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Post# 616143 8/10/2012 at 17:29 (4,276 days old) by goatfarmer  (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 616150 , Reply# 1 8/10/2012 at 18:03 (4,276 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 616151 , Reply# 2 8/10/2012 at 18:03 (4,276 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Post# 616155 , Reply# 3 8/10/2012 at 18:13 (4,276 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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Post# 616156 , Reply# 4 8/10/2012 at 18:13 (4,276 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Lawrence, I bought my set April 1978. It was basically this washer, but had 3-speed combos and the MinQuick cycle was where this machine had the soak and prewash cycle. My mom bought her set late fall of 1978 and was this machine without the extra rinse. About a year or so later, a coworker of mine & her family moved into a house and bought "my" set of models so would be late 1979 or early 1980. Her version of my machine had the ramped activator and the cooldown sequence on the PP cycle whereas mine had the more "Whirlpoolish" sequcne of partial drain and spray, pause, fill with cold water, agitate for abouit 7 minutes, spin out water and then fill for rinse. | ||
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Post# 616157 , Reply# 5 8/10/2012 at 18:15 (4,276 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 616165 , Reply# 6 8/10/2012 at 19:07 (4,276 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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I'm as guilty as Bob - didn't even realize that wasn't an optional 2nd rinse switch. Wow - I had no idea they even offered that feature!
Bob - your timing is right. Sometime about 1980/1981 GE went to what I call the 2nd generation "Naturals", which had the faux woodgrain ALL OVER the console, not just at the top. I had a pair of these, bought in the spring of 1985 and although I loved how they worked and the features, I never failed to do a load of laundry without wondering what moron at GE wanted me to believe they had actually sliced wood and applied it to the face of these appliances???
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Post# 616185 , Reply# 7 8/10/2012 at 19:56 (4,276 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Post# 616188 , Reply# 8 8/10/2012 at 20:11 (4,276 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 616189 , Reply# 9 8/10/2012 at 20:12 (4,276 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 616190 , Reply# 10 8/10/2012 at 20:14 (4,276 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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GE Washer With Suds-Saver | ||
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Post# 616205 , Reply# 11 8/10/2012 at 20:58 (4,276 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Actually this is only a regular capacity washer. John, I disagree with you. If it really were a regular capacity washer, then the water level designations would only go up as far as "Large". And I observed that on MANY of the units that wre the old 14 lb. type machines--albeit either knob or toggleswitch water level selectors. the "larger" tubs had the "extra large" designation on the water level selector. I was able to get two sets of queen size sheets in my FF. | ||
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Post# 616218 , Reply# 12 8/10/2012 at 21:36 (4,276 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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This is where confusion comes into place......
there used to be standard capacity, and large capacity...as designated...... then GE changed Standard to Large, and Large became ExLarge.....names changed, sizes did not..... but look closely again at the control panel.......it reads "Large Capacity - 2 Speed......and yet the water level switch shows ExLarge option Now, in reply number 9, the water level says ExLarge.....but the money shot is the giveaway......thats a wide agitator cap....Standard capacity | ||
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Post# 616221 , Reply# 13 8/10/2012 at 21:43 (4,276 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 616274 , Reply# 14 8/11/2012 at 06:48 (4,276 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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I agree with Martin AND Bob (how confusing is that???). If this (in the original post/ad) were a standard capacity washer, there would be no mention of the size/capacity of the machine in the description of the machine's features on the console; and the water level switch, whether fixed-positioin or infinite, would reference "Small, Medium, Large". The large capacity machines would proudly say so, just as this one does, and the water level switch, whether fixed-position or infinite, would reference "Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large".
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| Post# 616280 , Reply# 15 8/11/2012 at 08:55 (4,276 days old) by tecnopolis (Ocala/Dunnellon, Florida 34481) | ||
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| Post# 616289 , Reply# 16 8/11/2012 at 09:51 (4,276 days old) by barcoboy (Canada) | ||
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| Post# 616751 , Reply# 17 8/13/2012 at 07:43 (4,274 days old) by tecnopolis (Ocala/Dunnellon, Florida 34481) | ||
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Post# 616817 , Reply# 18 8/13/2012 at 15:26 (4,274 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Post# 616845 , Reply# 19 8/13/2012 at 19:10 (4,273 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Suds-Saver on GE FF Washers After they went to the perforated basket washers in 1961 the main pump would not only discharge the water but when the motor is reversed for agitate the pump easily will suck the water back into the washer. The only added part necessary is a two-way valve in the discharge line and a second drain hose.
This is true of all perforated basket washers, it was much easier to have a SS on this type washer. | ||
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