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Thread Number: 66368
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Washing in the ol Rollermatic this morning |
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| Post# 889707 7/17/2016 at 10:02 (2,832 days old) by phmorrow (Knoxville, TN) | ||
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The Green Machine CLICK HERE TO GO TO phmorrow's LINK | ||
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| Post# 889709 , Reply# 1 7/17/2016 at 10:15 (2,832 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
Nice Machine | ||
Post# 889713 , Reply# 2 7/17/2016 at 10:34 (2,832 days old) by Jetcone  (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Beautiful machine  | ||
| Post# 889738 , Reply# 4 7/17/2016 at 11:55 (2,831 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
It's similar to my pair of Canadian WF-ISN Rollermatics (who said pairs had to be washers and dryers!?).
I'm curious to know something about your WIN machine, do you need to hold the fluorescent light switch to turn it on or does it have a starter? My '65 set has starters and so does my newer 1-18 set but not my Canadian "N" machines. As for the water level question, my Canadian set is time filled (as are all Canadian Frigidaire machines) but I have a 1967 US-built Custom Deluxe with the infinite water level selector. These have an infinite water level selector and a small tank under the tub with a tube connected to a pressure switch that fills at the same time as the tub at a 1/10th rate. When the water in the small container was to the selected level, the fill stops and the machine starts. This requires a different pump which isn't reversible so it doesn't pump the water out during the wash (that would trip the water switch again). The overflow periods on the pressure-filled machines are also shortened by one increment to avoid overfilling the outer tub. There's also a 1966 model that's pressure-filled (lower in the line) that doesn't have a water level selector. I wish the time-filled Rollermatics also had a pressure switch to avoid that they overfill if the timer sticks (that happened to one of my machines when it belonged to the previous owners and it almost happened in my '57 control tower when the timer escapement blocked during the last increment of the overflow rinse). My Agitub GMini has that safety feature. It's still time-filled but if it starts to fill it's outer tub, the pressure switch will prevent it from overfilling. | ||
| Post# 889743 , Reply# 5 7/17/2016 at 12:25 (2,831 days old) by phmorrow (Knoxville, TN) | ||
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lights / water level Thanks for the kind words on the machine... PhilR, Both the washer and dryer have starters in them. Mrb627, the WIN models are meter filled just like PhilR said.. | ||
| Post# 889745 , Reply# 6 7/17/2016 at 13:10 (2,831 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
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| Post# 889828 , Reply# 8 7/18/2016 at 05:50 (2,831 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
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Post# 889829 , Reply# 9 7/18/2016 at 07:32 (2,831 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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 Bruce: I babysat the kids of the owner of the local Frigidaire dealership when I was a young teenager. They always had the newest TOL appliances and one of them was the variable speed washer. There was an unspoken agreement that if the wife left piles of sorted laundry on the floor, I'd do them just to get to play with the washer. And she'd come home to clean clothes. Win-win!
Anyway, the infinitely variable speeds were a blast to play with. The slowest agitation speed was very, very slow. I would watch the whole wash portion of the cycle and experiment with various settings. Didn't really mess with the spin speed much. I don't recall the machine being a RapidDry 1000, though. Maybe. It was so long ago!
I should have known better than to take an onscreen handle with a brand name in it. It's like a tattoo---what do you do when you no longer want it? I'm known as Frigilux here, so it's silly to change it; but my fascination with all things Frigidaire has definitely passed. This post was last edited 07/18/2016 at 08:31 | ||
| Post# 889875 , Reply# 11 7/18/2016 at 13:58 (2,830 days old) by christfr (st louis mo) | ||
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| Post# 889950 , Reply# 12 7/19/2016 at 02:33 (2,830 days old) by qualin (Canada) | ||
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I've always loved how the timer indicator was always "Under glass" in the 1960's models.. I think it certainly makes the machines much more classy. I wish more machines used that design philosophy. I admit I'm a sucker for that design language. | ||
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Post# 889958 , Reply# 14 7/19/2016 at 05:33 (2,830 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Tangling: People two houses down from us had a gorgeous '58 pair in turquoise. It replaced an early Frigidaire unit with promises from the dealer that the tangling issue had been solved. Not so, according to the neighbors. Both husband and wife cursed the day it was purchased and swore they'd never have another Frigidaire washer.
I don't know if the neighbors followed the instructions to load 'quadrant-style'; I'm guessing they probably didn't. The tangling issue was ameliorated with the introduction of the "space capsule" agitator, which slowed rollover. An early 1960s commercial Frigidaire in my sister's apt. building combined the best of both worlds: The Unimatic mechanism with its 1140 rpm spin and the Jet Action/Deep Wash agitator. Loved watching that machine. Not realizing the commercial machines weren't intended to have a cap on the space capsule---I thought theirs had been lost or broken---I stole one from a washer at an appliance store in Sioux Falls, SD (where she lived). I was thrilled with the results, as the view through the lid was no longer obscured by water shooting out of the top of the agitator. A thief with the best intentions, LOL. | ||
| Post# 889995 , Reply# 15 7/19/2016 at 10:10 (2,830 days old) by Doug17 (Huntsville,Alabama) | ||
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