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Thread Number: 6337
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| Post# 128361 , Reply# 1 5/12/2006 at 21:29 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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A Bendix Economat! Yeah! Ive been wanting one of these for years, and here it is in person. 
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| Post# 128362 , Reply# 2 5/12/2006 at 21:30 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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Never having owned one, Im just in awe of the whole machine........ 
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| Post# 128363 , Reply# 3 5/12/2006 at 21:31 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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This is one of the "rubber tub" washers, does not spin, but squeezes the water out of the clothes.......... 
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| Post# 128364 , Reply# 4 5/12/2006 at 21:31 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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Its a Bendix! 
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| Post# 128366 , Reply# 5 5/12/2006 at 21:32 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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Bendix Timer........ 
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| Post# 128367 , Reply# 6 5/12/2006 at 21:33 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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The user could select either one or two rinses........ 
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| Post# 128370 , Reply# 8 5/12/2006 at 21:37 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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"Mextaloy" tub. To its credit, its completely intact with no tears, but alas its pretty "crunchy". I might be able to condition it with auto brake fluid and rejuvinate it some, but most of these tubs were a problem, even when new...... 
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| Post# 128371 , Reply# 9 5/12/2006 at 21:38 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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Bendix agitator, with lots of drain holes........ 
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| Post# 128373 , Reply# 10 5/12/2006 at 21:39 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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The agitator has a hollow center, so the water and air can pump down thru........... 
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| Post# 128374 , Reply# 11 5/12/2006 at 21:40 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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Tub with the agitator removed.......... 
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| Post# 128375 , Reply# 12 5/12/2006 at 21:42 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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Notice the bump in the back of the tub, at about 11 o clock position........That buldge is where the water level switch is. When the tub fills with water, the tub flexes and trips the switch....... 
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| Post# 128376 , Reply# 13 5/12/2006 at 21:42 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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Back of the Bendix...... 
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| Post# 128377 , Reply# 14 5/12/2006 at 21:43 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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The machine was pretty grimy. Wheeled it into my workshop, and have it about half cleaned up here......... 
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| Post# 128378 , Reply# 15 5/12/2006 at 21:44 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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Data Plate. Bendix/Avco.......... 
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| Post# 128379 , Reply# 16 5/12/2006 at 21:46 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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This a pic of the back of the tub, and the location of the water level, a full tub! 
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| Post# 128380 , Reply# 17 5/12/2006 at 21:47 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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The Bendix mechanism........ 
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| Post# 128381 , Reply# 18 5/12/2006 at 21:47 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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Water and vacuum pump.......... 
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| Post# 128382 , Reply# 19 5/12/2006 at 21:48 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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Transmission....... 
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| Post# 128383 , Reply# 20 5/12/2006 at 21:49 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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?????? Not sure what this is! Appears to be a water/air gap chamber? Will have to look it up on my parts list and see what they call it......... 
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| Post# 128384 , Reply# 21 5/12/2006 at 21:50 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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Made a LOT of dirty rags cleaning this baby up, but thats why we work on washers......to use them to wash up our messes! 
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| Post# 128386 , Reply# 22 5/12/2006 at 21:53 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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All cleaned up and much more presentable. This will make a nice summer project to work on in my spare time........Thanks Rich! I LOVE IT and you too!. Will post pics of new arrival #2 shortly........Im still cleaning it up before I take pics of it........but its a great find too!.........Jimmy 
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Post# 128387 , Reply# 23 5/12/2006 at 21:54 (6,552 days old) by appnut  (TX) |
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| Post# 128388 , Reply# 24 5/12/2006 at 21:55 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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whoops! didnt get the pic of the timer correct. let me try it again! 
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| Post# 128389 , Reply# 25 5/12/2006 at 21:59 (6,552 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area) | ||
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Hi Bob, I agree with you, I loved watching one of these at Johns in DC. The next post of the other new arrial will end with me showing which washer got the load of dirty rags........ | ||
| Post# 128390 , Reply# 26 5/12/2006 at 22:03 (6,552 days old) by brent-aucoin () | ||
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Very, Very cool Jimmy! I am sure you will have it running and washing your work towels in no time! Thanks for sharing! Brent | ||
| Post# 128401 , Reply# 27 5/12/2006 at 23:00 (6,551 days old) by maytagbear (N.E. Ohio) | ||
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Wow, Jimmy! Economats are rare! Happy playing. Lawrence/Maytagbear | ||
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Post# 128405 , Reply# 28 5/12/2006 at 23:23 (6,551 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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Post# 128406 , Reply# 29 5/12/2006 at 23:36 (6,551 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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New Arrival | ||
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Post# 128408 , Reply# 30 5/13/2006 at 01:26 (6,551 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains) |
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I am SO fascinated
I have read of these, but never seen one. I would be terrified that that tub would not just collapse, but break apart. Could it be that the silvery object connected to the hoses is designed to prevent the vacuum in the tub from sucking water back up or in or some such? Not just an "air gap" but a real valve structure (reed?). Just guessing here, I truly have no idea. Looking forward to more - thanks for sharing! | ||
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Post# 128446 , Reply# 31 5/13/2006 at 05:24 (6,551 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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| Post# 128459 , Reply# 32 5/13/2006 at 08:13 (6,551 days old) by irishwashguy (Salem,Oregon.............A Capital City) | ||
My mother had one of these machines.....
My mom had told me about this machine,it was her first Washer and dryer, but I had never seen one of these,even in a picture until a month or two ago on this site. She always taked about the Bendix with the strage rubber tub. i had always imagined that it would spin,I had never phathomed that it would squeze the water out. I can hardly wait to see it in action.My mother replaced it with a 1964 Kenmore with the ovals and the black surgulator.Do u know the vintage on this one?
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| Post# 128488 , Reply# 33 5/13/2006 at 10:00 (6,551 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
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| Post# 128670 , Reply# 34 5/14/2006 at 01:27 (6,550 days old) by jerseymike () | ||
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Wow! Another great gift. I'm practically speachless. I hope you can get it up and running without too much trouble. I look foward to seeing the after pics! Mike | ||
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Post# 128718 , Reply# 35 5/14/2006 at 12:19 (6,550 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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This looks like it's starting to clean up beautifully. I was amazed at how many rubber bits are inside this machine to seal it up tight for the vacuum-extraction. That valve on the side of the tub has a rubber diaphram inside to seal the water fill system for extraction, it's connected to the aspirator at the top of the machine, which also has another seal for the air-gap assembly.
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| Post# 128719 , Reply# 36 5/14/2006 at 12:24 (6,550 days old) by jamman_98 (Columbia, SC) | ||
Ok Explain to me | ||
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Post# 128721 , Reply# 37 5/14/2006 at 12:35 (6,550 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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Jamman, Yes, the water is supposed to be squeezed out. I think Robert had an old Apex that did the same sort of thing. The agitator on the Apex was quite a bit more rounded, very unique. My take on this is that the mfg's that designed these things were not thinking very outside of the box. Most washers of the day had wringers that squeezed water out of the clothes, either with a hand crank (safer) or a motorized wringer (could be dangerous). The Bendix Economat type of washer simply moved the squeezing process to inside the wash tub... although I understand it was with somewhat mixed results. In some ways, the collapsing rubber tub was simpler than the spinning tub, because it didn't have to have a suspension system or deal with balance issues. But once those issues were figured out by the engineers, obviously the spinning method of extracting water won out over the rubber squeeze tub, probably because it was more efficient and durable. I could see one nail, screw, or metal pen making short work of the squeeze tub. | ||
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Post# 128728 , Reply# 38 5/14/2006 at 13:11 (6,550 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Made only by Bendix.
Exactly, Rich, the washer uses a special rotary water pump that will not only pump the water out of the machine, but air as well. A very similar pump was used on the early Whirlpool combos for the recirculating spray stream. When all the openings to the tub have been sealed, the pump will draw out all the water used for washing and rinsing and the rubber tub will collapse onto the clothes, pulling them around the base of the agitator. I had one here for a while that Robert had found at a sale a number of years ago. They did a good job cleaning and are a lot of fun to play with but without the special display lid (as pictured in the consumer reports article from the 50's) much of the fun is going on with the lid closed. Extraction was OK, a bit better than a wringer washer but lost extraction efficiency with hot or cold water - ideal performace was with lukewarm water, which the automatic version used for rinsing anyway. The Economat was available in a completely automatic version or a Dial-a-matic version that was user controlled, selecting fill/agitate/extract from a simple dial. It was popular with many because of it's appealing price point (not much more than a wringer washer) and that it didn't spin causing complaints from neighbors and landlords in apartments and it could be easily made portable with an optional caster set... The rubber tub was a huge weakness (obviously) because of the reasons Rich mentioned and was a huge financial drain on Bendix because of the warranty calls on the tub. When Avco/Bendix appliance division was bought out by Philco in 1957, the Economat was promptly retired forever. Here are some pics of the one Robert found while it was in foster-care here. CLICK HERE TO GO TO gansky1's LINK | ||
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