These machines used GE motors almost from the beginning, some did come with Delco motors but they were gone from all GM Frigidare laundry by the mid 1970s. You can check the code date on your washers motor if you want to see if it was actually replaced. Of all the things that I ever saw fail on these interesting washers the motor was never one of them.

I'm sad that I couldn't swing it, but happy the set has found a happy home.  :-)

FABULOUS MACHINE!!!! I can definitely add this to the list of must haves!!!

You'd think it would make sense for manufacturers to revisit design like these. Imagine how much water a solid tub agi-tub machine could save? And how much bigger they could be without any of the air pockets for floating baskets of the topload HE machines of today like the Cabrio/Bravos/Oasis machines!

No Gordon it is you LOL, if I ever heard a WP that sounded like this there would be some thing seriously wrong. The agitatatub machines have a hollow sound because of the thin cabinet and plastic tubs, plus you can hear the slight roar of the several ball bearings that are turning whenever the machine is running.

Congratulations Phil on the machine and the restoration.  You should know this is an EXTREMELY rare find.  Your GMini standalone washer (without the dryer attached on top) is probably the only one we know of in existence.   When the original owner posted this I didn't want to say anything because of the possibility of the price skyrocketing as we've seen in the past with some sellers. I've seen Frigidaire Agi-Tubs before but they all have been part of a stacked version.

In the picture the agitator looks fused to the tub, and this machine has been referred to as an agitub, but in the vids, it looks like the agitator is turning, not the tub. Is this an illusion? Very inexperienced with these, but a big fan, nevertheless. Thanks for all your time and trouble and sharing a magical find.

No wonder why it has so many devotees. Now, I get it, finally, the mystique of the skinny-minny.

Thank you!

I ekpt my mouth shut too about how rare these SxS versions would be if ya got them.  Like Robert said, I think these are the only ones we have in the club.  And the above ad is about the only place I've seen them displayed. 

These just sit on top of the agitator, I may still have an extra one around?. While your machines are much more rare and therefor interesting, I have always preferred the complete Skinyminni for collecting as it takes up less space and is 240 volts for faster drying. The complete machine I believe was the first fully integrated stack washer-dryer that was made as one piece at the factory and that used one power connection. The 208 and 240 volt models had a choice of drying temps and all had 2 sp motors in the washer. All major mechanical parts appear to be the same between the separate machines and the one piece model.

But the appeal of these machines would not have been very strong to potential buyers who were looking for separate portables in the 1970s. The quality of the portables from WP-KM were superior to these machines. So probably few of these were sold and those that were didn't last long. I remember one Frigidare dealer that I knew telling me that when the Skinny-mini came out he sold 48 of them the first year and ran 54 service calls on them the first year alone. That was even for the 1970s an unpressadented failure rate for new laundry appliances.

The worst failures are the main water-seal which if not found in time will ruin everything. Other problems were the multi-disc clutch and as Peter suggested the agitate cables would break and belts which were actually easy to replace. The belts were only sold in matched pairs so you always want to use them in a pair.

We saw quite a few of these machines that lasted nearly 20 years IF they were very lightly used, but if you tried to run say 10 loads a week in them they didn't last very long. The dryer part of the machine was far more troublesome than the washers. I spent many hours behind these dryers replacing bad blowers, idler pulleys, belts drum rollers, broken lint filter housings, bad motors and motor mounts, bad heating elements and on and on. Frigidare had quite a few fires with the heater design on these dryers, which is why WCI redesigned the heater box in he 1980s. And when these started to show up under the GE Space-Maker name in around 1986 GE made them change the dryer door and washer lid to metal to prevent fires from spreading. I always said that it was a good thing that Frigidare didn't try to make one of these in gas.

I drought that any thing is still available for these machines from Frigidare except the dryer belt and maybe the inlet valve for the washer.