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Looking to start a new collection. Need help. How? |
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Post# 640962 , Reply# 1   11/23/2012 at 00:38 (4,143 days old) by d-jones (Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh Area))   |   | |
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If you are, then your odds of finding the good vintage machines goes up dramatically. I live in LA. Good stuff turns up here pretty regularly, but the set of 700 series machines I have were all the way up in Chico, so off I went to get them. It was a very long day, but I enjoy a good road trip so what the heck. Up there in Lompoc where you are, everything from Los Angeles in the south to San Luis Obispo in the north is technically in your neighborhood. Then again, if you can spare the money to pay for shipping, the possibilities are almost endless. The entire country becomes your market place. But even if you choose to forgo shipping and stick to a hundred mile radius around Lompoc, with some diligent searching of the craigslist ads you're sure to find something. Good luck and stick with it!
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Post# 640972 , Reply# 3   11/23/2012 at 02:00 (4,143 days old) by d-jones (Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh Area))   |   | |
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I've never had a machine shipped so I can't answer that question, but there are many here on the blog that have, so hopefully one of them will chime in. Whether washers and dryers are easy to repair or not depends largely on you and your mechanical aptitude. For me personally, the greatest difficulty is in finding the necessary parts. But to be honest, the search for parts and the thrill of finally finding them is half the fun of this hobby.
As for your other question, yes, people here do sometimes sell machines and they frequently offer them to people here first. But as the members of this blog are spread all over the country, when a machine is offered here it always seems to be someplace well out of reach for me. So for the most part I concentrate on Craigslist, and it's worked out well so far. I recently found a very rare Apex washer listed locally, only the second one known to exist. It's now in very good hands as part of Kevin's private collection.(RevvinKevin here on the blog) So keep checking Craigslist, and not just the appliance section. Kevin's Apex turned up in the antiques section, and I recently found a nice Maytag A502 that I gave to another member in the free section. So keep looking, and with a little patience you'll find what you're looking for. |
Post# 641007 , Reply# 4   11/23/2012 at 08:51 (4,143 days old) by warrenkeller ()   |   | |
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Do you have to be an upgraded member to see the classifieds on this site? A free machine. How much better can it get! I am very handy and already have a thrill/rush when I think of my first find. |
Post# 641047 , Reply# 6   11/23/2012 at 13:40 (4,142 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan)   |   | |
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Maytag is the way to go! The maytag a806 washers last forver. you will find a bunch of videos on youtube of the maytag a806 washers. It doesnt have to be a a806 either. all older maytag washers will last generations. Maytags today dont last 5 years unlike these older maytags |