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Thread Number: 39744
Lady K washer with dryer on Seattle C/L |
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| Post# 588541 4/11/2012 at 02:07 (4,398 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA) | ||
This was just brought to my attention (Thanks, Dan!). Grab anybody? Can't beat the price!
RCD CLICK HERE TO GO TO redcarpetdrew's LINK on Seattle Craigslist | ||
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Post# 588591 , Reply# 1 4/11/2012 at 10:17 (4,398 days old) by Kenmoreguy64  (Charlotte, NC) |
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| Post# 588600 , Reply# 2 4/11/2012 at 10:58 (4,398 days old) by aldspinboy (Philadelphia, Pa) | ||
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| Post# 588606 , Reply# 3 4/11/2012 at 11:28 (4,398 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA) | ||
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| Post# 588608 , Reply# 4 4/11/2012 at 11:46 (4,398 days old) by westingman123 () | ||
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No worries! They were pretty to look at! | ||
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Post# 588635 , Reply# 5 4/11/2012 at 13:57 (4,397 days old) by Kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC) |
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Funny Darren, but what is a BOL Roto-Swirl? They all were white from the later 70s forward, as well as many in the mid 70s. Once the Super Roto-Swirl came out in 1963 (the standard was discontinued at the same time approximately), I have never seen even a tiny difference in the Super Roto-Swirl from that point until the end of the commercial BDs in 1987. The side ridges in a bakelite Super RS were more rounded than in the polypropylene plastic version, but that's all I have ever noticed.
Personally, I would have left the machine with the RS in it. Not a big RF fan. Oddly, in only one case in early 1979, a Sears catalog described a 70-series machine as having a Super Roto-Swirl, then it separated that machine from the next down, which was an upper 60-series model, which had a "regular Roto-Swirl". It was odd enough to have a Roto-swirl in a 60-series model, but I don't think the agitators were different except perhaps maybe in their color. I have never seen these separated like that though, before or since. Gordon | ||
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Post# 588639 , Reply# 6 4/11/2012 at 14:26 (4,397 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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Well, a photo of this fabled beast should be posted for archival purposes. The lamp diffuser is quite yellowed on this one! Hopefully this went to a collector.
I've never see a RS with this cap - maybe it was a replacement straight vane, or was this skinny cap used when the scrubber cap was not? Ben 
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| Post# 588644 , Reply# 7 4/11/2012 at 15:35 (4,397 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
Oh don't fret dear, Drew | ||
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Post# 588646 , Reply# 8 4/11/2012 at 15:57 (4,397 days old) by Kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC) |
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Ben,
That cap was used on all Roto-Swirls once the tapered cone-shaped cap went away after 1971 or so. Here's one in gold. In 1978 when WP went to the short centerpost, they lenthened the height of the cap, and made the agitator shaft bolt more stout, so it could more securely hold-down an air seal to prevent water from rising up the centerpost and poisoning the bearings. The older caps which can loosen in everyday use are not good enough in the short post applications. Gordon 
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| Post# 588650 , Reply# 9 4/11/2012 at 16:09 (4,397 days old) by aldspinboy (Philadelphia, Pa) | ||
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Gordon lol ... Not the performance ...of the one of the BEST of many traditional Agitators.
It's funny , how when a agitator in Whirlpool & Kenmore washers... gets split or broken the repair guy just slaps in anything that is in the back of there truck. Or maybe the can't get the proper agitator and but in something that works.
I have seen this in second hand stores yrs ago where the but in a Roto-Swirl in a Ex..large capcity washer ...it looks very small in there. And seven holes above the agitator cap I guess when in ex high water is selected the cap dissapers.
The white pair that you have with the sliding doors. Well my best friends mom got it repaired and they put in a Surgilator and but the scrubber cap back on it was two toned lol. And that model has a Roto-Swirl I was for sure dissapointed.
Thanks for the information on the Roto-Swirl.
Darren k
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Post# 588651 , Reply# 10 4/11/2012 at 16:11 (4,397 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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