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Thread Number: 69516
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
POD 2/27/2017 |
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Post# 924005 , Reply# 1 2/27/2017 at 06:40 (2,608 days old) by gyrafoam  (Wytheville, VA) |
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IMO GE did themselves (and their customers) no favors when they ditched the Spiral Activator. | ||
| Post# 924008 , Reply# 2 2/27/2017 at 07:19 (2,608 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
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| Post# 924011 , Reply# 3 2/27/2017 at 07:48 (2,608 days old) by alr2903 (TN) | ||
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POD= a model with the wire clothes guard. What year did they change to plastic? | ||
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Post# 924023 , Reply# 4 2/27/2017 at 09:43 (2,608 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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| Post# 924024 , Reply# 5 2/27/2017 at 09:49 (2,608 days old) by repair-man (Pittsburgh PA) | ||
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Was there a reason that GE went to the strait vane agitator. And how long was it used ? GE washers where what we had growing up. A 1968 model with black Bakelite spiral Activator replaced in 1984 with a white plastic spiral Activator. I don't recall seeing many strait vanes. | ||
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Post# 924031 , Reply# 6 2/27/2017 at 10:43 (2,608 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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going to a straight vane allowed more room in the tub, hence they could push the issue of calling it a 16lb machine....
the ramped V12 was sort of a cone shape, which took up more space....even in the 60's they offered another version of the ramped activator, with vanes sticking out all the way up the shaft versus the V12's version tapering off as it got towards the top..... since the 18lbs machine was created, it had about a 10 year run of straight vane, there were two styles.... and somewhere around 78-79 they went with the ramped for both size machines... the filter flo and agitator mounted filter was a GE exclusive...... Hotpoint and JCPenney machines were rim-flo machines.....in place of the mini-basket, many used a 2-n-1 handwash agitator....straight vane at first, and that too went to a ramped version...if I am correct, the 2-n-1 was available on the 18lb machines only... during the last run, only mini-basket machines got a filter pan....as in trying to cut expenses, one transmission was used for both size machines... | ||
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