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Post# 110018   2/15/2006 at 22:03 (6,615 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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Well the Easy is back together and running perfectly. I washed two very dirty load of towels tonight. That BIG sprialator agitator doesn't take any baloney let me tell you. Its just a dramatic as I was hoping for and then some, even with a overstuffed load.

The Cycle is pretty standard,

Fill
10 Min Wash
Pause
Spin
8 Spray Rinses
Spin
Rinse Fill (no overflow rinse)
2 Min Rinse Agitation
Pause
5 Min Final Spin

There is recirculation in this machine, but no filter to catch the lint, I believe the recirculation is mainly for the suds return system, here are photos of the premier wash load tonight...


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Post# 110019 , Reply# 1   2/15/2006 at 22:06 (6,615 days old) by pulsator (Saint Joseph, MI)        

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WOO HOO!!!!! AWEOSME MACHINE ROBERT!!!! When can we expect videos? ;)

Post# 110021 , Reply# 2   2/15/2006 at 22:11 (6,615 days old) by westytoploader ()        

YAY!! What an incredible washer...I can just picture the spiral smackulation and the "dip-roll" load motion that these ramp-type agitators are most famous for!! Is it indeed a reversing motor design, or is there a solenoid I didn't see in there that CLUNKS for spin?

I'm looking forward to videos as well...would love to hear it!! Is it a high-pitched "Wah-wah-wah" sound during agitation? Somehow that comes to mind...

Glad your other dream machine is up and running--congrats!!

--Austin


Post# 110022 , Reply# 3   2/15/2006 at 22:12 (6,615 days old) by magic clean ()        
You've once again made it seem so Easy

Superb!

Post# 110024 , Reply# 4   2/15/2006 at 22:14 (6,615 days old) by scott55405 ()        

Very nice. Does it sound like an Easy Spindrier when agitating? I like how they have the silhouette of the Spindrier on the naemplate.

Post# 110026 , Reply# 5   2/15/2006 at 22:21 (6,615 days old) by hoover1060 ()        
very cool Robert!

how nice that you got that machine up and running so fast too!
I really enjoy seeing all the pictures of the operations too. Its really cool to see how all these machines do the same things so differently!


Post# 110029 , Reply# 6   2/15/2006 at 22:43 (6,615 days old) by jerseymike ()        
My hat's off to you ...

You never cease to amaze me.

What an awesome machine.

It's a shame that Easy automatics never caught on with the buying public. (Consumer reports strikes again! Grrr!)

I agree, it's great to see the Spin Dryer as part of the logo.

Can't wait to see the video.

What an wonderful addition to your collection.

Mike


Post# 110034 , Reply# 7   2/15/2006 at 23:18 (6,615 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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EVERYBODY SAY YAY!!!!! So much fun. My kinda machine, recirculation for no purpose other than suds return. That add a bit to the drama for sure--although that spnaking sure gets the job done!! Intersting pattern the towels had against the wall after the spin.

Post# 110036 , Reply# 8   2/15/2006 at 23:20 (6,615 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)        
Awesome!

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Robert, you amaze me once again. I guess after a bit of practice, it just comes 'Easy', as many have said before. Looking forward to seeing video in due time. Thanks for posting, and the quick resto --- unbelievable!

Ben


Post# 110038 , Reply# 9   2/15/2006 at 23:22 (6,615 days old) by tlee618 ()        

Thanks Robert for the neat pictures. You really got this machine up and going in a hurry. The finished load looked really white and bright!! Terry

Post# 110041 , Reply# 10   2/15/2006 at 23:50 (6,615 days old) by frontaloadotmy (the cool gay realm)        
Beautiful Robert

What a Fab RED bleach dispenser recvr/flume !!!

Post# 110043 , Reply# 11   2/15/2006 at 23:57 (6,615 days old) by peteski50 (New York)        
Easy Washdays

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Robert,
Real cool I'm surprised it doesn't do a overflow rinse.
Best Of Luck!
Peter



Post# 110048 , Reply# 12   2/16/2006 at 02:48 (6,615 days old) by designgeek ()        


Congratulations! Man that was a quick restoration, and right back into service. IMHO it's max cool to see half-century-old technology resurrected and performing like new.

Eight spin rinses sounds like a great idea. How did you quantify that? Was it a long period of spin, with 8 periods during which water was sprayed into the tub?


Post# 110049 , Reply# 13   2/16/2006 at 03:52 (6,615 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)        
Easy Peasy

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Congratulations on another restoration, sure looks a Splashmatic action.

Did you work out the arc swing & OPM?? just along with everything you`ve been doin..LOL

At least you can get some sleep tonight, I bet you`ve been working on this the last 2 nights in excitement.

Great Stuff

Mike


Post# 110060 , Reply# 14   2/16/2006 at 06:42 (6,614 days old) by retromom ()        
Fantastic Robert!

Congrats on your newest treasure and restoration! I love the red touches on the interior! You certainly grabbed the brass ring on this one! :-D

Venus


Post# 110075 , Reply# 15   2/16/2006 at 07:48 (6,614 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida)        
You are so fast

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Robert:

You are so fast to restore something so old. I have the drive, but maybe not the parts.

Very nice!

Steve


Post# 110084 , Reply# 16   2/16/2006 at 08:48 (6,614 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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Hi Everyone, glad you enjoyed the pictures and yes I will try and get the old video camera rolling for our video hungry group.

Austin the machine is indeed a reversing motor design with a pause between agitation and spin. I thought it might be a solenoid snap into spin design because there is a big solenoid on the top of the transmission with a linkage into the center. It turns out this solenoid is referred to as a "Hold" solenoid and its purpose is to cut out agitation but keep recirculation going during the suds return cycle. The saved suds water is pumped from the sink back into the outer tub and then recirculated into the wash tub.

Does it sound like an Easy Spindrier when agitating?
Hi Scott, yes a bit, but the automatic is slightly louder, I remember the Easy Spindrier I had a ways back, when its was just agitating was almost silent.

Eight spin rinses sounds like a great idea. How did you quantify that?
DGeek, the wash spin off is four minutes long, during the last two minutes the washer sprays eight times, 5 seconds for each spray. There must be a sub-increment cam inside the timer (just like on a Whirlpool, Kenmore, Norge and Wards washers) which controls the intermittent spray.

Did you work out the arc swing & OPM??
Hi Mike, no not quite, but it certainly is not a 210 degree arc.

Glad your other dream machine is up and running
Ummm, are we talking in the Victorian sense Austin ;)


Post# 110089 , Reply# 17   2/16/2006 at 09:36 (6,614 days old) by brent-aucoin ()        

Robert,
What fun!
Thanks for the pictures.
I bet it is so cool to watch the spray rinses when that water hits that spiral agitator with such force! How long is the first spin with all of the spray rinses?
From start to finish, how long did the entire load take?
Also, were the towels very dry after the final rinse? I would imagine that they would be with that huge agitator wind storm in there.
Thanks again for the pictures.
Oh....was the Easy matching dryer made by Easy? Or was it made by another company.
I remember seeing a picture of the day that was the Easy front loader and matching dryer. What a beautiful set that was. The dryer looked like a Hamilton dryer to me, but I was not sure.
Sorry for all of the questions.
Brent


Post# 110099 , Reply# 18   2/16/2006 at 12:06 (6,614 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Robert it is interesting about the lid opening, recirculation and lack of a filter. A friend's mother had an Easy automatic, after sending the Easy Combo back because she did not like it. Her Easy washer had a lid that opened back and had the lint filter in the lid. That one would have been like the early 60s. I guess they figured out a way to use the recirculation for more than just suds return. Her machine had an inlet for the recirculated water much like GE's FilterFlo, centered in the back of the lid opening, to feed the filter instead of discharging under the top like yours. I was only there once when it was operating and did not have the nerve to ask about lifting the lid. If it had the power that your machine demonstrates, it would have had to have a lid switch that killed everything when the lid was lifted.

Post# 110118 , Reply# 19   2/16/2006 at 14:53 (6,614 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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Hi Brent,
How long is the first spin with all of the spray rinses?
the wash spin off is four minutes long, during the last two minutes the washer sprays eight times, 5 seconds for each spray.
From start to finish, how long did the entire load take?
About 35 Minutes
Also, were the towels very dry after the final rinse?
Compared to a Frigidaire they were dripping wet, compared to a Kenmore they were ready for ironing.
was the Easy matching dryer made by Easy?
I have no idea about that one.

Tom it is interesting you mention the lint filter. Was it built into the lid itself or under the top? At first I thought maybe the lint filter was missing but I can find absolutely no evidence of any bracket to hold a filter mechanism. As for the lid switch it is wired directly into the incoming hot power so, so all actions stops, even fill when you open the lid. What's even crazier is the lid switch is a rather sharp blade and it is heavily spring loaded, so it literally hurts to hold it in. Of course the first thing I did was to take the switch out of the circuit.


Post# 110122 , Reply# 20   2/16/2006 at 15:15 (6,614 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)        

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I think I have a picture saved of a machine with a lint filter in the lid, probably one of the Easy models to which Tom refers. I'll scrounge it up at the next opportunity, unless somebody else finds a copy first.

Post# 110124 , Reply# 21   2/16/2006 at 15:27 (6,614 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)        

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Compared to a Frigidaire they were dripping wet, compared to a Kenmore they were ready for ironing.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!


Post# 110141 , Reply# 22   2/16/2006 at 17:42 (6,614 days old) by jamman_98 (Columbia, SC)        
Wonderful!!

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Great find and what a quick fix. Now what about the 47 GE?

Joe
jamman


Post# 110146 , Reply# 23   2/16/2006 at 18:20 (6,614 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)        
livin' easy

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How beauuuuutiful

It's begging for the chrome top, agi cap with EASY engraved. Let me send it to you.

It's just so cool. I've looked at the pics at least 5 times. Pic#7 with the olive, peach, and orange towels clearly shows the swirling currents of the spirilator. Amazing that a photo could do that. That's how unique amd powerful the spirilator is.

You can't find any evidence of a filter mount because the FILTER FITS OVER THE AGITATOR. Mine (aqua-colored) is three houses ago. I didn't use it . Irretrievable. Sorry! I'll try to get another one.

Thank you sooooooo much for this, a glimpse of heaven for me.

I love you, Robert.

Mikey


Post# 110151 , Reply# 24   2/16/2006 at 18:27 (6,614 days old) by westytoploader ()        

Interesting information...can an 11" Filter-Flo pan fit over the agitator and reach out far enough to catch the stream?

Post# 110172 , Reply# 25   2/16/2006 at 19:42 (6,614 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)        
suds-return

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Robert,

Have you attempted a suds-return?

Any plans or-- no can do?

Michael


Post# 110185 , Reply# 26   2/16/2006 at 20:26 (6,614 days old) by drmitch ()        

Just how many washers had chrome hinges? Nice machine, love all the rinse action!

Post# 110195 , Reply# 27   2/16/2006 at 21:08 (6,614 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)        
I love

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that "thunder thigh" spiralator! A nice thick post gets the job done!



Post# 110197 , Reply# 28   2/16/2006 at 21:15 (6,614 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!)        

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You said it, Jon!

veg


Post# 110238 , Reply# 29   2/17/2006 at 00:00 (6,614 days old) by lightedcontrols ()        
Well.........

.............I'm gonna have to go change my panties.........

Post# 110250 , Reply# 30   2/17/2006 at 03:07 (6,614 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)        

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Wow, you can see that that machine means business. There is movement in those pictures! Washday drama at it's best!

Post# 110281 , Reply# 31   2/17/2006 at 08:13 (6,613 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)        
I Love

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being home on Friday morning because all the schools in Western New York are closed even though it is NOT snowing a single flake. The local affiliate of NPR (National Public Radio) all but boasted that it was the longest closing list they have ever read. Why-----???? Wind wind and more wind 60 mph hopping over Lake Shore Road (U.S. Route 5--we're all so connected) turning it into a carwash
O R_________

An Easy Spray rinse cycle. Everything always goes back to wasing machines.
Dearest Turbo and Jetco, you've got to figure that since easy was the master of the spray rinse, their first automatic would have to be spectacular in that regard.
Imagine, a front-mounted fill flume wider than the Whirlpool horseshoe spray (mid 90's),shooting curtains of water and Eight of them. How I'd love to see it.
Deprived, I have never seen an Easy Automatic. And I've had the same thought as you have, Tom. The Spindrier wash tub is so wide, and the automatic tub so small by comparison, the Spirilator would wreak holy hell in it.

Do you guys harbor the fantasy that perhaps the Easy Automatics faded because they were just too powerful, hence scarrrryyy, with their razorblade lid switched that even stopped the fill like the older Frigidaires?

Thank you so much for your big threads.

I've go to move the Maytag Portable off the deck because I think it might blow away.

MIkey, Michael, Mickeyd, Easyspin Yeaaaaaahhhh


Post# 110306 , Reply# 32   2/17/2006 at 11:31 (6,613 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

No, I think that the corporation went broke for lack of a strong national advertising campaign and the increasing capacities of washing machines that left manufacturers of solid tub washers in a fix; either redesign at a great cost or just shut down, sell off the assets, pay off the debts and go away. Plus, as I said before, they had sunk the resources in the combos and that venture went down like the Titanic, except that we know where the ship is, but not the Easy combos.

Post# 110319 , Reply# 33   2/17/2006 at 12:57 (6,613 days old) by lesto (Atlanta)        

Awesome, Robert! Isn't the 650 rpm the same spin speed as a solid tub GE? Does the Easy spin clockwise like a Kenmore & Frigidaire or counter like a GE & Maytag?
Les


Post# 110322 , Reply# 34   2/17/2006 at 13:38 (6,613 days old) by eddy1210 (Burnaby BC Canada)        
what a fun machine

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Thank you for those dramatic pictures! I'm wondering how fast the Easy throws the water from the tub? Is it as fast as the Norge, ABC and Unimatics or more gradual like a Speed Queen?

Post# 110356 , Reply# 35   2/17/2006 at 22:16 (6,613 days old) by lesto (Atlanta)        

Robert, how much indexing does it do during agitation?

Post# 110415 , Reply# 36   2/18/2006 at 11:19 (6,612 days old) by rickr (.)        
The Big Easy

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Great that you have this rare classic running already Robert! Thanks for sharing the wonderful photos.

Post# 110416 , Reply# 37   2/18/2006 at 11:21 (6,612 days old) by rickr (.)        

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BTW.... Does that unique control panel contain any lights?


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