Since the discussion of the Kenmore Permanent Press cool-down sequences has been coming up lately, I thought I'd make a video of my 1970 Kenmore doing a load of Permanent Press laundry this morning.  This load consists of 2 LL Bean wrinkle resistant dress shirts and 2 pair of wrinkle resistant khaki pants.  I would estimate this to be about a 4 - 5 lb. load.

The sequence on this machine was the "second" cool-down sequence that was used on WP/KM belt drive machines. It was used from model years 1964 - 1975.  

The sequence consists of 4 timer increments of 2 minutes each.  What you will see in the video is:

1.  The last 30 seconds or so of the wash (hi-speed).  Water is about 120 degrees

2.  Cool-down increment 1: drain lo-speed until the pressure switch indicates that the tub is about half-full (c. 45 seconds), then agitate lo-speed while filling with cold water.  Because I have high water pressure this action is completed by about 1:50 in the timer increment so the pressure switch puts the machine into drain mode briefly until the full 2:00 has elapsed.

3.  Cool-down increment 2: IF the tub wasn't full, the machine would pause to finish filling and then agitate on lo for 2 minutes.  Water is about 95 degrees.

4.  Cool-down increment 3: a repeat of increment 1.

5.  Cool-down increment 4: a repeat of increment 2.  Water is about 70 degrees.

6.  Drain, hi-speed.

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Not sure what the trouble is.  I am getting it work in Safari, Chrome & IE.  So far it says it has 11 views.  Anyone else having trouble?

Vid is working fine, very good Mark!  I remember as a kid realizing that some of the WP/KM cool-down cycles were different but I didn't know very many people with these machines and most didn't use this cycle.  Wearing mostly cottons and using a dryer, I never use the PP cycle on my KM washer either.

That's a beautiful washer panel, always one of my favorites.

To my knowledge most Kenmores never had a separate knits cycle.  Most often what was labeled knits was simply part of the delicates cycle which never had a cool-down.  I don't know when WP changed their PP cycle to a 1 phase cool-down.  With Kenmores I have been told they made the switch when they introduced the "Black Panel" design in 1976.  I'm guessing that the WP changeover would have most likely been around that time as well, but that's only a guess.

I know precious little about Whirlpool machines and their cycle options.  I honestly cannot think of a single house from my childhood memories where there was a WP branded washer.  There were lots of Kenmores and Maytags with a few Norges, Raytheon SQs and 1-18s thrown in.