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Post# 148555   8/15/2006 at 11:57 (6,457 days old) by sudsman ()        

afew for today




Post# 148569 , Reply# 1   8/15/2006 at 12:51 (6,457 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        

Oh, now theres a modern more sophisticated type.

Post# 148572 , Reply# 2   8/15/2006 at 12:59 (6,457 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN)        

Hey, don't say "Modern" here, the Imperial Police (aka Peter) will banish you to the Deluxe forum lol. Really hard to tell if machines like that are "modern" or "classic" they're built with alot of quality. I'd say if it had digital controls than definitely it's modern.

Post# 148577 , Reply# 3   8/15/2006 at 14:06 (6,457 days old) by thor (Buenos Aires)        

This washer looks exactly like the ones I saw in ships. Well, at least this is what I tried to describe in the other thread.

As I previously mentioned, this type of machines do not spin clothes, they just fill with hot or warm water, wash and then gravity drain all liquid, no spin, and proceed to fill with warm or cold water again for the first rinse and repeat for a number of rinses (according to the selected cycle).

You would then transfer dripping wet clothes to an extractor.

Some of the machines were totally automatic, others were partially automatic, others were completely manually controlled.

Emilio


Post# 148581 , Reply# 4   8/15/2006 at 14:51 (6,456 days old) by thor (Buenos Aires)        

Now that I remember, once the machine had stopped you could turn the handle on the right in order to bring the tub openings to the front of the machine. While the washer was operating this handle would be disengaged of course (it did not turn driven by the motor).

Post# 148677 , Reply# 5   8/16/2006 at 04:04 (6,456 days old) by sudsman ()        
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This Machine was new in 1955 IT was a 400lb American Washer the drain and fill valves were air operated and the timer was set for 1 to 15 mins. and then it would drain and signal that it was ready for the next step in the wash formula.


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