Thread Number: 76419
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Post# 1002632   8/5/2018 at 19:27 (2,062 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 1002634 , Reply# 1   8/5/2018 at 20:04 (2,062 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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Post# 1002643 , Reply# 2   8/5/2018 at 20:39 (2,062 days old) by Lorainfurniture (Cleveland )   |   | |
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I’m pretty sure I’ve seen one of those before. It kind of shakes back and forth on those springs. The “tub” is all copper. |
Post# 1002650 , Reply# 3   8/5/2018 at 21:38 (2,061 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 1002676 , Reply# 4   8/6/2018 at 00:41 (2,061 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)   |   | |
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500 bucks for THAT-go jump into the lake it was dredged up from! |
Post# 1002687 , Reply# 5   8/6/2018 at 07:32 (2,061 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Early part of last century saw all sorts of contraptions for washing laundry. Lee Maxwell's museum contains a pretty good representation of them all.
Washers shook, beat, swished, oscillated, gyrated, stomped, vacuum pushed/pulled, pounded, etc... What most all had in common was they were semi-automatic or not even that. Madame still had active work to do on laundry day. Everything from filling and emptying tubs, to inserting wash into wringer (power or hand driven). Until stainless steel and enameled porcelain on steel pushed them aside, the two common materials for washing machine tubs were same as that of stationary wash tubs; galvanized metal or copper. Galvanized metal at some point will rust. To delay this for long as possible wash tubs, boiling pots and other laundry day vessels were suggested to be treated with a layer of soap scum. That is one basically filled the tub with hot water and soap, then after a bit drained. This could be repeated to build up a layer of, well scum that would prevent any rusting or other discoloration from staining washing. Copper while resistant to rust will turn a horrible green color if exposed to certain substances. Better wash tubs, laundry boiling pots, and washing machine tubs had inside of tubs "tinned", just like copper pots used for cooking. Revereware took this a step further and found a way to bond stainless steel to copper which gave both of best worlds. The superb heat conductivity properties of copper mated with the ease of cleaning and less reactive stainless steel. In any event, by early 1940's many of these washing machine oddities were gone, and most certainly were post WWII. Some companies were purchased by others, who in turn were gobbled up by someone else. Others just simply went out of business and or turned to producing other products. |