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Thread Number: 51657
The Last Bolt Downs? |
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| Post# 740479 3/8/2014 at 22:56 (3,694 days old) by cornutt (Huntsville, AL USA) | ||
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The Norge ad in yesterday's POD contained a mention of "No need to bolt down!" That got me thinking: what were the last bolt-down machines made for residential use? Were there any made after 1960? (I'm aware that there are commercial bolt-downs still made today.) | ||
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Post# 740481 , Reply# 1 3/8/2014 at 23:10 (3,694 days old) by Kenmore71  (Minneapolis, MN) |
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 Bolt-downs were gone long before that all the way across the board. To my knowledge, GE, Maytag & Frigidaire never made a bolt-down. I think the main bolt-down manufacturers were WP/KM and Bendix. There may have been others that I have not investigated. By about 1950 or 1951 the WP/KM machines were no longer bolt-down. There were VERY FEW bolt-down machines produced after 1950.
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| Post# 740648 , Reply# 2 3/9/2014 at 10:53 (3,693 days old) by golittlesport (California) | ||
Norge did make a bolt down
Actually, Norge's very first automatic washer was a bolt down. It was a front loader and only produced for about a year or so before their top-load, non-bolt down line was introduced.
Westinghouse also made a BOL bolt down machine for home use, similar to their coin-op washers that were produced well into the 60s, maybe beyond. The Launderall/Horton top load H axis machines were bolt down too. I think Beam may have made a bolt down agitator automatic for its customers like Western Auto, Gambles, etc. under the names of Wizard, Coronado and such. Not positive, but I've seen ads for round machines that look like a wringer washer without the wringer. | ||
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Post# 740800 , Reply# 4 3/9/2014 at 20:49 (3,693 days old) by Kenmore71 (Minneapolis, MN) |
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Post# 740909 , Reply# 5 3/10/2014 at 13:52 (3,692 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Bolt down Bendix machines could be bolted to the joists in a wooden floor. The holes were drilled through the joists and a steel plate was put under the joists and bolted to the joists. The bolts came through the plate and the joists and the machine was attached to them. Lots of dynamic forces at work there. | ||
| Post# 740973 , Reply# 6 3/10/2014 at 17:24 (3,692 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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A friend of mine.. Said his Grandmother had a bolt down Bendix on the closed in back poarch off of the kitchen, he said if you left one of the cabinet doors open in the kitchen, when it would spin it would shake the dishes out on the floor!He said the whole house would rattle! | ||
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