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Thread Number: 48431
Solid cap lint filter in powerfin agitator? |
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| Post# 701745 9/7/2013 at 12:08 (3,877 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
Hey everyone! I would like to know where on earth I could find a solid cap lint filter for a Maytag powerfin agitator, is it only for large capacity models which have only 3 holes in the agitator? Or do they make any for four hole agitators? I just want this because I hand wash our clothes with a powerfin agitator, I rotate the agitator back and fourth like a washer would do. It works so awesome. They get very clean, anyways where can I find a solid cap lint filter? And do they make solid cap lint filters for four hole agitators too?
Here is a pic of the rinse part of my hand washing if anyone's interested. 
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Post# 701749 , Reply# 1 9/7/2013 at 12:58 (3,877 days old) by Kenmore71  (Minneapolis, MN) |
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| Post# 701760 , Reply# 2 9/7/2013 at 13:23 (3,877 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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| Post# 701767 , Reply# 3 9/7/2013 at 13:36 (3,877 days old) by zipdang (Portland, OR) | ||
Just saw this one on Portland CL and wondered why this maching didn't have a FS dispenser. Is this what you mean? I'm most curious what the row of buttons next to the timer dial does. The middle button seems to have a lengthy description.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO zipdang's LINK on Portland Craigslist 
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| Post# 701768 , Reply# 4 9/7/2013 at 13:36 (3,877 days old) by zipdang (Portland, OR) | ||
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| Post# 701769 , Reply# 5 9/7/2013 at 13:38 (3,877 days old) by zipdang (Portland, OR) | ||
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Aha! | ||
| Post# 701770 , Reply# 6 9/7/2013 at 13:39 (3,877 days old) by zipdang (Portland, OR) | ||
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Another | ||
| Post# 701778 , Reply# 7 9/7/2013 at 14:22 (3,877 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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Post# 701779 , Reply# 8 9/7/2013 at 14:23 (3,877 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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 I have a couple of large capacity solid cap lint filters. The first year after Maytag discontinued the center-dial design, a couple of economy models were offered without the FS dispenser in the filter assembly. Aside from the shock of seeing Maytags with conventional control panels, the solid-top filters seemed almost spiteful (how could omitting a 5-cent cup made of plastic save anything?) but in retrospect, they were very reminiscent of the gyrators in the early automatics with the floatation cores. | ||
| Post# 701905 , Reply# 9 9/8/2013 at 01:10 (3,877 days old) by washdaddy (Baltimore) | ||
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button configuration- for reply #3 starting with the left row, going top to bottom- load size- large, medium, small middle row- water temps- h/w, h/c, w/c, c/c right row- cycle speed- normal (fast/fast), perm press. (fast/slow), delicate (slow/slow) | ||
| Post# 701906 , Reply# 10 9/8/2013 at 01:11 (3,877 days old) by washdaddy (Baltimore) | ||
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button configuration- for reply #3 starting with the left row, going top to bottom- load size- large, medium, small middle row- water temps- h/w, h/c, w/c, c/c right row- cycle speed- normal (fast/fast), perm press. (fast/slow), delicate (slow/slow) | ||
| Post# 701907 , Reply# 11 9/8/2013 at 01:14 (3,877 days old) by washdaddy (Baltimore) | ||
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sorry for the double post. don't understand why it posted twice. but sorry for the mishap | ||
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Post# 701929 , Reply# 12 9/8/2013 at 07:25 (3,876 days old) by Kenmore71 (Minneapolis, MN) |
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You are 2/3 correct. That machine is an A210 which is a single-speed machine. The buttons say "Regular", "Permanent Press With Cool-Down" and "Delicate". All activity on this machine was high speed. This selector switch moved the agitation and spin action to different cams in the timer to alternate agitation with soaking periods on Delicate and initiate a cool-down and shorten the spin time the PP cycle.
Here's the electrical schematic: 
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Post# 701930 , Reply# 13 9/8/2013 at 07:26 (3,876 days old) by Kenmore71 (Minneapolis, MN) |
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| Post# 701952 , Reply# 14 9/8/2013 at 09:30 (3,876 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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Post# 701958 , Reply# 15 9/8/2013 at 09:45 (3,876 days old) by Kenmore71 (Minneapolis, MN) |
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Look in all of the usual places. Parts like this one are hard to find. Ebay mostly. I wish I could find a part number in an early 80s parts catalog. Perhaps someone here has one they would be willing to sell you? Things like this can take years of diligent searching, networking and earning the trust and respect of other collectors in order for them to be willing to share rare parts. | ||
| Post# 702029 , Reply# 16 9/8/2013 at 14:18 (3,876 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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Post# 702031 , Reply# 17 9/8/2013 at 14:35 (3,876 days old) by Kenmore71 (Minneapolis, MN) |
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Like I said...YEARS of waiting and diligent searching.
I got lucky recently and found a NOS thermostatic water valve for my 1954 AMP washer on Ebay. That only took 6 months of waiting and watching. I honestly thought it was going to take several years and I was not expecting NOS.
You might find something on Craig's list but I doubt it. Also parts like the one you are looking for often surface when someone buys out an old appliance dealer at an auction. When those parts go up on ebay the games begin! | ||
| Post# 702032 , Reply# 18 9/8/2013 at 14:36 (3,876 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
Ken:
"....the solid-top filters seemed almost spiteful (how could omitting a 5-cent cup made of plastic save anything?)"
What those solid-top filters were probably intended to save was sales - of higher-end models. My first Maytag automatic was an A208, a one-speed Fabric-Matic machine. All Maytags I've owned since were at the other end of the line, the TOL A806. With the single exception of having the console light up, the near-BOL model would do absolutely everything the TOL one would do. Softener dispenser? Check. Bleach dispenser? Check. Delicate cycle? Not only check, but Fabric-Matic did a better job on certain things than the low-speed A806 gentle cycle. There was, in short, very little reason for a knowledgeable buyer to choose higher-end machines over lower-end ones during the run of the second series of "New Generation" machines. And word gets around on that sort of thing. Even worse for Maytag, there was not even the usual styling incentive for purchasers to get the same series washer and dryer - most any model washer "matched" any model dryer, since the console styling was so consistent. Sears didn't let you get anywhere near playing games that cost them money like that until the advent of the black-console machines. I think Maytag's intent was to give buyers an incentive to go up the line at least a bit, so that the higher-numbered models would sell a bit better. You have to remember that there was not that huge a mechanical difference between one Maytag of that era and another, and there was not really a quality difference, so the higher-end models were probably much, much more profitable than lower ones. To keep putting all the TOL features on BOL machines meant they were giving profit away. | ||
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