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Thread Number: 51882
POD 3-18-14 GE WA1050X |
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Post# 742877 3/18/2014 at 06:13 (3,691 days old) by Tomturbomatic  (Beltsville, MD) |
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One of the most beautiful control panels in American Appliance History. I think this was the last of this style panel. The first was predominantly blue, the second brown, but this was like a tuxedo. | ||
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Post# 743002 , Reply# 1 3/18/2014 at 14:46 (3,690 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Consumers Reports SLAMMED these control panels. (a-holes!) I'm glad somebody appreciates these as much as I do. They were around for 4 years, brown, blue, black and then grey on gray. Actually, to illustrate the 1963 WA-1050 X, all I had to do was to take my illustration of the same model from the year before and use an "Invert color" command on Illustrator. I'm sure the designers at GE did something very similar at the time. 
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Post# 743065 , Reply# 2 3/18/2014 at 18:33 (3,690 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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They were very simple controls compared with the timers in the pushbutton Maytags and the lock stop controls of the WP-made TOL machines. | ||
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Post# 743242 , Reply# 3 3/19/2014 at 11:01 (3,689 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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CRs Got It Dead WRONG
The control system in that beautiful 1960 GE washer is actually much simpler and more reliable than what the 1948 washer, for starters the 1948 machine actually had TWO complete timers and the controls were often damaged by water spills etc.
While the 1960 GE looked impressive it was actually very simple, it was probably one of the few TOL washers that only had a one cycle timer. | ||
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