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Post# 484608 12/27/2010 at 16:51 (4,860 days old) by goatfarmer  (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 484609 , Reply# 1 12/27/2010 at 16:52 (4,860 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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under the hood | ||
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Post# 484610 , Reply# 2 12/27/2010 at 16:55 (4,860 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Maytag 208 | ||
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Post# 484612 , Reply# 3 12/27/2010 at 16:56 (4,860 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Maytag A 408S closeup | ||
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Post# 484614 , Reply# 4 12/27/2010 at 17:03 (4,860 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Maytag tub | ||
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Post# 484615 , Reply# 5 12/27/2010 at 17:05 (4,860 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Monkey wards closeup | ||
| Post# 484626 , Reply# 6 12/27/2010 at 17:42 (4,860 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ) | ||
Early-to-mid eighties
The Wards is very nice! It should be early-to-mid eighties. Montgomery Wards changed from their blue-bar logo to the Serifa logo in 1983, but they switched from Norge to WCI for laundry equipment at some point in the nineties--possibly because Maytag wasn't interested in fulfilling that supplier role for them long-term? Hard to say. By the time the "Signature 2000" designation came along, the change was underway.
My machine, a twin to yours, has chintzy cast one-piece silver knobs with indents, a more one-piece control panel (that resonates and has to be bent and smushed to prevent it from vibrating against the knobs--oy), and the "Time Savers" designation at the lower-right. The "Time Savers" branding continued into the burpalator-less Admirals that ensued. The control panel on yours is nice and beefy, and those knobs are classy. In an almost Frigidairian shift, later Time Savers units transitioned to the full-sized, plastic-basketed, cartridge- (soap-barfing-) filter WCI design, and kept the control panel looks of my machine. As with 1-18s, sometimes the lid-lifting of a MW machine yields nothing but WCI-flavored disappointment :-). | ||
| Post# 484663 , Reply# 7 12/27/2010 at 20:13 (4,860 days old) by qsd-dan (West) | ||
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Post# 484664 , Reply# 8 12/27/2010 at 20:18 (4,860 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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A quibble on the Wards: | ||
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Post# 484668 , Reply# 9 12/27/2010 at 20:41 (4,860 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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Only Used By a Little Old Lady On Sundays | ||
| Post# 484693 , Reply# 11 12/27/2010 at 22:21 (4,860 days old) by autowasherfreak () | ||
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First is this Norge disguised as a Montgomery Wards machine I wouldn't mind seeing a video of this one. The Tags look pretty good considering their age. | ||
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Post# 484698 , Reply# 12 12/27/2010 at 23:19 (4,860 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Interesting Wards. Looks like the same tub as my "Wardge" from Ben. Aside from the controls and motor, mine is an '82 BOL Wards with the same basket but no filtering. Even with hairy dog-beds, I don't notice a problem with the machine handling lint - the hair or the fiber the agitation scrapes from the fabrics. I love this black agitator, and the (not pictured) Overload Prevention Sheath. Everyone who uses this washer admires it's "virility" in the lineup of washers here.
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| Post# 484758 , Reply# 13 12/28/2010 at 12:08 (4,859 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ) | ||
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Interesting
'82 would have been the older round-knob machines branded with the blue-bar logo; I wonder if this was a transition between the older panels and the newer style before the silver flattish knobs came along?
Greg, yours has the older Norge "spigot" fill flume and Kenny's (and mine) have the plastic, recessed tub cover with integrated flume, very similar to what persisted into Norgetags. I wonder if this puts the black-panel collection further towards the later eighties? It would have helped if MW had not stopped their catalog in '85 :-) The Serifa Montgomery Ward logo was in use from '83-'92, and by that time the "Signature 2000" designation should have superseded it on the machines, so there's a window of time... By the way, when I say "Serifa," it's this: 
And "blue-bar" is this: 
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| Post# 484760 , Reply# 14 12/28/2010 at 12:13 (4,859 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ) | ||
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The other side of the bookend | ||
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Post# 484773 , Reply# 15 12/28/2010 at 12:38 (4,859 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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| Post# 484782 , Reply# 16 12/28/2010 at 13:01 (4,859 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ) | ||
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Great machine! | ||
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Post# 484790 , Reply# 17 12/28/2010 at 13:36 (4,859 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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" . . .reliability can be hit-or-miss . . ."
Oh come on, Nate. You know all too well by now that it's way more miss than hit! No doubt your and David's clothes will greatly appreciate any replacement machine you end up with. Conversely, that "Signature 2000" panel looks like the companion to my mom's last dryer, a machine that was entirely "hit" and behaved as well the day it was hauled out of here as on the day it was installed nearly 20 years earlier. If ONLY Norge had built their washers to last like that . . . | ||
| Post# 484823 , Reply# 18 12/28/2010 at 16:51 (4,859 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ) | ||
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Okay... | ||
| Post# 484827 , Reply# 19 12/28/2010 at 17:41 (4,859 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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NORGE! I still say Norge was the best performing washer ever...not the easiest to work on or the quietest,but put in a load of greasy nasty work clothes ..do the same with a Maytag, the Norge will consistently outwash it two to one! And the Norge will handle a MUCH heavier load! | ||
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Post# 484880 , Reply# 20 12/28/2010 at 20:41 (4,859 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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. . . Norge will consistently outwash it two to one! | ||
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Post# 485667 , Reply# 21 1/1/2011 at 14:44 (4,855 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Hooked up the Wards today. I forgot how much fun they are! Brakes banging, solenoids clanging, lots of splash! It works great, no leaks or unusual noises. Model # LNC 6365A87 Ser# 58F040934 was built 6/85 according to this website. CLICK HERE TO GO TO goatfarmer's LINK | ||
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