Thread Number: 58315
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
The 1955 GE Combo does its Virgin Load On |
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Post# 808255   2/8/2015 at 16:53 (3,357 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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"Water Heater" setting!
Boy does that get hot and WORK!
See the famous GE "Jet-Steam" system at work !
The heaters stay on for the first of the 5 rinses, by the second rinse they are off. But the heat builds to cycle end. CLICK HERE TO GO TO Jetcone's LINK This post was last edited 02/08/2015 at 17:12 |
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Post# 808283 , Reply# 1   2/8/2015 at 19:50 (3,357 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Does it spin after each drain? I read that the first model with the transmission did more spinning. That's pretty dramatic dial lighting. |
Post# 808302 , Reply# 2   2/8/2015 at 20:38 (3,357 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)   |   | |
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Post# 808386 , Reply# 3   2/9/2015 at 06:26 (3,357 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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Post# 808394 , Reply# 4   2/9/2015 at 07:06 (3,357 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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I love combo steam rolling out of the machine like that. They should have kept the water heat option. The Maytag combo used their top-mounted radiant heater as an option in the wash cycle as well and it could get pretty steamy but I was really only to maintain the temp level, I don't think it had time to raise the temp much if at all.
That is a beautiful, and rare machine. |
Post# 808409 , Reply# 5   2/9/2015 at 10:02 (3,357 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 808418 , Reply# 6   2/9/2015 at 10:40 (3,357 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Post# 808420 , Reply# 7   2/9/2015 at 10:45 (3,357 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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They got the idea from Bendix whose Duomatic used about a 3kw immersion heater, but no timer hold. Kenmore and WP did have a timer hold for their water heating which was by immersion element in the electric models. |
Post# 808515 , Reply# 8   2/9/2015 at 19:12 (3,356 days old) by cadman (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 808520 , Reply# 9   2/9/2015 at 19:41 (3,356 days old) by jetaction (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 808536 , Reply# 10   2/9/2015 at 20:45 (3,356 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 808600 , Reply# 11   2/10/2015 at 08:47 (3,356 days old) by jeff_adelphi (Adelphi, Maryland, USA)   |   | |
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Post# 808606 , Reply# 12   2/10/2015 at 09:55 (3,356 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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I was wondering if the red color for the spin portion of the cycle is a warning, certainly not of the speed, but perhaps of the heat that builds during the preheating before the dry. |
Post# 808614 , Reply# 13   2/10/2015 at 11:28 (3,356 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 808911 , Reply# 14   2/12/2015 at 11:28 (3,354 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Jon, with the transmission, does it go into spin faster than the variable sheave pulley system of slowly accelerating into spin? |
Post# 808916 , Reply# 15   2/12/2015 at 11:56 (3,354 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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