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Post# 136874   6/20/2006 at 11:57 (6,491 days old) by seeitrun06 ()        

A question for all the appliance guros here in this site.

I know this probaly has been ask more times then none. Why did the washer manuf. companies change TL washers from the slower moving oscillating agitation to the faster agitation? I'm fairly new to this site and I know the answer is in here somewhere. I grew up with a 1959 Hotpoint washer and a 1976 Maytag A806 washer of course with the slower movement which cleaned clothes quite well. They also seem to be a little easier on the clothes. When I married and moved away we bought a Maytag A512 washer with the same light green agitator and matching gas dryer in 1986. They died November 2005. That was the best washer and dryer we ever owned. The new GE washer and dryer we replaced it with does not seem as sturdy as the Maytags. Before anyone ask we pitched the old Maytags as I did not know they were a collectors item and a market for used appliances until late May 2006.

Thanks!

Just being a curious George!





Post# 136882 , Reply# 1   6/20/2006 at 13:25 (6,491 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN)        

I think to cheapen the design or make parts smaller/easier to work on(?). The few remaining slow stroke machines are Speed Queen and Frigidaire, the better of the newer machines being SQ, of course, because the newer Frigdaires aren't very reliable. This is a great subject for the "Deluxe" forum.

Post# 136885 , Reply# 2   6/20/2006 at 13:47 (6,491 days old) by seeitrun06 ()        

THANKS Jasonl!


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