installed on our 1-18 and it will no longer sound like a rock crusher.

 

Bruce these were very reliable washers, I have had mine in a daily driver position at home for around 20 years and it has had NO REPAIRS, 1-18 washers usually out lasted the matching dryers and were certainly the most reliable and long lived of any Frigidaire washer ever built.

 

And while the FD 1-18 dryers were not the most rugged dryer ever built they were great performers, remember they were the top rated dryer in the early 70s for overall performance and over I would put their overall reliability on a par with MT SOH dryers, both designs had too many plastic parts in them.

 

I have had a FD 1-18 electric dryer in our W Va house for over 25 years and it is fast and even, it sits next to a 1984 LKM Limited Edition electric dryer and they both perform about the same in terms of drying speed and load size.

 

John L.
 
Wow!   I saw one of these in the D.H. Holmes clearance center in the early 1980's while stove shopping.  I really wanted it.  Only had money for the stove at the time.  The first house type of crisis,  wants and needs. Congrats it is beautiful.   A
 

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