Good luck and CONGRATS!   They are purdy, can't wait to see better photos of them!

I don't know how long Maytag offered "avocado green" (up till '77 I think?).   They have the gold trim on the control panel and that started in 1975 when they changed from the light blue trim, among other changes.   So my guess is between 1975 and 1977.

Here is a pic from the ad for reference.

Kevin

Hi, the washer is an A207, std cap with 2 speeds, and the dryer appears to be a DE606 HOH.

Kevin I think you are right with the shading, these machines are probably 75 models, which would have been some of the last of the shaded cabinets. I say the washer is an A207, a late one with the gold trimmed panel. The A208, which only had gold trimmed panels,  had different naming for the water levels as well as 4 temp setting buttons. The dryer is a DE606, HOH machine. The 606 and 806 were the only machines with electronic only controls and this machine lacks a backlit panel making it a DE606. The way to tell in this case the 606 from the newer 608 is the smaller door and lack of buttons to the right of the timer. The DE608 would be a big-load machine as well as having a bank of buttons to the right that the HOH model 606's lacked. These are both late models, the DE606 was only in production with the gold trimmed panel for what a year?

Nice set, I like the color as well, but seems like I've seen them on C/L before in that exact setting...

-Tim

Yes you are correct Tim the HD stickers were added at the dealer. When I was working at the MT home appliance store around 1975 our MT sales rep came in one day and before I saw what he was doing he put these silly stickers on about a dozen machines in our showroom. At the time I though they looked cheap and I thought surly everyone knew MTs were heavy duty well built machines.

But it seems that salesmen for other brands were making points by showing that thier machines said HD on them and MTs did not, [ they could have just showed how slowly they agitated with a large load on a cold morning, LOL ] So thats how the HEAVY DUTY stickers first got on MT W & Ds. 

Maytag continued to sell avocado and copper-tone washers and dryers after 1976 but they lost the shading after this time and just like all other US appliance manufacturers had agreed to do.

When they went to the gold escutcheons with the gold dials, they started making the BOL's with chromed trim on the panels, so they looked more like the rest of the line. I've always said that I thought Avocado looked best on a pair of 'Tags and these are no exception. I have an earlier pair in "Spanish Avocado" and I love them. I have some friends who are kitchen designers and I'm always challenging them to come up with good contemporary designs using Avocado. They think I'm nuts but they keep coming up with clever color coordination's. Hope you get them; you'll be happy.

Only the A106 / D106  was non-chromed, and I thought that to be true since the introduction of the 06' series in 66. When they went to the gold panels, the 106 stayed non-chromed and retained the blue trimmed panel.

-Tim

Methinks it's thick transmission oil that accounts for the slow take-off.

The oil in these older MTs 1980s and earlier was always dark brown from the factory. I just went into our parts room and opened a sealed bottle of MT oil [ older stock ] and it is dark brown. We used to always make fun of the oil MT used back when we started rebuilding MTs in the late 1960s - the 1970s as we would buy the genuine oil from MT and it looked like recycled sewage sludge. MT changed to more normal looking oil  with the interduction of the orbital transmissions on the helical drive washers.

Yes the oil may get a little thicker as it ages and if it is cold. But as Brain stated the main problem is oil does not get up to the agitator shaft bearings. This coupled with a little water getting into this bearing area over many years use causes the shaft and  bearings to get very stiff and eventually size. If you have a sluggish transmission in your MT you can sometimes help this by turning the machine on its side and further elevating the bottom so the oil gets into this area [ the longer you store it this way the better ].

The pin in the output gear is not designed to break, nor is the nylon pinion gear designed to break under heavy loads [ its nylon to make it quieter and it wears longer than steel would in this application ]. Yes plastic can be a good thing, if it wasn't for plastic many washers parts would fail much sooner, look at how plastic improved the MT water pumps. The poly-pump almost  eliminated pump replacements on MT washers.

I have never seen any automatic washer or dryer that has any parts that were designed to break under  overloading or other abuse conditions. If you severely overload a helical drive MT washer all thats likely to happen is putting the motor out on the overload or maybe if the belt is worn you might damage the main drive belt. 

Our ever-trusty harvest 206 lived in the garage.  When it was cold out there (mid-50's or lower, I'd say) the first load would start out under slow agitation, but after a few twists agitation would quickly pick up speed and hit its normal stride. 

Brain I do think you are correct about MT using a heaver weight oil as they used all straight cut gears and the heavier weight oil will keep the noise down. MT also always used a fiber or nylon gear for the pinion gear to keep noise down, where as WP and most other companies used helical cut pinion gears in thier transmissions.