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Thread Number: 17889
THE NORGE-TORQUED SPEED QUEEN for Eddy, Geoff, Nate, Darrell, and all the wringer men and those who |
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| Post# 291676 7/19/2008 at 22:02 (5,752 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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| Post# 291681 , Reply# 1 7/19/2008 at 22:13 (5,752 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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Well, I was in the middle of Blackjack's tabacki, when E
Wringer Washer, and I needed a couple of quick clean summer habits, kaki shorts and white T's,. I wanted to show the clothes rinsing so you could see the currents, and therefore planned to rinse in the SQ. But first I had to wash the habits. Couldn't resist the Lady Kenmore. (Greg should use his NIB KM for clothes NOT towels, duh! )And here's a weird shot from the hypnogagic state, the threshold between wake and sleep.
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| Post# 291682 , Reply# 2 7/19/2008 at 22:19 (5,752 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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Here's the magic three minutes AND POLKA-DOTTED DIAMOND | ||
| Post# 291684 , Reply# 3 7/19/2008 at 22:23 (5,752 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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Okay, so now i installed the Norge agitator in the fast stro | ||
| Post# 291685 , Reply# 4 7/19/2008 at 22:30 (5,752 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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Just to give you an idea of the how speed afffects water cur | ||
| Post# 291686 , Reply# 5 7/19/2008 at 22:37 (5,752 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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Contrast that with the slit-jets from the same agitator in a | ||
| Post# 291687 , Reply# 6 7/19/2008 at 22:43 (5,752 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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A true tub tidal wave | ||
| Post# 291688 , Reply# 7 7/19/2008 at 22:51 (5,752 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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Now that is one beautifully raging queen for ya | ||
| Post# 291691 , Reply# 8 7/19/2008 at 22:58 (5,752 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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How the hell did he get in there? Who let him in? He's s | ||
| Post# 291692 , Reply# 9 7/19/2008 at 23:07 (5,752 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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and now the blissful calm of a proper Speed Queen, so effici | ||
Post# 291693 , Reply# 10 7/19/2008 at 23:07 (5,752 days old) by gansky1  (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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WILD!!
Rough water rapids in that SQ - who knew a Norge agitator would fit?? Be gentle to your Lady now, she comes from the best of families with a long lineage of good breeding and refined grace ;-) (I've only washed things in the Kenmore without snaps, zippers, buckles and rhinestones so as not to muss up that pristine, shiny SRS agitator!) | ||
| Post# 291695 , Reply# 11 7/19/2008 at 23:22 (5,752 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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THANKS ! | ||
| Post# 291727 , Reply# 12 7/20/2008 at 08:30 (5,752 days old) by tlee618 () | ||
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Michael that was really fun!! What a great way to send the evening, you should have had a wash-in!! | ||
| Post# 291743 , Reply# 13 7/20/2008 at 11:05 (5,752 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ) | ||
So, Greg... | ||
| Post# 291744 , Reply# 14 7/20/2008 at 11:06 (5,752 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ) | ||
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Lovely! | ||
| Post# 291769 , Reply# 15 7/20/2008 at 14:46 (5,752 days old) by eddy1210 (Burnaby BC Canada) | ||
Wow  | ||
| Post# 291818 , Reply# 16 7/20/2008 at 18:36 (5,751 days old) by 7080swashertalk () | ||
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looks like fun ! people don't have to be specifically in wringer washers to understand your excitement. Most all of us on the site are here for MEMORIES sake. | ||
| Post# 291907 , Reply# 17 7/21/2008 at 11:34 (5,751 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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Hi Guys! ...
Eric, I'm here for friendship and the future, just like you. No one in my family had a wringer, so I have no strong memories, but when I had the company of one, I went crazy. And the joke here--sorry you didn't get it--is that this is the AUTOMATIC WASHER site. Some people are not fond of wringers, and generously tolerate us wringer men. HI Eddy, "black gobbler"--I love it. Yeah, I did a whole thing on the Norge a few weeks ago. Should be down the main page a bit. The 4 paddle Norge was MADE for fast torque, so she's staying there for a while, and the Norge loves the SQ red agitator that goes with the cap you see in the pix. Next time, I shoot the tub empty and do a full frontal shot. Hello, Nate--you can make a wringer behave almost like an automatic. As you get used to it you'll think of ways to make it more automatic. Once you get a clothesline out into the beautiful Pacific breezes, you'll never go back! You're right: where have we seen such turbulence at full water volume? Happy to give you a treat. HI Terri-- I thought of a wash-in, but what with all the FBI helicopters, and alien spacecraft hovering, figured it would scare the brothers away; ;'D I'm so so glad you liked the show. Really had a ball doing it. Wish you were here. 
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| Post# 291921 , Reply# 18 7/21/2008 at 13:19 (5,751 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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I forgot the pic that shows you how I fill the machine almos | ||
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Post# 292044 , Reply# 20 7/22/2008 at 09:15 (5,750 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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Well said Geoff, well said. Must not forget the reason why automatics are here. I was having a conversation about washers with the front desk girl here at work, as well as the admin assistant. The front desk girl is in her mid 20's, but the admin assistant is in her mid 50's. The front desk girl brought up my washer collection, and we got on the topic of 'Conventional washers' - and not only had the front desk girl never seen a wringer, but had never HEARD of one. The admin assistant and I just smiled. So there is some truth in that, those who used them certainly can identify with them. Mike - thanks for the glory shots! Something special about the Norge. For some reason reminds me of a Dexter, not sure why. Certainly is a standout in your collection. Ben | ||
| Post# 292076 , Reply# 22 7/22/2008 at 12:09 (5,750 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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"GOOD MORNIN' VIET NAAAAHM" as Robin Willaims
louder than someone with an appendage caught in a wringer. HI GEOFF AND BEN Part of it is that I love and respect Roberto so much, and he doesn't like wringers, which I find both fascinating an endearing, but doesn't he know you can underflow rinse, cool-down, magic ALL OF the fill minutes, suds-save (rather dramatically as the quarts of water squirt and flow and fan back into the tub from the wringer flow tray which, by the way, automatically adjusts flow direction), actually anything except spin. The wringer can be used as a non-heating iron. After rinsing napkins and linen "tea" towels, you fold them and wring them, and they dry stiff and ironed. This, you need to see to believe, so in the next film roll, I'll show. When people say, "Michael, I can't believe you starch and iron your dish towels! " I just grin, and say the wringer does it. Geoff-- In 1992 or 3 or 4, (I'll need a while to get it right) Eddie Kolopinski was retiring and closing his Maytag store on Clinton Street near the famous Broadway Market, the heart of an old Polish neighborhood in Buffalo. Any time, I went to visit him, he had a Cadillac Tag, churning away in the back room, "testing it" On his last day he offered my my green and white Maytag--wish I knew all the call number like you do, Jeff-- and the new white Speed Queen, that was in the showroom window, not in a box but brand new. I don't know what year it was made. I'll find out more later this afternoon and let you know, And yes, your friend is on point. These wonderful machines are properly termed conventional Washers. The harsher, somewhat pejorative "wringer" came much later. Why use tubs when you can rinse in another washer?????;'D;'D;'D;'D Of course, I've thought of it, but then I imagine installing agitators and pumps and wringers, and la la la--la la la Ben, I'm meditating on the Dexter/Norge connection, and I'll get back to ya. Guys: Wringers forever!!! Here's one I left out of the Norge/Unimatic story, that wonderful Eugene loved as a children's story. 
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| Post# 292185 , Reply# 24 7/22/2008 at 21:20 (5,749 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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Oh Geoff, what a warm memory you've summoned with "
It's my Aunt Margaret's great big old kitchen, warmed by a "gas-on-gas" stove which at one time also burned coal. In one window on the south wall vented through a window is an RCA Whirlpool gas dryer with a glass window and the famous right or left? mounted control box, making the coolest sounds, the damp clothes at first steaming the window, and OH the scents of fresh hot fragrant laundry, so clean and floral. I think it was the only dryer I ever loved. On the north wall next to a large double window out of which a blustery northern winter day is having its way, sits a glorious Easy Spin, washing, spray rinsing, and pumping fast out of the chrome drain faucet. There are colorful "Eight good-sized towels make a nice load" as Marge would say, spiralating in the suds, and a load of sheets getting needle-spray rinsed. Margaret is smiling, everything is so beautiful and I am in heaven. I hope I dream about her tonight. Wouldn't that be sweet!?;'D. Thanks, Geoff. | ||
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