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GE Custom v 14 washer and dryer
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Post# 835661   8/8/2015 at 08:00 (3,182 days old) by Asblouir ()        

White GE custom v 14 washing machine and dryer for sale. Both work. They will clean up nice, they need wiped down. $200 for the pair.

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Post# 835676 , Reply# 1   8/8/2015 at 11:18 (3,182 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)        

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These are my favorites from GE! 


Post# 835688 , Reply# 2   8/8/2015 at 13:23 (3,182 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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OMG, a pair like that existing!!!


Post# 835691 , Reply# 3   8/8/2015 at 13:40 (3,182 days old) by geextrarinse (Hudson Valley, New York )        
WOW!!!!

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Beautiful! and only $200!!!!


Post# 835692 , Reply# 4   8/8/2015 at 13:43 (3,182 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)        

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I would love to have these! Are they still available?


Post# 835719 , Reply# 5   8/8/2015 at 18:39 (3,181 days old) by sel8207 (naples, florida 34117)        
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Is there a link to see the ad, or are they already spoken for? Les.

Post# 835888 , Reply# 6   8/10/2015 at 11:04 (3,180 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)        
so close

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about 8 miles from me but someone lucky beat me to them!
Congratulations, very cool matched set. I can't tell from the pics, would these be solid tub Filter Flos? When did GE make the switch?
Mark


Post# 835893 , Reply# 7   8/10/2015 at 11:20 (3,180 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)        
Was me.

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I snagged these; I've always wanted a washing machine of this generation from 1964 to 1966. When I was in grade school, the nuns at St. Luke's had one of these TOL's in the basement of the rectory (which you can see in the movie, "Doubt"). It was there for only one year; it either broke of the nuns thought it shamefully fancy for their laundry ( which I don't want to think about). Anyway, it had a lighted panel with steel buttons and was the first time I ever saw a Mini-Basket and, of course, I had to have one. In every other way the insides of the machine was exactly like our Filter-Flo, same tub, same Activator, same filter pan, etc. It was replaced, later in the year, with a BOL Filter-Flo that remained for the rest of my time there.

 

For a while GE sold a  self-cleaning TOL single-oven range that matched this styling. And what was great about that stove, aside from aesthetics, was that the burner controls were very high above the cooking surface so they were easy to see and use and not accessible by wandering cats or little children's fingers. There was a Versatronic version of it as well.


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Post# 835896 , Reply# 8   8/10/2015 at 11:53 (3,180 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)        
Gas versus electric

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I've already got the 1966 gas model of the dryer, it would have been cooll to get the washer, oh well.

When was the GE switch from solid to perf tub? I am familiar with SQ solid tub 1973/4, no recirculating, but someday I want an early FIlterFlo with the recirculating filter.


Congrats to Bajaespuma, please post more pics when you get the machines. Are they being shipped or are you taking a trip to my area?


Post# 835947 , Reply# 9   8/10/2015 at 16:49 (3,180 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)        

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Congratulations! That is a beautiful set! What a design!

Post# 835964 , Reply# 10   8/10/2015 at 18:05 (3,179 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)        
My favorite GE design!

I pleased to hear you got this set. Have seen the dryer from time to time, but rarely the washer. That console style never got dated like so many others did.

Post# 835980 , Reply# 11   8/10/2015 at 19:31 (3,179 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Ken, you made my day!!  Totally thrilled and happy for you!!!!!


Post# 835984 , Reply# 12   8/10/2015 at 19:44 (3,179 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)        
This is the first washer of this type I've ever found; t

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have been several of these dryers listed on Craigslist around the country during the past decade.

 

GE switched to perforated tubs with the advent of the V-12 (Volumatic-12 lbs. capacity) machines in 1961 (my favorite vintage). There's a whole story about the change excerpted from a trade magazine in the Ephemera Library. Although I appreciate both designs, the perf models are more representative of a "modern automatic washer" with a design that persisted for more than 30 years. It seems that the best iterations of the solid tub models were the earliest Automatics like Robert's AW-6; when they dumbed them down, they weren't the best performers out there, not the worst either, but more about gimmicks and less about washing and extracting ability. Although the perf Filter-Flo's were water hogs and weren't the best at extraction either, they were superior cleaners and they deserved all the fuss that seemed to get showered on to the Maytag brand.

 

BTW, the tubs on the perforated models are hardly, if at all, more capacious than the later solid tub models; I've measured the volume. And the newer V-12 Activators displace much more volume than the straight-3's on the Solid Tub models. And there's no difference at all between the V-12, V-14 and "Heavy Duty 16" model tubs. All marketing chazerei.


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Post# 836045 , Reply# 13   8/11/2015 at 02:34 (3,179 days old) by Doug (West Virgina)        
Very nice set

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I hope to see more of these, videos would be awesome! I as well always wanted a ge set of this design! Congrats!

Post# 836173 , Reply# 14   8/11/2015 at 20:51 (3,178 days old) by washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)        

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Congrats, bajaespuma. I'm sorry for akronman, but the main thing is that they landed in the hands of someone who cares!


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