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Post# 246134   11/3/2007 at 22:18 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246135 , Reply# 1   11/3/2007 at 22:19 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246136 , Reply# 2   11/3/2007 at 22:19 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246137 , Reply# 3   11/3/2007 at 22:20 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246138 , Reply# 4   11/3/2007 at 22:20 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246139 , Reply# 5   11/3/2007 at 22:21 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246140 , Reply# 6   11/3/2007 at 22:21 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246141 , Reply# 7   11/3/2007 at 22:22 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246142 , Reply# 8   11/3/2007 at 22:23 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246143 , Reply# 9   11/3/2007 at 22:23 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246144 , Reply# 10   11/3/2007 at 22:24 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246145 , Reply# 11   11/3/2007 at 22:24 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246146 , Reply# 12   11/3/2007 at 22:25 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246147 , Reply# 13   11/3/2007 at 22:25 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246148 , Reply# 14   11/3/2007 at 22:26 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246149 , Reply# 15   11/3/2007 at 22:27 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246150 , Reply# 16   11/3/2007 at 22:27 (5,989 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 246157 , Reply# 17   11/3/2007 at 23:03 (5,989 days old) by 70series ( Connecticut.)   |   | |
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Thanks for sharing that awesome catalogue with us. All of those machines are beautiful. Have a good one, James |
Post# 246159 , Reply# 18   11/3/2007 at 23:16 (5,989 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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Post# 246166 , Reply# 20   11/4/2007 at 01:05 (5,989 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 246168 , Reply# 21   11/4/2007 at 01:29 (5,989 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 246180 , Reply# 22   11/4/2007 at 03:18 (5,989 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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Post# 246192 , Reply# 23   11/4/2007 at 04:37 (5,989 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Wonderful scans there, love those compact 8lb toploaders, that panel looks well funky, does anyone have these?? I see the semi-automatic model washes drains & spins etc,after you`ve filled it manually, thats interesting, all our semi machines you had to advance manually to the next programme task.... was the VisiMatic a marketing dream word, what advantages does it offer over an ordinary solid wringer?? |
Post# 246202 , Reply# 26   11/4/2007 at 07:26 (5,989 days old) by northwesty (Renton, WA)   |   | |
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Interesting to see that they are still offering the "target" or "one eyed frog" still in 1960, that's later than I had thought. |
Post# 246203 , Reply# 27   11/4/2007 at 07:31 (5,989 days old) by tlee618 ()   |   | |
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What fun Greg, thanks so much for sharing those with us. It was like a trip down memory lane. Sears Kenmore always had such great looking machines. |
Post# 246216 , Reply# 28   11/4/2007 at 08:24 (5,989 days old) by nurdlinger (Tucson AZ)   |   | |
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Post# 246217 , Reply# 29   11/4/2007 at 08:26 (5,989 days old) by cny4 (Central New York)   |   | |
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I've always hoped a member would do this type of presentation. Does anyone have other years of Sears catalogs they can do this with? |
Post# 246228 , Reply# 31   11/4/2007 at 09:34 (5,989 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 246232 , Reply# 32   11/4/2007 at 09:47 (5,989 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida)   |   | |
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Post# 246240 , Reply# 33   11/4/2007 at 10:29 (5,989 days old) by powerfin64 (Yakima, Washington)   |   | |
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Post# 246243 , Reply# 34   11/4/2007 at 10:37 (5,989 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Dick S., look again at the pricing. The LK is $299; the Model 80 is $259 and your mom's is $229. My high school best friend's mom had the same washer. I remember the hot water saver was a toggle switch on the back of the machine panel that opted for a cold rinse on the cottons cycle. I find it interesting the 24" wide machine has the exact same panel, add a fabric softener dispenser, and only a straight-vane agitator.
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Post# 246255 , Reply# 35   11/4/2007 at 12:05 (5,989 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 246274 , Reply# 36   11/4/2007 at 13:27 (5,989 days old) by tlee618 ()   |   | |
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One other thing that surprised me was that they were still making the "Bug Eye" machine then and a two speed model at that. |
Post# 246329 , Reply# 37   11/4/2007 at 18:36 (5,988 days old) by rickr (.)   |   | |
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Post# 246345 , Reply# 38   11/4/2007 at 19:35 (5,988 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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This is about the 100th time I've looked over the scans---I love looking at old Sears catalogs. Had a '59 for years, but it went into the trash when I left for college. Bad mother! Bad mother! I didn't realize the Roto-Rack went back so far. For some reason I thought it was a 70's thing. We had a pull-out mid-50's Westinghouse for many years. When we moved we didn't get a dishwasher til the 1974 (or '75, maybe) LK was added to the kitchen. |
Post# 246350 , Reply# 39   11/4/2007 at 20:08 (5,988 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 246390 , Reply# 40   11/4/2007 at 21:33 (5,988 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 246404 , Reply# 42   11/4/2007 at 22:20 (5,988 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 246556 , Reply# 44   11/5/2007 at 10:29 (5,988 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!)   |   | |
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Post# 246778 , Reply# 48   11/6/2007 at 13:11 (5,987 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Yes, I'm still returning to gawk at the pretty pretty washers... Interesting that back in 1960---well before liquid detergents became the norm---Sears was already 'promoting' them by having a liquid-only dispenser on its flagship washer. I remember seeing TV and print ads for (liquid) Wisk back when I was a little kid, but everyone in my orbit used powdered detergents. Of course, I grew up in the anti-new-fangled world of smalltown upper-midwest and we weren't known for being early adopters. Does anyone else old enough to remember the Beatles's breakup recall having family/friends/neighbors who used a liquid detergent as their daily driver back in the early 1960's? |
Post# 246836 , Reply# 49   11/6/2007 at 17:41 (5,986 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 246874 , Reply# 50   11/6/2007 at 21:56 (5,986 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Bob--Wow, I'd forgotten all about Snowy Bleach. Had a very distinctive-looking box, as I recall. My mom was a die-hard liquid chlorine bleach user. She never went in for the color-safe bleaches. Until recently, when I discovered Quixtar's Tri-Zyme Detergent Booster and their All-Fabric Bleach, I was also a die-hard LCB guy. But the comination of SA8 with the above-mentioned additives gives me brilliant whites and excellent stain removal without the fabric wear of LCB. I had a white chef's apron which had gone gray over time and LCB never whitened it. Seven or eight washes in SA8 + Tri-Zyme + All-Fabric Bleach has whitened it noticeably. Can't argue with results. We always had Tide, Oxydol, Cheer or Bold in the house, depending on which brand was on sale that week. We always had a box of Ivory Snow or a bottle of Woolite on hand for delicates. |
Post# 247249 , Reply# 52   11/8/2007 at 22:11 (5,984 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 250149 , Reply# 54   11/25/2007 at 11:01 (5,968 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 250506 , Reply# 55   11/26/2007 at 21:25 (5,966 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)   |   | |
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Post# 251052 , Reply# 56   11/29/2007 at 13:03 (5,964 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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In the third picture, a little wheel on the right reads 4 2 0 What's going on here? ;'D I must tell you that when I saw the Visimatic wringer with the spray rinse, I nearly passed out from shock. If you knew how many times I've wrung on slow speed, meditating on how cool it would be if only there were a long row of sprays hitting the clothes, you'd understand. I really went nuts, and swooned for days:"How could we get one?!" Wonder if anyone in the club has seen such a dream in the flesh. Also, the Combo is not any old Combo that "sloshes clothes in a little Puddle"--ha ha, A PUDDLE, (My God ! it's the same thing today in the new machines)--but "sprays clothes in a hot jet of suds." Which means that not only WP combos but KM's as well wash in this coveted manner, which means that now we all have twice the chance of getting one of these super efficient, most fun to watch machines!! Like, Eugene, I've slept in this thread many times. It's tremendous. Thank you, G. |
Post# 251070 , Reply# 57   11/29/2007 at 14:04 (5,964 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 251158 , Reply# 58   11/29/2007 at 23:05 (5,963 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Post# 251228 , Reply# 59   11/30/2007 at 07:35 (5,963 days old) by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany)   |   | |
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Post# 251858 , Reply# 60   12/3/2007 at 19:12 (5,959 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 256529 , Reply# 61   12/27/2007 at 19:26 (5,935 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Something familiar in the exposed control panel in Gansky's new thread had me by the gonads. What machine is this? Why can't I figure it out? So I got in touch with Jons to see if he knew and he directed me to the Lady Kenmore in this thread. Bingo. As soon as you scroll up you'll recognize that short flat dense long control panel as belonging to the one-touch Lady. Thanks to another genius, Glenn, I'm guessing that the air pump works the dosages (Hi Laundress) for the soap & softener dispensers. |
Post# 256537 , Reply# 63   12/27/2007 at 20:32 (5,935 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Post# 256540 , Reply# 64   12/27/2007 at 21:10 (5,935 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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You're exactly right, Mike, the air pump is for the dispensers. There is a valve on the timer that controls which dispenser is operated at the proper time in the cycles. It is the same system as Philco-Bendix used in their TOL combos in the early-mid 60's to run their dispensers. I won't have time to get pictures ready for posting tonight - but perhaps I can do that over the weekend. I haven't had the top up on the washer yet so I'm not sure what I'm going to find with the dispensers and how they're attached to the machine, etc. All new, all different, all Kenmore! (The catalog was only a small sacrifice as I bid on two accidentally on ebay with AuctionSniper.com so had to buy them both! I pulled apart the one that wasn't as nice.) |
Post# 256543 , Reply# 65   12/27/2007 at 21:35 (5,935 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Nurdlinger: You wrote: " Here's what you'll save the very first year 78 boxes of detergent How could this possibly be true? That is more than one a week. How much detergent in a "box"? The answer is not much- in the '50s and early '60s, most boxes of detergent were small by today's standards. I don't recall seeing really big boxes very often. I think the idea was not to tax Milady's delicate wristbones too much, or something. If you'll look at old detergent ads from this era, you'll see what I mean. |
Post# 256544 , Reply# 66   12/27/2007 at 21:39 (5,935 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Post# 256546 , Reply# 67   12/27/2007 at 22:07 (5,935 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Veg--- Don't know if anyone answered your question from the post above. The 'cycle hold' switch is the equivalent of pushing the timer dial in on a regular washer. You flip the switch down and the washer stops (but console and interior lights stay on.) Flip it up and the cycle continues. If you want to completely shut down the power (interior lights included), you'd engage any one of the cycle buttons, then immediately move it to the center (or neutral) position. The rapid advance timer would fast forward the timer to a full 'OFF'. |
Post# 256597 , Reply# 68   12/28/2007 at 10:47 (5,935 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Post# 256611 , Reply# 69   12/28/2007 at 12:43 (5,935 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Hi mickeyd---I didn't have this exact machine; I grew up with a pushbutton Model 80 (pictured above). Then I had a 1959 LK (in yellow, and never used, no less) for a couple of years in the mid-90's. I sold the LK pair and a late 70's Frigidaire 1-18 washer in a fit of downsizing. I lived in a warehouse-style apartment downtown, across the street from an appliance store at the time. They were all rescued from the scrap heap. But I still kick myself regularly for getting rid of them. Especially that sweet Lady K.; Little did I know I'd become a part of the AW family only a few years later. |
Post# 256612 , Reply# 70   12/28/2007 at 14:23 (5,935 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 256619 , Reply# 71   12/28/2007 at 17:30 (5,934 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 256621 , Reply# 72   12/28/2007 at 17:34 (5,934 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 256644 , Reply# 73   12/28/2007 at 20:40 (5,934 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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The loaded Lady K's do this: Fill>soak for 30 min with intermittent agitation> pre-wash for 4 minutes> drain&spin> proceed to wash, all automatically, including soap dispension. To accomplish you press these buttons SOAK + PRE-WASH + COTTONS, etc. This machine is so unusual maybe it combines the usual Lady K Sequence, then does a Superwash, draining some of the water and then refilling. The Whirlpools always remind you to use one and one-half doses of detergent for the super wash. This machine is so unusual, who knows of its wonders? Can't wait for Greg to tell us-- and the story of where it came from. |
Post# 256653 , Reply# 74   12/28/2007 at 21:04 (5,934 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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That will be interesting to find out, we'll have to sit on pins and needles until we get the timer back and the one million wires reattached! I had an electronic control Whirlpool that had a four or six minute agitation, partial drain and then advanced into the main wash. You could use 1 1/2 times the normal amount of detergent and end up with an adequate amount left for the main wash. |
Post# 256657 , Reply# 75   12/28/2007 at 21:25 (5,934 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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All and Wisk were pretty much all there was for liquid laundry detergents until Dynamo came along. Still remember the marketing: "Recommended by women who used to use powders". Dynamo was also billed as only needing 1/4 cup to get a full sized load "really clean". When Dynamo was launched, they sent out people blanket every home in our area (and probably other places in the US as well), with a generous sample kit which included a nice measuring cup, which I STILL have and use to this day. Cup is so khwel, with it's clearly marked "1/4" line! Today you are lucky if you even get any sort of detergent scoop besides those ghastly green things. Will have to say if you contact P&G and ask nicely, they usually send some coupons your way. |
Post# 256658 , Reply# 76   12/28/2007 at 21:41 (5,934 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 256661 , Reply# 77   12/28/2007 at 21:50 (5,934 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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I'm trying to remember if my '85 WP had a super wash. If so, either I never used it or didn't stick around during the cycle to find out there was a partial drain before the main wash. I honestly don't remember a lot about that washer--didn't have it long before I moved and left the machine with the house--except that the agitator had the extra little 'wings' down at the skirt. I was doing a lot of drugs at the time, LOL.
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Post# 256667 , Reply# 78   12/28/2007 at 22:32 (5,934 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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You never fail to please, Eugene! There are no separate gizmos for the Superwash Operation; it's just there, all humble, before the regular cycle. Ironically, the little WP portable, so powerful and fast spinning, actually has a 6 or 4 or 2 minute SW. You get to pick. The standard is 4. Checking the manual on the big WP, instructions call for a DOUBLE dose of detergent. So won't this be quite the talk of town if Greg's new Lady combines the Soak&prewash with a superwash. |
Post# 256679 , Reply# 79   12/28/2007 at 23:36 (5,934 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 256760 , Reply# 80   12/29/2007 at 12:53 (5,934 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Here is a link to a movie with me showing a Super Wash; it happens right away, so you won't have to suffer thru the whole thing.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO mickeyd's LINK |
Post# 256945 , Reply# 81   12/30/2007 at 18:15 (5,932 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 256985 , Reply# 82   12/30/2007 at 22:41 (5,932 days old) by powerfin64 (Yakima, Washington)   |   | |
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Post# 259100 , Reply# 86   1/10/2008 at 19:25 (5,921 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)   |   | |
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Post# 259116 , Reply# 87   1/10/2008 at 20:07 (5,921 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 259147 , Reply# 88   1/10/2008 at 21:26 (5,921 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)   |   | |
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Post# 259159 , Reply# 89   1/10/2008 at 22:22 (5,921 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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I had no idea you looked. I'm so happy because you know it's very humbling to admit that at my age, a silly washer video is one of the best thing I've ever done. Pathetic but true. And anyone else who's interested in friendship, you can get sense of me from the video in the link above. It was inspired by all the work Robert and Greg do for us here at Aworg. Wild thing is I reread the wonderfully friendly thread you all generated last Xmas when I did this, and Robert, you never said a word. Now there's a huge piece of Humble Pie for me to eat. Working on a new movie: The Aqua 62 LK, the Spray Rinsing 62 Frigidaire, and the full sequence of a "real" load of wash in the Easy Spin, not just pretty face towels and new socks. |
Post# 259162 , Reply# 90   1/10/2008 at 22:27 (5,921 days old) by arrrooohhh (Sydney Australia)   |   | |
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I really enjoyed looking at all those Kenmores! Thanks Gansky! |
Post# 259262 , Reply# 91   1/11/2008 at 11:29 (5,921 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Thanks Frigilux and Powerfin had no idea you looked. I'm so happy because you know it's very humbling to admit that at my age, a silly washer video is one of the best thing I've ever done. Pathetic but true. And anyone else who's interested in friendship, you can get sense of me from the video in the link above. It was inspired by all the work Robert and Greg do for us here at Aworg. Wild thing is I reread the wonderfully friendly thread you all generated last Xmas when I did this, and Robert, you never said a word. Now there's a huge piece of Humble Pie for me to eat. Working on a new movie: The Aqua 62 LK, the Spray Rinsing 62 Frigidaire, and the full sequence of a "real" load of wash in the Easy Spin, not just pretty face towels and new socks. |
Post# 260113 , Reply# 92   1/15/2008 at 18:40 (5,916 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Post# 263133 , Reply# 93   2/3/2008 at 21:36 (5,897 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 1125611 , Reply# 94   8/12/2021 at 09:33 (959 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Back in the heyday of Aworg, Greg Gansky1 would treat us on holidays like Memorial Day, the Fourth, Labor day, and randomly as the spirit moved him, to gigantic threads of scans from his vintage Sears Catalogs. It took many of us back to our childhood days when we devoured every word and dreamed about the pictures. One time Greg did a scan of a spray rinsing wringer, and I nearly lost my feces. After the excitement came so many questions: How does the water get into the wringer? Wouldn't the rinse water flow back into the wash water? Do you have to keep the pump on, lest the rinsage overflow the tub? Etcetera.
Then years later, something appeared in the ephemera and it was breath-taking. The Visimatic Spray Rinsing Wringer is the most complex and highly engineered wringer in history. It attaches to the water supply by way of a standard inlet hose leading to a valve on the wringer head. A copper tube, with multiple openings travels across the width of the wringer, saturating the soapy laundry before it hits the rollers. Think about the way a 1-18 sprays a load. Next, the sprayed water falls into a much larger than usual drain tray. AND THEN--now, hold on to your party hats!--the water exits via a short hose into the sink, diverted from the wash tub where wrung wash water usually goes. How Brilliant. It may have been a bit cumbersome, but this is only a guess, to move the wringer around with the hose attached, and thus not a crowd pleaser. Another memory from the ephemera is that it also had a valve switch that would allow you to FILL or RINSE, and the the volume of the water flow was adjustable. Dying some day to see that fill flume.* And, the crowd be damned, there is nothing I wouldn't do, give, or pay to have this cumbersome engineering miracle some day. * Could be confusing the fill/rinse option with the Apex version of this wringer. PS: If I find my misplaced ephemera, will return with more info. Good Day, Michael, MickeyD, named not after Mc Donald's but in honor of my adored Aunt Mickey (Lenore) who let me play with her Easy Spindrer. |
Post# 1125614 , Reply# 95   8/12/2021 at 09:42 (959 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Post# 1125616 , Reply# 97   8/12/2021 at 10:25 (959 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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