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Thread Number: 54258
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
How many machines rescued from Aberdeen Farm survive today? |
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Post# 766508 6/28/2014 at 14:07 (3,589 days old) by RevvinKevin  (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land) |
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I was going through this video of the 1997 pilgrimage to Aberdeen Farm and have a few questions.
1. What is this machine (photo below) John L and Robert are looking at? I was thinking it's a WP combo because it kinda looks like one, but........... There is also a "column" of buttons to the left of the other large knob.
2. How many machines were rescued that day and do they all still exist today?
3. Are they all still in the possession of the original rescuers or are they in other collections now?
Thanks! Kevin CLICK HERE TO GO TO RevvinKevin's LINK
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Post# 766531 , Reply# 1 6/28/2014 at 16:34 (3,589 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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| Post# 766575 , Reply# 2 6/28/2014 at 20:22 (3,589 days old) by sudslock1 (St Louis) | ||
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If I remember I believe John still has this machine though I believe only the chassis and tubs remain. I remember him saying the exterior was too far gone to save. | ||
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Post# 767419 , Reply# 3 7/2/2014 at 11:15 (3,586 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land) |
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Just a little bump.... | ||
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Post# 767502 , Reply# 4 7/2/2014 at 17:21 (3,585 days old) by syndets2000 (Nanjemoy, MD) |
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from the farm the L100m and the L102k are here, but I need new boots | ||
| Post# 767510 , Reply# 5 7/2/2014 at 17:58 (3,585 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
Ooooohhh...
The old aberdeen farm, this belongs to my childhood in the early years of the website....what memories and emotions as a kid surfing the website in seeing all the pics of the missions, the same I feel now as a grown young adult rewatching them... how many dreams and dreams about those rusty beauties I could see sitting out there...and wishing "one day I could walk along those dreamy isle too". Too bad it's all gone now.... I should have some old printed threads in my collector, gotta look for them... Nice interesting thread. | ||
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Post# 767512 , Reply# 6 7/2/2014 at 18:16 (3,585 days old) by kb0nes (Burnsville, MN) |
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Post# 767691 , Reply# 7 7/3/2014 at 15:29 (3,584 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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We are still travelling | ||
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Post# 767694 , Reply# 8 7/3/2014 at 15:40 (3,584 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land) |
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The only machine I have left is......... | ||
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Post# 768287 , Reply# 9 7/5/2014 at 23:08 (3,582 days old) by revvinkevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land) |
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| Post# 768300 , Reply# 11 7/6/2014 at 00:50 (3,582 days old) by rickr (.) | ||
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Post# 768339 , Reply# 12 7/6/2014 at 08:06 (3,582 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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Post# 768436 , Reply# 13 7/6/2014 at 14:10 (3,581 days old) by countryford (Austin, MN) |
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 Robert, on the picture from the farm it shows the matching dryer next to the washer. But in the picture is the one from your basement, the dryer doesn't look like the Custom Imperial. Am I correct in assuming that the two dryers are not the same? What did happen to the dryer next to the washer at the farm? | ||
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Post# 768736 , Reply# 14 7/7/2014 at 11:08 (3,581 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Appliances From The Aberdeen Farm
Hi Kevin, I believe that Jon C. & Robert S. and I brought around 18 appliances back to the east coast. I ended up with around 8, none of mine have ever been fully restored, the 1960 TOL WP Gas Combo from the pictures has been striped down and the main body is being used to restore a 1958 WP Gas Combo that John E. in St-Paul is working on for the museum.
I still have the TOL 29"WP Electric Combo with the orignal lint separation system still intact. I want to use parts from this machine to convert my first combo a 1961 TOL KM back to the orignal separation lint filter system. The first 29" WP built combos used the air heaters to maintain and heat the wash water temperature, they also used the heaters to warm up the clothing in the 2nd stage of the spin cycle if the machine was set to go automatically into the dry cycle. these early 29" combos also did not have a lint filter that required cleaning by the customer, instead they used a centrifugal separation chamber that collected the lint and held it till the next wash cycle was started at which point the machine flushed the lint down the drain as the washer was purging the cold water out of the supply lines and this process also helped warm up the washer for the wash cycle that was beginning. Out of all the machines we brought back none have been completely restored, eventually I found better condition examples of several of the cool machines we found. | ||
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Post# 768801 , Reply# 15 7/7/2014 at 13:54 (3,580 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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Post# 769040 , Reply# 16 7/8/2014 at 07:23 (3,580 days old) by countryford (Austin, MN) |
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