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Thread Number: 60833
/ Tag: Wringer Washers
New Member with a new Maytag Model N2L |
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| Post# 834692 , Reply# 1 8/1/2015 at 00:00 (3,181 days old) by stan (Napa CA) | ||
Hi Jon
I believe your machine was made Dec 1965.
It's a pretty major job to add oil to the power unit. The tub has to be removed and detached from the power unit. After adding or replacing the gear oil, you'd need to replace the gaskets as well. Since it's running good now, I'd leave well enough alone. You will eventually need to remove the agitator. Lint or a coin or something might get under it and block your drain, and the only way to clear it is to remove the agitator. Try letting it sit with hot water in the tub, drain, while everything is still warm, get a 2 by 4.. cut to be a little longer than the width of the top of the machine, then wrap a length of rope under two sides of agitator and tie to the board. Start turning the board so that it causes a upward pull on the agitator. Don't get to aggressive because that looks like the original agitator. If you do brake it.. You can get a new one but it won't be black. The motor being hot to the touch is normal. Your machine is a gravity drain, but it should have pre drilled holes on the cross bars underneath that are there if one ever want to add a pump kit. Be sure and separate your rollers when not in use so you don't get flat spots. Hope this helps! | ||
Post# 834749 , Reply# 3 8/1/2015 at 17:40 (3,180 days old) by wayupnorth  (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Jon, I have the exact twin to yours but after moving it into my shed where I had put a tub and hooked water up, something locked up inside so nothing will work other than a motor hum and shuts the breaker off. I'm not up to doing a rebuild on it and hope I can find another wringer or old automatic without a siphon break so I can get every drop of water out to prevent freezing and ruining the pump.
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| Post# 834794 , Reply# 4 8/2/2015 at 01:17 (3,180 days old) by stan (Napa CA) | ||
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Tim
That's too bad about your machine! Sounds like gears in the P.U locked up.
Jon, the N model was the economy model, but only because they held a couple of gallons less water than than E model. The E has aluminum that hold heat a bit better. Is rather have a N because the E tarnishes with use of bleach, and powdered detergents. N models are easier to keep clean. Instead of rope as I suggested above...maybe moving straps ! | ||
| Post# 834819 , Reply# 5 8/2/2015 at 07:47 (3,180 days old) by ketronj281989 () | ||
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Will do Stan. Sorry to hear about your machine wayupnorth. I just started a load for the second time in this machine this morning. I already hung a clothes line and am trying the machine for the second time. So far So good. Jon | ||
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Post# 835017 , Reply# 7 8/3/2015 at 22:05 (3,178 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Jon, since you don't have a laundry tub you can use the bathtub for rinsing instead if you have enough room in your bathroom for the washer. This is what I used to do in the early 70's and it worked out very well for me. This way you can easily do 4 loads in about 1 hr. I always liked using a wringer washer, and if I had the set up for one I would gladly use one again. I find the whole process almost relaxing. I had a Maytag like yours only it was the square, porcelain tub model. I think it was a model J and it had a pump, which was handy. As for your stuck agitator, maybe with just continued use it will eventually loosen up enough to remove it. When you do finally get it off the post, put a thin coat of vaseline on the post to lube it. Then when you are finished washing, remove the agitator, rinse the tub and store the agitator off the post.
Eddie | ||
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Post# 835018 , Reply# 8 8/3/2015 at 22:13 (3,178 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Jon, I was hoping to doing same thing with mine in my shed with water to a laundry tub and a drain now hooked up but it decided not to work when I got it moved in and ready and then nothing. Good luck keeping yours going for a long, long time. Mine will go to anyone here that wants it for free cause I am not into a rebuild. I would love another wringer or even an old automatic without a siphon break that works so I can get every drop of water out of it and it can stay in the unheated shed in below freezing temps, which we certainly have here.
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| Post# 835025 , Reply# 9 8/3/2015 at 22:46 (3,178 days old) by bradross (New Westminster, BC., Canada) | ||
Welcome to the "world" of wringer washers!
Jon, I love what you said - "There is almost and art to using a manual washer." The thing I love about using a wringer washer can be compared to making and kneading bread by hand - you are an active part of the work. There's something to be said for the satisfaction that comes with being actually involved with the work at hand. And I also think it's true that wringer washers do an amazing job - better than a lot of front loaders for really dirty clothes.
Enjoy your "new" old machine! - Brad | ||
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Post# 835027 , Reply# 10 8/3/2015 at 23:25 (3,178 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Brad,
Your analogy of bread making and using a wringer washer is probably one of the best descriptions of how the whole process feels to me that I have ever seen. The satisfaction of hands on work as you put it is very fulfilling. And you are so right, nothing gets laundry cleaner than a wringer washer. Eddie | ||
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