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Thread Number: 67679
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
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| Post# 903993 10/23/2016 at 14:14 (2,742 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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| Post# 903994 , Reply# 1 10/23/2016 at 14:17 (2,742 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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| Post# 903995 , Reply# 2 10/23/2016 at 14:21 (2,742 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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| Post# 904011 , Reply# 3 10/23/2016 at 16:29 (2,741 days old) by Sbond22 (Grove City, Fl. USA) | ||
What the hell? | ||
| Post# 904065 , Reply# 4 10/24/2016 at 01:47 (2,741 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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| Post# 904082 , Reply# 5 10/24/2016 at 07:32 (2,741 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
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| Post# 904114 , Reply# 7 10/24/2016 at 12:47 (2,741 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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| Post# 904115 , Reply# 8 10/24/2016 at 12:49 (2,741 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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| Post# 904116 , Reply# 9 10/24/2016 at 12:51 (2,741 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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| Post# 904117 , Reply# 10 10/24/2016 at 12:52 (2,741 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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| Post# 904126 , Reply# 11 10/24/2016 at 14:37 (2,741 days old) by johnb300m (Chicago) | ||
Yeah I don't understand what Venezuela's politics has anything to do with GE Frankensteining their own machines for a small, foreign market.
Or maybe it was made by a South American appliance vendor that GE licensed its name and some parts to? We all know GE is a licensing hussy like DT. Very interesting. | ||
| Post# 904266 , Reply# 13 10/25/2016 at 15:04 (2,739 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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Look.....
I surf very often South American second hand websites, and that is first time I see such a thing. You find a lot of actual filter flos down there, as well as newer models, but never something like this. Ge's FF lay outs were pretty much all the same Canada to Brazil. Rim flo or not. In south america you might have found semi automatic ff but no more than that. You have standards all over because you have factories who produce pieces who adapts to various models....making what for us washer folks can immediately be recognized. Case in point, in Brazil for example you had Brastemp machines that were nothing else but whirlpools and kenmore hybrids, just looking at it you say WHirlpool...in Colombia you had Centrales brand again whirlpool, in Venezuela you had Philips again whirlpool parts. Now....whatever it is....even considering someone who made a machibe out of two, well.... That could have been if it was a filter flo top, or console fitting an hotpoint or beaumark machine...as to speak. But you just cannot easily take a newer model console fit into an older, newer agitators won't fit filter flo trannies,so the baskets...outter tub as well. Filter flo only had the washtub on balance springs,and outter tub ws still attached to cabinet, they used a boot,newer models had both outter and inner tub on springs.... Again...total different mechanics. These are new cabinets, old baskets, new agitators.....does not make any sense. Just like a wp belt drive would not fit easily a modern DD whirlpool... You have very different layouts and mechanics to make one out of these two..... | ||
| Post# 904274 , Reply# 14 10/25/2016 at 15:25 (2,739 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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Look.....
I surf very often South American second hand websites, and that is first time I see such a thing. You find a lot of actual filter flos down there, as well as newer models, but never something like this. Ge's FF lay outs were pretty much all the same Canada to Brazil. Rim flo or not. In south america you might have found semi automatic ff but no more than that. You have standards all over because you have factories who produce pieces who adapts to various models....making what for us washer folks can immediately be recognized. Case in point, in Brazil for example you had Brastemp machines that were nothing else but whirlpools and kenmore hybrids, just looking at it you say WHirlpool...in Colombia you had Centrales brand again whirlpool, in Venezuela you had Philips again whirlpool parts. Now....whatever it is....even considering someone who made a machibe out of two, well.... That could have been if it was a filter flo top, or console fitting an hotpoint or beaumark machine...as to speak. But you just cannot easily take a newer model console fit into an older, newer agitators won't fit filter flo trannies,so the baskets...outter tub as well. Filter flo only had the washtub on balance springs,and outter tub ws still attached to cabinet, they used a boot,newer models had both outter and inner tub on springs.... Again...total different mechanics. These are new cabinets, old baskets, new agitators.....does not make any sense. Just like a wp belt drive would not fit easily a modern DD whirlpool... You have very different layouts and mechanics to make one out of these two..... | ||
| Post# 904276 , Reply# 15 10/25/2016 at 15:35 (2,739 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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| Post# 904278 , Reply# 16 10/25/2016 at 16:18 (2,739 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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Post# 904334 , Reply# 18 10/26/2016 at 07:38 (2,739 days old) by chetlaham  (United States) |
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LOL!
That would be me! :P
Looks like some of the Frankenstein machines Ive pulled off in the past, though who ever did this one, sure knew how to get completely incompatible parts to works besides one another. Serious talent possessed by the creator(s). But in all seriousness, my best guess would be a parts surplus around the time they started making non FF machines and were cleverly adapted to make up for lost production costs. At least thats what make sense to me. If these are actual FFs or new style GEs Im leaning toward new style but in all honesty I am totally clueless in that regard. I would not be to surprised if pooping the hood on one of those raised more questions then answers, but Id sure like to see it anyway lol. Is any member capable of obtaining one of those? | ||
| Post# 904371 , Reply# 19 10/26/2016 at 13:35 (2,739 days old) by Sbond22 (Grove City, Fl. USA) | ||
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Is any member capable of obtaining one of those? | ||
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Post# 904396 , Reply# 20 10/26/2016 at 18:03 (2,738 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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Similar to the car business, they probably shipped the dies for the FF cabinet (beveled rear-opening lid etc etc) to the Venezuelan manufacturer who did the metal-bending locally and imported the poly transmissions/tubs; but continued to make the metal tubs locally. That Hotpoint came on a boat from Miami.
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| Post# 904686 , Reply# 23 10/29/2016 at 11:41 (2,736 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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Yes, Dacia was the Romanian car by Renault. Lada's were sold in Canada for a while during the late 70's and early 80's. Henry Ford assisted in setting up the ZIL plants in the 1920's and 30's. The Moskvitch car was an Opel Kadette variant. Germany developed a modern Trabant, not yet in production. It is not fiberglass. | ||
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