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Post# 495380 2/9/2011 at 23:28 (4,818 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy  (Oak Park, MI) |
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So how well did Kitchen Aid washers & dryers hold up before K/A went back to exclusively only making kitchen appliances? And Magic Chef washers & dryers before the "MC" name went back to being seen only in the kitchen?
I know it took a company like Whirlpool to manufacture Kitchen Aid washers & dryers and Magic Chef washers & dryers to be made by a division of Maytag, but when we're they finally discontinued? | ||
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Post# 495512 , Reply# 2 2/10/2011 at 14:59 (4,817 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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| Post# 495516 , Reply# 3 2/10/2011 at 15:28 (4,817 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
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Post# 495541 , Reply# 4 2/10/2011 at 17:00 (4,817 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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I have a KA pair bought in late 1992. To confess, the dryer hasn't been used since 2004, and washer last ran a load around Dec 2006 ... although they are in working order. The dryer has never had any repairs. The washer has had the motor coupler and agitator dogs replaced.
My parents have a 1994 KA set. Dryer had one of the thermal fuses replaced (I don't know if air duct or element housing). The washer has had a couple couplers, lid switch (bypassed), agitator dogs, and the pump (which I replaced as a preemptive measure so can't say how long the original might would have lasted). Interestingly, this washer has developed considerable rusting around the top panel tub port, which my 1992 hasn't. We treated slathered it with POR-15 several years ago.
My KAWE760B washer has an insulation panel for sound deadening in the base beneath the motor and mechanism. | ||
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Post# 495575 , Reply# 5 2/10/2011 at 20:31 (4,817 days old) by washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i) |
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Post# 495598 , Reply# 8 2/10/2011 at 23:49 (4,816 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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OK, maybe "Kitchen BRANDS" in the Laundry Room...!!!
"Yogitunes": There hasn't been a "Window'd dryer" since the '60's!--& how DO you get the light to be on w/ the door closed? (Maybe a manual switch? Or is the light on inside when the dryer is in operation? Maybe we need a separate thread on lighted drums in dryers w/ windows...)
I do remember a TV advertisement on Magic Chef washers & dryers--obviously trying to convince the very skeptical who were wary of buying a name, obviously for a CHEF, or suggesting a KITCHEN appliance--, "that it out-cleaned THESE BRANDS:" and just about every make was named in these blocked letters (MAYTAG, among them!) which were "in animation, knocked out by a blocked-letter MAGIC CHEF logo"! Maytag, made Magic Chef, at least from the self-proclaimed "A division of Maytag" the promotion of M/C products got (Norge, Admiral, Montgomery Ward, too--or at least were "a division" in the sense that they could all be serviced, while this "umbrella" existed!)... Thanks all, for the very unexpected (while the future of my topic looked a bit moribund! --LOL) response!!!! -- Dave NP: Blue Oyster Cult "Transamericon MC" | ||
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Post# 495855 , Reply# 10 2/12/2011 at 01:06 (4,815 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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OK, I wasn't thinking about the new "Shhhh-Boom" boxes! --Yes, they have Windows on BOTH the washers & dryers...!
Well, I have wondered about whether the old dryers w/ windows (& front loading washers had a manual switch to view your clothese being washed or dried, or if just "the natural outside light" was adequate, that's all... I know, that the '70's Westinghouse front-loaders (and newer, White-Westy's) had a tub-light switch, so I speculated that angle on other washers & dryers that had windows on them, that's all... -- Dave | ||
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Post# 496048 , Reply# 12 2/12/2011 at 20:07 (4,815 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Oh, well thanks for the info, Tomturbo... I was curious about lights in windowed machines & there operation in terms of whether the machine was on, off, door opened, or closed...
I know the reason is obvious in non-windowed washin' & dryin' boxes; to illuminate the interior... Now are there top-loaders that have tub light? (Aside from a certain Maytag which I saw & commented on?) -- Dave | ||
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