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Thread Number: 15907
The Neptunes Are Nervous! |
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| Post# 266254 , Reply# 1 2/22/2008 at 20:45 (5,905 days old) by charbee () | ||
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CONGRATS! We love our A407, named her Maude...she's our "daily driver" and does between 6 to 10 loads a week! Those Neptunes have good reason to be nervous! Enjoy yer 'TAGS...they won't let ya down!!!! | ||
Post# 266256 , Reply# 2 2/22/2008 at 21:16 (5,905 days old) by gadgetgary  (Bristol,CT) |
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Good Luck with those...... | ||
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Post# 266258 , Reply# 3 2/22/2008 at 21:54 (5,905 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 266262 , Reply# 5 2/22/2008 at 22:07 (5,905 days old) by gadgetgary (Bristol,CT) |
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Michael | ||
| Post# 266264 , Reply# 6 2/22/2008 at 22:55 (5,905 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
Direct From Kitty Forman's Basement!
I'm normally not an avocado fan, but these look like the machines in the Formans' basement on That '70s Show, so they're okay by me! Congratulations, and you will love them. Don't be surprised if you begin thinking about just doing your laundry with these, and cutting the Neppies loose. It's been known to happen. | ||
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Post# 266266 , Reply# 7 2/22/2008 at 23:42 (5,905 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 266282 , Reply# 9 2/23/2008 at 08:12 (5,905 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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| Post# 266328 , Reply# 10 2/23/2008 at 15:13 (5,905 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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That '70s Show
As much as mistakes in period shows bother me, I have to say that That '70s Show was pretty well-done overall. There aren't nearly as many mistakes in that series as I've seen in some other shows and movies about the Mid-Century period. The end-of-cycle chime on a Maytag dryer is one of the things I like best about owning one. It's loud, but not too loud. It's kind of mellow, so it doesn't irritate. And it repeats itself for a while, so if you miss the first ding, you'll probably catch one of the subsequent ones. Obviously, a lot of care and thought went into that signal, unlike today. Nowadays, you get some buzz that is unpleasant and doesn't last long; if you miss it, you miss it. Today's designers seem to feel that it's enough to put a "feature" on something; the experience of actually using that feature- and how pleasant or unpleasant that experience is- is a nuance that seems to be lost on them. Gotta go- my Maytag's chiming. Really. :-) | ||
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Post# 266365 , Reply# 11 2/23/2008 at 17:05 (5,904 days old) by coldspot66 (Plymouth, Mass) |
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That dryer might be mid-70's as that's when the "big load" line appeared. That's not a HOH dryer...the bigger door gives it away. | ||
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Post# 266378 , Reply# 13 2/23/2008 at 18:55 (5,904 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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Very nice looking set of Tags! The avocado seems to have grown on almost everyone here in the club lately (these look great); as previously mentioned, the first photo is brochure material - Maytag at its finest. These would be somewhere in the 75 through 79 era - gold control panels and the Big Load dryer. Very reliable set. Ben | ||
| Post# 266388 , Reply# 14 2/23/2008 at 20:55 (5,904 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Washer Lint Filter:
"Do you suppose they were all out on recess when the "Proper Cleaning of the Lint Filtration Unit" Chapter was discussed? Amazing!" Every collectible 'Tag I've seen has had that problem; the lint filter in my A208 had to be repeatedly soaked and scrubbed with a brush to get all the trapped lint out of it. I also had to use a toothpick to poke some especially clogged holes clean. It amazes me how often people buy a bright, shiny new appliance, and then refuse to do the simplest things to take care of it. I recently acquired an Electrolux 1205 vacuum that was one of the worst-abused appliances I've ever seen. I really shouldn't be going to all the trouble of restoring it (there are a lot of nice 1205's out there that don't need much work), but I couldn't bear what had happened to this one. It was about a $250 machine back in the early '70s, equal to more than $1200 today, and it looked like it had spent its life in the bottom of a henhouse. It'll be all better soon. | ||
| Post# 266397 , Reply# 15 2/24/2008 at 01:58 (5,904 days old) by rickr (.) | ||
Maytag filter issues
Very nice classic Maytag set! Congratulations! They look to be in mint condition, and I am sure you will love them. I do not recall what the washer lint filter looked like when I got my 58 Maytag set. However, I did take a pixs of the dryer lint filter, as I found it...... What does it say on that grey tag with the red lettering??? Something about cleaning the lint filter ever 45 years?? lol!! 
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| Post# 266398 , Reply# 16 2/24/2008 at 02:05 (5,904 days old) by rickr (.) | ||
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You never know what you may find... | ||
| Post# 266420 , Reply# 17 2/24/2008 at 11:30 (5,904 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Don't Feel Bad, rickr:
At least you had a lint filter. The one in my DE608 had a hole in it the size of your fist, and the entire inside of the cabinet had about an inch of lint in it. There were also several dryer sheets that had been blown through the hole. There is NO reason that dryer didn't start a fire at its previous home, except dumb luck. All that risk over a $10 part! What was weird about it was that a DE608 has the filter in the door opening, where it could not be easier to pull out and clean. I can almost understand how a lazy or old person might have issues with pulling the lint filter on a HOH dryer, but not a New Generation model. She's clean inside now, has a new lint filter and proper venting that is clean, and she's correctly grounded. She works like a charm; her former owner said she was the slowest dryer he'd ever used. Wonder why. | ||
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