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Thread Number: 38715
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Post# 574382 2/8/2012 at 10:42 (4,459 days old) by KenmoreGuy64  (Charlotte, NC) |
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This and one other occasional POD of service literature from the 1967 Kenmore line I find fascinating.
Not only do I love the one-knob wonders in this picture, some of them are not considered fully automatic washers!!! Also interesting, the model numbers shown are wrong. The 110.6703xxx numbers are for the semi-automatics (which you have to select temps at the faucets). The 110.6704xxx numbers are the automatics. Still, I LOVE looking at this list, and would enjoy finding one of the 29-inch one-knob machines. It would be fun to photo-shop the correct model numbers to the pictures! We always seem to enjoy the POD, so thanks again Robert!! Gordon | ||
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Post# 574410 , Reply# 1 2/8/2012 at 13:35 (4,459 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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I think you would still consider them fully automatic though. Kenmore did make a model at one time that was full size and called a semi-automatic. You would wheel it to the sink, fill it with a hose, set the timer to agitate, than set it to drain into the sink, then to spin and repeat for rinse. I believe it was called a Swirl-away? My grandmother's only automatic was an old one dial Kenmore that did say Automatic Washer on the name plate. You had to use a Y adapter for the inlet hoses as it only had one inlet opening on the machine. So by turning both hot and cold faucets you would adjust the water temperature. You could adjust the water level by advancing the timer to around 4 minutes and it would atart agitating at that level.
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Post# 574435 , Reply# 2 2/8/2012 at 14:34 (4,459 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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Post# 574441 , Reply# 3 2/8/2012 at 14:56 (4,459 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Post# 574457 , Reply# 4 2/8/2012 at 15:55 (4,459 days old) by KenmoreGuy64 (Charlotte, NC) |
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Kenmore considers the 110.6703xxx models as separate, or different from the true automatics. If not, they wouldn't have different model numbers. If the user has to manually manipulate faucets to select temperatures, that kills off one of the criteria they used early on when calling a machine an "Automatic washer". Up through 1973, Kenmore's model numbers were of this format:
110.6703xxx - "semi" automatics, OR maybe better called single valve automatics 110.6704xxx - autos (and 110.6714xxx) 110.6705xxx - auto suds models 110.6702xxx - were wringers I believe. The first two digits to the right of the decimal indicate the model year. True, the -03 machines operate a full cycle on their own, but they require more from user interface or control, especially for rinse temps than the true automatics with the dual or triple solenoid inlet valves. Each of the -03 machines have a single solenoid inlet valve. Looks like these didn't last much longer. There were a few 1968 models, no 1969s, and then a couple in 1970. I couldn't find any on Sears' site newer than those. Gordon | ||
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Post# 574461 , Reply# 5 2/8/2012 at 16:36 (4,458 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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Post# 574463 , Reply# 6 2/8/2012 at 16:48 (4,458 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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But why did the front say Automatic Washer on it? Guess they were not telling the truth on the nameplate. I always thought if you turn it on and pretty much could forget it until the load was finished, it was automatic. Unless you wanted to watch it with the lid open (but remember kids, dont touch it). Ya right, as soon as nobodys looking.
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Post# 574480 , Reply# 7 2/8/2012 at 18:40 (4,458 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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You know what.....I think we were all super children.....way too smart not to put our hand in there while it was running......used my Grandmother's cane to push clothes down, stood on a chair to watch all the action.....that washer was my babysitter, I would never leave it during the entire wash day, and you couldn't drag me away for nothing......they always knew exactly were I was at......Now, as an adult, about 20, I pushed the clothes down one time by hand, and the agitator caught my thumbnail, and ripped it off.....less common sense as I got older...
odd enough for my Mother, when she shopped at Sears, left me at the washers, especially the one with the glass tub with the plastic rings showing the wash action.....I wasn't going anywhere!!!.....and was there when she was ready to go......never a threat of being abducted....nobody was taking me from that....lol....if they only thought, hang a washer from a string to lure me outside!!!... I'm guessing, even with the timer alone, it could perform only one function at a time, it was Automatic because it could do this by itself....as opposed to a wringer needed full attention of the operator.... | ||
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Post# 574483 , Reply# 8 2/8/2012 at 19:02 (4,458 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Ha, Ha
I remember the poker chips running in the clear Visimatic in my local Sears. (when nobody was looking) I would switch it from slow to high agitation and hide in the TV section. The manager of that department was a good friend of the family. I bought a Kenmore dishwasher from him many years later and he laughed and told me they all got a kick out of watching me knowing how to switch low to high.
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