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Post# 303906 9/15/2008 at 22:41 (5,693 days old) by jons1077  (Vancouver, Washington, USA) |
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Decided to put together another video of my GE but this time with the old bakelite V-14 ramp activator. I know some of you out there swear by this style of agitator and that is no surprise to me. Find me a dual-action agitator that can do turnover like this one! Hope you all enjoy the show! Jon CLICK HERE TO GO TO jons1077's LINK | ||
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Post# 303919 , Reply# 1 9/15/2008 at 23:05 (5,693 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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Post# 303930 , Reply# 2 9/15/2008 at 23:50 (5,693 days old) by jons1077 (Vancouver, Washington, USA) |
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Ben, | ||
| Post# 303934 , Reply# 3 9/16/2008 at 00:32 (5,693 days old) by tuthill () | ||
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Excellent video again Jon, thank you for posting this. So the permanent press cycle just has a slower spin speed? You're right about that spiral activator... REALLY moves those clothes around | ||
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Post# 303935 , Reply# 4 9/16/2008 at 00:37 (5,693 days old) by jons1077 (Vancouver, Washington, USA) |
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Jed,
Speeds are chosen by toggel switches. The reason the spin speed takes a while to ramp up is due to the PP cooldown. Notice on this cycle the spray rinse begins almost immediately in order to cool down the clothing. Ben's (Swestoyz) I bet does a spray rinse from start to finish during the rinse spin. Does it Ben? Mine doesn't do that but I remember others that spray rinse the whole time it's spinning. Anyways, it's on fast spin because I don't have the slow solenoid working right now. That's a really cool agitator isn't it? I happened to find it on ebay one day for about $7. Absolutely covered with hard water deposits but cleaned up nicely. Just need a mini-basket for it and I'll be good to go! Jon | ||
| Post# 303938 , Reply# 5 9/16/2008 at 00:52 (5,693 days old) by alr2903 (TN) | ||
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Jon, i had forgotten just how well the older GE machines washed, Ben your GE agitator comparison vid pops up after this one on U tube, how cool is that? Thanks again to both of you. arthur | ||
| Post# 303952 , Reply# 6 9/16/2008 at 07:31 (5,693 days old) by tlee618 () | ||
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Hey Jon, very fun video! Thanks for sharing something so special to you with us!! | ||
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Post# 304068 , Reply# 8 9/16/2008 at 15:06 (5,693 days old) by pdub (Portland, Oregon) |
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Jon, | ||
| Post# 304145 , Reply# 9 9/16/2008 at 21:19 (5,693 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
Jony Jony Jony Jony Jony
We've talked so much about the mini-baskets. Have we ever seen or does any one have, or are there any flix or pix of a spiral mini-basket? Your cool flick shows how amazing the spiral activator is. For years I have the four vane which i appreciated because it accepted the large 4 vane basket, but once I scored the spiral, there was no turning back. It's all I use, only popping it out when using the min-basket. Admit that the mini is the usual thing in the GE, but any time a full load is washed, is always the spiral. Are there any advantages to the 4 vane. Love to know. Wouldn't it be great if we could score a spiral mini-basket? Remember when I confused that with the 3 vane straight I gave you. heheheheh ;'D. How I love bein' dumb;'D Nice long satisfying video. Thanks. 
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Post# 304181 , Reply# 10 9/16/2008 at 21:58 (5,693 days old) by kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC) |
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NEAT video Jon...
I don't know very much about GEs, other than my experience with one Grandmother's 1973-ish machine that she had until the late 80s (it had a straight vane activator) and my other grandmother's condo building which had 8 coin-op 1981 GEs. They had white ramp activators. I always thought that the straight vane gave way in evolution to the ramp, obviously I was wrong about that! I did some work on GEs occasionally to help my washer buddy/mentor - they sure are a different animal than what I'm used to. A nice change of pace occasionally! Thanks for another nice video Jon! | ||
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Post# 304192 , Reply# 11 9/16/2008 at 22:13 (5,693 days old) by jons1077 (Vancouver, Washington, USA) |
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My pleasure gents!
Patrick, just give me a good time to be there and I'll gladly do some videos for you. I've hardly seen any of your machines run sadly enough. I could use a few good hours in front of some of those awesome finds of yours! MickeyD, hope you did see my mini-basket video featuring the basket you so kindly gave me. I have to say it's quite useful when I only have a dress shirt or two to wash. Glad you liked the video! You need to make a video of your GE washer for me now. :-) Kenmoreguy, I have always had a thing for GE's but never worked on one until this machine came along. I was just like you in thinking that the ramp activator was something that came along later in the GE line. I had no idea it was the original agitator for this style. I still have a thing for the straight vane too though just because it's so different and does just as good a job in my opinion. It's all relative I suppose. Glad you enjoyed the videos! Jon | ||
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