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Thread Number: 57125
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806 Washer in Atlanta |
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Post# 794330 11/16/2014 at 18:35 (3,458 days old) by pulltostart  (Mobile, AL) |
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| Post# 794333 , Reply# 1 11/16/2014 at 19:01 (3,458 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
On-Usual...
The combination of blue console trim and an acrylic knob makes this a fairly uncommon machine - Maytag only did this for a very short time while transitioning from blue console trim to gold.
I do have one question: WHERE THE HELL WAS THIS THING ALL THE YEARS I WAS LOOKING FOR ONE DOWN THERE?!?!?!? :) | ||
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Post# 794664 , Reply# 2 11/18/2014 at 08:52 (3,456 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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806 Pair-Washer with FREE Dryer $100 (Gallatin)
How far away are you from Kansas City? LOL!
CLICK HERE TO GO TO ovrphil's LINK on Kansascity Craigslist | ||
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Post# 794749 , Reply# 3 11/18/2014 at 17:54 (3,456 days old) by super32 (Blackstone Massachusetts) |
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Ovrphil | ||
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Post# 794752 , Reply# 4 11/18/2014 at 18:08 (3,456 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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 The acrylic knob actually was first debuted on the A806 in 1971, and then slowly made its way to the rest of the washer line shortly afterwards. CLICK HERE TO GO TO swestoyz's LINK | ||
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Post# 794755 , Reply# 5 11/18/2014 at 18:11 (3,456 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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I'm learning- thanks for the tip , Scott. :-)
Ben - thanks, got that link into a folder. Pretty interesting, but I feel like a salesman reading all that. :-) This post was last edited 11/18/2014 at 19:05 | ||
| Post# 795111 , Reply# 6 11/20/2014 at 13:40 (3,454 days old) by hippiedoll ( arizona ) | ||
is it raining maytag 806s, | ||
| Post# 795485 , Reply# 7 11/22/2014 at 17:19 (3,452 days old) by dpritz (Atlanta) | ||
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Got It Picked this one up today. No worries its in a good home. It has a wheel kit so you can roll it around maybe for an apartment or something? I'll post some more pictures when I get it up and washing. Thanks again AW.org | ||
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Post# 795490 , Reply# 8 11/22/2014 at 17:30 (3,452 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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| Post# 795493 , Reply# 9 11/22/2014 at 17:58 (3,452 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Phil: | ||
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Post# 795496 , Reply# 10 11/22/2014 at 18:10 (3,452 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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Sandy -
It is so odd, isn't it? I didn't see these 806's, individual or sets overall, these past couple years and now they're showing up here at year's end, quite a lot. There were plenty others I didn't post - just raining Maytags.
Do you have two sets working at the same time? I am thinking you have a backup, as your space is probably a little small for two sets to be operative? Phil | ||
| Post# 795503 , Reply# 11 11/22/2014 at 19:20 (3,452 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Phil:
What's going on is that the Almond set is serving as daily drivers while I struggle to find time to restore the White set.
The White ones are the "keepers," because they're much earlier machines; the dryer is an Halo of Heat machine, and the washer is only the second iteration of the first series of New Generation machines that debuted in 1966. The first version of the A806 had a Wash 'n Wear cycle, and mine has a Permanent Press cycle instead. Both machines were built in '68. But the resto is a long haul, because of work, and because of Iowa Winters. I need to do substantial painting that I didn't get to do before Winter set in, and now it has to wait until Spring, because I have to do it outdoors - you do not use spray paint ten feet away from a furnace. And in my house's basement, it's not possible to get more than ten feet from the furnace, LOL. | ||
| Post# 795513 , Reply# 13 11/22/2014 at 20:30 (3,451 days old) by mitch (Atlanta) | ||
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Forgot to thank Lawrence too! If it were not for Lawrence posting a Kitchen Aid ad a year and a half ago I would not have my beloved Monterey Superba 21! I love this dishwasher!! Thanks!!! Mitch | ||
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Post# 795514 , Reply# 14 11/22/2014 at 20:33 (3,451 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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Sandy -
You will have the white set as your daily drivers, eventually? Or you're not making any decisions yet? It's interesting how in the past two years while hangin' out at aw.org, you've found a stove, washer and dryer, and soon your refrigerator. Some people have to look much longer to find their dream or near-dream appliances.
Wash N Wear I've heard of - but don't know what happens cyclically(another to search). The Permanent Press Cycle was probably(?) common by 1967 or 1968 on many washers. . Your basement sounds just like my childhood home in Berkley-2 large gas furnaces occupied most of the space, along with just the washer, dryer and smallish utility sink that mom used with one machine, on the suds saver cycle. Long winter? We'll hope for an early spring next year in the Plains. | ||
| Post# 795519 , Reply# 15 11/22/2014 at 20:51 (3,451 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Phil:
Yes, the White pair will serve as drivers once they're restored and a little modification I'm not discussing yet has been done. At that point, the Almond machines go bye-bye.
There was a discussion in Imperial about the cycle differences between Wash 'n Wear and Permanent Press on A806s. Super Searchalator should bring it up. | ||
| Post# 795521 , Reply# 16 11/22/2014 at 21:36 (3,451 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
Modifications?! Sandy, I'm curious to learn more!
About the machine in this thread, I wanted one with the early knob but I finally got two with the acrylic knob (from '72 and '74). They also lack the chrome lint filter... I also got the matching dryer with an acrylic knob and passed a few more since. What I haven't seen yet in the local ads is a white 806 dryer, (they are always colored). So for mine, I switched the panels with those from a 1975 DE-407 HOH dryer.
Here's another 806 HOH dryer from 1975, again colored (unlike the washers that I got) and the 1975 model, in adition to the sunglow trim, lacks the white dial that would match my second washer as well as the chrome trim at the front of the cabinet.
www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html...
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| Post# 795523 , Reply# 17 11/22/2014 at 22:10 (3,451 days old) by scoots (Chattanooga TN) | ||
That Atlanta 806 must have felt like Scarlett at the BBQ
As it turns out, I also contacted the seller for a possible pick up tomorrow (Sunday) but he told me that somebody else was coming over, then was as good as his word and told me the unit had been successfully picked up.
(which was too bad, I really liked the idea of a tub light, lighting is always an issue with my bad eyes.) Good luck with the new machine... I will probably pass on the Almond set also in Atlanta, they are asking rather a lot of money, and I suspect they are late in production so all the nicer design points have been eliminated in "the great cheapening." | ||
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Post# 795524 , Reply# 18 11/22/2014 at 22:15 (3,451 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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Wash N Wear vs. Permanent Press
I found the link Sandy, thank you for sending me out to find it. Good gosh, those turquoise and yellow tags are quite something to behold. It's amazing how a color almost brings a different look to the design, as the turquoise color seems to do in my perspective. And I agree, Mark(Kenmore71)has such deep knowledge about the Maytags....thanks.
www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/T... | ||
| Post# 795525 , Reply# 19 11/22/2014 at 22:21 (3,451 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Bill:
All things considered, you're right to hold out for earlier machines if possible. The differences are pretty substantial, and only two are drawbacks.
On the washer, you get the following items that later ones don't have: - The tub light - The chrome-topped lint filter - The old-style bleach dispenser, which many people feel does a better job of dispersing the bleach - The chrome strip at the top of the front panel - The chrome timer knob, which I personally prefer over the acrylic one On the dryer, you get: - The porcelain-finished drum - The chrome strip at the top of the front panel - The chrome timer knob, which I personally prefer over the #!%@*! acrylic one. - The Halo of Heat drying system, which is, I feel, a bit gentler than the later conventional drying element. Two dryer features are drawbacks, if you want to look at them that way; I don't see them that way: - The drum is small by present-day standards, but it will hold as much as the washer can wash comfortably, and what more anyone would want, I don't know. - The lint filter is located at the center rear of the drum; cleaning it does involve a bit of stooping. I personally can live with it. And Halo of Heat dryers are more complicated to work on in some respects. But all in all, I like the earlier machines more than the newer ones. That is not to say that the newer machines are anything to sneeze at - they are great. But just not quite as great as the older ones. Did I mention I don't like the acrylic knobs? This post was last edited 11/22/2014 at 22:45 | ||
| Post# 795535 , Reply# 20 11/22/2014 at 23:30 (3,451 days old) by scoots (Chattanooga TN) | ||
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Sandy:
Your dislike of the acrylic knobs is funny... I also dislike them a lot and always saw them as a pander to the tastes of older women in the 70's, which had sort of a craze for over-sized crystal stuff (think of those coffee table lighters from the period).
I've heard different things about the "Halo of Hate" dryers and wouldn't mind trying one for myself. I have a 1976 DG308 dryer with "stream of heat". No complaints, but it's got timed-only heat and always seems to take forever to dry, much longer than the wash cycle per load. It only puts out about 22,000 BTU. BTW, that DG308 and the matching A208 were my first "vintage" machines, purchased second hand about 1995. The washer started leaking as soon as I got it home (grrr) and is now long gone (slight remorse, but it was the days before internet support for these washers and after commercial repair men were interested in looking at them) - but I still have the dryer. This post was last edited 11/23/2014 at 00:19 | ||
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