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Westinghouse vs. White-Westinghouse |
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Post# 94437 , Reply# 1   11/17/2005 at 17:58 (6,705 days old) by mattywashboy (Perth, Western Australia)   |   | |
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my freind Bens family has just purchased a new Westinghouse 8kg Complete Care t/loader. It has a glass see thru lid and a detergent drawer. It rotates the stainless steel bowl as it fills and has the electrolux Eco Rinse option. All the controls are electronic and it has a countdown timer. It is a VERY cool looking machine and i will attempt to get some pics of it in action. It make no sound when it washing except for a small pulsing sound as the agitator reverses. A highly recommened Australian machine. And i think that Simpson (also run made by electolux) machines have always been seen as the most reliable, everyone i know has a simpson. Bens last machine was a simpson and his mum had had that machine for 14 years with little to no repairs. And check out the westinghouse website, they have some good brochures on there. CLICK HERE TO GO TO mattywashboy's LINK |
Post# 94492 , Reply# 2   11/17/2005 at 21:50 (6,705 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)   |   | |
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Post# 94513 , Reply# 4   11/17/2005 at 23:47 (6,705 days old) by arrrooohhh (Sydney Australia)   |   | |
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Here is inside the Westy |
Post# 94537 , Reply# 6   11/18/2005 at 08:03 (6,704 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 94618 , Reply# 7   11/18/2005 at 19:44 (6,704 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 94682 , Reply# 8   11/19/2005 at 01:44 (6,704 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)   |   | |
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Post# 94924 , Reply# 12   11/20/2005 at 22:17 (6,702 days old) by shanonabc ()   |   | |
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the westinghouse washers look soo cool especially the direct drive 9kg model. Oh btw matt got a picture of the F&P front loader on my phone. Now just gotta learn how to hook the thing up to my PC LOL! |
Post# 94971 , Reply# 13   11/21/2005 at 07:23 (6,701 days old) by mattywashboy (Perth, Western Australia)   |   | |
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you should see me when i visit his house, i always fake like i'm washing my hands in the sink when i'm actually staring into the machine. The washing action is very similar to a Simpsons and also the spin is the same. I noticed that when you set the spin to medium, the drum revs up to about 700rpm, then the motor cuts out and the drum coasts and then the motor kicks back in and gets it back up to 700rpm, this sequence continues throughout the whole sequence. It slike the motor cannot continuously run at a set speed apart from 900rpm, it has to keep revving it up and then letting it slow down a little then revving it back up again to keep it at a 'medium spin'. Heaven knows what it does on a low setting. But during the wash drain off, the drum revs up to like 200 rpm and coasts, this keeps happeneing for about 2 mins then it revs up to full speed. Extreme fun to watch throught the glass lid and the rotational fill is fun too. God bless Westinghouse and all other brands that made glass lids for their machines. I think the Westinghouse looks very neat and tidy and i love the blue on white contrast for the controls, very upt ot date and very cool. Just my two cents take care Matt btw, shannon, i cannot get pics of my phone either, it keeps giving me erro messages everytime i plug it in to the pc, i don;t care tho coz i have a perfectly good digi cam :) |
Post# 95457 , Reply# 14   11/24/2005 at 00:03 (6,699 days old) by shanonabc ()   |   | |
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ROTFL I just got a Nokia 3230 and gotta buy the cable for $79 e-mail me your number and i will MMS it accross |
Post# 95647 , Reply# 15   11/26/2005 at 01:17 (6,697 days old) by kenmore1978 ()   |   | |
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The air brakes division of Westinghouse (WABCO) was split off from Westinghouse electric a LONG time ago, way before the big sell-off began |
Post# 99064 , Reply# 16   12/20/2005 at 01:48 (6,673 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California)   |   | |
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Didn't George Westinghouse make his first fortune in the railroad air brake? Before that, trainmen had to operate mechanical brakes on every car to slow a train down. The air brake eliminated much of the danger in that task, because the cars could all be linked by air hoses and the brakes operated in unison from a single control. I think Westinghouse also made a deal with Nicholai Tesla for his AC current idea. Edison clung to DC in vain hope that it would win out, but AC proved to be more efficient in energy transmission (although DC transmission is making something of a comeback in some situations). I remember our first fridge in the 50's was a rounded white GE with one of those tiny freezers that could hold maybe an ice tray and a half gallon of ice cream. It was replaced by a fancy schmancy aqua blue Westinghouse with a bottom freezer. I remember being totally perplexed by that... especially since I couldn't reach the top shelves in the fridge section any more. But the fridge shelves were very cool. They rotated on a central post and had these push buttons that you could use to raise or lower them. Naturally I would push those buttons at the wrong time and get reprimanded and accused of "breaking" the fridge by my siblings. They'd complain even louder when I'd open the freezer by mistake. Nowadays I see the formerly grand Westinghouse name debased on the cheapest of the cheap imported toaster ovens and other small appliances at places like Walmart. Poor old George must be rolling in his grave. |
Post# 99076 , Reply# 17   12/20/2005 at 05:39 (6,672 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)   |   | |
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Post# 99109 , Reply# 18   12/20/2005 at 13:27 (6,672 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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Post# 99504 , Reply# 19   12/23/2005 at 00:29 (6,670 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California)   |   | |
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Petek, It was long enough ago that I certainly could have gotten them mixed up. But then it's also entirely possible that Westinghouse imitated GE's rotating shelf feature with their own. After all, most of the cars of that time looked alike as well. Big fins, and all. I sure do have and image of that "W" with the little balls on every point, on that fridge. |
Post# 99512 , Reply# 20   12/23/2005 at 03:39 (6,670 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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