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Thread Number: 29766
POD 07/28/2010 NORGE FRONTLOADER |
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| Post# 452498 , Reply# 1 7/28/2010 at 08:46 (5,010 days old) by gmmcnair (Portland, OR) | ||
My Grandmother Had One....
...long before I was born. She only kept it a few months because she hated that washer...loved the capacity but dripping wet clothes after the spin and it had a nasty tendency to dribble water around the door seal. She still won't consider a front loading washer to this very day and it stemmed from that Norge. She replaced it with a Philco, then went to Frigidaire, and kept with Frigidaire until the WCI design came into being.
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Post# 452512 , Reply# 2 7/28/2010 at 10:19 (5,010 days old) by Tomturbomatic  (Beltsville, MD) |
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Thanks, Mike. Yours is the first account of an actual owner's opinion of the machine. Consumer Reports did not like the poor water extraction either. It spun about as well as some combos which also left enough water in the fabrics to cause dripping if they were put on the line to dry. | ||
| Post# 452561 , Reply# 3 7/28/2010 at 14:22 (5,010 days old) by amyswasher () | ||
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What year did was this washer introduced? | ||
| Post# 452585 , Reply# 4 7/28/2010 at 16:22 (5,010 days old) by mrcleanjeans (milwaukee wi) | ||
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Wonder if you could rig it to spin faster? Looks great in all other respects. The two ft. drop of clothes plus today's detergents should do a magnificant job IF the spin was faster! | ||
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Post# 452653 , Reply# 5 7/28/2010 at 20:55 (5,010 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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After looking at the mechanicals
TOm, I would have to agree it is a rebadged Bendix. Based on their first bolt down machine 1938! Several things catch my eye, when this came out the Tumble-Drain was a patented item of Bendix , no one could use that w/o paying rights 2) the rolled fins in the tub very early bendix, 3) the water valve is a bendix valve, 4) the timer is a bendix early timer and is even sequenced the same.
I wonder if Bendix was experimenting with a large tub bolt down but abandoned it and then sold the idea to Norge?? | ||
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Post# 452658 , Reply# 6 7/28/2010 at 21:16 (5,010 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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| Post# 452774 , Reply# 8 7/29/2010 at 12:37 (5,009 days old) by golittlesport (California) | ||
very interesting
I wonder if Norge had Bendix build these for them while they developed their own top-load design that would be introduced in a year or two. They probably wanted to get their foot in the door of the automatic washer market that was exploding after the war.
Sort of like how Westinghouse had Easy build them top load agitator washers for a year or two while they engineered their own agitator design. I wonder how much that 18-pound dry load of laundry weighed coming out of the Norge dripping wet!? | ||
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Post# 452777 , Reply# 9 7/29/2010 at 12:52 (5,009 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Rich, it would probably bring on pre-term labor if lifted all at once, or at least a hernia. | ||
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Post# 453698 , Reply# 10 8/2/2010 at 08:16 (5,005 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Tom
I have the annual business report for Bendix 1939, Westinghouse paid then in 1938 $125,000 for the rights to use the flush drain under the Bendix patents. In todays dollars depending on how you compute that its between $2-$8 millon!!
I don't know about the spins between rinses that was not mentioned. CLICK HERE TO GO TO Jetcone's LINK | ||
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