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Thread Number: 17869
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Post# 291415 7/18/2008 at 10:58 (5,754 days old) by bajaespuma  (Connecticut) |
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Post# 291416 , Reply# 1 7/18/2008 at 11:01 (5,754 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Post# 291417 , Reply# 2 7/18/2008 at 11:03 (5,754 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Post# 291419 , Reply# 3 7/18/2008 at 11:07 (5,754 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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...and the dial,the dial. I now own what I think are the two best plastic dials ever made. The pull is extraordinary; not only the prettiest hand pull GE ever made, but this thing weighs like precious metal. She ees beautiful, no? Thanks to Phil Turo for managing to get this out of his Sister's cellar and into the Youcrate. I'm so happy to have this model I can't express it in words. It even SMELLS like I remember!!!! How sick is that?
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Post# 291420 , Reply# 4 7/18/2008 at 11:10 (5,754 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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As Phil promised, the cabinet needs some serious cleaning up and I'll have to find a chrome trim strip to replace the missing one, but the porcelain top, once cleaned up, looks brand new. Another rarity: a masonite back apron intact with the schematic in near-perfect condition. With this apron, I can easily fabricate lots of others for my other machines!!
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Post# 291422 , Reply# 5 7/18/2008 at 11:12 (5,754 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Post# 291423 , Reply# 6 7/18/2008 at 11:15 (5,754 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Post# 291425 , Reply# 7 7/18/2008 at 11:18 (5,754 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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My first solid-tub GE Filter-flo!!!! | ||
| Post# 291429 , Reply# 9 7/18/2008 at 11:48 (5,754 days old) by spinout (Phoenix) | ||
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Congrats! That is THE exact machine of my early childhood and the one that started it all for me. I have been looking for one of those since 1979 to no avail. I wish it were here, but I am glad it is in a good place. | ||
| Post# 291433 , Reply# 10 7/18/2008 at 12:02 (5,754 days old) by 7080swashertalk () | ||
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spelling error "...Again, Congradulations" should be congratulations | ||
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Post# 291459 , Reply# 11 7/18/2008 at 15:03 (5,754 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Very nice, Ken! Congratulations! Our house was built in '52 and had no grounded outlets, I'm not sure when that became code/standard so it's understandable that this washer wouldn't have had even a polarized plug. That really is a beautiful machine - the pink toggles and dial are just eye-popping on the gray panel. Lighted dial? Have fun playing with it - if you need any service doctrine from GE, let me know! | ||
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Post# 291461 , Reply# 12 7/18/2008 at 15:08 (5,754 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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| Post# 291473 , Reply# 13 7/18/2008 at 15:45 (5,754 days old) by hilovane (Columbus OH) | ||
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I remember this classic GE model loike it was five minutes ago - my first (childhood) exposure to General Electric washing machines! | ||
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Post# 291528 , Reply# 14 7/18/2008 at 20:41 (5,754 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Thanks to everyone!
Doesn't seem to be a lighted dial. The fluorescent light in the control panel wasn't working. The two bulb outlets had become disconnected so I imagine the dial will be illuminated by that.Also, some of these had a pilot light in the center of the control panel. This one doesn't, but there is a "mount" for it underneath the shield. A small surprise was an invisible "push" switch on the bottom of the control panel that seems to operate the fluorescent light independently from the control as the brochure says. Doesn't seem to be a balast anywhere, but maybe the switch acts as one. Can't wait to get this operating, but have some minor but significant repairs to do first. Am dying to take the whole thing apart so I can sand and paint the cabinet, base and control panel back, but I think I want to get it up and running before I attempt a major overhaul. As I will show later, some of the plastic/rubber pieces are as good as new, but others, like the filter mount and the pink "FILTER FLO" nozzle are cracked and will disintegrate if handled roughtly. Also, just discovered that the small hose between the fill solenoids and the fill flume/siphon break has cracked into three pieces. The fill flume is absolutely solid. I'll have to find some kind of flexible air hose or braided hose that I can bend into a tight double 90 degree angle. Also, to make matters worse, that hose is flared at the siphon break end. Oy. I guess this is what you guys went through all those years ago as you attacked your first vintage machines, but I just want to watch this beauty work, at least once, before I screw up. I will cry if I do anything to damage this machine, and given my inexperience, I don't want to be careless here. As Don Corleone said, so well, "Women and children can afford to be careless..."
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| Post# 291533 , Reply# 15 7/18/2008 at 21:33 (5,754 days old) by rickr (.) | ||
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Post# 291542 , Reply# 16 7/19/2008 at 01:05 (5,754 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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| Post# 291554 , Reply# 17 7/19/2008 at 02:49 (5,754 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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Yeah! another solid tub GE with famous Activator washing. Great washer, these should be pretty easy to fix and parts are not too hard to find........GE did such great colors on that model........ | ||
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Post# 291565 , Reply# 18 7/19/2008 at 08:06 (5,753 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Post# 291566 , Reply# 19 7/19/2008 at 08:19 (5,753 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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...was used in many of the late fifties ranges in fact and was prominent in those wonderful GE "All-in-One" kitchens. They used it up to 1963 on some of the washer/dryer panels. To me they're as delightful (and classic) as GM Frigidaire's "Swirlies" patterns and Boomerang formica. As you folks know, I'm very interested in industrial design, especially that of all these machines we collect, I'd love to know the providence of some of these details which is why I enjoy reading the Patents of the Day. I just think people who created this stuff deserve credit and being known. So many people have enjoyed the films "Mary Poppins" and "Star Wars" but don't realize that the matte artists Peter and Harrison Ellenshaw (father and son)were hugely responsible for the production design values of those movies. What makes these machines so interesting to me is the creation of all the interfaces(control panels, cabinet, funky interactive agitators), some that lasted less than a model year, that distinguished each brand's product from the others. Go look at washers on a Home Depot showroom floor today, especially top loaders--they're all the same bad boring design. 
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Post# 291621 , Reply# 22 7/19/2008 at 17:12 (5,753 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Smartdrive, you are aptly named. Thank you for the perfect explanation. The balast was right there on the diagonal brace, right where you said it would be. Timonator, I don't think GE got the credit for reliability that Maytag was famous for. I remember CU washer reports in the Sixties generally gave GE high marks for repair history, but time has proven them well made. GE was quick to capitalize on incentive buying plans for builders, so alot of condominiums and apartment buildings bought the brand. Also, GE was one of the only brands that had exclusive appliance dealers. I think they started to disappear sometime in the late Seventies, but they all had a tricolor(blue, white and yellow IIRC)illuminated sign. I'm trying to track down some of those stores here in Connecticut to see if any of those old farts were pack-rats and kept a decent inventory of NOS parts. I found one in Hamden, just as it was closing, but wasn't as successful as I'd hoped. I had to crawl through his dumpster and all I got for that was some electric coil burners and three Maytag HOH dryer sprinklers. | ||
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Post# 291969 , Reply# 26 7/21/2008 at 19:22 (5,751 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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During the first trial agitation, I didn't notice any appreciable indexing. That is before I reconnected one of those springs that you mentioned back onto the clip on the base. This is why the tub was lurching forward. God Bless Phil Turo and Youcrate as I found that spring rolling around the bottom of the crate when it was opened. Does anyone know if I can remove the cabinet from the base with the tubs still attached. I remember Robert doing that with his 950R, but the outer tub was off of the machine. | ||
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