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Thread Number: 64327
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
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| Post# 869162 2/26/2016 at 04:20 (2,981 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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A Japanese import for GE? A reversing impeller design. Like a modern full size WhirlTag HE top loader. | ||
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| Post# 869194 , Reply# 1 2/26/2016 at 08:12 (2,980 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
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| Post# 869208 , Reply# 2 2/26/2016 at 10:01 (2,980 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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re; quirky spin, I don't doubt that. I'm sure the next generation from Whirlypoo will be that anyway. May as well go back to a scrubbing board. | ||
Post# 869241 , Reply# 3 2/26/2016 at 14:33 (2,980 days old) by RevvinKevin  (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land) |
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This little washer was built by Hitachi for GE. I had a 1970-ish version courtesy of RedCarpetDrew.
Manual water temp adjustment at the faucet.
2 water levels.
1 cycle w/3 rinses, but only one spin (800-900rpm) at end of cycle. Between the wash / rinses it's only a drain and refill affair with agitation after water level is reached.
Cute washer, worked well. The tub brake worked so well, it caused the washer to "torque around" (it's on wheels) as the tub stopped from full speed spin. I didn't care for the "no spin" until end of cycle tho....
Not like a modern HE top loader, in that it filled with water and actually moved the clothes around, instead of grinding that wash plate thing against the clothes in low water levels.
Kevin
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Post# 869251 , Reply# 4 2/26/2016 at 15:42 (2,980 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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It is amazing how long impeller washing machine design
Has been around and yet won't go away. Talk about how everything old is new again... Have seen examples of such machines going back to early days of washers (1930's or so).
Problem inherent to all impeller designs is tangling. Side mounted Hoover TT probably are the worse with side of bottom tub like some Asian machines better. | ||
| Post# 869281 , Reply# 6 2/26/2016 at 17:57 (2,980 days old) by delaneymeegan (Midwest) | ||
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| Post# 869311 , Reply# 8 2/26/2016 at 19:58 (2,980 days old) by delaneymeegan (Midwest) | ||
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| Post# 869354 , Reply# 9 2/27/2016 at 05:29 (2,980 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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delaney, It did spin rather fast. My dry times were long, as I only had the 120 volt dryer. | ||
| Post# 869396 , Reply# 11 2/27/2016 at 11:57 (2,979 days old) by delaneymeegan (Midwest) | ||
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| Post# 869397 , Reply# 12 2/27/2016 at 12:00 (2,979 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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Tom, Did they make the compacts of the od DD drive? Mine was 1994 with a splutch gear case belt drive. Made in Mexico. It did spin very fast. | ||
| Post# 869420 , Reply# 13 2/27/2016 at 14:00 (2,979 days old) by delaneymeegan (Midwest) | ||
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I bought a white DD KM portable washer from the Sears Warehouse store in Wauwatosa in 1991. Someone used it a couple of times and returned it. It had the literature but not the quick connect hose. But they found one for me at the warehouse. I know I didn't pay much more than $300.
I wish I still had that. It was so cute with its little baby cork screw agitator.
Gosh, remember shopping the Sears warehouse. The warehouse was the place to find all the scratch and dents, returns, and discontinued items. And it was a good deal until about 1999 when they decided to treat the warehouse as just another store,...... and the prices weren't any different than in the typical stores,.... for scratch and dented, returned, and discontinued CRAP ! 
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