If I remember correctly, the 1993 Kenmore 70 DD I have doesn't offer a 'true' delicate cycle like we have on belt-drive models or on your new machine either. This machine has a 'Heavy Duty' cycle, which is most closely related to the 'Normal' of old with high speed agitate and spin, a 'Normal' cycle that agitates in low speed and spins in high, and a Perm Press that spins in slow (I don't know about agitation, I have never used a Perm Press cycle, ever). There is a setting in the DD's 'Normal' for 'Delicate' which is just a short agitation period, again at low speed, but it spins on highSears' pricing on machines has not seemed very attractive lately. Just out of curiosity the other day I looked at a few top-loaders at Sears, and compared them to an appliance store across the street that offers Estate, Whirlpool, Amana, and Maytag DD machines. Sears' prices are out of line. You can buy an Estate or Amana Super capacity two speed machine that sounds very similar to your Kenmore for $325 or less, and those were not sale prices. I am sure that you got a steal on your new Whirlpool because it was last year's model. With the lack of diffences now between the various Whirlpool lines and Kenmore hardly being much different either, I'd have no trouble, yes even ME, in buying an Estate, a Roper or an Amana machine, etc. That store has a BOL one-cycle Roper washer for $199 that I'd love to buy just for the heck of it (I like BOL stuff).I love buying stuff like you got that that's been sitting around (I might be leary about a fridge though). I bought my Potscrubber 1200 dishwasher in 1993 that had been made in 1990. It just sat on the back shelf at Lowe's unopened for close to four years.
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