Thread Number: 10077
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Post# 185750   1/25/2007 at 02:29 (6,272 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California)   |   | |
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Post# 185751 , Reply# 1   1/25/2007 at 02:31 (6,272 days old) by agiflow ()   |   | |
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Penta Swirl |
Post# 185753 , Reply# 2   1/25/2007 at 03:05 (6,272 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California)   |   | |
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Post# 185754 , Reply# 3   1/25/2007 at 03:25 (6,272 days old) by agiflow ()   |   | |
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Not really sure about the age though. I believe these washers with the Penta Swirls were available from the mid seventies to early eighties. Hopefully an Kenmore expert will chime in. |
Post# 185775 , Reply# 4   1/25/2007 at 07:38 (6,272 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 185777 , Reply# 5   1/25/2007 at 07:43 (6,272 days old) by westytoploader ()   |   | |
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The extensionless version in action...and we all know who that particular washer in the picture is living with now! ;-) I'm curious, where did the top picture come from? Craigslist ad or something? |
Post# 185829 , Reply# 6   1/25/2007 at 11:17 (6,272 days old) by bobbyd32l ()   |   | |
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Anyone got a video of that in action? |
Post# 185865 , Reply# 7   1/25/2007 at 13:45 (6,272 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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Post# 186526 , Reply# 8   1/27/2007 at 20:51 (6,270 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California)   |   | |
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Post# 186587 , Reply# 10   1/28/2007 at 00:22 (6,269 days old) by exploder3211 ()   |   | |
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Wow... MY moms machiene had the penta swirl from 1980... My grams had one with a D/A in it. Both machines where almost identical except for agitator and color |
Post# 186590 , Reply# 11   1/28/2007 at 00:34 (6,269 days old) by llmaytag (Southern California)   |   | |
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Yes, I recall that one too. When our old Lady Kenmore with the plastic translucent push buttons went out, we bought a model that had a gold "Penta-swirl" agitator. Five vanes that were kinda integrated to the base of the agitator, rounded and sloped at the base as each comes up to a peak. I guess the "swirl" part comes from the very slight five spirals that go from the base to the top. Seems the "swirl" likely didn't add much to the agitation. It was a gold color plastic and at the top there was a clear plastic cap with a dark background witht he words "Penta-Swirl," (as someone else described).
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Post# 187117 , Reply# 12   1/29/2007 at 16:52 (6,268 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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Rex, don't let your mom ever get rid of that machine! I wish I wasn't on vacation when my mom decided to replace hers with a POS BOL GE that sounded like somebody was sawing wood undeneath it when it was new. I think maybe the Penta-Swirl logic was that it helped the machine operate more quietly by not sloshing up the water as much as an agitator with more pronounced vanes. The Penta-Swirls seemed to be used on the higher end machines but that's just my casual observation.
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