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Thread Number: 71896
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
POD 8/2/2017 |
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Post# 951226 , Reply# 2 8/2/2017 at 06:41 (2,450 days old) by Frigilux  (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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I've never liked the Maytags that had the water level control in the thick lid. No particular reason, they just turned me off. One of these models was in the parsonage of the Catholic church when I was a kid. It certainly lasted a long time. The local Maytag dealer/servicer was also Catholic, so repairs were probably made free of charge.
My favorite Maytags are from the 1959 to 1963-ish period. After that, it would be the large capacity, very flexible 806; all with suds-savers, of course.😃 | ||
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Post# 951228 , Reply# 3 8/2/2017 at 07:17 (2,450 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Maytag researched their first automatic washer tubs exhaustively, trying thirty some versions before settling on this one. They attempted to overcome the problem with a long, powerful spin- spray rinse but it wasn't enough.The consumer mags dinged them pretty hard for debris retention, even going as far as removing the liner to show the small private beach they'd amassed between the tubs during testing.
While it held about the same as other automatics of it's time, it was thought that the transition from a wringer would be easier if the capacity was the about the same load you would have washed in your conventional washer. It would be interesting to see the sales figures for the Maytag automatics and conventionals during the early years and if they did any analysis of the numbers of conventional buyers that were flipped to automatics, etc. I have a booklet that Maytag printed for dealers that explains the research and testing and their theories of design that culminated into the first AM/AMP washer. Very interesting, even if parts of read more like a defendant's closing argument in court rather than sales propaganda :-) | ||
| Post# 951263 , Reply# 5 8/2/2017 at 10:13 (2,450 days old) by ken (NYS) | ||
Heres a few pics 
of the A4MP I got in 2015. The A4MP was the last model of this series. It eliminated the fill switch in the underside of the lid and instead had a time fill. It had a redesigned hole pattern on the inner basket with some attention to better sediment removal. It used a skinny style agitator like the wringer washer used as opposed to the earlier models that had the agitator with the center float shaft that activated the fill switch.
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Post# 951355 , Reply# 6 8/2/2017 at 21:38 (2,450 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i) |
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Out of Sequence? | ||
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Post# 951381 , Reply# 7 8/3/2017 at 03:56 (2,449 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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I think it has been fixed because you are right, it was out of sequence before. | ||
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