Thread Number: 72558
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Does anyone have a Wheilpool washer and dryer from 1952? |
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Post# 958646   9/22/2017 at 20:32 (2,379 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806)   |   | |
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Post# 958654 , Reply# 1   9/22/2017 at 21:52 (2,379 days old) by brucelucenta ()   |   | |
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Check your spelling kiddo! You should check out that auction in Pa. |
Post# 958659 , Reply# 2   9/22/2017 at 23:26 (2,379 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806)   |   | |
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Post# 958686 , Reply# 4   9/23/2017 at 06:18 (2,379 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Link to a thread from 2008 with great photos of an early '50s Whirlpool.
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Post# 958733 , Reply# 5   9/23/2017 at 14:34 (2,378 days old) by brucelucenta ()   |   | |
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How strange that it had a straight vane agitator instead of the normal wavy one that Whirlpool always had. |
Post# 958739 , Reply# 6   9/23/2017 at 15:01 (2,378 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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The early 50s Kenmores also had a straight-vane agitator.
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Post# 958816 , Reply# 8   9/23/2017 at 22:35 (2,378 days old) by brucelucenta ()   |   | |
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I know that Kenmore always had straight vane agitators, just wondering if this agitator came from a Kenmore. Even the oldest of Whirlpool washers had the agitator with the waves as far as I knew. |
Post# 958869 , Reply# 9   9/24/2017 at 08:57 (2,378 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Upper end Kenmore models had the RotoSwirl agitator. |
Post# 958880 , Reply# 10   9/24/2017 at 10:45 (2,377 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
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Post# 958900 , Reply# 12   9/24/2017 at 13:07 (2,377 days old) by lesto (Atlanta)   |   | |
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Early 50's Whirlpools definitely had straight vane agitators. In fact, the earliest models had RED straight vanes. Robert at one time had a 52 with the straight vane. Whirlpool did't change over to the wavy ones until around 1954 or 55. |
Post# 958903 , Reply# 14   9/24/2017 at 13:45 (2,377 days old) by agiflow2 ()   |   | |
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Whirlpool actually had an aluminum surgilator as early as 1950 in their upper end washers. There is a thread on it in the archives. |
Post# 958905 , Reply# 15   9/24/2017 at 13:59 (2,377 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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straight vanes were the norm for most all automatics, and even wringers.....it was a matter of production, one molded, it had to be pulled out from the die in a straight line.....
at the time, even a Super RotoSwirl could be pulled straight out of a die...... when the Surgilator was created/introduced, it was just as revolutionary for the machine as well as the mechanical die used to make it.... one of the first mechanical die used that separated into three pieces to release the finished product, mainly the wavy vanes, under a normal die, could not be pulled straight out.... I think it comes around as the Picture-of-the-day showing the huge die and the creators showing the unit and finished product.... |