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Post# 136156 6/17/2006 at 07:13 (6,519 days old) by bajaespuma  (Connecticut) |
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Post# 136157 , Reply# 1 6/17/2006 at 07:17 (6,519 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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What caught my eye initially were the two beautiful black Whirlpool Super Surgilator agitators topped with their original '50s-style retainer caps. The same as on our very first washing machine: a 1957 Whirlpool BOL (the origin of my fascination with these machines) that we kept on casters in the kitchen of our apartment. My parents would have to wheel it(and me) into the closet if the apartment was ever inspected by the company that owned the building as washers were forbidden, but everyone that had kids had one and they were all portable!
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Post# 136158 , Reply# 2 6/17/2006 at 07:18 (6,519 days old) by gadgetgary (Bristol,CT) |
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Post# 136159 , Reply# 3 6/17/2006 at 07:19 (6,519 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Post# 136160 , Reply# 4 6/17/2006 at 07:23 (6,519 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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I imagine it would be like using a wringer, automatic and twin-tub machine at the same time. As I understood it, you wash a load in one square tub (with hand faucets, no less), manually pull the load out of the water and place it into the spin tub for extraction and then move it to the other square tub for rinsing. And all three tubs are running simultaneously. Note that the model 300 runs on 220V for the bigger extractor.
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| Post# 136165 , Reply# 5 6/17/2006 at 07:36 (6,519 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN) | ||
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John Lefever has a Bock extractor with a huge tub like that. Goes 1780rpm. Clothes come out almost dry. Only 20 minutes in the dryer and they're done. My new Oasis has a huge tub and spin 1050 so we'll see how that goes. | ||
| Post# 136181 , Reply# 6 6/17/2006 at 08:28 (6,519 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
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| Post# 136212 , Reply# 8 6/17/2006 at 10:56 (6,519 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
This is an old brouchure. A Telex number? Ancient!!! You can see the WP Surgilator agitators in the pics. The current model (the ones made in the last 6 years at least) have the straight vane modern SQ agitator in them. Also, you would be surprised at the size of the spin tub. It is actually quite small, no bigger than a 5 kg European wash tub. Unimac is a division of Alliance Laundry Systems, makers of Unimac, SQ, Heubsch, Ajax and soon, Ipso. | ||
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Post# 136249 , Reply# 10 6/17/2006 at 14:54 (6,519 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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We have discussed these units off and on several times, usually via posts started by yours truly. *LOL* These Unimac units, according to the brochures sent to me by a local dealer are not only for car washes, but hotels, BBs, restaurants, and any place else that wishes to process large volumes of small and medium sized items quickly. According to the sales rep I spoke with even the Waldrof Astoria hotel has one of these (for shirts, IIRC). The beauty of the spin/rinse is that the water is sprayed in a fine sort of mist, to better evenly penetrate laundry. The process is basically a variation of the old twin tub automatic rinse systems,but improved. Every now and then you'll find one of these units on eBay, some MIB. L. | ||
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