Thread Number: 56472
Looking for Skinny Mini motor |
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Post# 789378 , Reply# 3   10/16/2014 at 19:15 (3,476 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 789401 , Reply# 5   10/16/2014 at 21:50 (3,476 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Post# 789416 , Reply# 6   10/16/2014 at 23:59 (3,476 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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John, I found some pictures I took of the motor in my GMini Agitub washer. They aren't very clear but it's a round GE 2 speed motor.
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Post# 789442 , Reply# 7   10/17/2014 at 06:57 (3,476 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Post# 789498 , Reply# 8   10/17/2014 at 18:30 (3,475 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 789726 , Reply# 9   10/19/2014 at 21:44 (3,473 days old) by keith_otr (North Carolina)   |   | |
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I think I may have located a motor. It is the older "round" motor, but it should work. I should have it this week. Thanks for all the info....the collective knowledge of this group astounds me. |
Post# 789735 , Reply# 10   10/19/2014 at 22:30 (3,473 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 790340 , Reply# 12   10/23/2014 at 22:25 (3,469 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 790389 , Reply# 13   10/24/2014 at 07:39 (3,469 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Thanks for posting the video of this unusual machine running, it has been many years since I worked on one of these washers.
The entire Skinni-Minni washer-dryer was a great engineering achievement of building the cheapest to build machine with the least possible number of parts. I have always been fascinated with the ways GM engineers came up with to build this machine. Unfortunately for Frigidaire dealers they were never very thrilled with these machines, the dealer I knew sold 48 the first year and ran over 50 warranty calls in the first year. Even for this time period that was a huge failure rate for first year failures, regular TL washers usually had about a 25% failure rate, contrast that to today where most automatic washers have a failure rate closer to 5%, Quality Control today is light years ahead of 40 years ago. For our museum project I have saved one of the very first SMs [ 1969 ] and one of the last ones as well, a 1994 WCI built machine. Even though the washer mechanism still worked on the orignal [ it made all kinds of noises ] I installed a complete washer assembly replacement that Frigidaire dealers sold to repair SMs that had big problems. |
Post# 790407 , Reply# 14   10/24/2014 at 09:18 (3,469 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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And serviceability could have been better too. The amount of time I needed just to replace the water pump bearing on my GMini washer made me wonder how serviceman dealt with that!
I like the idea of having an outer tub made of plastic (was it the first automatic to use that?) but I think they should have avoided to integrate the water pump to it! Just to remove the sub to assembly on mine was a bit time-consuming! Once that was done, removing the tub/agitator assembly was easy but the next step wasn't! The agitate mechanism is also quite strange! |
Post# 790441 , Reply# 15   10/24/2014 at 14:40 (3,469 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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It dawned on me, when I stared at the video long enough--it's just a traditional oscillating agitator linkage, without the case and oil bath. The band-pulley at the leftmost articulation would normally be a toothed gear.
So clever! I love these machines, even though I know they're beyond difficult to work on. |
Post# 790467 , Reply# 16   10/24/2014 at 18:17 (3,468 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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