April Fool?

1966 Kenmore 70 or 700 or whatever the number was then, one alphabet dial, sliding water level, black polypropylene Super Rotoswirl, and that light to the right of the dial. There is a raised section of the control that has the corresponding letter and their cycle names. If this is THAT machine, this was the 1st washer I ever laid my eyes on in my grandparents basement. If you depart with it, please keep me in mind, this machine is very special to me.

-Tim

WOW.... VERY NICE!

Oh a Sudsy saver... I think I know who is going to DROOL all over these and grab them when you are ready to turn them loose (hint: He's just across Lake Michigan from you)

OR.... Robert, can you and Fred put them in your carry-ons when you come out in a few weeks??   

Kevin

Of course it's going to be a suds-saver seeing it is from a Minneapolis or even a Minnesota estate.  Did you think that those thrifty Germans and Scandanavians would let all that hot water and detergent go to waste after just one wash?  NOT!!!  Does the suds return appear to be functional? 

Great find!

Sounds like you need to keep this machine, and experience the joys of suds-saving.

Wounderful pair Robert !

Ooh they just follow you.. good karma.

For one of the most beautiful agitator system's in the world.

Darren k

Return the suds and I'll never ask again.

Yes the light was on when ever the washer agitate solenoid was energized, the light was a great way to show off this Great Feature. The only time that the light was a lie was when the suds water was being returned to the machine on SS models, as the light was on but the returning suds water was not being filtered as it was came back into the washer. The true back-wash SCFs were first installed on the 1958 LKMs and continued till the last belt drive KMs and WPs on some models [ only suds-saver machines on most models built after 1981 ]. This was by far the most effective filtering EVER used on any automatic washer, far surpassing the well known GE FF machines.

There was only one other TL washer that had a filter as effective as these WP built washers and it was a GE machine, it was GEs first automatic washer and Robert has the only one in existence. It is his 1947 GE that my brother Jeff and I rescued over 35 years ago and I traded it to Robert for a Westinghouse Combo that I gave to Jeff.

Roberts NEW KM gas dryer should have a direct spark ignition modulating flame 25,000 BUT burner. For anyone that has not seen one of the modulating burners work you are missing out on the best burner system ever put in a gas dryer, AND only Kenmore ever had it. There were only a hand full of WP gas dryers and gas combos that ever got this feature.

With this burner the flame comes on a full 25,000 BUTs and an exhaust sensor bulb that is filled with a freon like gas heats up as the clothes dry. This building gas pressure in the bulb exerts pressure on a needle in side the gas burners main orifice to reduce the flow of gas, but the flame never goes out completely until the dryer gets to the cool down. The flame will actually tapper down to around just 3,000 BTUs but the heat is constant as the clothing finishes drying. With this system it is much liking on your stove top where you reduce the heat as the cooking process continues, rather than turning the heat on full blast and then turning it off and on off and on etc.

I'm glad Robert posted this, this brings back many fond memories, hopefully someday I can find one of these. When I was at John Lefevers a while back, we found the exact machine in the 67 Sears Catalog. Ours was white, has the black poly Super Roto and black scrubber cap. I made a post back here a while back about trying to identify a childhood washer, this is the machine. Our machine was white, non-suds model. One dial and a slider with a red filter light. I remember the woo-woo this machine had, it was very loud, and filter light was worn down and cracked a little. I also remember the light would pulse with agitation strokes a little, it followed the sound. It was the 1st machine, my grandparents acquired the machine from some relatives who actually won a set of new machines in some sort of contest. We got this and a 1957/58 GE dryer with just the little control box on top. They lasted forever, my grandparents got the machines in 75 or so and they survived through the late 90's when the washer stopped working. The dryer to my knowledge never stopped working, but I was too young to take these and do anything with them at the time. I can still remember the basement of their house and the step ladder I used to watch the machine.

-Tim