WP Wash Timers With Fill Period

[DADoES]

 
Referencing the instruction card of Reply 17 ... our 1962 had a timer like the 2nd example.

The fill designation may have been used on machines with one water level (full), even if a pressure switch was involved?  Advancing the timer outside the range would override the pressure switch and start agitation immediately, providing a way to run a lower fill.

 

[philr]

On Whirlpool washers, the "Fill" section of the wash period is where the timer can be set so the washer fills. On my 1964 it fills on the complete wash portion of the wash cycles except for the last two minutes of the "Normal" wash. 

 

Unlike some time-filled machines that have a preset fill time that could be shortened to get a lower water level.

 

[peteski50]

WP Wash Timers With Fill Label

Phil - Thank you for posting this is a really great closeup! I hope more people will post more timers! I had thought by 64 they stopped using the Fill label!!

 

[philr]

My 1965 Inglis still has that Fill label  (so I assume Whitlpool also had them). On this one, the "Fill" stops at 6 minutes of the normal wash.

 

[peteski50]

WP Wash Timers With Fill Label

Thanks for posting that is just like the WP model except by 1965 they had already stopped the Fill label at least on WP - that is a real nice machine what does the inside look like!
Peter

 

[yogitunes]

that's a dream machine for me Phil, it was the first Whirlpool I ever got to use.....it also had the magic mix dispenser filter.....what a fun machine to operate.....

was thinking it had just Normal, Gentle and PermPress cycles.....

 

[philr]

This Inglis is a single speed machine, and even the 1964 RCA Whirlpool 5 cycle was a single speed (I converted it to two speeds as the single speed motor was very noisy!).

 

I thought having 5 cycles and a single speed didn't make much sense! The timer was really meant to operate a two-speed machine and it was very easy to rewire. I kept all the original terminals so if I ever want to make it a single speed again, it could be done in a few minutes!

 

[cornutt]

DADoES, my step-mom had an early '70s Kenmore and it behaved the way you described. When we moved to a neighborhood where the water pressure was high, on the rinse fill, after the water shut off it sat for about 20 seconds until the timer advanced and the rinse agitation started. It was kind of a weird thing to see since all the Kenmores I had ever seen had no pauses anywhere in the cycle.

 

[peteski50]

1955 Whirlpool!

another just put on ebay with such a beautiful console and a 20 minute wash and the FILL embedded in the timer!