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| Post# 492786 , Reply# 1 1/31/2011 at 08:21 (4,831 days old) by ingliscanada () | ||
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Recent The washer looks modern, but it does have a different door than other SQs. Maybe a premium model. | ||
Post# 492798 , Reply# 2 1/31/2011 at 10:44 (4,831 days old) by gansky1  (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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| Post# 492812 , Reply# 3 1/31/2011 at 12:30 (4,830 days old) by lebron (Minnesota) | ||
Greg | ||
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Post# 492813 , Reply# 4 1/31/2011 at 12:40 (4,830 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 492814 , Reply# 5 1/31/2011 at 12:41 (4,830 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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| Post# 492824 , Reply# 6 1/31/2011 at 14:02 (4,830 days old) by macboy91si (Frankfort, KY) | ||
Color? | ||
| Post# 492852 , Reply# 7 1/31/2011 at 16:54 (4,830 days old) by autowasherfreak () | ||
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I don't like the inset cheap plastic lid handles WP when to in the 80's. That might be Almond, but I'm not sure. | ||
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Post# 492884 , Reply# 8 1/31/2011 at 18:56 (4,830 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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WP LHA9800 PLATINUM WASHER
At least WPs lid handle kept you from breaking your nails unlike MTs non lid handle, when I worked for MT in the 1970s women customers would sometimes complain about the heavy hard to grab lids on MT washers. WP also had counter balance springs on thier washer lids to make them easier to lift, its just one of many reasons they were the number 1 producer of washers & dryers even then.
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| Post# 492897 , Reply# 9 1/31/2011 at 19:44 (4,830 days old) by nmassman44 (Brooksville Florida) | ||
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| Post# 492900 , Reply# 10 1/31/2011 at 19:48 (4,830 days old) by macboy91si (Frankfort, KY) | ||
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Handles | ||
| Post# 493747 , Reply# 12 2/3/2011 at 18:52 (4,827 days old) by washernoob () | ||
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Greg this is unacceptable. You have too many nice machines! I had no idea that thing was never used! You are way lucky! :) | ||
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Post# 493793 , Reply# 13 2/3/2011 at 20:50 (4,827 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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This is indeed Platinum. It sat in the front window of an old appliance/vacuum/sewing machine shop here in Omaha for it's entire life. The paint on the front of the washer as well as that lid handle are a bit faded, but Platinum was one of the colors that made me sigh when it came out and I'd only ever known one person that had a washer and dryer in this color. I'd seen quite a few of the Toast colored machines, mostly Kenmores but the Platinum seemed to be much more rare. The mid to later 80's seemed much more of a brown and almond period. I tried for eight years to buy that machine and finally got it a couple of years ago when they were going out of business and rescued it from the rows of machines going to the scrap yard. They had told me over and over that it was either sold, non-working, etc. and they wouldn't sell it. The picture of the top (above) is when I first got it home before even wiping it down. $50 later, it was mine and when I started going over the machine, it became more and more apparent that it had never been hooked up! What a fun day that was. Here is it's first-ever full load of wash:
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Post# 493796 , Reply# 14 2/3/2011 at 20:55 (4,827 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 493797 , Reply# 15 2/3/2011 at 20:56 (4,827 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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