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Post# 53578   1/15/2005 at 18:53 (7,034 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        

Here we are! (From left to right) Les (LESTO), Steve (1-18), Brent (BRENTAUCOIN), Steve (Gyrafoam) and Peter (PeterH).




Post# 53581 , Reply# 1   1/15/2005 at 19:17 (7,034 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)        

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OK, what's that stuff on Steve's face? :-)

Post# 53583 , Reply# 2   1/15/2005 at 19:28 (7,034 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        

Link for more pictures.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO Gyrafoam's LINK
Post# 53592 , Reply# 3   1/15/2005 at 21:28 (7,034 days old) by bethann (Indianapolis)        
Well Guy's

 Looks like everyone is pretty smiley around there! Does that mean you got that thing apart! Or, did you give up and start drinking beer?

Post# 53594 , Reply# 4   1/15/2005 at 22:01 (7,034 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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I looks like you guys had a lot of fun! I'm glad to see that beautiful Maytag in a good, loving home with an adoring extended family - congrats on a beautiful appliance collection Steve! I'm sorry, I was going to call you but Jill Corey distracted me today...

Post# 53598 , Reply# 5   1/15/2005 at 23:06 (7,034 days old) by kenmore1978 ()        
wash-in

 So were the washers swapped in and out in the same space? Looks like the Maytag and theh Frigidaire are in the same spot.

Post# 53601 , Reply# 6   1/15/2005 at 23:41 (7,034 days old) by tlee618 ()        

Thanks guys for all the neat pictures. It looks like you all had a great time. Terry

Post# 53606 , Reply# 7   1/16/2005 at 02:36 (7,034 days old) by peteski50 (New York)        
Steve's Mini Wash-In-----

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Wow - You guys look like you had a great time!
Peter



Post# 53610 , Reply# 8   1/16/2005 at 05:54 (7,034 days old) by WASHENDRY (pinconning,mich)        
wash in

 HEY STEVE,
GLAD EVERYTHING WENT WELL, DID YOU GET TUB PROBLEM SOLVED,
NEW BOOT COMING FOR FL FRIG, TALK WITH YOU SOON, NO OVER SUDSING THE MAYTAG!!!
KIM

Post# 53615 , Reply# 9   1/16/2005 at 10:02 (7,034 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        

Yes, I have only one usable hook-up and that is in the kitchen, so every time I want to hook up a different machine it requires me fetching one from storage or the garage and switching them out! A hassle I have come to live with. The damn '59Kenmore will still not give up that inner tub, so the next step will be to take a welders torch to the spin tube and see if that will free it up. Bethann, we were just delerious on washers like cats on catnip! No beer or wine flowing (although I tried to interest folks in a little snort around 5PM or so) so we had burgers off the grill and chocolate cake and the house wine of the south. All together wonderful day and of course what really makes it is sharing fun and expierences with others. I wish everyone on the web site could have come over. That is why I am sooooo looking forward to this years convention---can't wait to meet everyone face to face!!!!!! -Steve

Post# 53622 , Reply# 10   1/16/2005 at 11:06 (7,033 days old) by golittlesport (California)        

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Thanks for the pictures...looks like you all had a great time! LOVE the 56 Frigidaire!!!

Post# 53624 , Reply# 11   1/16/2005 at 11:24 (7,033 days old) by david (CA)        
Steve(gyrofoam)

 Enjoyed the pix of y'all at the mini wash-in. Cool machines! And I noticed your house is a 1920's(?) vintage. I love the molding and the doorstyle of it. Do you live in Atlanta itself? I would have loved one of those old craftsman style bungs we have here and in many other cities with a front porch across the front and all the embellishments. It's getting hard to find one as the properties are either run down and the neighborhood is too dangerous or the owners have refurbished them and want a fortune for one. Just thought I would ask if you bought and remodeled the house you live in. David

Post# 53630 , Reply# 12   1/16/2005 at 13:05 (7,033 days old) by lightedcontrols ()        

HI STEVE!!! CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR VERY FIRST WASH-IN!!! LOOKS AS THOUGH IT WAS A WASHING SUCCESS!!! YOU GO GIRL!!!:~)
Mark

Post# 53643 , Reply# 13   1/16/2005 at 17:27 (7,033 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)        
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Steve - Nice wash-in! Don't you just love sharing an afternoon in the Laundry Studio with friends??!! Winter is the best time once those Trannys get hot they radiate like steam heat and the hot water washes moisturize your skin!

Lovely machines, I have a suggestion for your Kenmore frozen tub: run down to AutoZOne and get spray can of PM RustBuster. Spray the tub and shaft and let soak a few days then spray again and whack the tub with a rubber mallet.If it ever will break apart without cutting that will do it. I hate to see you after the tub with a cutting torch.
Good Luck
Jet

PS I'll BET GOLITTLESPORT LIKES THAT 56 Frigidaire!!

Post# 53662 , Reply# 14   1/16/2005 at 21:39 (7,033 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        
Reply to Jetcone------

 Hi! It was so good to get everyone together to visit. I just loved it. That damn '59 Kenmore is driving me crazy! Today Steve 1-18 and I took a torch to the spin tube. We were careful not to get things too hot, but the #@*&%$#@ thing just will not give up that inner tub. I just don't know what else to do, and I so want to get her up and running---at least "sea-worthy"! I used "Zoom-Spout" Rust Penetrant and let her soak it up over a period of four days! On the second day shot some WD-40 on top of that. It really feels as though what ever is holding it is at the top of the spin tube. Thanks for your kind advice. Who knows, if I keep cussing at it eventually the damn thing might come loose! -Steve

Post# 53672 , Reply# 15   1/16/2005 at 22:57 (7,033 days old) by fixerman ()        

Cussing usually helps, at least in your mind. I understand the frustration these can cause. I have had them stuck so bad I could swear there was something else holding it. The only answer is to keep working it and eventually it will come loose. When it does you will feel great satisfaction. Keep working it. It will come.

Post# 53682 , Reply# 16   1/17/2005 at 05:46 (7,033 days old) by kenmore1978 ()        
washer in kitchen

 So where is your dryer located?

Post# 53691 , Reply# 17   1/17/2005 at 08:45 (7,033 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        
Where's the Dryer?

 Here is a link to a picture of the washer and dryer in the kitchen. Also check the whole album again. A few more pictures have been added. Dryer is (I think the BEST dryer I have ever owned!) a Maytag Model# DG882 Gas unit. Washer is a (recently rescued) 1965 Frigidaire "Roller-Matic" with MANY mechanical and cosmetic issues---yet to be resolved! It looks like someone tried to scrub the console with steel-wool!

CLICK HERE TO GO TO Gyrafoam's LINK
Post# 53693 , Reply# 18   1/17/2005 at 09:01 (7,033 days old) by lesto (Atlanta)        

I had so much fun at the wash-in. Doing a load in the 56 unimatic brought back memories of my childhood at my aunt's house on Saturday mornings. Steve, thanks so much for being such a great host and good luck with the 59 Kenmore. I hope that damn spin tub comes out soon. I can't wait for the convention this summer to play with other great machines and meet more of you.
Les

Post# 53740 , Reply# 19   1/17/2005 at 18:45 (7,032 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA)        

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Steve was the perfect gentleman and host for this gathering. He needed to be after sniping the Highlander from me. But I'm not bitter. The smiles were from the sugar high we got from the decadent chocolate fudge cake and Fab detergent fumes. I was fun to get together with everyone.

The Kenmore's issue is that the inner tub and drive block have become one. It is on there super, super tight.

Post# 53790 , Reply# 20   1/18/2005 at 02:47 (7,032 days old) by kenmore1978 ()        
dryer location

 From looking at the location of the door, somehow I get the feeling an appliance was never meant to go where the dryer is. Yours looks like the kind of situation that often would make people buy a combo machine back in the old days.

Post# 53801 , Reply# 21   1/18/2005 at 08:37 (7,032 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        
Reply to Kenmore1978

 Hi! You are exactly right. Space is at a premium in my kitchen, but I was not willing to go to a "stacked" unit when I first moved here in 1992. Also it saved me having to have the place re-wired for 220v (since a gas line was already there and I could use a gas dryer), which I would have had to do to use a decent OLD combo!

Post# 53835 , Reply# 22   1/18/2005 at 19:22 (7,031 days old) by kenmore1978 ()        
decent old combo

 No problem, now all you have to do is find a decent old GAS combo! :-)

Post# 53839 , Reply# 23   1/18/2005 at 19:33 (7,031 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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Hi Steve, if you've got the basket nut removed and the spin tub wont budge, here is a trick I learned. Climb into the wash basket (carefully) and stand up, alternate pushing your weight from foot to foot over and over again around the basket. This is the only thing I have ever found to work with Kenmore washers this old.

Post# 53867 , Reply# 24   1/19/2005 at 04:46 (7,031 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        
Reply to Unimatic1140

 Hi Robert, the basket drive block is still in place. It feels as though it may be obstructing the removal of the basket somehow. Since it moves up and down the agitator shaft along with the spin tube as one piece, I feel like it must be a problem with the spin tube/basket drive block. I WILL try your idea, however, as everything else has not worked as of yet. Thanks, Steve

Post# 53871 , Reply# 25   1/19/2005 at 05:20 (7,031 days old) by SactoTeddyBear ()        
Re: Stuck Basket:

 Hey! Steve, I definately back Robert about what he suggested. I've had several WP/Kenmore Baskets get jammed onto the Hub of older Washers and I climbed into the Washers Basket and proceeded to actually stomp {not too hard, but giving some force} and have loosened the Baskets. I was at that time "BTW" around between 175 and 185 pounds at least. You know that no one in the Club would certainly not suggest something if they have never attempted something themselves before suggesting. I have had the Hub come out with the Baskets as well too, then I just took a Rubber Mallet to hit the Hub to loosen it from the Basket. "Good-Luck" with getting the Basket to break loose, so you can continue your checking out the Washer and getting it operating smoothly again.

Peace and Happiness, Steve
Sacto Teddy Bear...


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