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Thread Number: 38076
Vintage Bendix front load washer in Lexington KY |
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Post# 565674 12/29/2011 at 00:28 (4,499 days old) by d-jones  (Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh Area)) |
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Here's one for the Bendix fans. Happy new year everyone!
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| Post# 565688 , Reply# 1 12/29/2011 at 01:33 (4,499 days old) by qualin (Canada) | ||
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That's a bargain. Were all the Bendix's from this period hard mount? | ||
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Post# 565690 , Reply# 2 12/29/2011 at 01:41 (4,499 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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Well, the Bendix was the first automatic washer. It came out in 1937 and was a hard mount. As far as I know, there were two designs: the "Standard" which is pictured above, and the "Deluxe" which had a squared off cabinet surrounding the tub and base. Both were mechanically identical. This hard mount design continued until about 1950. Then Bendix came out with a soft mount washer, and then a combo washer/dryer. There were minor changes in the hard mount washers during their 13 year run, such as changing the fill flume location, but basically it was the same product. It was very popular despite the hard mount requirement, because it was the first fully automatic home laundry system.
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Post# 565910 , Reply# 4 12/30/2011 at 06:26 (4,498 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Ooo | ||
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Post# 565921 , Reply# 6 12/30/2011 at 07:45 (4,498 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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BENDIX BOLT DOWN WASHERS It is interesting how many of these keep showing up, but then you also have to consider that they made millions of these washers. And because they were bolted down they often got left in place as most that are found are still bolted down.
I think that it is also interesting that in 1950 Bendix was by far the biggest maker of auto-matic washers the world had ever seen. And by 1960 after an explosive decade of automatic washer sales they they were all but done in the home laundry sales. I think that some of thier biggest mistakes were dropping the bolt down model, it should have been kept as an economy machine and there were millions of satisfied customers that would have replaced with another Bendix rather than switch. Thier other BIG mistake was when they came out with the smaller cheaper to build Duo-Matic in 1959 they should have continued the full sized machine as the premium model. Again Bendix invented the Combo and had a great product better than any other Combo and they downsized the machine and almost every other machine was now a better machine overall. | ||
| Post# 566084 , Reply# 8 12/31/2011 at 10:20 (4,497 days old) by cornutt (Huntsville, AL USA) | ||
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Suds line I remember a commercial machine with that marking on the glass, but it wasn't this machine. | ||
| Post# 566100 , Reply# 9 12/31/2011 at 13:25 (4,496 days old) by bendixmark (Winchester Mass) | ||
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kitchen bendix My grandmothers bendix was bolted down in the kitchen and a family friend had theirs in a pantry but when the machine would spin everybody sure knew it I was told.Both of these machines were replaced with very nice kenmores before I was four.Damn it,born too late.The frustration continues... | ||
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Post# 566173 , Reply# 10 12/31/2011 at 18:08 (4,496 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Suds Line
Markings on glass doors could be found on all manner and sort of domestic and or commercial front loading washers. Though IIRC the trend continued far longer for the latter.
Rationale was simple: when soap,soap based cleansers standard for wash day foam was the given indicator of proper amount versus soil levels/water conditions. Even later when detergents pretty much shut out soaps one would read directions on packets stating "....use enough product to bring suds halfway up the window...". Halfway up the window was open to interpetation so to protect washing machine parts and allow for good cleaning (as we all know too much froth is a no-no in front loaders as it cushions the wash and reduces cleaning), manufactureres decided to take the bull by the horns and draw a line in the sand as it were. For this system to work however there must be a means of dispensing soap/detergent directly to the tubs. Modern domestic and commercial machines by and large have all moved to systems where incoming water flushes dispenser contents down between/into the drum. This largely replaces the "hatch" or other method of simply dumping detergent manually at any time. | ||
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