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Last of the dependalecare Maytag washer
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Post# 364316   7/15/2009 at 21:27 (5,369 days old) by maytaga407 (Heber Utah)        

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Thought I'd post some pic of the one of the last dependablecare maytag washers.




Post# 364319 , Reply# 1   7/15/2009 at 21:33 (5,369 days old) by maytaga407 (Heber Utah)        
dependable care

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front panel off

Post# 364538 , Reply# 2   7/16/2009 at 11:08 (5,369 days old) by passatdoc (Orange County, California)        

What year is it from? My sister has a Dependable Care Maytag from 1993 that works fine (bought the same year she bought her house) and it's never needed servicing.

Post# 364549 , Reply# 3   7/16/2009 at 11:53 (5,369 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)        

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my DC is a little different, not sure if older or newer than yours

Post# 364550 , Reply# 4   7/16/2009 at 11:54 (5,369 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)        

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control panel close up......

Post# 364552 , Reply# 5   7/16/2009 at 11:56 (5,369 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)        

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changed the agitator from the 12 vane to the load sensor, works a lot better and handles a bigger load

Post# 364619 , Reply# 6   7/16/2009 at 16:55 (5,368 days old) by maytaga407 (Heber Utah)        
What year is it from?

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I bought in November of '94. It's not had sevice yet either. I took out the siphon break because I thought it was having trouble drainning, come to find out it was the drain pipe in the house where I lived. I have never put it back in. (siphon break)

Post# 364654 , Reply# 7   7/16/2009 at 20:16 (5,368 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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martin, it's all part of the same series. Yours is more high-end and it had buttons. The middle and lower line portions in the serise had little knobs. BTW, you have the exact set my parents had from 1995 until they sold their house in 2002. Got theirs at Circuit City, it was the told Maytag offering for that chain.

Post# 364721 , Reply# 8   7/16/2009 at 23:28 (5,368 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)        

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I paid $200.00 for mine from a used appliance store, with a guarantee, but changed out the agitator, beautiful set, and very strong and quiet.....this puppy will last, but would have rather had the dual drive instead of the orbital, just a preference

Post# 364765 , Reply# 9   7/17/2009 at 06:14 (5,368 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)        

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Yogi, we have the same W/D, only in white. Great machines.

Post# 367069 , Reply# 10   7/26/2009 at 06:39 (5,359 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        
Well now--------

the Dependable Care machines were still available at selected dealers right up to the Whirly buy-out.

Mark "Lightedcontrols" bought a couple of Dependable Care machines 2005-2006 and I believe may still have one of them new in the box.

"Pulltostart" bought one of the last Dependable Care sets I saw and I believe that to have been 2007. I do not recall the model numbers they were sold under, but they were MOL type machines and still had a porcelain tub.


Post# 367078 , Reply# 11   7/26/2009 at 07:31 (5,359 days old) by mayguy (Minnesota)        

The last DC I saw was the LAT that we sold at Home Depot around 2004. I pushed this machine much as I could to people who wanted something that last!

Post# 367111 , Reply# 12   7/26/2009 at 10:20 (5,359 days old) by passatdoc (Orange County, California)        

My sister's 1993 machine (she moved into the house c. June 1993 and bought the machine new) is in a laundry closet. Originally the home (Marin County, CA) had a one-car attached garage, and the laundry was located in the garage, as is often the case in California, particularly in regions where it's not hot enough to need or have A/C. Placement of the dryer in the garage helps keep the house cooler in summer, plus there is the safety advantage of the garage slab being 6" lower than the floor of the house, in case there is a flood.

The previous owner was a building contractor and, to please his wife, he built a new two-car garage on the other side of the house, and connected it to the with a covered breezeway. The new garage had no plumbing connections, and the old one-car garage was insulated, given a new roof with skylight, and turned into a family room.

He built a laundry annex off the hallway where the bedrooms are located, thus imparting on this single story home the same effect as an upstairs laundry room has on a two-story home: the laundry area is near the bedrooms. He had to infringe an approx. 4 x 7 foot space into the back yard in order to pour a slab and erect walls and a roof. The annex is closed off from the hall by two sliding V-doors (accordian style) whose panelling matches the bedroom doors. If the doors were closed and you walked by it, you might think it was a double wide linen closet.

The only downside is laundry noise: her machines, while rugged, are not particularly quiet, so she doesn't say put a load of towels in the dryer just before bedtime. Even with the annex doors closed, you can still hear the machines running from her bedroom.

I have never measured the depth of the annex with the doors closed. If her Maytag ever fails to the point where it cannot be fixed, or if she one day gives the machine away and buys a FL, depth will have to be carefully considered. I am not certain that the new, larger FLs, with 31-32" depth, would fit, plus one must account for the washer door being left ajar most of the time and the sliding doors would need to clear that obstacle. The annex was designed in the early 1990s with a TL in mind. Hopefully her Dependable Care washer will give her a couple of more decades of service. My aunt's Maytag from 1965 was just replaced two years ago, it gave her more than forty years of service (it had been repaired a few times, however).


Post# 367112 , Reply# 13   7/26/2009 at 10:27 (5,359 days old) by passatdoc (Orange County, California)        
maytaga407 and yogitunes

maytaga407, I noticed the knobs on your machine have yellowed significantly (or else it is an illusion due to the camera) where as yogitunes' knobs have not yellowed, so it appears. Where were your machines located? My sister's machine is in a laundry annex closet without any windows, so it has not been exposed to sunlight. Was your (maytaga407) machine in a sunny laundry area with lots of UV exposure? My sister's model is the exact same as yours. She's lucky to have bought a Dependable Care model and not one of the more recent Maytags with questionable reliability.

Post# 367165 , Reply# 14   7/26/2009 at 13:14 (5,359 days old) by douglasdc6 ()        

I bought my maytag pair in 2000 & have had no problems with them of course I`ve taken very good care of them .

I have a small fan that blows on the washer motor to keep it cool when I`m doing alot of laundry .


Post# 367179 , Reply# 15   7/26/2009 at 13:38 (5,359 days old) by maytaga407 (Heber Utah)        
passatDoc

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passatDoc, They have turned yellow,it was used in a laurgryroom with no windows, it might because I have the nasty habbit of smoking. It was used in that room until Dec. of 2001 and then stored until May of 2005,and then used in the kitchen close to the stove until May of 2008. Then I moved again and let my sister use it until May of 2009. Were I live at now it is being stored again in the garage because there is a kenmore stacked unit here. and ther isnot room where the stacked unit is to put my washer and dryer I wish there was cuz I would perfer to use the maytags. Also my dryer isnot the match for the washer its a DC Bought in 2005. I would post pic of it but I donn't have any.


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