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Post# 628749   10/1/2012 at 11:50 (4,223 days old) by windiachef (Sandy Springs, SC)        

Around 1983, my aunt Grace had a mystery machine I really liked; all I remember is the lid opened to the left, it had a mint blue agitator with what I called "Heart-Fins"--which was actually half the shape of a heart near the top, and it had a big filter with integrated fabric softener dispenser. This had a small pinball in a vertical track that would rise in the spin cycle to let the fabric softener escape at the end. The filter spout was also at the 12:00 position, and it had a removable service panel up front. The best thing I liked about this washer is it made a "boin-ko, boin-ko" sound, and I think this was a "Wizard" brand from Western Auto, but I'm not sure.




Post# 628756 , Reply# 1   10/1/2012 at 12:43 (4,223 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)        
Sounds like a Norge ....

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or a Montgomery Wards.


Post# 628813 , Reply# 2   10/1/2012 at 18:18 (4,223 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA)        

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Sounds closer to the WCI Kelvinator with the angel wings... Early ones did have a bluish-aqua color agitator... Don't know if the WA Wizards had the same...

Post# 628844 , Reply# 3   10/1/2012 at 21:06 (4,223 days old) by washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)        

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Definitely doesn't sound like Wards/Norge to me...

Post# 628848 , Reply# 4   10/1/2012 at 21:16 (4,223 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD)        
franklin

sure sounds like a franklin built machine,possibly early-mid 70s era vintage.

Post# 628883 , Reply# 5   10/1/2012 at 23:24 (4,223 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Yup, it's Franklin. Eddy has a good example of a Canadian version, blue agitator and all. The filter pan that went with this machine was a hat-shaped plastic, also blue but was made in white. There was an outer filter pan and inside a dispenser with a 3/8" ball that plugged a hole in the bottom of the fabric softener section. When the machine spins after the wash, the ball travels up the side of the pan, after it stops spinning, the ball drops back down into a channel leaving the hole open and the softener able to drain into the basket.

Post# 629011 , Reply# 6   10/2/2012 at 16:00 (4,222 days old) by tecnopolis (Ocala/Dunnellon, Florida 34481)        

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.Wizard Washer and Dryer Ad for reference.


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