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Post# 685034 , Reply# 1 6/22/2013 at 08:19 (3,954 days old) by Kenmoreguy64  (Charlotte, NC) |
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Charles -
I have always enjoyed this piece of literature when it shows up. The model numbers aren't properly lined up with the pictures, which almost makes this like an educator's "put the puzzle pieces back where they belong" type of analytical challenge for children. For a BOL machine, yours was pretty capable and it obviously did a lot of work in its 11 years. Not long after these were offered, Sears' BOL machines all began lacking a lint filter, and that never changed back. I think it was Sears' way of directing people away from the BOL. Question - how did you adjust the water temperatures? At the faucet? Sears seems to have offered a lot of single solenoid valve models for a while in the late 1960s and very early 1970s. I have the machine second down on the right column. You are very correct - it means business, though mine was made in January 1969 and has a gold straight vane plastic agitator which took over from the bakelite 6-vane in 1968. The king BOL machine on this page is the non-console model on the left, third down. That machine is greatly different from yours believe it or not. It does have a two solenoid mixing valve, but it fills with hot water from 15 minutes wash time (yes 15 not 14) to 5 minutes!! To get a warm wash you have to set the machine at 5 minutes wash. DUMB! I would be filling it on warm, then re-setting the time for every load. Then, it has a standard warm rinse, which I can see, but the rinse is of only one minute duration, not two. Its almost as if they made this machine hard to use on purpose. One minute rinse? wow. It doesn't have a filter either. The little 24" machine at the top right with the 1963 Lady Kenmore-like push buttons would be a fun find. Cool machines, all of them! Gordon | ||
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Post# 685038 , Reply# 2 6/22/2013 at 09:02 (3,954 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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The errors in the chart are disconcerting. | ||
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Post# 685060 , Reply# 5 6/22/2013 at 11:55 (3,954 days old) by Kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC) |
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King of the BOLs
Charles -
The BOLiest of the machines on this page, the model lacking the console, had the timer on top right corner of the cabinet, and just as you said, just one knob. A number of models were designed this way, mostly portables. They ended around the early 70s but for some reason, Sears made one more model like this in 1976. I'm digressing (again). This machine is a single cycle model, and the cycle uses nearly all of the 360-degrees of timer sweep. The temperature is set automatically, such that when the user selected say 12 minutes wash, you got a certain water temp to go with, and you got a different temperature at 8-minutes, etc. Sears did this in lots of BOLs, and of course in TOL alphabet washers as well. They just didn't usually make most all the fill HOT as they did in this model. There certainly was enough timer sweep to allow for a two minute rinse. About your machine being able to wash at less than full....funny how that works. Sears mentions this in some of the owner's manuals, that if you desire a less than full wash, set the timer at x-period of wash or less after it has filled to the level you want.... Makes perfect sense doesn't it? Except you get a full fill in rinse. The machines that should have had this feature and didn't were Sears' 1970s BOL one-knob-wonder large capacity models, most filled at all points up until the 2-minute mark on wash. I can see a 24-inch model or even a 29-inch standard capacity machine lacking a water level adjustment (they aren't that big) but a 25-gallon large capacity? There were at least four large tub machines with non-adjustable water levels. Oh well... Gordon | ||
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