Thread Number: 11392
A Maytag Wringer ... with a Timer! |
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Post# 204367 , Reply# 1   4/16/2007 at 07:56 (6,213 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 204409 , Reply# 5   4/16/2007 at 11:41 (6,213 days old) by mixfinder ()   |   | |
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I didn't mean to imply Maytag wringers lack in form. The timer, looks like some farmer drilled a hole in the side wall and inserted a Lux kitchen timer. I was referring to the timer, not the machine. Kelly |
Post# 204431 , Reply# 7   4/16/2007 at 12:48 (6,213 days old) by oldwasherguy (Ladson SC)   |   | |
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Post# 204542 , Reply# 9   4/16/2007 at 19:41 (6,212 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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The Maytag wringer washer design is so simple so elegant so perfect that when they tried to compete with the Visi's, Norge's and other automatic shut-off timer machines, they just could not get out of the box, could not mess with perfection. The auto timer allows you to leave the scene, confident that the washer will shut-off. What good is it to have the agitation cease while the motot continues to fire. Egads! Sheesh! As far as I know it's the ony dumb thing the early Maytag engineers ever did. Geoff, I remember when you posted a pamphlet photo of the Timer Tag; seeing it in the flesh--well, almost-- is much more satisfying. Thank you Imagine! These machines we have are 50 years old and the look as good and work as well as the day they were born. YAY Maytag. How nice to see you Geoffrey Delph. |
Post# 204574 , Reply# 10   4/16/2007 at 21:22 (6,212 days old) by gadgetgary (Bristol,CT)   |   | |
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Post# 204582 , Reply# 11   4/16/2007 at 21:31 (6,212 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)   |   | |
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Post# 204588 , Reply# 12   4/16/2007 at 21:46 (6,212 days old) by gadgetgary (Bristol,CT)   |   | |
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There was no on/off switch. When you plugged the Maytag wringer in, it was simply 'on'. Due to my mother's terminal illness, I was doing the family laundry at the laundromat with the automatic Speed Queens. Even though the Maytag wringer served her very well up until 1967 when she got her new automatic Frigidaire Radidry 1000, she kept the wringer washer for doing things like rugs, greasy work clothes. My grandmother had 1956 GE Automatic Filter Flow washer(POD that is show here frequently). Even though it was an automatic washer, she treated is as a wringer. After the first spin, she took the clothes out of the machine and rinsed them in her laundry tub-slop sink-..... Then she would transfer the laundry back to the GE, fill it with a hose to almost full, then push the button and let the machine fill, rinse and spin. |
Post# 204589 , Reply# 13   4/16/2007 at 21:52 (6,212 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)   |   | |
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OMG My mother was forced to re-rinse the clothes that came out of her Aunts 1963 24-inch wide Sears Kenmore in the bathtub. Wrung them by hand and hung them out to dry. Imagine if someone had shown these ladies how to reset the timer to "rinse" *FAINTS* That would be entirely too automatic. Remember if you fuss over something (even as mundane as this) and waste time needlessly over it, it means "love" LOL. |
Post# 204592 , Reply# 15   4/16/2007 at 21:55 (6,212 days old) by gadgetgary (Bristol,CT)   |   | |
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Post# 204595 , Reply# 16   4/16/2007 at 22:00 (6,212 days old) by gadgetgary (Bristol,CT)   |   | |
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Post# 204601 , Reply# 17   4/16/2007 at 22:20 (6,212 days old) by scott55405 ()   |   | |
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It kind of has that appearance, probably due to the style of timer and the way they incorporated it, but I do know for a fact that it was a sanctioned Maytag feature at least for a short time. |
Post# 204707 , Reply# 19   4/17/2007 at 08:56 (6,212 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Now that is cool - never seen one of these before, they must have only offered it for a short time? I recently heard that the very first AMP washer had an aluminum outer tub that the white porcelain liner was bolted to. This was changed early on in production, but it would be cool to find one with the aluminum tub. |