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Post# 778548   8/21/2014 at 21:18 (3,507 days old) by washman (o)   |   | |
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Lid opens to left. Kennmore? Whirlpool? CLICK HERE TO GO TO washman's LINK |
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Post# 778549 , Reply# 1   8/21/2014 at 21:19 (3,507 days old) by washman (o)   |   | |
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When I got the volume to work after a reboot, I see it is an AMC machine. Question I have is who made AMC? I know it was not American Motors! |
Post# 778553 , Reply# 2   8/21/2014 at 21:26 (3,507 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 778555 , Reply# 3   8/21/2014 at 21:35 (3,507 days old) by washman (o)   |   | |
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Who or what was Franklin? I have seen that name on here before in reference to various transmissions used. |
Post# 778566 , Reply# 4   8/21/2014 at 21:53 (3,507 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Do a quick Super-Searchalator search for Franklin - Beam and finally White Consolidated Industries to get some background history. Here is a thread from 2950 days ago, but more research and information has been added in various threads since then.
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Post# 778594 , Reply# 5   8/22/2014 at 04:47 (3,507 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)   |   | |
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Post# 778595 , Reply# 6   8/22/2014 at 04:50 (3,507 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)   |   | |
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Post# 778612 , Reply# 7   8/22/2014 at 07:23 (3,506 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Franklin INVENTED the indexing washer tub in an automatic washer. and only Franklin and Westinghouse washers ever had it. The idea of an indexing tub was really just a byproduct of being too cheap to build a washer with a tub brake, despite of claims by the manufacturer and indexing tub did NOTHING to improve the washing action and in fact had the opposite effect.
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Post# 778664 , Reply# 8   8/22/2014 at 10:37 (3,506 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)   |   | |
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IMO it not only did nothing, but "ruined" what would have been a very good washing action, especially on westinghouse machines with the swirly agitator.similar activator (forgot the name of it).
In the franklin, Wizard, western auto whatever machines the counterproductive indexing effect was slightly mitigated by the upper round vanes of their agitator styles. Really a pity. This post was last edited 08/22/2014 at 11:02 |