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1966 Kenmore coin operated washing machine |
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| Post# 673475 4/17/2013 at 13:46 (4,017 days old) by marty (Central Point, Oregon) | ||
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Kenmore coin- op 1966 Kenmore coin operated washing machine..... Well here are the pictures, less the coin mech. The previous owners says she still has it, I hope to reunite the two Regards Marty 
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| Post# 673476 , Reply# 1 4/17/2013 at 13:48 (4,017 days old) by marty (Central Point, Oregon) | ||
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Coin op 2 Top 
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| Post# 673478 , Reply# 2 4/17/2013 at 13:49 (4,017 days old) by marty (Central Point, Oregon) | ||
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Coin op 3 Dial 1 
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| Post# 673479 , Reply# 3 4/17/2013 at 13:49 (4,017 days old) by marty (Central Point, Oregon) | ||
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Coin op 4 Dial 2 
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| Post# 673480 , Reply# 4 4/17/2013 at 13:50 (4,017 days old) by marty (Central Point, Oregon) | ||
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Coin op 5 Inside lid 
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| Post# 673481 , Reply# 5 4/17/2013 at 13:51 (4,017 days old) by marty (Central Point, Oregon) | ||
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Coin op 6 Tub shot 
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Post# 673484 , Reply# 6 4/17/2013 at 13:54 (4,017 days old) by RevvinKevin  (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land) |
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Again, GREAT save Marty! That coin-op KM is very unique and really cool!
Interesting there is no "control panel / back splash" type of thing like on all other coin-op washers I've seen.
How does it look on the under side? Lightly or heavily used?
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Did you get those pink Frigidaire coin-op twins after all?
Kevin | ||
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Post# 673516 , Reply# 7 4/17/2013 at 16:15 (4,017 days old) by Kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC) |
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Marty -
That machine is in really nice shape! Someone took care of it, which is obvious. This is quite a bit like the machines that I remember as a kid, though I'd have sworn that the coin mechanism was on the right side. There were several side by side so I could have easily brain-jumbled that. The machines I saw had little metal "consolettes" on the back, which were simply thin brushed metal plates that stood up a few inches so the machine wasn't back-less. Some of Kenmore's entry-level home washers had these too. They may have said something like "SEARS Kenmore Automatic Washer" on them but not much more than that. I do not recall the medallion however. There can't be many of these hanging around!! Sears made an effort to market their coin-op units in the 1980s, and they were including them in the home catalogs, but they seem almost non-existent now. Is that one of those double-coated gray tubs? It looks good with the black RS in the center. Were there more of these? Where there was one, there are/were usually others! Gordon | ||
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Post# 673519 , Reply# 8 4/17/2013 at 16:34 (4,017 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 673520 , Reply# 9 4/17/2013 at 16:39 (4,017 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Definitely a rare bird---with an off-balance buzzer, even. Can you imagine what a laundromat full of these puppies would sound like? The buzzer on our 1960 Model 80 used to make me jump...and I was used to it! These machines were no stranger to the the out-of-balance load.
Cool find! You get bonus points for this one. | ||
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Post# 673577 , Reply# 10 4/17/2013 at 20:26 (4,016 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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1966 Kenmore Commerical Washer Cool save Marty, that has to be a very rare machine today, even in its day Sears did not get much of the coin-op machine sales. I would bet that the switch for water temperature was supposed to be a knob and someone replaced it with a toggle switch, it would be easy to see if you check the parts list. The round medallion on the left side had been used on basic home models since the mid 1950s, very cool.
Gordon that is indeed the gray double coating on the wash basket, that was a really good coating that they used and the ones that we saw in the early 80s also had this extra coat on the inside of the outer tubs, we should order some of these tubs, LOL.
I still have a customer that has a pair of mid 80s KM commercial washer & dryer in a small 6 unit apartment building near Dupont Circle in NW Washington DC. I get a call every few years to fix something on them. It is usually a problem with one of the coin slides or complaints about the speed of the gas dryer because of it having a 30 foot long vent, but the machines have had surprisingly few problems.
Out of balance BD KMs, if the machine is properly installed and leveled it should seldom ever trip the OOBS. I always thought it interesting that WP built millions of BD washers for Sears with an OOBS and millions of WP branded washers and only a few WP machines ever ever came with an OOBS, and those were all TOL machines before 1962. In reality the OOBS was just an unnecessary sales gimmick that Sears tried to convince its customers was necessary, I must have removed several hundred of them from Sears washers. | ||
| Post# 673578 , Reply# 11 4/17/2013 at 20:38 (4,016 days old) by lebron (Minnesota) | ||
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Post# 673586 , Reply# 12 4/17/2013 at 21:31 (4,016 days old) by lotsosudz (Sacramento, CA) |
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Neat Medallion | ||
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Post# 673815 , Reply# 13 4/18/2013 at 20:07 (4,015 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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Post# 673886 , Reply# 15 4/19/2013 at 07:10 (4,015 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 673917 , Reply# 17 4/19/2013 at 10:11 (4,015 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 673930 , Reply# 18 4/19/2013 at 10:23 (4,015 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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In NJ when I was little most of the coin-ops were solenoid Speed Queen. Down the Jersey shore I remember Speed Queens and some beautiful coin-op Frigidaire. One laundromat I remember had Unimatic coin-ops, this was the first and last time I had ever seen a Unimatic in action. The next time I would see a Unimatic wouldn't be for 25 years later!
Florida laundromats had many Super-Duty Frigidaire 1010rpm spin coin-op washers. | ||
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Post# 673976 , Reply# 19 4/19/2013 at 14:15 (4,015 days old) by whirlykenmore78 (Prior Lake MN (GMT-0500 CDT.)) |
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Don't ever remember seeing a Laundromat Equiped with Kenmores. Did see some in hotel guest laundries and apartment houses though. Most laudromats I saw around the twin cities growing up had Maytag or Wascomat machines. There were also some Dexter and Speed Queen. Now I mostly see Speed Queen Maytag and Dexter. Sorry to get off topic! Very Nice find there can't be too many of these left. WK78 | ||
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Post# 673979 , Reply# 20 4/19/2013 at 14:37 (4,015 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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| Post# 674115 , Reply# 21 4/20/2013 at 02:02 (4,014 days old) by 70series ( Connecticut.) | ||
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Wow I never saw anything like this before. My coin op washer memories were purely Speed Queens, Maytags, GEs, Wascomats, and Zanussis. Once I saw a BD Whirlpool in a hotel in New Hampshire. This is indeed rare. | ||
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Post# 674124 , Reply# 22 4/20/2013 at 05:42 (4,014 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Robert---and wasn't there a gay book/magazine shop just around the corner (on the Hennepin side) of the pizza/sub shop? The pizza place was called something else when a friend lived a block away from the building shown...but I can't remember what it was called. We'd get take-out from there all the time. My friend moved into an apt. building on DuPont (just up the block following the sidewalk on the right up 24th). She moved there in '88. Didn't realize it had been a laundromat before that!
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