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POD 14-May-06 McClary 700 Set in Harvest Gold
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Post# 128708   5/14/2006 at 10:20 (6,528 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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Sprialator Agitator...
Who makes these?
Available in US or Canada?

Tks.





Post# 128730 , Reply# 1   5/14/2006 at 13:17 (6,528 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Looks like White-Westinghouse/WCI machines to me...

Post# 128739 , Reply# 2   5/14/2006 at 13:57 (6,528 days old) by sactoteddybear ()        
Re: More Like:

GE/Hotpoint like the "POD's" Pix the Day before, I forget those Machines Brand, but they I believe were Canadian-Made for Machines.

Peace and Happy Laundry Times, Steve
SactoTeddyBear...


Post# 128755 , Reply# 3   5/14/2006 at 15:23 (6,528 days old) by brettsomers ()        

that agi looks like the one in Roberts Easy. every washer should have a *softness* dispenser!

Post# 128757 , Reply# 4   5/14/2006 at 15:45 (6,528 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )        

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Yes those were Canadian machines and McClary by that time I think was part of GSW which was an amalgamation of McClary, Easy and Moffat, later to be amalgamated with GE as Camco.

Post# 128759 , Reply# 5   5/14/2006 at 15:47 (6,528 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )        

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BTW they were for awhile labelled McClary-Easy.

Post# 128765 , Reply# 6   5/14/2006 at 17:55 (6,528 days old) by westytoploader ()        

One of my favorite PODs...I wonder what the design of these machines were? The lid is very Norge-like, so I wouldn't think it would be a WCI machine, especially since it uses the Spiralator instead of the Westinghouse ramp agitator or WCI angel-wing. And we can factor GE out for obvious reasons, namely that the machine would be a definite clothes shredder if that Spiralator was to agitate at 100 OPM!

I guess it's one of those mysteries that will be solved when someone finds one! Does anyone think it's a modified Easy design, or even better still, a Velva-Power direct-drive machine?

--Austin


Post# 128768 , Reply# 7   5/14/2006 at 18:15 (6,528 days old) by pushtorelease (Toronto, ON)        

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We had a 1962 "McClary-Easy, Proudly Canadian" (those days are gone) stove most of my childhood - really cool chrome script with the automatic senso-therm element that never worked. I have a McClary washer now from around '80 - it sounds like a lawnmower but it keeps on going!

Post# 128770 , Reply# 8   5/14/2006 at 18:26 (6,528 days old) by brettsomers ()        
Paging Unimatic

can we compare the agitator in this machine to the Easy's? looks same. and if THIS agi was going at 100 opm, not only would you have shredded clothes, youd have a tsunami!

Post# 128773 , Reply# 9   5/14/2006 at 18:47 (6,528 days old) by westytoploader ()        

Another neat characteristic I see of this pair is the angled control panel, similar to a 60's Rollermatic.

Post# 128788 , Reply# 10   5/14/2006 at 20:02 (6,528 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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*DUH*

The agitator does look like the spiralator we saw with Nate's collection Tucson, AZ.

He had (for us to play with) an EASY twin tub.


Post# 128790 , Reply# 11   5/14/2006 at 20:08 (6,528 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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Lord! That agitator looks freaking DANGEROUS! Even a super Roto-Swirl would be nervous meeting it in a dark alley....

Post# 128791 , Reply# 12   5/14/2006 at 20:08 (6,528 days old) by westytoploader ()        

Roger's TOL Easy Spindrier was fun to play with, especially with Nate's agitator in it. MUCH better action with that wide-base, extended-fin Spiralator; the clothes moved around the tub in a circle as well as rolled over extraordinarily! It also made a fun "KER-SLOSH" sound with each stroke.

As for the original aluminum agitator...well, let's just say that anemic is an understatement. We washed the exact same load with both agitators, and there was rollover, but it wasn't anywhere near as dramatic as the other one. It probably couldn't handle as large a load as the white Spiralator either.

--Austin


Post# 128804 , Reply# 13   5/14/2006 at 21:15 (6,528 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!)        

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The buttons definitely look Westinghouseish.

Is that a word?

veg


Post# 128865 , Reply# 14   5/15/2006 at 08:20 (6,527 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)        

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I'd bet that this was a Canada mfg machine (maybe from an older US design i.e. Easy) that isn't strictly comparable to anything available in the US in the mid-70s.

In the late 80s there was a big rationalization of the N. American appliance manufacturing, with Canada ending up with a dryer plant (CAMCO), a refrigerator plant (Woods) and one or two stove plants (Electrolux in Quebec, and maybe a CAMCO plant which makes the electric stoves with stacked controls on the back-splash).

Before that point, I think there was more individuality in the designs including spiralators :)

JL


Post# 128911 , Reply# 15   5/15/2006 at 13:18 (6,527 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)        
Oy!

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Sure is a handsome machine. It makes me think it is an Easy design, especially with the (I assume) trademarked "Spiralator" brand, which is imprinted on the bottom of Roger's Easy's agitator.

I wonder if it is Velva-Power? That'd be fantastic. I bet it kicked some serious butt when it washed!


Post# 128919 , Reply# 16   5/15/2006 at 14:02 (6,527 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)        
I Wonder How!!

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Hotpoint UK came to use the Spiralator with FilterFlow on all their Top Loaders and the twinnies from the 60`s???

Who had the patents????



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Post# 128924 , Reply# 17   5/15/2006 at 14:26 (6,527 days old) by brettsomers ()        

does a spirolator tangle the clothes in the wash? compared to a str8 vane?

Post# 128935 , Reply# 18   5/15/2006 at 16:06 (6,527 days old) by westytoploader ()        

Hey everyone,

I emailed John (pushtorelease) off the site for more info about his 1980 McClary-Easy machine and he gave me a lot of interesting information on it that is just too good not to post...sounds like a very fun machine to say the least!!

Here's some of what he said (omitted parts symbolized by "...") about the machine:

"...Amazing amount of noise...It looks a lot like the one in the pic of the day, sans the push buttons. Maybe it's just a more basic model? One cycle, one speed - a timer dial, a water level selector and of course the bleach cup but wood grain all the way across - very impressive...I had the back off it...there was no sign of a belt...I'm guessing it's a direct drive. The agitation is comparable to Roberts Easy, it really goes and it's not something I'd ever think about putting anything delicate in - I've got a Simplicity wringer that's a lot more gentle.

It's interesting when it starts the cycle - once the water has stopped filling, it pauses for maybe 15 seconds then the agitator starts but the tub moves with it, kind of stirring things up. After a few seconds, there's a clunk and the tub locks into place. Is that something that is fairly common? I'd never seen that before. (Sounds a lot like a GE; I wonder if the tranny had been modified to incorporate a faster tub brake by this time?--AW)

The other kooky thing is if you start it at the beginning of the cycle, you get hot water only. The people I bought it from had the hot water inlet hooked to the laundry tub tap so they could adjust the water temp manually. I found that if you turn the dial to around 12 minutes or so, you hear a different sort of click and you get warm. Voila! No where on the dial is that marked in any way. Maybe it was in the original instructions? Absolutely no choice of a cold wash unless you turn the hot tap off but the rinse is cold only, again no choice."


Thanks again John for the excellent info!

--Austin


Post# 129526 , Reply# 19   5/17/2006 at 23:51 (6,525 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)        
Interesting

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I still sense an Easy design, especially with the possibility of direct drive...

The water temp is similar to my old Kelvinator. Hot water was at 15; warm at 12, cold at 10. It was a real aggravation to fill it with warm water and then twirl it back around for 15 minutes of washing :-)



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