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Thread Number: 23381
help in age dating a Frigidaire 1-18 |
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| Post# 364481 , Reply# 1 7/16/2009 at 08:41 (5,391 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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Post# 364484 , Reply# 2 7/16/2009 at 08:47 (5,391 days old) by turquoisedude  (.) |
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| Post# 364502 , Reply# 3 7/16/2009 at 09:39 (5,391 days old) by bwoods () | ||
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close up 1 combining the threads the control panel 
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| Post# 364503 , Reply# 4 7/16/2009 at 09:40 (5,391 days old) by bwoods () | ||
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anaother close up control panel view 2 
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| Post# 364504 , Reply# 5 7/16/2009 at 09:41 (5,391 days old) by bwoods () | ||
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close up 3 tub... 
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| Post# 364520 , Reply# 7 7/16/2009 at 10:18 (5,391 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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| Post# 364521 , Reply# 8 7/16/2009 at 10:19 (5,391 days old) by mixguy (St. Martinville, Louisiana) | ||
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Check under the lid Read the chart printed on the underside of the lid. The chart tells wash/rinse temperatures and agitation/spin speeds for each of the 6 fabric setting. | ||
| Post# 364524 , Reply# 9 7/16/2009 at 10:25 (5,391 days old) by bwoods () | ||
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thanks Thanks, Russell. I haven't even had a chance to look under the lid yet. | ||
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Post# 364527 , Reply# 10 7/16/2009 at 10:31 (5,391 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Very nice looking washer - that shiny basket looks mint! You may have a problem with the clutch/spin roller assembly if it won't start spinning on its own. Start by cleaning the rollers with lighter fluid and see how it works then. There are adjustments that can be made to the clutch, it sounds more intimidating than it really is. There are repair manuals for the 1-18 machines periodically on ebay, might be a good idea to buy one to have. Great thrifting find - congrats! | ||
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Post# 364531 , Reply# 11 7/16/2009 at 10:40 (5,391 days old) by pdub (Portland, Oregon) |
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congratulations
I have this exact machine. The instructions and breakdown of speeds and water temps is printed on the inside of the lid. Colorfast is HOT/WARM, regular agitate and fast spin. Non-Colorfast is WARM/WARM, regular agitate and fast spin. Special is WARM/WARM, slow agitate and fast spin. Cold wash and rinses are chosen with the COLD WATER selector. I'll let you read the rest from the lid. It's a great washer and I use it all the time. It should be a 1976 model. If it has sat for a while that may be why it had trouble spinning. Try running it a few times and see if it goes back to normal. You can take the front panel off and clean the roller surfaces with butane lighter fluid and that may help too. 
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| Post# 364532 , Reply# 12 7/16/2009 at 10:41 (5,391 days old) by bwoods () | ||
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Thanks for the tip Thanks! Will try the lighter fluid first. Hope that does the trick. | ||
| Post# 364567 , Reply# 13 7/16/2009 at 13:10 (5,390 days old) by autowasherfreak () | ||
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I wish I could find something like that in one of my local thrift stores. I did find a nice GE Filter Flow the Salvation Army thrift store. Buy the time I found someone with a truck it was gone. Look like a great machine, good luck with it! | ||
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Post# 364642 , Reply# 15 7/16/2009 at 19:19 (5,390 days old) by joelippard (Hickory) |
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Spin problem | ||
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Post# 364649 , Reply# 16 7/16/2009 at 20:03 (5,390 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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| Post# 364657 , Reply# 17 7/16/2009 at 20:46 (5,390 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan) | ||
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| Post# 364729 , Reply# 18 7/17/2009 at 00:29 (5,390 days old) by soberleaf () | ||
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75 bucks was a good price i'll buy it for 300 if you want to sell | ||
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Post# 364761 , Reply# 19 7/17/2009 at 06:08 (5,390 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 364766 , Reply# 20 7/17/2009 at 06:15 (5,390 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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Post# 364857 , Reply# 22 7/17/2009 at 13:20 (5,389 days old) by pdub (Portland, Oregon) |
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| Post# 364909 , Reply# 23 7/17/2009 at 16:08 (5,389 days old) by bwoods () | ||
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serial number Thanks, Patrick. The serial# is 61EE 2077 Barry | ||
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Post# 364949 , Reply# 24 7/17/2009 at 17:57 (5,389 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 365017 , Reply# 25 7/17/2009 at 22:02 (5,389 days old) by pdub (Portland, Oregon) |
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| Post# 365689 , Reply# 26 7/20/2009 at 15:05 (5,386 days old) by cornutt (Huntsville, AL USA) | ||
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They actually made a model that was called the WCI? That's a little scary, considering. | ||
| Post# 365868 , Reply# 27 7/21/2009 at 08:55 (5,386 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan) | ||
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Post# 365939 , Reply# 28 7/21/2009 at 12:54 (5,386 days old) by pdub (Portland, Oregon) |
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Post# 365946 , Reply# 29 7/21/2009 at 14:10 (5,385 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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Frigidaire!
They were made from 1970 - 1980 GM shutdown Frigidaire on December 26th, 1980 The appliances were still being made by GM for awhile after WCI purchased Frigidaire. The origional intention was for wci to make everything, but it all backfired. WCI was a bunch of idiots. I also remember whenn it all actually happened it was just after John Lennon was killed. Even though so many companies have become very cheap and have made many bad business decisions nothing can ever compare or be as bad as to what happened to frigidaire. I am attachiong a article I got that was in our archives about the demise of gm frigidaire: Bob Connor from Pittsburgh, PA sez... Destroying electric cars seems like an act only a stupid company would do but this is not the first time GM made a good product that they didn't want to public to keep. I know some people who have a hobby of collecting and restoring home appliances. I don't buy the argument from GM that nobody would make parts for the EV1s that people wanted to buy. Until 1980 GM had their home appliance division, Frigidaire. GM Frigidaire kitchen and laundry appliances were among the most innovative made at the time and usually of high quality, some are still going today. No, you cannot get parts for GM Frigidaire appliances now and today GM pretends that they never existed (Today's Frigidaire appliances are made by another company and are considered a "budget" brand). Oh, BTW, GM shut down Frigidaire on December 26, 1980 so the employees in Dayton got unemployment for Christmas. What I am saying is that this is a much bigger blunder than getting rid of Frigidaire and GM deserves to go bankrupt because of it. I cannot figure out who in their right mind would buy Anything from this company. The only reason I think they do well in the Pittsburgh area: We have a lot of seniors who have good memories of the Chevys and Buicks they drove in the 50s, and a lot of funeral homes that like Cadillac. GM also screwed up when they wanted people to get an expensive charger for the car. Why could an electric car not be recharged by a 220 volt electric dryer outlet found in most homes? That way you would recharge after doing the laundry! Even if you didn't have this outlet an electrician could add one for about 200 dollars. But please don't charge near that much for the DVD, charge less than most movies as the message is more important than the one about the "Lake House". | ||
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Post# 366157 , Reply# 31 7/22/2009 at 09:03 (5,385 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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There is a large collection of Frigidaire documentation at Wright University in Dayton, I would love to go dig through this for a while and watch some of the tapes and films from Frigidaire's glory days. The link is a PDF list of the contents of the collection and a good summary of the history from the beginnings to the end in January, 1979. All of the correspondence, GM Tech-Talk service manuals and even the Frigidairian Newsletter for employees ended in 1979 with WCI documentation and model introductions coming out in August of 1979. Some of the Frigidaire & GM employee blog postings I've found all date the Frigidaire factories shut down in 79 with the exception of the Dayton factory which was retooled to make GM trucks, the first one rolling off the line in January of 1981. Given that it takes a long time to retool a factory from making appliances to making vehicles, 1979 would have been the last year of production for Frigidaire appliances. I'm not sure where the Pittsburg person got that information, but it seems to be a bit off. About 2/3 of the Frigidaire employees were retained in the truck manufacturing plants so the job losses to the Dayton area in 1979 when the Frigidaire plants closed were harsh but not devastating as they were in 2008/09 when GM closed that factory in Dayton. Here is a NYT article on the announcement of the sale to WCI. The article doesn't mention that 1978 losses on $450 million in sales were $40 million which prompted the quick sale to WCI in a time of increasing import competition in the auto industry. Though Frigidaire enjoyed the reputation of quality and innovation in appliances for many years, their profits never made them an outstanding performer in GM's portfolio of companies. CLICK HERE TO GO TO gansky1's LINK 
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