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Thread Number: 15606
Free Piano Key LK or Whirly Washer |
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Post# 262243 1/30/2008 at 01:42 (5,924 days old) by sudsmaster  (SF Bay Area, California) |
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This is a set, not sure if the dryer is an exact match, though... same color - harvest brown or whatever it's called ;-)
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| Post# 262252 , Reply# 2 1/30/2008 at 07:04 (5,924 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
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| Post# 262258 , Reply# 3 1/30/2008 at 07:36 (5,924 days old) by oldappliancenut () | ||
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I remember That I used to have that dryer | ||
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Post# 262288 , Reply# 4 1/30/2008 at 10:52 (5,924 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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I remember seeing all of those "piano keys" on the LK's when shopping for my mom's new washer back in 1975. The LK's were just too expensive and luxurious so we opted for a Penta-Swirl model with "Quiet Pak" a little further down the model line. It did its job silently and efficiently for 25 years. I think I saw the same or similar model in harvest gold in the 1/26 wash-in pix. That's a very nice machine, even in brown. I hope somebody who has the room for it grabs it. | ||
| Post# 262675 , Reply# 6 1/31/2008 at 23:25 (5,922 days old) by powerfin64 (Yakima, Washington) | ||
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Post# 262687 , Reply# 7 12/31/2069 at 18:00 (19,833 days old) by mattl (Flushing, MI) |
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Rich, if you were a little closer we might work something out but Yakima is a looong way away. Anyway it's harvest gold, gas, some rust ect. Gave it to my cousin when she was in a rented house, she moved in with relatives so her stuff and the dryer is in storage, no idea of the condition now. | ||
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Post# 262695 , Reply# 8 12/31/2069 at 18:00 (19,833 days old) by washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i) |
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| Post# 262719 , Reply# 9 2/1/2008 at 06:09 (5,922 days old) by funguy10 () | ||
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What is a Penta-Swirl? | ||
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Post# 262847 , Reply# 10 2/1/2008 at 21:18 (5,922 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York) |
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Post# 262851 , Reply# 11 2/1/2008 at 21:22 (5,922 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York) |
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| Post# 262882 , Reply# 12 2/1/2008 at 23:00 (5,922 days old) by powerfin64 (Yakima, Washington) | ||
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Gas? | ||
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Post# 263242 , Reply# 13 2/4/2008 at 15:54 (5,919 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York) |
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Post# 263361 , Reply# 14 2/4/2008 at 23:29 (5,918 days old) by mattl (Flushing, MI) |
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Neither of those agitators were in the original machine. In the '73 I had the vanes were adjusted in and out by slightly lifting the agitator and turning. I'd have to dig out the manual but I think there were 4 settings. | ||
| Post# 263363 , Reply# 15 2/4/2008 at 23:44 (5,918 days old) by powerfin64 (Yakima, Washington) | ||
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Veri-Flex Agitator | ||
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Post# 263364 , Reply# 16 2/4/2008 at 23:46 (5,918 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York) |
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Vari-Flex agitator | ||
| Post# 263378 , Reply# 17 2/5/2008 at 01:56 (5,918 days old) by 70series ( Connecticut.) | ||
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Penta Vane In Action On YouTube Actually that was a Penta Swirl. I did not expect much from it, but boy did it roll those clothes. Have a good one, James | ||
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Post# 263487 , Reply# 18 2/5/2008 at 20:42 (5,918 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York) |
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| Post# 266412 , Reply# 19 2/24/2008 at 07:14 (5,899 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii) | ||
That washer should have had the"Veri-Flex"agitator which had flexible vains that would adjust inward or outward depending on the turbulance you wanted in clothes roll over.These "Ladies"also had a finer belt to lower the noise level considerably!I had a 1967 matched pair in Orlando and sold them to an unapreciative person who claimed she threw them away when the washer's door switch failed!!I found out later she became a "crack head"and actualy sold them to support her habit.
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| Post# 266418 , Reply# 20 2/24/2008 at 11:15 (5,899 days old) by powerfin64 (Yakima, Washington) | ||
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correct but... | ||
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Post# 266464 , Reply# 21 2/24/2008 at 20:42 (5,899 days old) by kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC) |
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More on the Vari-flex and Pentas
All - The Vari-flex was a standard capacity agitator. They considered them 12lb. machines I think? I haven't looked at model parts lists for the 70s Ladies, but I don't think the V-F was used past 1972 or 1973, and I think it had only 5 or 6 years use total. When the Lady K went to the big-tub capacity (18lb.), it no longer could use any of the old agitators and was limited to the Penta-types. The Penta-Vane (five straight vanes) and the Penta-Swirl (five roto-swirl-like vanes) were all Sears had for the big-tubs until the Dual-Action came out in the later 70s. The Penta-swirl was used in the higher line machines, the Penta-Vane in the lower. I only worked on a couple Vari-Flex equipped machines, but I saw a number of others either waiting to be serviced at other places or in a salvage yard. Each one was either stripped and no longer adjustable or locked in position (usually the most vigorous). I don't know when exact replacements were discontinued by Whirlpool, but by 1990 when I got my start, Sears' solution was to sell you a white Roto-swirl. I put one in a friend of a friend's machine one time replacing the vari-flex that was stripped and would not stay with vanes engaged at any but the weakest setting. The guy later told me his machine hadn't worked as well in years and that must have been a big improvement when they came out with the new agitator! I didn't bother correcting him. | ||
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Post# 266469 , Reply# 22 2/24/2008 at 21:20 (5,899 days old) by coldspot66 (Plymouth, Mass) |
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The Vari-Flex agitator also took up alot of room in that 12lb tub!!!! | ||
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