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Post# 939637   5/21/2017 at 08:47 (2,525 days old) by brucelucenta ()        

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Post# 939654 , Reply# 1   5/21/2017 at 10:56 (2,525 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        

What impressed me the most about the Syncro-Swing Mechanism and Agitub is how effective is is. Great roll-over. When combined with a good over-flow rinse it really cleaned well.
I always thought these were so novel. Amazing how many have survived. Mark and I rescued a number of them still NIB years ago while clearing out Fox's warehouse.
I wonder why W-W didn't keep the mechanism? I guess it was too expensive to manufacture.

Post# 939657 , Reply# 2   5/21/2017 at 11:24 (2,525 days old) by brucelucenta ()        

I always thought they did a good job of washing, rinsing and spinning out when the clutch was in good shape. One of the problems with these was that the clutch used to operate the washing had to release to spin when the motor reversed direction and the pads would wear out and it quit spinning well and wanted to agitate all the time. They were kind of complicated in design and not that easy to work on, since you only had access from the back until they finally made them accessible from the front at the end of Frigidaire's GM days. The dryer had the bakelite housing around the front of the drum including the filter housing and it was easily broken, then things would get in the exhaust and lint would build up. They should have made that out of something else. Unfortunately the 1-18 dryers had a similar problem. The plastic they used for the filter housing would warp and leave gaps where things could escape down the filter exhaust. They didn't correct that until the end of the GM ownership with a chrome metal strip at the top of the lint filter housing. They had a problem of lint build up too.

Post# 939727 , Reply# 3   5/22/2017 at 01:14 (2,525 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)        

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It makes me want to get my GMini set out of storage!






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Post# 939731 , Reply# 4   5/22/2017 at 03:50 (2,525 days old) by brucelucenta ()        

I had forgotten that Frigidaire made these as separate units too. As you see and hear from the video, they did wash your clothes quite well and they did spin out the water just barely enough before the rinse. I actually put in a slower timer motor on more than one which gave it a much longer cycle and more time to get rid of the water before the rinse and to spin the clothes drier in the final spin also. It has a built in level control to keep it from flooding, should something happen to keep it from pumping the water out, so it would fill and overflow slightly, triggering the level control and stop the flow of water until the wash cycle started. Same thing on the rinse cycle, so it worked quite well and made it wash, rinse and spin out a lot better than originally. They were kind of noisy by today's standards. I rather liked them and had managed to get my hands on one of the last in the series with the front that removes for servicing. Unfortunately, I was relieved of it, along with quite a few other machines, by a couple of creeps that were scrappers who went around stealing, if necessary, to pick up some money instead of working for a living like everyone else. It was inside a fenced, locked yard with no tresspassing signs and the fence was actually cut into to steal all that stuff. Sad....

Post# 939735 , Reply# 5   5/22/2017 at 05:36 (2,525 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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Wow, that really is a short first spin! What were the benefits of a one-piece tub/agitator?

Post# 939739 , Reply# 6   5/22/2017 at 06:22 (2,525 days old) by brucelucenta ()        

I don't really know what benefits a one piece agitub would have other than not needing an actual transmission like most other machines had. At this point in time, Frigidaire had managed to have mechanisms without an actual transmission on both the Mini and the 1-18 machines. I will say that working on them was usually a much cleaner job than many machines of the time.


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