Thread Number: 35754
196? Westinghouse laundromat on EBAY |
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Post# 533303   7/27/2011 at 22:27 (4,627 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii)   |   | |
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Post# 533307 , Reply# 1   7/27/2011 at 23:55 (4,627 days old) by golittlesport (California)   |   | |
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I like those basic, bottom of the line machines. Three position water level switch and two water temps on the one-cycle timer dial. Cute machine.
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Post# 533308 , Reply# 2   7/28/2011 at 00:03 (4,627 days old) by alr2903 (TN)   |   | |
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Golittlesport, thanks for the link. I have never run across that one. alr |
Post# 533335 , Reply# 3   7/28/2011 at 06:35 (4,627 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 533337 , Reply# 4   7/28/2011 at 07:52 (4,627 days old) by ingliscanada ()   |   | |
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I love Westinghouse's idea of "suds-saver" - simply a water level selector - rather than reusing the wash water for subsequent loads. I know there's no need for that in a front loader. Gary |
Post# 533544 , Reply# 5   7/28/2011 at 20:59 (4,626 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 533556 , Reply# 6   7/28/2011 at 22:46 (4,626 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 533561 , Reply# 7   7/29/2011 at 00:53 (4,626 days old) by pdub (Portland, Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 533678 , Reply# 8   7/30/2011 at 00:16 (4,625 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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This is Dan Haggarty, a long-time participant of the washer-events and a friend to many of the first wash-ins going back to the late 90's. He sells some things periodically on ebay, etc. and judging by a 100% positive feedback rating, most buyers seem to be satisfied.
That is a super-cute washer, sometimes the BOL machines have a charm all their own. |
Post# 533691 , Reply# 9   7/30/2011 at 06:38 (4,625 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 533731 , Reply# 10   7/30/2011 at 11:37 (4,624 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 534851 , Reply# 11   8/3/2011 at 20:28 (4,620 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 534877 , Reply# 12   8/3/2011 at 22:56 (4,620 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Post# 534882 , Reply# 13   8/4/2011 at 00:24 (4,620 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Bolt down? We had 2 of them, one each tranny/3belt. Neither were bolted. They would dance if the load was substantially unbalanced, but they did have spring suspension unlike the boltdown Bendix. Coils on either side, leaf on top and bottom.
The tranny was barrel shaped so almost surely planetary rather than pinion/spur. On the back was a large lever and solenoid which engaged spin. |
Post# 535096 , Reply# 15   8/4/2011 at 21:49 (4,619 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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The pictured one is one of the earliest potato-pulley machines. Not sure why they did that. To make up for taking the slant away? I know of no other tumbler with an eccentric pulley.
The spin drive was elegantly simple. All parts accessible for service except the one-way clutch between the drum pulleys. No gears, cheaper and lighter. As a scrawny 12yo I could scoot the cabinet out from the wall. The motor pulley arrangement was both clutch and variable speed/variable torque. If you forced the pulley halves together at low drum speed it would stall the motor but that never happened in normal operation. I admire Wig-tags and May-wags, they were sturdy too, but nowhere near as easy to work on. |
Post# 535123 , Reply# 16   8/5/2011 at 03:21 (4,619 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 535135 , Reply# 17   8/5/2011 at 07:19 (4,619 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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WH changed to the non-slanted tub and potato wash pulley drive with only two offset drum baffles to greatly improve performance. Getting rid of the ridicules tilted tub greatly minimized tangling and the variable wash tumble speed via the Potato Pulley greatly improved cleaning. The slanted cabinet design was continued through 1963-4 when all WH home laundry changed to 27" cabinets. I consider these 30"slant front WH FL washers to be the most desirable WH FL washers. These not only had the wider more stable cabinet design and they also had two hydraulic shocks that were much better that the earlier and again later friction snubbers. |
Post# 535199 , Reply# 18   8/5/2011 at 14:11 (4,618 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Guess I don't remember the tangling but I'm not too sensitive to that. Do remember the slants were much easier to unload than my White-Frigi horiz drum. Also remember our later potato Westy much more troublesome than the slants, might just have been that one. Had it a very short time, maybe a year, mom got pissed and insisted on something else so we got a Westy TL that was also more troublesome. I was mostly out of the house by then so don't know the exact problems.
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