Thread Number: 72918
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
POD 10/19/2017 |
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Post# 963420 , Reply# 2   10/19/2017 at 19:10 (2,352 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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It would have been curious to see what Bendix would have done with this mechanism and agitator if they hadn't sold their appliance division to Philco in '57. Philco took the foundation of this offset-shaft/eccentric agitator action, added a few more rubber boots and a few more seals and introduced their Automagic (flapping) agitator which carried in a couple of forms until Ford sold the appliance division, banishing it to overseas markets.
While one of the coolest of the 50's carnival of washers, it had a few disadvantages. The agitation action is quite harsh, capacity is rather small and the spin performance is pretty dismal with the smaller tub. |