Well hello from the basement everyone.
I started re operating my 1958 Westinghouse Washer tonight.
Below you can see it on its side like the service manual recommends and the bottom ,top,& front service panels have been removed and the motor and pump assembly have been taken out as a unit for reoperation.
Even though it runs very smooth after 45 years of daily use
any machine will run into problems sooner than later, so I always like to head them off with a good cleaning/removal of all old lubricants and a new relube with more modern stable lubes.
Any lubricant from the 1950's will have turned to varnish by now so even if your machine sounds great it really isn't working at its peak capacity.
As you can see in the up coming photos the motor vents were completely blocked by a mixture of coal dust + lint + kitchen grease. That would be enough to block the cooling airflow and make the motor run hotter than it should thus shortnening its life.
Also I got in there and cleaned off the motor start switch which had enough coal grease around it to start shorting to the motor frame.
Also the motor bearings were running almost dry so they got a good soaking in TuFOil which is a super lubricant, that actually adhears to the metal surfaces and is used in jet aircraft it performs so well. Many is the original bearing I have brought back to life with TufOil!
The Pump appears in good shape BUT when I opened the service panel someone had placed a pie plate below the pump so there must have been some kind of small leak at some point.
Unfortunately I can't think of away to test this pump without putting it back into the machine. But it will get a thorough going over and new seals before I put it back in. I do have a new one in stock but I would prefer to use the original equipment as Robert and Greg are very hard judges and they are always peeking under my service panels!!!
I started re operating my 1958 Westinghouse Washer tonight.
Below you can see it on its side like the service manual recommends and the bottom ,top,& front service panels have been removed and the motor and pump assembly have been taken out as a unit for reoperation.
Even though it runs very smooth after 45 years of daily use
any machine will run into problems sooner than later, so I always like to head them off with a good cleaning/removal of all old lubricants and a new relube with more modern stable lubes.
Any lubricant from the 1950's will have turned to varnish by now so even if your machine sounds great it really isn't working at its peak capacity.
As you can see in the up coming photos the motor vents were completely blocked by a mixture of coal dust + lint + kitchen grease. That would be enough to block the cooling airflow and make the motor run hotter than it should thus shortnening its life.
Also I got in there and cleaned off the motor start switch which had enough coal grease around it to start shorting to the motor frame.
Also the motor bearings were running almost dry so they got a good soaking in TuFOil which is a super lubricant, that actually adhears to the metal surfaces and is used in jet aircraft it performs so well. Many is the original bearing I have brought back to life with TufOil!
The Pump appears in good shape BUT when I opened the service panel someone had placed a pie plate below the pump so there must have been some kind of small leak at some point.
Unfortunately I can't think of away to test this pump without putting it back into the machine. But it will get a thorough going over and new seals before I put it back in. I do have a new one in stock but I would prefer to use the original equipment as Robert and Greg are very hard judges and they are always peeking under my service panels!!!
