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Maytag "Blue Bell" Wringer
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Post# 902335   10/9/2016 at 01:08 (2,761 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        

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Not going cheap!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-MAYTAG-G...


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Post# 902388 , Reply# 1   10/9/2016 at 14:57 (2,761 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        
A Super-Tangler!

Those agitators were terrible. Amazing what a difference there is when the barrel of an agitator is removed!
I never saw a machine tangle clothes as bad as one of those. Once I took the barrel off of my parent's Unimatic just to see what would happen and surprisingly it did not tangle any worse than one of those el-cheapo Gyratators!
For that price the seller would have to include a full-size agitator!


Post# 902424 , Reply# 2   10/9/2016 at 21:22 (2,760 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        

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That is the most I've seen a Maytag wringer go for in some time.

Post# 902434 , Reply# 3   10/10/2016 at 00:22 (2,760 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)        

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I wonder who bought it????  Anyone we know?


Post# 902435 , Reply# 4   10/10/2016 at 00:41 (2,760 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        
For that kind of money

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Had to be a collector. That or someone who knows a bit about Maytag wringer washers and thus how to make up for the otherwise poor performance of these machines.

Maytag only sold them IIRC just to get Madame to trade up to a *real* machine. *LOL*


Post# 902444 , Reply# 5   10/10/2016 at 06:18 (2,760 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)        

Could a regular Maytag wringer agitator be installed in the Bluebell to replace the "impellor" agitator?

Post# 902446 , Reply# 6   10/10/2016 at 06:39 (2,760 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        
IIRC

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Yes.

One could also swap out that black lower roller for the normal white/beige thus giving better water extraction. The whole purpose of the black (harder) roller versus the softer (white/beige) was that the former squeezed things into the latter but buttons and other fastenings wouldn't break because the lower roller had resilience. Sort of like the padded roller of an ironer.

With that "Bluebell" set up you got two hard rollers mashing your laundry.

Again Maytag probably thought soon enough Madame would get fed up and pester her husband to get her a "real" Maytag. *LOL*

Also IIRC you cannot fit a pump onto these units either.


Post# 902594 , Reply# 7   10/10/2016 at 23:34 (2,759 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)        
Such a pretty, pretty girl

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Don't know what it is about them that makes them so fetching, even beautiful, despite the lowly BOL status. One would love to have one as a rinser, or to wash small loads of heavily soiled socks, bar mops, and such.



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