Thread Number: 20423
Belt Drive or Direct Drive |
[Down to Last] |
Post# 324921   1/17/2009 at 21:51 (5,548 days old) by autowasherfreak ()   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
I found this on our local online classifieds and was wondering if it is a BD or DD model. It's only $75.00. |
|
Post# 324922 , Reply# 1   1/17/2009 at 21:52 (5,548 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
|
Post# 324924 , Reply# 2   1/17/2009 at 21:57 (5,548 days old) by autowasherfreak ()   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
I was guessing it was DD. I wouldn't mind getting it anyway. |
Post# 324925 , Reply# 3   1/17/2009 at 22:01 (5,548 days old) by nmaineman36 ()   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
That would be a direct drive Design 2000 washer. From the mid 80's when they first came out. |
Post# 324929 , Reply# 4   1/17/2009 at 22:06 (5,548 days old) by autowasherfreak ()   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
Were they a good machine for being DD? |
Post# 324934 , Reply# 5   1/17/2009 at 22:11 (5,548 days old) by autowasherfreak ()   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
I tried to enlarge the picture, so I could read the control panel, I see where it says Design 2000. I might offer him $50.00 and see what he says. |
Post# 324940 , Reply# 7   1/17/2009 at 22:28 (5,548 days old) by autowasherfreak ()   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
Thanks for the info guys, I'm going to call tomorrow and see if he will take $50.00. |
Post# 324955 , Reply# 8   1/17/2009 at 22:51 (5,548 days old) by kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC)   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
In addition to the "Design 2000" i.d. mentioned above, here are a couple ways to pick-out a Direct Drive from a Belt-Drive: -- The belt drive washers never had those dual indentations on the sides. They were/are there in DD machines to add some rigidity to the cabinets, which were made of considerably thinnner gauge steel. This was allowed because the cabinet on a DD machine is just there for show basically, whereas the cabinet on a BD is the machine's support structure. -- Whirlpool belt drives, to my knowledge anyway, always had some sort of lid handle, either metal or plastic. -- The lids are wider in the DDs, and the cabinets narrower by two inches, at least in the full size machines, so if the lid seems to take up a significant proportion of the top, it's a DD. I hope those suggestions help. The machine in this photograph is interesting though because it has a console styling which was shared with belt-drives in the 85/86 time frame. Oddly, I recently saw a Whirlpool belt drive that was built in the 10th week of 1987! Must have been one of the very last. Gordon |
Post# 324959 , Reply# 9   1/17/2009 at 22:59 (5,548 days old) by autowasherfreak ()   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
Thanks Gordon, I will have to remember for the future. |
Post# 325035 , Reply# 12   1/18/2009 at 09:59 (5,547 days old) by kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC)   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
James - I do know that Kenmore BD production wrapped up in fall or late summer 1986, BUT it is not at all unusual for items to linger in inventory, especially after they've been taken off the floor display. There is a Sears outlet here that recently opened which had a floor full of 18-month and two year old DDs, just a couple weeks ago. Before outlet stores, sales people wanted to sell what was on the floor and didn't always know what was sitting in a forgotten corner of the warehouse until a stock review found the old stock, made sales people aware of it, and put it on sale. Kenmore was always first with changes and innovations in WP's production, so it does not surprise me either that I found an early 1987 Whirlpool BD home washer. WP did tell me more than once that commercial machines were BD for some time after the end of household production. |
Post# 325043 , Reply# 13   1/18/2009 at 10:19 (5,547 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan)   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
|