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Estate Sale Unimatic |
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Post# 160381   10/14/2006 at 20:46 (6,375 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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...mechanism! I stopped at an estate sale today that was missing a washer and had an old Kenmore 500 (late 60's) dryer with a screen door latch holding the door closed. When I went into the garage, the first thing I noticed was a very old water heater abandoned in the corner. I thought "why would they save their old water heater and not their old washer?" Over in the opposite corner of the garage, I found this Frigidaire Unimatic mechanism (less spin solenoid) so I had to eat my words - or parts of them anyway. I know some who have found whole machines and various pumps, motors, etc. but this is by far the strangest I've seen... You just never know what you're going to find at estate sales, that's what keeps us going every week. |
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Post# 160434 , Reply# 3   10/15/2006 at 08:39 (6,375 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida)   |   | |
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Post# 160449 , Reply# 4   10/15/2006 at 10:28 (6,375 days old) by golittlesport (California)   |   | |
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Post# 160452 , Reply# 5   10/15/2006 at 10:58 (6,374 days old) by christfr (st louis mo)   |   | |
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Post# 160454 , Reply# 6   10/15/2006 at 11:23 (6,374 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 160642 , Reply# 7   10/16/2006 at 13:28 (6,373 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 160654 , Reply# 8   10/16/2006 at 14:59 (6,373 days old) by trainguy (Key West, FL)   |   | |
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You do come across the neatest things. I've hit a dry spell. I'll be driving from Pittsburgh to Detroit soon. If you would kindly email me the approximate (or exact if possible) location of that avocado Frigidaire dryer that you and Don saw, I would greatly appreciate it. I'll be in a pickup truck and would like to give it a good home. Thanks, Rich |
Post# 160698 , Reply# 9   10/16/2006 at 17:42 (6,373 days old) by rickr (.)   |   | |
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Post# 160796 , Reply# 10   10/16/2006 at 22:52 (6,373 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Also amusing after the fact was that I carried this 100lb mechanism up to the front door of the house from the detached garage, then worried someone would snatch it while I went back in to pay! Stop! Unimatic thief! Did I mention the mint GE Mobile Maid/Rinse-Glo/Silver Shower/DualRack dishwasher? It was lovely. At another sale was a really, really mint KDS-16 in stainless steel. That was a sharp looking machine... |