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Thread Number: 48241
1957 Filter-Flo Washer with Suds Saver |
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Post# 699239 8/27/2013 at 11:46 (3,894 days old) by pulltostart  (Mobile, AL) |
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Looks to be in very fine condition; Gaines, MI
lawrence CLICK HERE TO GO TO pulltostart's LINK on eBay 
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Post# 699241 , Reply# 1 8/27/2013 at 11:48 (3,894 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Money Shot | ||
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Post# 699243 , Reply# 2 8/27/2013 at 11:58 (3,894 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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One Cycle | ||
| Post# 699251 , Reply# 3 8/27/2013 at 13:32 (3,894 days old) by marty (Central Point, Oregon) | ||
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Filter flo Heck I'm gonna bid, and hopefully ship it, just to get the filter pan itself! | ||
| Post# 699374 , Reply# 4 8/27/2013 at 22:40 (3,893 days old) by boboh1 (California) | ||
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Did these come with a back or were they open like that? | ||
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Post# 699462 , Reply# 5 8/28/2013 at 08:43 (3,893 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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Post# 699463 , Reply# 6 8/28/2013 at 08:45 (3,893 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio) |
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Post# 699654 , Reply# 7 8/29/2013 at 02:17 (3,892 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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And the masonite back on GE-HP machines would warp and buckle from the damp conditions in a laundry area-so it wouldn't be missed.My HP washer doesn't have its back. | ||
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Post# 699916 , Reply# 8 8/30/2013 at 07:28 (3,891 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Correction | ||
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Post# 699944 , Reply# 9 8/30/2013 at 10:18 (3,891 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Well, I guess I'll have to pass on this one. It's another oddball. 1958 tub with separate spin balance ring, pre-1959 lid hinges, pink FF flume, activator cap and hub with a 1959 control panel, late 1959 control dial and control dial knob.
Lawrence, if you're reading from a brochure or a cut sheet I'd sure appreciate it if you'd post it, unless it's part of an Ephemera package. I can't find a model WA-605R; 607, 610 and 600,, but no 605. I'm sure the seller has read it correctly but I'm also sure it's one of those models put together from scraps on the Appliance Park factory floor and badged with its own special little rating plate. 
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| Post# 699947 , Reply# 10 8/30/2013 at 10:26 (3,891 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas) | ||
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Why do they call the agitator cap the "Activator Cap"? Did it activate anything? | ||
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Post# 699955 , Reply# 11 8/30/2013 at 11:20 (3,891 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land) |
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Not sure if that's a rhetorical question...... | ||
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Post# 699966 , Reply# 12 8/30/2013 at 12:31 (3,891 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 699990 , Reply# 13 8/30/2013 at 14:49 (3,891 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Ken
My resource is a copy of the Service Manual for the 1958 (R) washers. I do not have the ability to scan this document. I could send it to Robert, but it does contain 87 pages of text - a bunch!
I misread the seller's post. I saw '650R' and I do find that model in the manual, however it does not have the suds saver/return system. This document includes: WA955R WA950R WA855R WA850R WA650R WA450R It's possible that the above list is what GE began the year with, and like you say and we know, they added models as they saw a market for them. What threw me initially was the location of the timer - left side of the console. In 1957 (P), all timers were on the left. In 1958 (R), ONLY the TOL model with the piano key console had the timer on the right; all other models used the old stampings and kept the timer on the left. By 1959 (S), all of the timers were moved to the right side of the console. I sent the seller a question, asking if he could confirm the model number. Let's see what he says. lawrence | ||
| Post# 700012 , Reply# 14 8/30/2013 at 16:25 (3,891 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas) | ||
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Oh, I thought the cap only was called the "Activator Cap". I now know the name for the agitator itself if called the activator. I didn't know that before. Thanks for the explanation. | ||
| Post# 700018 , Reply# 15 8/30/2013 at 16:59 (3,891 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
Ahem! | ||
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Post# 700164 , Reply# 16 8/31/2013 at 07:51 (3,890 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Yes,we were a GE family "Activator" was the GE trademark label for its agitators since they were making only wringer washers.
As a kid I thought "Activator" was the generic name for those big black plastic turn screw paddle-things in washing machines until I read the word "agitator" in my first Consumer Reports article. I still think that "Activator" is a better descriptive term. Although, "agitator" does share a root with "agita" and that opens up some interesting and pertinent imagery...
The control timer dials were on the left side of the panel in 1957, then in 1958, they started putting some of them on the right; some models that year had 2 or 3 redesigns. I did a thread about this a while back. In 1959 there were still a couple of MOL's and BOL's with LH timers, but they were being phased out. By 1960 almost all of the timers went to the RH side, but I won't be a bit surprised if an exception shows up one day on this site, on eBay or on some other auction site. GE was a thrifty company; if there were LH control panels left in the factory, they got put onto a machine and sold. | ||
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Post# 700791 , Reply# 17 9/3/2013 at 08:19 (3,887 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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And The Winner Is? | ||
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