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Introducing the new 1967 "Hucmpy"! Da! |
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Post# 642821   11/30/2012 at 08:45 (4,161 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 642822 , Reply# 1   11/30/2012 at 08:46 (4,161 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 642823 , Reply# 2   11/30/2012 at 08:48 (4,161 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 642824 , Reply# 3   11/30/2012 at 08:48 (4,161 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 642825 , Reply# 4   11/30/2012 at 08:50 (4,161 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 642826 , Reply# 5   11/30/2012 at 08:51 (4,161 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 642827 , Reply# 6   11/30/2012 at 08:54 (4,161 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 642829 , Reply# 7   11/30/2012 at 09:28 (4,161 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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Post# 642843 , Reply# 8   11/30/2012 at 11:18 (4,161 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 642851 , Reply# 9   11/30/2012 at 11:50 (4,161 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Post# 642855 , Reply# 10   11/30/2012 at 12:10 (4,161 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Ah Sputnik ~ I love the clothes, the "Worker" pants and the Siberian sweater. Look at the size of the words 18 Letters! at the bottom of the electrix spampata.
How 'bout the SOS distress signal secretly embedded atop the front-loader. Help indeed anytime Kruschev and Nixon are together. Nice expression on Tricky Dick, huh? |
Post# 642857 , Reply# 11   11/30/2012 at 12:16 (4,161 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Post# 642862 , Reply# 12   11/30/2012 at 12:43 (4,161 days old) by hydralique (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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Madame Washnik as illustrated in Reply 5 does not have a pearl necklace, or any jewelry aside from tiny earrings! Clearly the illustrator could never have had a career in the West. |
Post# 642872 , Reply# 13   11/30/2012 at 13:35 (4,161 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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I think that word is more like "Nusmury". I have a cousin who is a Russian translator who may be able to do this for us.
Apparently, the thing that impressed Kruschev on that visit with Nixon was the size of our corn cobs. But he seems to be interested in that GE combo as well. What's the box of SOS doing up there? Geez, domestic diplomacy. |
Post# 642910 , Reply# 14   11/30/2012 at 14:28 (4,161 days old) by JEtcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 642911 , Reply# 15   11/30/2012 at 14:29 (4,161 days old) by JEtcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 642912 , Reply# 16   11/30/2012 at 14:34 (4,161 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Post# 642913 , Reply# 17   11/30/2012 at 14:35 (4,161 days old) by JEtcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 642948 , Reply# 18   11/30/2012 at 16:40 (4,161 days old) by retropia ()   |   | |
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Just like the Soviet fashion show ... is very nice! CLICK HERE TO GO TO retropia's LINK |
Post# 642949 , Reply# 19   11/30/2012 at 16:44 (4,161 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 642972 , Reply# 20   11/30/2012 at 18:12 (4,161 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Post# 642991 , Reply# 22   11/30/2012 at 19:16 (4,161 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Hydraulique:
That ZIL looks to me like it was also based on a Packard - the early-1950s version. From the side, there's a strong resemblance to the 1954 Executive sedan and the same year's Patrician corporate limousine, the last year for a Packard limousine. I don't think this ZIL series was made from Packard tooling, the way earlier ZILs were, but there's still a resemblance. Soviet stylists were pretty good at finding "inspiration" in American products in those days. The front end also seems to have some Chrysler Imperial influence, specifically the 1959 model. Here's the Packard Executive sedan: |
Post# 643024 , Reply# 24   11/30/2012 at 21:12 (4,161 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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I remember that fashion show so well and my friends and I used to talk about it BUT we could never remember what they were advertising. It was TOO good!
Thanks for posting! That Zil also looks like a cross between a Cadillac and Chevy in the front. Somebody must be restoring these somewhere. Anybody know the purpose of the three capacitors in series across the brush motor? Is that for arcing? The Soviet engineering was very good, we hosted a large collection of Soviet Space Hardware at our Museum of Science here when I was a volunteer. I got to see their engineering up close over the whole summer and got to work with real Rocket Engineers - it was SOLID. |
Post# 643027 , Reply# 25   11/30/2012 at 21:24 (4,161 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 643028 , Reply# 26   11/30/2012 at 21:24 (4,161 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD)   |   | |
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those are for suppressing electrical"noise"of the brush motor-so the "noise" doesent get into house wiring and interfere with TVs,etc. |
Post# 643030 , Reply# 27   11/30/2012 at 21:27 (4,161 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 643044 , Reply# 28   11/30/2012 at 22:20 (4,161 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD)   |   | |
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very true-in the earlier days of the cold war era USSR,TV production was ahead of refrigerator production... |
Post# 643045 , Reply# 29   11/30/2012 at 22:21 (4,161 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Zil hasd copied many of the styling theme of US luxury cars. In the mid-fifties, some looked like Packards (and some had the style of the '55 models). The one I sent is supposed to be a '65 but it has some styling themes from the 1961 Cadillacs. (It almost looks like a Checker cab with a modified Cadillac grille!).
Hydralique, I don't think they made automatic washers (or other appliances such as fancy dishwashers) for the top brass for the same reason that you mention but I imagined what they would have looked like if they did!
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Post# 643055 , Reply# 30   11/30/2012 at 23:04 (4,161 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Post# 643093 , Reply# 31   12/1/2012 at 05:26 (4,160 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Post# 643095 , Reply# 32   12/1/2012 at 06:08 (4,160 days old) by fido ()   |   | |
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cfz2882, I'm not surprised spares were a problem with your Lada, it looks there are more of them here in my village than there are in the whole USA: CLICK HERE TO GO TO fido's LINK |
Post# 643097 , Reply# 33   12/1/2012 at 06:16 (4,160 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 643115 , Reply# 34   12/1/2012 at 09:01 (4,160 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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The ZIL you show is a 111-G, introduced in '62 and made through '67. It had the Cadillac/Chrysler resemblance up front, but it was somewhat Mercury-like in the back. It's a very rare car, with only 26 units produced.
Here's a Wikipedia article on the 111 series, which it turns out was Packard-inspired. What's odd is that the inspiration is a number of years behind its American origins; the first 111 from 1958 is a very fair copy of the 1955-56 Packard Caribbean, right down to the peaked headlight nacelles and the egg-crate grille: CLICK HERE TO GO TO danemodsandy's LINK |
Post# 643116 , Reply# 35   12/1/2012 at 09:19 (4,160 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 643119 , Reply# 37   12/1/2012 at 10:13 (4,160 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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There was a little interchange between the two countries, more than a lot of people knew. First, high-ranking people often had access to American appliances, imported especially for them. There was actually a Soviet need for this kind of financial exchange - unbeknownst to Commie-hating types like Senator McCarthy, Godless Russia was one of the main sources of chromium, on which Detroit styling of the day was totally dependent.
There was also the famed American exhibition of 1959 in Moscow, from which that famous photo of Nixon and Khrushchev shown above is taken. GM had an exhibit in the show, and distributed Russian-language brochures, which are very rare today. You can see one online at the Old Car Manual Project. Strange to see such familiar cars described in Cyrillic characters! What the good comrades thought of such outlandish vehicles is, I think, lost to history: CLICK HERE TO GO TO danemodsandy's LINK |
Post# 643120 , Reply# 38   12/1/2012 at 10:24 (4,160 days old) by JEtcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 643123 , Reply# 39   12/1/2012 at 10:36 (4,160 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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I don't know who illustrated the brochure, but I can tell you that it was produced here in the U.S. by GM and shipped to Moscow for the exhibition - it is not Soviet work or printing.
If you want some major midcentury entertainment, Google "1959 american exhibition moscow" sometime. It was purpose-built, designed by George Nelson, had a film by Charles and Ray Eames, and was stuffed with American art like Jackson Pollock paintings, as well as American consumer goodies, contributed by manufacturers (Congress was stingy with the budget, so the private sector jumped in and turned a measly government show into an extravaganza). The purpose of the film was to prove to Soviet visitors that all the goods shown were commonplaces of American life, not propaganda articles produced especially for the show. The Russians loved it. |
Post# 643125 , Reply# 40   12/1/2012 at 10:43 (4,160 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD)   |   | |
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i have heard the russians were especially fascinated with color TVs demonstrated at the US exhibit LOL |
Post# 643143 , Reply# 41   12/1/2012 at 11:13 (4,160 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 643144 , Reply# 42   12/1/2012 at 11:15 (4,160 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 643145 , Reply# 43   12/1/2012 at 11:17 (4,160 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 643146 , Reply# 44   12/1/2012 at 11:18 (4,160 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 643148 , Reply# 45   12/1/2012 at 11:21 (4,160 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 643157 , Reply# 46   12/1/2012 at 11:55 (4,160 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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Post# 643167 , Reply# 47   12/1/2012 at 12:40 (4,160 days old) by JEtcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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What a cool brochure, I love that drafting room! Those windows are huge, it would make the room restful; and the daylight must have been a real pleasure to work under! Today they are all on monitors in closer quarters so they can see those monitors, I bet.
I must photo the State Refrigerator Manual and put that up.
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Post# 643174 , Reply# 48   12/1/2012 at 12:59 (4,160 days old) by JEtcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 643177 , Reply# 49   12/1/2012 at 13:03 (4,160 days old) by JEtcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 643199 , Reply# 50   12/1/2012 at 14:37 (4,160 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Post# 643235 , Reply# 51   12/1/2012 at 17:12 (4,160 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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"i have heard the russians were especially fascinated with color TVs demonstrated at the US exhibit"
They only had to wait a few years - the USSR got its first color broadcasts on October 1, 1967, just a few months after the U.K. launched color service in July of that year. There had been experimental stuff going on for quite a few years prior to that. It took color a long time to catch on in the USSR; sets were expensive and as with everything else, high-ranking party officials got top priority. Another problem was that Soviet TVs had quite a tendency to explode. For a while there, the majority of USSR household fires were caused by television fires and explosions. |
Post# 643243 , Reply# 52   12/1/2012 at 17:50 (4,160 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Post# 643392 , Reply# 55   12/2/2012 at 10:15 (4,159 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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I'd like to meet her! I know Russian schools and Bulgarian schools press Math early and often and they teach it well too.
In 1969 my Dad gave a lecture at the Academy of Science in Moscow. In return his host Mazurin was invited to return to here for a lecture and tour. He was coming with his wife and son ,but a week before a high level Scientist defected to the west and so we were informed he would be coming with two "scientists" instead of his family. They all stayed with us and the "scientists" weren't really scientists and dropped the pretense after two days at breakfast. Suddenly with out warning they were speaking perfect english when they asked my mother to "pass the pancakes'! And told her how "comfortable the chairs were"! They were along to make sure Mazurin would be easily returning to the Soviet Union. Ross, take a peek at my FB page today, you might enjoy reading up on some Russian history I garnered from Wikipedia and Russiapedia! |
Post# 643542 , Reply# 56   12/2/2012 at 18:34 (4,159 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)   |   | |
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Apparently it is a myth that Packard supplied their 1942 dies to the Russians. A few years ago the Packard Cormorant magazine (the club publication, I've been a member since 1977) ran an article by a Finnish collector who was able to directly compare a '42 Packard with a ZIS limousine and found that the dimensions, such as the radiuses of the curves, were different. Clearly the Russians copied the general design closely, so much so that differences are not obvious to the naked eye. But the story is just too good to go away.
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Post# 643551 , Reply# 57   12/2/2012 at 18:48 (4,159 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Post# 643557 , Reply# 58   12/2/2012 at 18:54 (4,159 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Post# 643605 , Reply# 59   12/2/2012 at 22:16 (4,159 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)   |   | |
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Lol, Sandy, the only online references I could find go back to magazine articles, so I scanned a piece from the Cormorant, Spring 2004, by George Hamlin, a distinguished Packard collector and historian. It's been a long time since I scanned anything and I no longer know what I'm doing, but here goes.
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Post# 643606 , Reply# 60   12/2/2012 at 22:17 (4,159 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)   |   | |
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Post# 643612 , Reply# 64   12/2/2012 at 22:21 (4,159 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)   |   | |
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Post# 643614 , Reply# 65   12/2/2012 at 22:41 (4,159 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 643660 , Reply# 66   12/3/2012 at 07:29 (4,158 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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That was a very kind thing for you to do; I hope it wasn't too much trouble! What a fascinating story. Now I know for certain that the "Packard/ZIL Legend" is just that - a legend.
It would be very interesting to see some of these Soviet cars in person, but of course it's rare to find them here in the West. You might like to know that back in the '50s, my grandfather's boss had a '54 Patrician in black. While we weren't terribly wealthy, Cadillacs and Buicks weren't uncommon where we lived; everyone was used to seeing them. But that Patrician always inspired awe; it was considered many cuts above anything else you could drive, almost otherworldly. The only other cars I remember getting that reaction were the Lincoln Contintental Mark II of 1956-57, and the Eldorado Brougham of 1957. |
Post# 643663 , Reply# 67   12/3/2012 at 07:49 (4,158 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 643669 , Reply# 68   12/3/2012 at 08:11 (4,158 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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With all due respect for what Edsels now represent to collectors as a cultural icon, I was around in '57, and I well remember the snickers they raised. The styling was considered downright weird. Most cars of that era were styled with heavy horizontal emphasis on the front grille, and heavy vertical emphasis at the rear, with tailfins. Edsel's vertical "horsecollar" grille and horizontal taillights ran directly counter to that consumer preference. It was also a commonly-held belief from the get-go that the Edsel wasn't going to fly, that people buying them would be stuck with a low-resale-value "orphan." That, of course, became a self-fulfilling prophecy. The low build quality of late-'50s automobiles didn't help, and Edsel models with Teletouch quickly garnered a reputation for diaphragm problems.
I remember my dad being offered a pristine Bermuda wagon in the early '60s, cheap. He passed, on the grounds that he wasn't born yesterday. P.S.: When I was in high school (1965-70; Atlanta didn't have middle schools then), the local handyman drove a beat-up, but fully loaded, nine-passenger 1960 Edsel Villager wagon with Polaraire air conditioning. We used to laugh when we saw that car. We wouldn't be laughing if we could afford one today, would we? |
Post# 643718 , Reply# 69   12/3/2012 at 12:12 (4,158 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)   |   | |
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Sandy, I never saw a '54 Patrician in its heyday, but our family's second car -- very second! - in the Sixties was a '52 Packard 200, the bottom of the line. It still seemed huge. The back seat had so much room my sister and I added a couple of little chairs on the floor between the front and rear seats.
It had automatic (Packard's own Ultramatic Drive) but no power steering, and my mom had a hard time parking it. On one memorable occasion she skidded down an icy hill and slammed into a Corvair full of boy scouts; it must have been a very low speed accident since nobody was hurt, but it seemed terrifying at the time, probably more so to the occupants of the Corvair! There was no damage to the Packard. The Ultramatic was my first driving experience. I reached out from the car seat and shifted it from Drive to Lo. Lucky it didn't go into Reverse, which was at the bottom of the quadrant, like Dynaflow and Hydra-Matic. We finally got a VW Beetle and gave the Packard to my uncle, who drove it quite awhile longer until one of his sons put his foot through the floorboard. By that time the floor pan was about rusted out, but it sat in my grandmothers barn next to her '50 Olds 88 until I was in high school. I'd love to have either of them today. BTW, Jon, another uncle of mine was convinced the Edsel would be a valuable collectors item some day, and accumulated 3 of them. They were still next to worthless, and inoperable, when he died. |
Post# 643771 , Reply# 71   12/3/2012 at 17:32 (4,158 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 643785 , Reply# 72   12/3/2012 at 18:29 (4,158 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 643801 , Reply# 73   12/3/2012 at 19:38 (4,158 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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If you'll look carefully, you'll see I didn't single Edsel out for poor build quality - it was pretty much all cars at the time. Our next-door neighbor had a '57 Fairlane that could not be relied upon to reach the end of her driveway with any regularity. Our '56 Chevrolet 150 had a lot more problems than any car today would have. And don't get me started about Plymouths of that era - you almost didn't have to worry about mechanical problems, because rust would eat through the car before anything else had a chance to go kaflooey, and it's not like Georgia salts its roads.
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Post# 643821 , Reply# 74   12/3/2012 at 20:24 (4,158 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Luscious Khrushchev machineski!
Sandy, no I agree quality has skyrocketed since the 50's , but no one can say the Edsel was any worse off than any other car at the time. If you reached 100,000 miles that was almost unheard of, if you reached 10 years that too was unheard of. Today most cars can reach 300,000 miles with solid maintenance so today things are much better built, unfortunately most Americans cant see this because they didn't live through it! |
Post# 644044 , Reply# 75   12/4/2012 at 15:07 (4,157 days old) by JEtcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 644091 , Reply# 76   12/4/2012 at 18:51 (4,157 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Jon, those dangerously-located controls are for indeed for the stove... I've not fried myself yet, though... LOL
Ah, after the wiring diagram for this unit was finally located (it turned up in the Automatic Ephemera downloads about a month after getting soaked on eBay for it... D'OH!) I studied it carefully and realized that it was a miracle that I got the machine to get through a complete wash cycle! However, I also have a severely damaged thermostat for the drying control - I thought I could just swap out a thermostat from a 1959 model (John parted that out for me some time ago) but again it didn't seem to just fit but with the wiring diagram I believe I figured out how to adapt the 1959 thermostat. All I need to do now is find some time to pull the combo and do some tinkering... I may get my wish in January, though... stay tuned... |