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How to disassemble a Visimatic? |
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Post# 635836 , Reply# 3   11/1/2012 at 23:19 (4,165 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Looks like yours is a '59. Nice looking tub and very clean. Mine is a '66, but I haven't taken the tub apart and can't really perceive, studying it, how to do it.
We don't have many members who own Visimatics. I think another member, maybe Wetguy, is about to get one. Can't remember.
You're young and motivated, and I wish you luck, but I am not sure what you're up to. The tub and the skirt are all one piece, accented by molding. Visimatics are amazing machines.
I just went down and checked, and now I understand: the top half of the tub down to the molding is free stranding, while the bottom half of the tub is surrounding by the skirt. You want to separate them. From what I can see you'd have to remove the wringer column and the metal molding strip. Haven't had the machine tipped over in ages, and I can't do it tonight, but maybe tomorrow to see how the tub is fitted into the skirt from the underside. Alas, right now you and I may be the only members with a working Visimatic. I know what it's like to want to tear into a machine. So again, good luck if you're sure you need to do this.
Not sure what your goal is in removing the tub from the skirt, other than to figure out the architecture. |
Post# 635839 , Reply# 4   11/1/2012 at 23:30 (4,165 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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and you can see that part #39 is the brace to unfasten what now looks like a giant tub clamp that I have been calling molding.
The clamp lock or brace is situated right along the wringer column which must therefore come off before you can get at the clamp. Pretty cool that the molding is really the biggest washer clamp ever made.
The Visimatic never ceases to amaze. Thanks for the revealing "tell-all" link. |
Post# 636735 , Reply# 7   11/5/2012 at 12:57 (4,161 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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I was checking your thread many times and hoped you didn't get in too deep, but you sound like a natural. Missed your posts. Thanks for the updates and new info.
Have you sprayed the shaft with WD- 40?
If you still can't get the agitator shaft loose, let me know and I'll call a friend who has removed hundreds maybe thousands of them.
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Post# 636906 , Reply# 9   11/5/2012 at 22:48 (4,161 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Post# 636907 , Reply# 10   11/5/2012 at 23:00 (4,160 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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A few of the pix show the machine as pink. Exciting for me because the first Visimatic I saw was pink, but when I got to the control panel pix, I nearly hooted. This is indeed my first Visi (in a neighbor's basement) only in white with the rare pull up controls for the Agitation and Drain/Filter.
I never knew the exact year of this style: 1959. You've got a rare gem indeed, well worth preserving. It's beautiful. Thanks again. John should be here shortly. |