Thread Number: 75839
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
When year did D.D washers came out in ? |
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Post# 996767   6/10/2018 at 17:32 (2,117 days old) by Kafooty06 (washington )   |   | |
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Post# 996769 , Reply# 1   6/10/2018 at 18:10 (2,117 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD)   |   | |
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most 24"washers went DD by 1982,27"DDs started around late 1986. |
Post# 996779 , Reply# 2   6/10/2018 at 19:19 (2,117 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA)   |   | |
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Post# 996830 , Reply# 3   6/11/2018 at 10:27 (2,116 days old) by Kafooty06 (washington )   |   | |
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Post# 996985 , Reply# 4   6/12/2018 at 18:13 (2,115 days old) by electronicontrl (Grand Rapids, MI)   |   | |
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When I was in college (1981 to 1985), I did what most appliance fanatics did. Once a month or so I would visit appliance stores. While at the the Sears store at the Eastland Mall in Columbus, OH, I saw this STRANGE 24-inch wide Kenmore washer with a ROUND opening. I looked at it like it was an Alien! Little did I know this thing was the beginning of the end for Maytag.
And then to really complicate my life I moved to Michigan in 1985 to work at Whirlpool Corp. It was 1986 when the production of the belt drive ceased and the direct drive (Laundry Engineering Advanced Product - LEAP) machines were in full production, putting their mark on the world. Oh how fun it would be to turn back time and go appliance shopping again!!! |
Post# 997094 , Reply# 5   6/13/2018 at 22:27 (2,114 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)   |   | |
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Back when I was “straight,” I got married in 1986 (to a female) and I insisted on buying Whirlpool washer and dryer for our newly purchased townhouse in San Francisco (I’m sure that speaks volumes already...). Anyway, lo and behold, since I was not only in my own closet, but in the appliance closet, when the washer and dryer were delivered and installed, I was appalled at what had happened! What the you-know-what is a direct drive? The sounds and soothing agitation were gone from the washer, although the console had not changed. Quite a “pissadointment” as my mother likes to say...
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Post# 997108 , Reply# 6   6/14/2018 at 06:06 (2,114 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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