Thread Number: 71614
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
POD 7/11/2017 |
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Post# 947599 , Reply# 1   7/11/2017 at 05:50 (2,452 days old) by HiLoVane (Columbus OH)   |   | |
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The large -capacity Maytags with the new Power-Fin agitator were also introduced in 1966. |
Post# 947602 , Reply# 2   7/11/2017 at 06:10 (2,452 days old) by brucelucenta ()   |   | |
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Interesting, I wonder why they did not change the standard capacity machines to the power fin agitator then. It seems that came later. |
Post# 947610 , Reply# 3   7/11/2017 at 06:35 (2,452 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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bought after she and Daddy got married in....1966. The console looked just like this one but I think hers must have been an A206 because it didn't have all those blank spaces on the timer but the buttons were identical. Hers also had the turquoise agitator. My grandmothers had a black and turquoise agitator. Mother used hers for 16 years....countless loads of cloth diapers for two kids. It began leaking oil in 1982 so she bought a new GE filterflo that lasted only 11 years and the trans went out. She went back to Maytag with her stacked set that she's still using now...23 years and counting. |
Post# 947614 , Reply# 5   7/11/2017 at 07:12 (2,452 days old) by Frigidaireguy (Wiston-Salem, NC)   |   | |
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THAT WAS POSED THE OTHER DAY ABOUT THE MATCHING DRYER FOR THE 106 WASHER. BOB |
Post# 947623 , Reply# 6   7/11/2017 at 07:57 (2,452 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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The gearing for agitation also changed with the power-fin agitator, 63 oscillations per minute vs. 54 of the previous machines with the bakelite agitator. Hard to tell what they were thinking at the time, but perhaps they thought it was best not to mess with the previous design that worked well (slower stroke) and using up their bakelite stocks but they only offered these low-end slower stroke machines for a short time and then switched everything over to the newer 63 OPM and blue plastic agitators.
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Post# 947639 , Reply# 7   7/11/2017 at 09:07 (2,452 days old) by lesto (Atlanta)   |   | |
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The only thing I didn't like about these Maytags (including my 1962 model) is the short rinse period. Two minutes of agitation just isn't long enough for a full load - especially if you use liquid fabric softener. |
Post# 947649 , Reply# 8   7/11/2017 at 09:43 (2,452 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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What I liked about these older models was they had a longer wash period as opposed to all the later models that had a max of a 10 minute wash period! I especially thought in the larger models they should have had a longer wash period. At least in 1980 when they nixed the center dial they went back to a 12 minute wash! I always liked maytag but I always felt WP washed a bit better with the surgulator and KM with dual action. But to me nothing beat a 1/18 for cleaning and rollover!
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Post# 947677 , Reply# 9   7/11/2017 at 13:02 (2,451 days old) by brucelucenta ()   |   | |
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That is all very interesting and I did not know it. I wonder how many models of both the standard and large capacity there were at first. This post was last edited 07/11/2017 at 15:24 |