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Post# 824088   5/19/2015 at 00:33 (3,264 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)        

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...brought to you by the 1963 Westinghouse Laundromat:

 




 





Post# 824100 , Reply# 1   5/19/2015 at 04:56 (3,264 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)        

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And a Very Good Morning to you Nate.

The first morning post in a long time that I didn't have coffee spraying all over my keyboard from your clever wit. (Kinda of miss that) Just kidding.

Very Cool Vid.


Post# 824116 , Reply# 2   5/19/2015 at 06:45 (3,263 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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I love the slo-mo feature on the iPhone, best new improvement :-)

I took one last night of the Hotpoint Lady Executive washer spinning but it wasn't nearly as interesting as all that sloshing water. I'm glad you still have that machine, what a sweet washer that is.


Post# 824127 , Reply# 3   5/19/2015 at 08:26 (3,263 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)        
That shows the

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true cleaning power of Westinghouse !! Hola !

 

See the sudsy water spurting over the dirty clothing in ejaculating pulses !!!

 

THATISKEWL®


Post# 824131 , Reply# 4   5/19/2015 at 08:38 (3,263 days old) by warmsecondrinse (Fort Lee, NJ)        

Well, that vid is certainly more poetic than what I interpret in lit classes, lol!

Question for the group: Would such a a slow-motion vid taken of today's FLs in action reveal equally poetic cleaning?

I noticed the spurting and pulses as well. Nice to know I'm not the only person with a dirty mind. ;-)

Jim



Post# 824166 , Reply# 5   5/19/2015 at 12:21 (3,263 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)        
iPhone 6 slo-mo

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Yes, loves it. If you have one, you should try it on most everything--it reveals an amazing world heretofore only available to people with super high-speed film cameras.

Even the little suds-kill spray-rinse that happens after the first spin is epic in slow-motion. Next logical step? Stick it in the dishwasher, of course! :-)

This was a load of queen-sized sheets and pillowcases with Persil FreshStartPearls, and I always keep the water level on "high," so it's probably fairly underloaded. But I figured it was good, neutral content--no need to see a pair of undies cartwheeling across the field of view. ;-)

After eight years of "getting around to it," I finally got there. I'll post a separate thread this week on what "getting there" looked like. It had sat disused since the 2007 wash-in, and was not--shall we say--"plug-'n-play." :-) I also repainted it, so that unlike the Westinghouse-original unit, it actually has PAINT on it. :-)

Yes, I still have it, because it weighs too much to push to the curb when I get caught in a fit of pique. ;-)


Post# 824242 , Reply# 6   5/19/2015 at 20:55 (3,263 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)        
So Sexy!

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Might it be a result of osmosis or is it just coincidence that the clip's length is 1:18?


Post# 824354 , Reply# 7   5/20/2015 at 16:31 (3,262 days old) by washer111 ()        
Nate,

You don't happen to have that "Godly" sort of music (suggesting true bliss/enlightenment) that could go with the clothes gently flowing through the machine, in slow-motion?

That would be the deal-topper for me ;)


Post# 824374 , Reply# 8   5/20/2015 at 19:18 (3,262 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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A Wes Anderson-worthy entry! Very poetic, Nate.

Post# 824395 , Reply# 9   5/20/2015 at 21:54 (3,262 days old) by Roto204 (Tucson, AZ)        
Thank you all!

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Who doesn't love a little bit of watching the front-loader? It's better than cable television. ;-)

Post# 824403 , Reply# 10   5/20/2015 at 23:06 (3,262 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Nate, I'm glad you still have this.  I loved using that machine!!! -- wow--8 years ago already!!


Post# 824441 , Reply# 11   5/21/2015 at 06:33 (3,261 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))        

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Zen indeed. In 1954 the slant Westy was more fun to watch than television so I pulled up a chair and learned the foundations of sequential machine logic.

Fastforward to 1982 and I was the master of $half-mill broadcast eqpt. Same sequential machine logic, times ~100,000. The zen part.



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