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Post# 140403   7/5/2006 at 22:11 (6,476 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Work Continues on the 1947 GE Washer... With all of the timer and temperature switches finished and back together, I decided it was time to clean the water valve. Well just like the Timer, the water valve not surprisingly is also quite unusual. It has two separate water flumes, one for hot water and the other for warm water... |
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Post# 140404 , Reply# 1   7/5/2006 at 22:12 (6,476 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 140407 , Reply# 2   7/5/2006 at 22:13 (6,476 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 140408 , Reply# 3   7/5/2006 at 22:14 (6,476 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 140409 , Reply# 4   7/5/2006 at 22:15 (6,476 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 140412 , Reply# 5   7/5/2006 at 22:26 (6,476 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 140416 , Reply# 6   7/5/2006 at 22:31 (6,476 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Hi Greg, the valve seats are the large size and I have some NOS large size seats, but of course they are a slightly different size as well. Those two big washers to the upper left of the solenoids are the supposid flow washers, but the openings are so large I can't imagine they slow the flow down very much! Get your goggles on!
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Post# 140439 , Reply# 8   7/6/2006 at 00:00 (6,476 days old) by pulsator (Saint Joseph, MI)   |   | |
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Post# 140482 , Reply# 9   7/6/2006 at 08:17 (6,475 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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Post# 140486 , Reply# 10   7/6/2006 at 08:25 (6,475 days old) by retromom ()   |   | |
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Restoration seems to be going smoothly! Can't wait to see the splash-o-lation! Congrats on a real gem! Venus :-) |
Post# 140490 , Reply# 11   7/6/2006 at 08:39 (6,475 days old) by gregm ()   |   | |
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how long (# years) did GE use this design/type ? very interesting ........ |
Post# 140498 , Reply# 12   7/6/2006 at 09:16 (6,475 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Thanks everyone, Hi GregM I assume you mean the entire AW6 design and not just the water valve? It was built from 1947 thru 1950, but with each passing year they cheapened the machine, by 1950 most of the bells and whistles of the 1947 machine were gone, including the reciruclation and filter, rinse water storage and pre-soak cycles.
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Post# 140628 , Reply# 15   7/6/2006 at 21:13 (6,475 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 140631 , Reply# 16   7/6/2006 at 21:31 (6,475 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)   |   | |
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Post# 140687 , Reply# 18   7/7/2006 at 07:47 (6,474 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 140712 , Reply# 19   7/7/2006 at 08:58 (6,474 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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but I am wondering if the valves "clunk" when they are energized Brent they probably won't cluck when energized, if so it would be too light to hear with water running through them. Was 1947 the first post-war model year? Hi Dan, yes the earliest post-war automatics were available was 1947 as far as I can tell. It is good to hear that you have NOS seats for this. Ben the NOS seats I have actually wont fit this valve, they are shaped slightly differently. I wonder if they "cheaped" the later models in order to lower the price? Mike I'm sure it was to get the retail price down, this very early GE was the most expensive of all the early Automatics. Why on earth would they plunge warm water to the outer tub? Jon, both hot and warm water is plunged into the outer tub, then is pumped up with the recirculation pump. When the inner tub overflows and the water level rises in the outer tub, the machine knows its full and begins agitation and recirculation. |
Post# 141214 , Reply# 20   7/10/2006 at 07:44 (6,471 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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Take yourself back to 1945-6-7. Bendix was out with an automatic before the war. You work for GE or GM and are an engineer. You're working hard on an excellent design Six months after you launch the product at $350 or so, Beam comes out with an OEM which can be sold by Gambles (Western Auto, local department stores ...) for $279 and nine months or so later Whirlpool/Sears (clearly the big kahuna) comes out with one for $269 (albeit a bolt-down) Remember, you're not working for KitchenAid, you work for a multi-line appliance company which needs the volume to make the business case work and keep all the returning servicemen employed in Dayton/Louisville There was a crash "cheapening" effort in place. Had Beam not launched the cheap machine so soon (was it a soft-mount?) neither GM nor GE would have been forced to cheapen the machines so quickly, prices would have stayed high and JL |