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Post# 87343 , Reply# 1   10/6/2005 at 09:21 (6,748 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia)   |   | |
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here's the link... these are a great old machine. Chris |
Post# 87344 , Reply# 2   10/6/2005 at 09:22 (6,748 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia)   |   | |
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sorry, here's the link CLICK HERE TO GO TO gizmo's LINK on eBay |
Post# 87345 , Reply# 3   10/6/2005 at 09:24 (6,748 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia)   |   | |
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and it looks like they might have some Maytag under the bonnet... CLICK HERE TO GO TO gizmo's LINK on eBay |
Post# 87349 , Reply# 4   10/6/2005 at 09:51 (6,748 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Post# 87355 , Reply# 6   10/6/2005 at 10:19 (6,748 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Post# 87357 , Reply# 7   10/6/2005 at 10:38 (6,748 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Post# 87392 , Reply# 8   10/6/2005 at 19:00 (6,747 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia)   |   | |
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Hi Mike No, it's nothing like that. Chris. |
Post# 87453 , Reply# 10   10/7/2005 at 03:56 (6,747 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Post# 87457 , Reply# 11   10/7/2005 at 05:49 (6,747 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Thats definetly a Maytag agitator but the tub is not. No Maytag TL ever had a SS tub and the tranny system Gizmo describes is a Maytag tranny as well. I like the Servis with the Vigorous Agitator cap!! That would be a cool machine to find. I do like the SS tub in this machine, you got that seller to photo it for you??? All the way from Oz to Chester?? Good on ya! jon |
Post# 87461 , Reply# 12   10/7/2005 at 06:46 (6,747 days old) by mielerod69 (Australia)   |   | |
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Hi everyone, I can tell you that the Wilkins Servis had the guts of the Maytag. We had one for a few years and it had a porcelin enamel drum and blue agitator with chrome top. It had a lint filter in the agitator and 10 programs, even hand wash wool program. It was also a suds saver, I used to like watching the machine suck the suds back into the tub. The agitator would go as the pump sucked the water in. Great washer. Regards Rod |
Post# 87469 , Reply# 13   10/7/2005 at 07:41 (6,747 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Very cool washer - hopefully this is someone's dream machine and it can be saved from the trash. It would be fun to be a fly on the wall when someone is servicing one of these, I'd love to see that tub out of the machine to compare it with the Maytag versions we're so familiar with. Mike, that agitator in your brochure is wicked looking - have you ever seen one of these in action? These WS machines are way too cool!! |
Post# 87474 , Reply# 14   10/7/2005 at 08:44 (6,747 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 87525 , Reply# 15   10/7/2005 at 14:53 (6,746 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.)   |   | |
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Post# 87569 , Reply# 16   10/7/2005 at 20:38 (6,746 days old) by mattywashboy (Perth, Western Australia)   |   | |
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yes that is correct appliguy The olds servis twin tubs also had this feature. If you had plugged the machine in to the electrical outlet and switched the outlet on then this light would come on even if the actual machine itself was not in operation, i think it was a safety feature so you didn't leave the machine switched on at the 'mains' and waste power. Mains is the word we english folk give to the main house power so if somethings plugged in its connected to the 'mains'. Very cool machine, i would love to see one in action Matty |
Post# 87632 , Reply# 18   10/8/2005 at 06:32 (6,746 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Hi Guys The "Mains" on does refer to the power indicator for the machine, I believe this is lit when the selector dial is pulled to start. The early model MK41 had the black servis agitator like the twinnies, ( and earlier t/l MK22, MK38 ) then Servis introduced the grey Hi-Zone Power Agitator. Non of the UK guys have seen or have one of these machines, YET!!! My Great Aunt had the previous version, which I remember aged 8, with the black agi, this had a soap dispenser top left of the washtub, pre-wash, main & conditioner.This model also had smaller dials instead of the rocker switches. All of the Servis models have 210s wide sweep with 65 osc per minute. There is a twinny repairman in Walsall, Midlands, his main engineer used to work at the Servis factory all his life, he told me the story of when this machine was sent to Australia they had a call to say one of the machines had totally exploded in use and had taken out the room and porch area of the house it was in...This was a new model so Servis UK sent an engineer over to see if he could identify the problem, fearing a mega problem with the build. The machine was indeed in tatters & bits along with the room etc.. Turns out after a lot of searching that the owner had very dirty oily clothes and had washed them with some sort of dry-cleaner solvent, fumes had built up, a spark from the timer and ...BANG!!! |
Post# 89609 , Reply# 19   10/19/2005 at 02:41 (6,735 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia)   |   | |
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Probably a bit late to add to this but only just joined. I concur with mielerod69 that WS did in fact build Maytags under license in the 1970's here in Oz. I spoke to a guy in Sydney who used to make a living re-building and servicing Wilkins Service machines. They were called the "International Series" 400 and later 500: where they introduced the stainless steel bowl: prior to this they had a black porcelain bowl. There are still some about but they are getting rare. The company disappeared in the late 70's early 80's. I have some pics which i will have to upload showing the innards of the machines.
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Post# 89839 , Reply# 20   10/20/2005 at 08:14 (6,734 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia)   |   | |
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Hi Mayfan Please do post the pix. What part of the country do you live? If NSW, you would be the obvious choice to buy this WS... :) Chris |
Post# 89932 , Reply# 21   10/21/2005 at 03:09 (6,733 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia)   |   | |
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