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The New Center for Filter-Flo-ing |
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Post# 337186   3/23/2009 at 23:11 (5,505 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Thanks to Jed and Ben's help this weekend I was moving some of the machines around to different locations. Two of my three GE's are now together, the 1958 Solid Basket Filter-Flo and the 1961 Perforated Basket V12. Look at how much deeper the 1958 model is compared to the 1961 model. I had no idea until I saw them next to each other. |
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Post# 337187 , Reply# 1   3/23/2009 at 23:11 (5,505 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 337194 , Reply# 2   3/24/2009 at 00:13 (5,505 days old) by tuthill ()   |   | |
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These 2 machines together were a blast! |
Post# 337206 , Reply# 3   3/24/2009 at 05:38 (5,505 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Post# 337228 , Reply# 5   3/24/2009 at 07:55 (5,505 days old) by tlee618 ()   |   | |
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Just Beautiful Robert!!! They look so happy together. They are both awesome machines but wow, that 58 just sizzles!!! |
Post# 337236 , Reply# 6   3/24/2009 at 08:32 (5,505 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 337241 , Reply# 7   3/24/2009 at 09:19 (5,505 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 337243 , Reply# 8   3/24/2009 at 09:47 (5,505 days old) by pdub (Portland, Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 337246 , Reply# 9   3/24/2009 at 10:38 (5,505 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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The V-12's were introduced with a couple of new features for marketing, one of them being that the machines were now trimmed closer to cabinet depth and you could(with a hell of a lot of planning, plumbing and work) feed the fill hoses and drain hoses up through a recess in the back of the machine. It was an ass-backwards attempt that they dropped after a couple of years. The Maytags and Hotpoints always had a better solution to flush installation which was, simply to extend the cabinet top and backsplash back over the cabinet by a couple of inches. Market research eventually proved that Bob and Debbie didn't really give a damn about installing their washing machine flush to a wall, even though Consumer's Reports kept nattering on about it for years. The outer tub seals on the solid-basket machines were, essentially the same as the ones on the newer models. I think GE finally added what you're calling a "splash guard" to the underside of the cabinet top as yet one more safeguard against small items breaching the washbasket and ending up plugging the drain at the bottom of the outer tub (which they still did frequently, especially after they removed the drain guard which protected the pump). Probably by then GE had statistics of enough expensive service calls just to realize they needed to address that problem. Interesting that they would have eliminated many service calls had they stuck to the design of those amazing AW-6's from the late forties where even Mrs. Delicate Housewife could lift her GE washbasket out of the machine for the occasional cleaning and maintenance. Maybe the transition from the Bridgeport factory to Louisville lost many of their best engineers. I drove by the Bridgeport factory just days ago and saw it just sitting there, a huge collection of amazing buildings just begging to be turned into overpriced condos. Bridgeport could someday be turned back into a beautiful city if only... |
Post# 337258 , Reply# 10   3/24/2009 at 13:42 (5,505 days old) by rickr (.)   |   | |
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Post# 337271 , Reply# 11   3/24/2009 at 15:26 (5,505 days old) by joelippard (Hickory)   |   | |
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on the wall behind the turquoise filter-flo a framed article on "Machine Queens" I'd love to read that if you would be so kind as to put a picture of it up for us. Those are beautiful Filter-Flo's Robert! Sometimes I wish we had kept mom's but it had terrible balancing problems and was a BOL model... Maybe I'll get to see those machines in person someday. |
Post# 337396 , Reply# 12   3/24/2009 at 23:33 (5,504 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Beautiful machines Robert!Did you have a white 50's Filter Flo at one time also? What year did GE switch to a perforated tub? Yes Rick I did, they switched in 1961. on the wall behind the turquoise filter-flo a framed article on "Machine Queens" That was an article in Out Magazine a few years back where I was mentioned. I will scan that sometime soon Joe. |
Post# 337402 , Reply# 13   3/25/2009 at 00:31 (5,504 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 337446 , Reply# 15   3/25/2009 at 09:15 (5,504 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 338207 , Reply# 16   3/27/2009 at 16:57 (5,502 days old) by geextrarinse (Hudson Valley, New York )   |   | |
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Post# 338491 , Reply# 18   3/29/2009 at 01:01 (5,500 days old) by frapdoodle ()   |   | |
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why dont modern GEs still use filter-flo spouts/ pans? |