Yes it IS Maytag month... because I brought home ANOTHER ONE!

[revvinkevin]

I keep saying Craig's List is evil... and it really is, but I guess it must be the preverbal porch light and I am the moth being drawn to it. I TRY not to look, but sometimes I just CANNOT help myself! ACK!!

Well anyway, here it is in the car waiting to be unloaded.

 

[revvinkevin]

OOPS!

Oh wait, that was the wrong photo (LOL) , HERE it is waiting to be unloaded! Surprise!

 

[supremewhirlpol]

I'm Surprised, Please tell us all about it!!

 

[revvinkevin]

Since my collection seems to have an ever-expanding "Maytag theme" going on here, so when I saw this on Craig's List, I thought, "What the heck, let's keep building on the theme"!

The A50 Porta washer was built in April, 1978 (Thank you, Geoff!!) According to the seller, had seen only occasional use in the family vacation cabin until about 15 years ago, when it was replaced by a larger automatic washer & dryer. This little A50 has been in storage eve since!

Here it is after cleaning all the dust off…

 

[revvinkevin]

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[revvinkevin]

Inside the machine was the owners manual (and the manual for the Porta Dryer too) as well as the original fill hose.

 

[ronhic]

WOW!

That looks like new

 

[revvinkevin]

Oh... it even has the plastic stabilizer ring to support the spinner during shipping!
(this was before cleaning)

 

[revvinkevin]

Of course I had to play with it IMMEDIATELY, so here is the action shot!

 

[revvinkevin]

Quite small!

I forgot exactly how big, or small these really are until I saw it earlier today in the storage unit. So here it is in it's new home with the proud parents (grand parents?)!

 

[laundromat]

WoooHooo!

My great aunt had the same one during her dorm years

 

[redcarpetdrew]

The neatest thing about those little A50's was the absolutely INSANE rpm's the spinner gets up to. They rival if not flat out beat alot of the new front loaders out on the market! I use mine occasionally for the fun of it and the wife has not been able to decide which washer she likes the best; the A50 or the E2LP. Ahhh, a woman after my own heart! Enjoy!

RCD

 

[golittlesport]

wow!

How cool Kevin! I like how the Maytags would reverse the pulsator direction. Can't wait to come over and do some wash in it. It's the perfect companion for my compact wringer you're babysitting.

 

[gadgetgary]

Kevin

I am keeping the Maytag theme going too.
Here is the perfect match to your new Maytag.

 

[swestoyz]

Love these!

One of my early vintage finds was the avocado A50, hiding in this beautiful transport cover:

 

[swestoyz]

I don't think it had been used much, if at all. All it needed was a new wash belt.

Was just reading about the spinner tub block! My machine is an early one, from 1970, and has the original cardboard block. Yours has the revised plastic block - which they started using on both the portawashers and the standard automatics after the summer of '72.

Again, congrats!

Ben

 

[mistereric]

Wow!

Such lovely little machines. Congrats!

 

[revvinkevin]

Ben...WOW!

Wow, yours looks amazing and I LOVE the cover for it!! Do you happen to have another one?? LOL I see that mine has gray impellers and yours have black impellers, do you know when they made that change?

And thanks for the "kind congrats"! Congrats to you too!

I think it's pretty cool, small, but cool! Yesterday afternoon I was doing laundry in mine, had the spinner and impellers going too, then suddenly the impellers stopped. I looked at the timer and it was not at off. Hmmm...... I stopped the spinner and heard the motor still running. I thought "DAM, the belt broke!" So later last night I pulled the back panel off (actually, all the panels, I can post photos later if anyone is interested) and found the belt had only come off. Wow, I got lucky there!

 

[macboy91si]

The A50 is all of the rage!

I LOOOOOOOOOVE that avocado green!! and the cover is cool. Where do you all find these things!? My little A50 is doing just fine, I think you'll enjoy it, they're fun little machine and SOOOOO tiny. I thought the Hoovers were small, but the 23" ish wide A50 is a dwarf. The only thing my A50 needs are the wash pulley tightened somehow as there is play in them which causes a thumping sound when washing. My serial is 381732, but I'm unsure of it's age, black impellers. Originally she was white, but a very battered and dirty white so I painted it a gold color, which turned out pretty good, need to wax it. It didn't look to have much actual use though when I got last year. These things are built like a Maytag and deceptively heavy.

-Tim

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