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Post# 126765   5/5/2006 at 12:34 (6,537 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 126768 , Reply# 1   5/5/2006 at 12:58 (6,537 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 126793 , Reply# 2   5/5/2006 at 15:31 (6,537 days old) by westytoploader ()   |   | |
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660 for the 1-18, 850 for the early Multimatics, 710 for the later Multimatics and middle/lower-end Rollermatics, and 1010 for the "Rapidry 1000" high-end Rollermatics. |
Post# 126834 , Reply# 3   5/5/2006 at 19:16 (6,537 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 126925 , Reply# 4   5/6/2006 at 03:55 (6,537 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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I don't want to be catty, here - but the odds of a rollermatic actually making it all the way to 1000 r.p.m. without breaking...again...hmmm The nylon rollers were a good idea, but the production tolerances just weren't high enough for the load they needed to bear. I am not an engineer, but the forces at play when you have over 100lbs spinning at such speeds...and they worry about us cutting ourselves on DVDs if they don't spin down. It is incredible what these designers and engineers were doing in the middle of the last century - and the current US firms should be ashamed to even use the same trade marks much less brand names. |
Post# 126980 , Reply# 5   5/6/2006 at 10:39 (6,536 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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In defense of the Rollermatic, a design that was made in modified forms for 15 years and in R&D for 5+ years before release, I've seen many of these machines and almost never have I seen a roller that needed replacing. Usually a good cleaning has been all that was required to bring them back to performance level. There were weak spots in the design for sure - as with any machine - the clutch and agitate arm spring quickly to mind but some of that is to be expected after 20-30 years of use as we're finding them now.
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Post# 127080 , Reply# 7   5/6/2006 at 20:11 (6,536 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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Gansky and Austin, It is not that I have never seen one - but rather I spent too much time dealing with them. I love the basic concept, used to climb up on our St. Bernard then have him sit up so I could look into my mom's - that up and down pulsation and the sound of the load spinning up to speed just fascinated me. But that was a unimatic. Every rollermatic I ever had anything to do with had problems. I bow to your superior knowledge that it was the clutch not the rollers...though I sure do remember cleaning them on one poor baby every few months just to get a spin at all... Tell you what, when I am back in the 'States and you want to show me, I'll be happy to take another look. But don't then blame me if I wander over to a nearby Unimatic and get "that" look on my face - |
Post# 127153 , Reply# 9   5/7/2006 at 07:39 (6,535 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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Hey Austin, That sounds great - I would love to take a closer look at all these mechanisms - I only know the innards of a Unimatic from pictures. For some strange reason my mom was opposed to letting my two/three year old self take her's apart. I think it was the fact that she figured I could get it apart, the putting back together part worried her. I don't know about the car transmission, but they sure were built to clean and clean and clean. Sort of like the engineers called the shots on them and not the marketing department. |
Post# 127189 , Reply# 10   5/7/2006 at 10:23 (6,535 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Westytoploader, That's one of the things I remember about our '58 Frigidaire machine. Our '62 GE had what felt like a 5 minute pause between wash and first spin; the Frigidaire just went right into spin without so much a beat. God I wish I had saved that machine! The GE's pause would have made sense if it had had a static drain period like the Whirlpools but it just sat there. You could hear the timer mechanism proceed through about three different clicks and then spin would engage, NOISILY. |
Post# 128145 , Reply# 13   5/11/2006 at 20:48 (6,531 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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There was an auction of "vintage" Frigidare appliances and parts recently that IIRC a member won. Search through previous posts to find information. I believe the member who won was going to assist other club members with parts for their machines. I'm not sure and only the actual member can speak to this. L. |
Post# 128149 , Reply# 14   5/11/2006 at 21:10 (6,531 days old) by westytoploader ()   |   | |
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Sounds like the agitate arm/wheel assembly to me. |