Hmm,,,whats that gap that has opened up there? A vortex from the " Other side?"

A nice Reveal® with a GE FF solid tub!!

all tucked away and working again on BOTH speeds too!

Absolutely beautiful washer. Love the turquoise accents.

Most impressive.  A fine machine!!!

lawrence

Jon this is a real nice restoration!

Peter

3 hours of shoveling. Now for some well earned playtime!

These machines do have a wicked brake action after spin, it stops on a dime and the tub does index unlike the 1956 model.

They also have  a nice long spin between wash and rinse:

here is a close up of the control, the buttons flick up and down between 3 positions:

Greg. He got something and I got it working again on both speeds.

There's no water level switch here. Is the WATER SAVER switch the level switch, you just hit it yourself when you decide that's enough, or it fills for full load otherwise? Will it remember that setting for the rinse? Please explain-

Very cool machine, I like all those buttons and choices, lots of variety. Thanks for the pictures--

lots of washing!

Okay the embed bug isn't worked out yet, Robert has been working on it. So you'll have to view it on my YT page from the link below:

Thanks for the vid!

is too small for the FF cycle. Also this machine has one hole punched half way up the tub, I guess to help out with half tub washing but I haven't used the WATER SAVER yet to see if it would  work.

Yogi-No the agitator is too small for the ramped style, this is a solid tub machine.

Taken from the 1959 "Use and Care" book:

"Small loads (up to 5 pounds of clothes with no one piece larger than a man's shirt) can be laundered using the water saver feature.  Follow the general procedure for laundering according to the model being used with the following exceptions.

1.  The detergent must be placed in the washer and allowed to dissolve before adding the clothes.

2.  When detergent is dissolved, for personal safety push control to "OFF" position and be sure that all parts of washer have stopped moving, then add clothes.  Replace Filter Pan.

3.  Pull out control knob and machine will continue to fill with water.  When the desired amount has entered, press the WATER SAVER Control momentarily - then release.  Be sure the level of the water in the washer is not below the ridge on the Activator, regardless of how small the load.  After the washing portion of the cycle is complete, the washer resets automatically for a full tub of water.  If a partial fill is desired for rinsing, return to the machine while it is filling for the rinse portion of the cycle.  When desired amount of water has entered, press the WATER SAVER Control.

WHEN LESS THAN A FULL WASHBASKET OF WATER IS USED, RECIRCULATED WATER DOES NOT ENTER THE FILTER PAN."

After I upgraded to Mt Lion, I can no longer embed directly; it won't work.

Super!!

Wow Louis, just watched the video, still the bug, its playing not just the FF video but all my videos. UGH!

Don't ever invite me to your house again if you want to keep this machine.

Having said all of that, would you be kind enough to post a picture of the model plate?

I think it has a 12 in it but I only glanced at it.

Louis, you found the problem, now I need to go see what you did!

Yes they put a playlist option button just above the embed window!! I see it! Thank! YOU!

thanks

You might enjoy this also:

and for those of you asking about SUDS KILL - here is the skinny!

The suds kill function is built into the fill flume, an elegant, angular affair molded out of bakelite although later ones were made out of Lexan. Some of the fill water is diverted through a passage inside the bakelite flume downward directly into the massive outer tub. When Louisville dumbed-down the flume for the perf-tub FF's, the new rubber flume was aimed so some of the water got sprayed into the outer tub. From personal experience, their aim was "hit or miss". Where the fill spray for the solid-tub machines is a strong and healthy straight stream, the fill spray on the perf models is the messy scattered spritz of a syphillitic.

I think it was Tom Stiyer who explained that the pause in the middle of the first spin only was only there for a circuit-workaround for the first spin when the fill sensor fails to detect any more water in the outer tub (because it has been pumped out) it cuts power to the motor. The cam then proceeds to the next timer interval where the motor power lead gets switched to another hot lead. You can see this in the electrical schematics. I'll try to dig one up.

Thanks for the picture of the model number. As I suspected, this was the very first iteration of this 1960 "T"855 model and was most likely manufactured late 1959 (I need to go to my books to figure out the exact date) before GE execs decided to declare 1960 their "Golden Anniversary" year. Later versions of this model featured metallic gold paint on the control panel. Interesting also is the omission of the "OFF" word from the Suds Return selection. If collectible appliances were priced like most other collectibles, this model would be worth a fortune. Thank you for all the pictures and videos of this machine; it is one of my favorites. As I've mentioned in many other posts, we had the BOL model pictured above, the WA-632 with the same turquoise filter pan which I picked out from the used appliance store in 1964. I'm still kicking myself for not taking the filter-pan with me when they sold the house in 1970. I think that was my all-time favorite washer. Look for 1960 Filter-Flo cut sheets in Ephemera soon.

on thinking again on the suds kill. That washer has such a powerful pump that the outer tub is well drained long before the pause for suds kill. So if it was circuit dependent then the motor should stop just as the outer tub was drained, but it doesn't.

I am thinking that whole suds kill cycle is timer controlled.

the clothes dissappear into the depths of the solid tubness under the water!!

It's that tension in the pause before RINSE and SPIN. You know it won't last long- but it still feels like forever!!

IIRC just as the outer tub is emptying, the spray rinse starts and ends with the spin pause; so there is still a little bit of water coming into that tub and keeping the fill sensor closed. I forget: does the "WATER SAVER" switch work on the rinse fill?

I had never heard the terms "Suds Kill" or "Suds Lock" until I came to this site. Probably because no Filter-Flo we ever had  stalled because of oversudsing. I remember people making mistakes with detergent and suds pouring out of the lid onto the floor, but it never stopped the machine. I think that's because that outer tub is so large that it held the suds until the rinse fill.

...and just for the record, I think that Turquoise cap looks so rad! I remember that on our machine, the plastic filter-pan went on to and came off of the activator with some difficulty. Is that true with this one?

in the solid tub machines there is no water flowing into the tub. The last time the water was coming in was at the fill period. These machines start out "dry" spin "dry" and then fill for rinse and thats the last time water enters the machine.

I just timed it at spin start the machine spins out all the water, the outer tub is empty and the pause kicks in for 20 seconds.

That is a faster stroke for sure. And I did not know the first pert tubs had the center flume! 

The first 2 versions of the V-12's used the center position flume; they weren't very well built even compared to the Solid-tub flumes. They were kind of flimsy and the one on the V-12 that Robert gave me broke off and then he told me that the one on his Rotary Fabric Dial model also needed to be replaced. And they are very hard to find. Later on during that model year, the flumes were improved and moved to the 1:00 position where they stayed for 30+ years.

Jon, our WA-632T and my WA-850P had/have a spray rinse during the first spin.

I have an explanation somewhere of the 160-degree stroke for the new V-12 spiral ramped activators and why it's a good thing. Also, the first "V" models had a steel-capped filter pan which I have never seen in real life. I think the bosses kaboshed them after they produced the literature but before they put them on the market.

Will look for documentation.

The spray rinse(s):

So your research is saying GE produced a solid tub machine in 1960 WA-632T that had a spray rinse in spin?? WOW Never have I seen a solid tub with spray rinse , now that is one rare bird. Gonna have to take a closer look at the 1960 line.

I too have never seen a SS capped filter pan out in the field! Only in commercial lit!

I had forgotten from growing up just active the "activator" was/is. When I jumped to Jetcones I never looked back until now. Its nice to rediscover a childhood treasure in these machines.

things to come.........................

John, it almost purrs, you're gonna have fun with this one. Just have to work out one dead spot in the timer and squealing clutch shoes and she's done!!

I found new gasket material for the outer tub, fits like a dream!!

Wahoo!

I see what you mean, the tub top needs a direct mount gasket yes. 

 I don't know about later machines but on these the trick is that the top slides onto the machine from the front so it has to all snug up when you bolt it at the back. Someone had glued foam to the top and all that did was push the foam away from the tub when you slid the top on. See how the gasket just wipes the undersurface once the top is all in place.