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Post# 53150   1/12/2005 at 00:58 (7,042 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        

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Who says size does not matter?

Ha ha, made ya look!
*LOL*




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Post# 53155 , Reply# 1   1/12/2005 at 01:38 (7,042 days old) by kenmore1978 ()        
import model

Wow, made in the Czech Republic. There's a country you don't see too many imports from.

Post# 53187 , Reply# 2   1/12/2005 at 07:55 (7,042 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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OK, for all our joking, here's a washer which can wash that overstuffed chair AND ottoman in the same load. I've seen Japanese hotel rooms which aren't that big! Thanks again Launderess for your always delightful finds.

Post# 53200 , Reply# 3   1/12/2005 at 10:42 (7,042 days old) by designgeek ()        


Looks like a giant Bendix with a computerized control panel on top. I imagine these must make the entire building shake if they go offbalance:-).


Post# 53230 , Reply# 4   1/12/2005 at 15:08 (7,042 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        

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Shake?

My guess is they would take DOWN an entire building! *LOL*

The seller must have been a client of a Maytag dealer, as I'm sure I spy with my little eye a Neptune washer to the left of the uber-unit.

Imagine spending all that money on a washer and then going out of business less than 2 years later.

Launderess


Post# 53261 , Reply# 5   1/12/2005 at 19:47 (7,042 days old) by davenp ()        

Actually when I put my old commerical machine in I was told that if you don't bolt them down properly they will actually "jump" in to the air and they tend to go to either the left or the right. The dist. said it could easily crush a large commerical dryer if it happened to be in the right side. As far as them going off balance... machines like these don't go off balance. They can spin through ANYTHING. If the water can get out of the drum they'll keep going. Course, they are also bolted in to almost a foot of concrete :)

Dave


Post# 53338 , Reply# 6   1/13/2005 at 09:54 (7,041 days old) by designgeek ()        

Oh my, a foot of concrete! Sounds like the spec for oldschool electromechanical telco central offices, when they were filled with heavy racks full of whirling rotary switches and relays.

Re. jumping in the air: Probably not far enough in the air to actually land on top of a dryer, but enough to walk across a floor fast enough to squish a dryer against a masonry wall (mass and inertia).

The direction it walks is based on the direction of spin. Spin clockwise, walks to your right. Spin counterclockwise, walks to your left.


Post# 53352 , Reply# 7   1/13/2005 at 12:32 (7,041 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA)        

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That washer is made by Primus, a company that never really made it into the USA market. For a while, SQ was sourcing machines from them (before they went to Dexter, then to Girbau, then to Unimac), but that didn't last long. All current Maytag commercial OPL and coin op washers are Primus. Maytag used to source their commercial washers from Unimac.


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