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Thread Number: 11803
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Post# 210032 , Reply# 1 5/14/2007 at 13:55 (6,184 days old) by gadgetgary  (Bristol,CT) |
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'Next time we go over there I'll take some photos.&# | ||
| Post# 210046 , Reply# 2 5/14/2007 at 15:55 (6,184 days old) by brettsomers () | ||
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Whirlcool, was the washer you had in the 80's the Dependable Care style with the short agitation stroke? those short-stroke models do NOT seem to turn bulky items or very full loads like the old wide-stroke models. not at all. | ||
| Post# 210048 , Reply# 3 5/14/2007 at 16:01 (6,184 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
Same Here!
Yep, my 'Tags are really great too. I was SO unhappy with the spin on my former Whirly DD's. On the 'Tag, clothes come out really clean and really spun dry. I'm running the matching 'Tag dryer about half as long as the Whirly had to run. Who says vintage machines were energy hogs? I'm also of the opinion that I'm using less water overall, since the Whirlys required an extra rinse and spin on heavy loads, to get out all the detergent. The 'Tag does it in one go. I never have to intervene with a load and redistribute, or re-rinse, nothing. Truly automatic- just set the dial and listen to the lovely sound of the Maytags doing the wash while I do something ELSE. | ||
| Post# 210080 , Reply# 4 5/14/2007 at 19:17 (6,184 days old) by laundryshark (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) | ||
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Classic Maytag Sounds And I miss the sounds of those classic Maytags. Would be neato to find a good audio or video of one.--Laundry Shark | ||
| Post# 210126 , Reply# 5 5/15/2007 at 01:54 (6,184 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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LaundryShark: | ||
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Post# 210140 , Reply# 6 5/15/2007 at 06:18 (6,184 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA) |
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I think the switch-over from Newton Drive to Orbital Drive occured around 1989 or 1990. Preformance really took a nose-dive with the advent of the Orbital (big-tub)----especially the rinse---not enough time (90 sec.) to roll-over the load (even once most times!) when set at the highest water level. | ||
| Post# 210470 , Reply# 8 5/17/2007 at 00:59 (6,182 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas) | ||
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Believe it or not, I took my camera over there to take a few photos, but I forgot the storage card! Anyway the washer is a model LA710 and the dryer a LDE710. I thought that the washer and dryer were different "levels, BOL&TOL, but I guess they are a matched set. Are these MOL machines? I'll try again for a photo in a day or so. | ||
| Post# 210559 , Reply# 9 5/17/2007 at 15:51 (6,181 days old) by irishwashguy (Salem,Oregon.............A Capital City) | ||
They sound like TOL to me
My mother has a set from 1987 a 412 washer and a 712 Dryer with the original Trans The dryer, just like you decribed, does ring at the end of the program. The dryer has an electronic sensor that stops the dryer when they are dry. With the filter in the front, and the wide agitate, they do a great job, much like the older set my mom had before, her old, old set. These are gems. the spin drain, I was always mesnorised by the slosh, slosh slosh, shlosh.I know that sound very well.From the time that the washer starts to drain, it should take 45 seconds to drain all the way, and come up to spin, then a full spin, wiht the little glug, glug glug. Simplicity at ti's finest.OH!! before I forget, the year my mom bought the new set, they did not have the dryer my mom bought by the time they were ready for delivery, so the lady at Brockmans Maytag gave a free up grade to the TOL 712 dryer with the bell. The drum is also a little bigger than the rest of themit is not bigger persay, but deeper, even a drum light is included. Isn't Maytag Fabulous!!
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Post# 211343 , Reply# 10 5/21/2007 at 12:29 (6,177 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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Allen, I'm in a similar situation with a similar set of Maytags and am waiting to accumulate enough laundry to use them. Can't wait to hear the sound of an old Maytag washer doing its thing. It's been almost 10 years since I replaced my daily driver center-dial model. These machines where my partner and I are house-sitting are the later design brown control panels with larger capacity but underneath they are still the old center-dials. I felt the porcelain tub on the washer and it's so smooth and it all looks so new, I'm sure these people will have this pair for many years to come now that their kids are grown and living elsewhere. They must be closing in on 20 years old and going strong. Hope to see pictures of the pair you've got access to. I haven't looked for model numbers on this pair but will try to find out. Ralph | ||
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