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Post# 373969   8/23/2009 at 06:04 (5,331 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)        

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Post# 373971 , Reply# 1   8/23/2009 at 06:35 (5,331 days old) by chaskelljr2 (Washington, D. C.)        

Maytag???

They look like Kenmores to me.....

--Charles--


Post# 373995 , Reply# 2   8/23/2009 at 11:01 (5,331 days old) by wigwag (San Diego)        
One of the first DD KMs

Isn't it?

Post# 374002 , Reply# 3   8/23/2009 at 11:43 (5,331 days old) by revvinkevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land)        
One of the first DD KMs... Isn't it?

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No that is a belt drive machine. They moved the timer to the right side of the control panel for the DD machines.


Post# 374012 , Reply# 4   8/23/2009 at 12:30 (5,331 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Guys, toward the end of that style of control panel, Sears started putting the DD mechanism in 70 Series model washers. I had a friend of mine I used to work with here who had one of those. Freaked me out when I opened the lid and saw the difference. Even more so when I turned it on to spin and heaerd the "clank" of the coupler engaging at spin rather than the krr-grint of the wig wag for a belt drive. The time was around 1984 or 1985.

Post# 374156 , Reply# 5   8/23/2009 at 18:19 (5,331 days old) by kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC)        

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Kevin -

That is a direct drive washer. Quite a few 60 and 70 series black panel direct drive models were made between 1983 and 1986 with the old-style belt-drive control panels. 24-inch belt-drive models were still in production as well (ramp-up of the DD).

The easiest way to tell a 24-inch BD from a DD from this era is to look at the size of the lid. A belt-drive's lid is smaller than the direct-drive's, with the DD's lid taking up nearly the entire top.

Gordon


Post# 374192 , Reply# 6   8/23/2009 at 20:29 (5,331 days old) by chaskelljr2 (Washington, D. C.)        
RevvinKevin.....

"They moved the timer to the right side of the control panel for the DD machines."

Not necessarily...... I did see a DD Model that had the "match all" panel just like the BD Models did back in 1984. It was a 24" Model. I got a picture of that model in my 1984 Sears Catalog.

That was probably the first DD Washer Sears has marketed, before going with DD for the whole lineup in the Fall Of 1986 (I have a 1986 Catalog too).

I saw a couple of those washers in the trash sometime back earlier in the decade.

--Charles--



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