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Post# 366806   7/25/2009 at 00:09 (5,386 days old) by autowasherfreak ()        

This is in Davenport, IA and I think it might be a 1-18, but I can't tell for sure.

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Post# 366808 , Reply# 1   7/25/2009 at 01:11 (5,386 days old) by norfolksouthern ()        

I took a closer look at the control panel on the photo, and see what looks like a standard agitator where the water level dial is. It's definitely a WCI, from the way it looks. If the timer could work on a 1-18, perhaps the seller can be convinced to send it, and junk the rest.

NorfolkSouthern


Post# 366814 , Reply# 2   7/25/2009 at 03:30 (5,386 days old) by jons1077 (Vancouver, Washington, USA)        
That is no GM...

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This would be the Westinghouse version after GM was done with these. You'll have great indexing action with this machine. :-)

Jon


Post# 366856 , Reply# 3   7/25/2009 at 10:55 (5,385 days old) by autowasherfreak ()        

I sent the seller an email asking for a picture of the tub and agitator. If I had the money and a way to get it home I would buy it.

Post# 366917 , Reply# 4   7/25/2009 at 15:12 (5,385 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii)        
You can be sure...

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it's a Westinghouse. The lid and rust give it away.

Post# 366991 , Reply# 5   7/25/2009 at 20:15 (5,385 days old) by peteski50 (New York)        
Fake Frigidaire!

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Yes as soon as I looked at the lid I knew for sure also the water level dial gives it away!
Sad
Peter


Post# 367051 , Reply# 6   7/26/2009 at 02:36 (5,385 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)        
Oooh!

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I had one of these. It was a fun machine, with a straight-vane, three-vaned agitator with removable column fins that also could hold an in-agitator lint filter if you had it (plus it had the standard Westy hanging-basket filter.

It was fun and had lots of smackalation, and could do a pretty impressive load of clothes. Totally hopeless if you had to work on it beyond changing a belt, though, and even that was no fun.

For the 2006 wash-in, I had it next to a WC GM 1-18, just to savor the irony. :-)


Post# 367088 , Reply# 7   7/26/2009 at 08:14 (5,384 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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Nate---did your WCI Frigidaire washer have the circle-spray fill, like the GM 1-18?

I had an '86 Frigidaire top-loader, and hated the curved, narrow vanes (a design quickly dropped, thankfully), but it had the full-circle spray fill and a nice cool-down protocol for the permanent press cycle. They had also moved to a plastic tub, by then.


Post# 367095 , Reply# 8   7/26/2009 at 08:58 (5,384 days old) by supremewhirlpol ()        

Yep, MY first washing machine was 1984 White Westinghouse curved agitator and lint basket. I loved the tub indexing. I carried it out the house in pieces in 1999 because the Transmission was starting to lock. I was given the machine in 1996 by my neighbor. Yes indeed a cool machine, when they work correctly.

Post# 367379 , Reply# 9   7/26/2009 at 23:56 (5,384 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)        
No circle-fill

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Hi Eugene,

No, the machine I had filled from your normal Westy fill-point at about ten o'clock. They did make a four-spray version of this Westy toploader design that ran with an ad that said "Four heads are better than one," if I recall. Very cool. No jet-circle, though--that's so cool that they preserved that in some of their later designs.

Yes, I know that agitator you're talking about, and it was pretty craptastic. But I love WCI's persistence of parts in their machines--bits and pieces of one manufacturer's design, showing up somewhere else...



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