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Thread Number: 19346
New Addition: 1962 Aussie FRIGIDAIRE Three Ring Agitator MultiMatic Washer |
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Post# 311578 10/26/2008 at 02:13 (5,660 days old) by mayfan69  (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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Hi Guys Here's the latest addition to the collection. A 1962 MultiMatic. I actually bought this last October but have only just been able to get it home now. It had been sitting in a garage for the 10 years or so. The machine seems to be working fine...pulsating and spinning correctly. It will need a new diaphragm and ciculator ring as you will see. Need to try and track these down. Cheers Leon 
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Post# 311579 , Reply# 1 10/26/2008 at 02:14 (5,660 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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Post# 311580 , Reply# 2 10/26/2008 at 02:15 (5,660 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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Post# 311582 , Reply# 3 10/26/2008 at 02:17 (5,660 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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Post# 311583 , Reply# 4 10/26/2008 at 02:18 (5,660 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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Post# 311584 , Reply# 5 10/26/2008 at 02:19 (5,660 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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Post# 311585 , Reply# 6 10/26/2008 at 02:21 (5,660 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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Post# 311587 , Reply# 7 10/26/2008 at 03:02 (5,660 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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Euro Frigidaire! | ||
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Post# 311595 , Reply# 8 10/26/2008 at 07:43 (5,660 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA) |
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Very kool MultiMatic. The lines on the console remind me of the "instructions" at the beginning of "the Outer Limits" television program about the same vintage! I also notice it has a rather lenghthy "Lint Away Wash" compared to its U.S. bretheren. | ||
| Post# 311598 , Reply# 9 10/26/2008 at 08:52 (5,660 days old) by phamq () | ||
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Mayfan69: you should have a link that shows your collection so we all can see. | ||
| Post# 311600 , Reply# 10 10/26/2008 at 09:05 (5,660 days old) by hilovane (Columbus OH) | ||
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"Do not attempt to adjust the controls on your washing machine. We control the wash time...the water temperature...the water level...we can make it agitate vigorously and spin at very high speeds. We can reduce the speeds to a more gentle mode..." -paraphrased fro the opening of "The Outer Limits" | ||
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Post# 311601 , Reply# 11 10/26/2008 at 09:08 (5,660 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 311614 , Reply# 12 10/26/2008 at 10:56 (5,660 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Greg, what do you mean by anti-clockwise timer? This one moves clockwise, not counterclockwise. Leon, absolutely beautiful. I didn't like back-opening lids. That made the lids get in the way if I wanted to see what the timer was doing or if I wanted to move it around a bit and Frigidaires and Maytags were my prime targets. | ||
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Post# 311621 , Reply# 13 10/26/2008 at 11:37 (5,660 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Timer moves... | ||
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Post# 311638 , Reply# 14 10/26/2008 at 14:57 (5,659 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Actually Bob
we don't know which way the timer motor moves in that machine, it will depend on how many gears are mounted between the motor and dial. But if it was a direct control then to turn the dial clockwise the timer motor would have to turn CCW. Leon very nice find it is a paralell universe machine for sure! email me. jon | ||
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Post# 311668 , Reply# 15 10/26/2008 at 19:48 (5,659 days old) by rapunzel (Sydney) |
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'Euro Frigidaire!' What? Did these come from Europe? I thought it was an Australian Frigidaire. | ||
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Post# 311672 , Reply# 16 10/26/2008 at 20:24 (5,659 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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"Euro Frigidaire?" | ||
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Post# 311717 , Reply# 18 10/27/2008 at 08:56 (5,659 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Good on Ya! | ||
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Post# 311736 , Reply# 19 10/27/2008 at 12:32 (5,658 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Wow Leon.....
You certainly are finding those gems...keep at it I say, lovely looking Frigidaire, so classic & clean lines, whats the definition of the Lint Away Wash & Rinse...!! Euro Frigidaire, it did exist!!! was called the Frigidaire JetaMatic and was based on the MultiMatic Mechanism with a 3kw heater built into it...thats gonna be like a holy Grail over here!!! Happy Hunting, Mike | ||
| Post# 311837 , Reply# 20 10/27/2008 at 18:25 (5,658 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
Gorgeous Washer--and in the spirit of 
"Outer Limits" and too early clock-winding direction, what about my crazy perception? To me, the machine screams sheer '57 Tower. So there ya go;'D--except for the brown squiggly frosting decorations--now that, I agree, is masculine magic Australian originality. God! how I'd love to come down under before I croak.
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Post# 311853 , Reply# 21 10/27/2008 at 19:15 (5,658 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Hey Mike
In '77 I used a Frigidaire laundry in London. They had Jet Action machines with the gray 3 cone agigtators, and square windows in the lids, would they have been roller matics or Multimatics??? They had a bit narrower cabinet than US machines but they still got the clothes clean! It was the tiniest laundro mat around the corner from Cheney Walk, I think it was off Sloane Sq. | ||
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Post# 312309 , Reply# 23 10/29/2008 at 23:51 (5,656 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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Hoover 565 | ||
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Post# 312415 , Reply# 24 10/30/2008 at 16:54 (5,655 days old) by arrrooohhh (Sydney Australia) |
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Ohh is it this Fluid Drive that was on ebay a while back? 
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Post# 312419 , Reply# 25 10/30/2008 at 17:01 (5,655 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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Fluid Drive | ||
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Post# 312422 , Reply# 26 10/30/2008 at 17:22 (5,655 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Oh Leon | ||
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Post# 312424 , Reply# 27 10/30/2008 at 17:32 (5,655 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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More pics | ||
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Post# 312442 , Reply# 28 10/30/2008 at 19:59 (5,655 days old) by arrrooohhh (Sydney Australia) |
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Cant wait for all those pictures! | ||
| Post# 312542 , Reply# 29 10/31/2008 at 20:58 (5,654 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
I love that Simpson...my father bought one for my grandmother with lottery winnings in the early 1960s.... My mother had a 1968 Simpson Fluid Drive automatic...had a lovely row of about 9-10 push buttons on the LHS...ribbed bowl and I used to love watching it spin with the whirlpool effect it created.... | ||
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Post# 312545 , Reply# 30 10/31/2008 at 21:14 (5,654 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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Any of these Fluid Drives Chris? | ||
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Post# 312546 , Reply# 31 10/31/2008 at 21:15 (5,654 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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68 All push button model | ||
| Post# 312552 , Reply# 32 10/31/2008 at 21:44 (5,654 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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WOW.... You've got one... The 4 speed programmed is it. From memory, there is a red reset button on the back of the machine on the LHS of the controls.... A friend of mine had the one below.... Mum gave ours to some friends of mine in Canberra when I bought her the Asea in 1989....it went for a year or 2 more and then I have no idea what happened to it..... Leon, you've made my day! | ||
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