Thread Number: 78484
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Maytags in Delicious Avocado Green! |
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Post# 1025021   2/18/2019 at 16:17 (1,865 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)   |   | |
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Just got these yesterday in Sacramento. Interesting how the dryer paint scheme does not match the washer and the washer paint job looks a little sloppy to me. Regardless, pretty decent machines. Washer 208, dryer 408. My existing HG ‘Tags are both 407’s, probably BOL at the time. Like the fact that the washer is a two-speed, whereas my HG 407 is only one-speed. I notice that the dryer door is larger than my HG 407.
Excited to get these going. I see already the belts on the washer need replacing, and the owner said the dryer quit working a while back and couldn’t remember if it stopped tumbling or if it didn’t heat. After a quick inspection, belts on the dryer seem okay, probably the heating element, she wasn’t sure. However, she was very excited that the set was going to someone who appreciated them. She said these belonged to her parents who were the only owners and she was reluctant to get rid of them because of how great they performed. She tried fixing the dryer but realized it was more than she could handle. Anyway, she was happy they landed with me. Yes, some of you will probably see the ‘74 LK next to the new ‘Tags — haven’t had any time to get the washer spinning again and look into why the matching dryer took “6 hours to dry” according to the previous owners... Will post more pics once I get them cleaned up and going...stay tuned! Funny how I am slowly becoming a Maytag fan — never really cared for them before. Could this set be almost the same as that in the Lucy Show episode where she ditched work to go on a shopping spree and took a quick gander at a Maytag set in the department store?
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Post# 1025032 , Reply# 1   2/18/2019 at 16:54 (1,865 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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Post# 1025036 , Reply# 2   2/18/2019 at 16:58 (1,865 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 1025037 , Reply# 3   2/18/2019 at 17:01 (1,865 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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I'm not an expert on Maytag colors, but most appliance manufacturers produced the shaded colors through their 1976 model year products, then switched to solid colors in 1977. Check your serial numbers and this pair's date of manufacture; that might answer your question about the two versions of the color.
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Post# 1025039 , Reply# 4   2/18/2019 at 17:43 (1,865 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 1025041 , Reply# 5   2/18/2019 at 17:51 (1,865 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 1025061 , Reply# 6   2/18/2019 at 21:32 (1,865 days old) by Jasonlittle (Southern iowa)   |   | |
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Congratulations. That’s an awesome find. I love avocado anything ! I have a set almost identical to those. My washer is also two tone and the dryer is not. |
Post# 1025089 , Reply# 7   2/19/2019 at 08:25 (1,864 days old) by whitetub (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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Nice Set. Maybe you could paint the front panel of the washer to the solid avocado color. On the Lucy show, the dryer was the earlier model, the HOH (Halo of heat) dryer, with the smaller door, and the lint filter at the back of the drum. CLICK HERE TO GO TO whitetub's LINK |
Post# 1025096 , Reply# 8   2/19/2019 at 12:02 (1,864 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.)   |   | |
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Post# 1025111 , Reply# 9   2/19/2019 at 16:56 (1,864 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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That was a great Lucy episode! She won the mother-lode of appliances. That TOL Washtrend Launderette pair was quite a prize! |
Post# 1025115 , Reply# 10   2/19/2019 at 17:27 (1,864 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 1025142 , Reply# 11   2/19/2019 at 20:53 (1,864 days old) by 79maytaga106 (Texas)   |   | |
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Very nice find! |
Post# 1025143 , Reply# 12   2/19/2019 at 20:58 (1,864 days old) by Jasonlittle (Southern iowa)   |   | |
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I love the Lucy show. I had never seen this one though. That’s pretty awesome to see all those vintage appliances in the show room. I was definitely born in the wrong time. LOL |
Post# 1025145 , Reply# 13   2/19/2019 at 21:06 (1,864 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)   |   | |
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The Lucy Show rocks! I grew up watching reruns. Another fun “washer” Lucy Show is the one where she gets to be disc jockey for a day after identifying a radio contest mystery sound. While trying to figure out what the sound is, she turns on the washing machine out on the back porch (which we don’t get to see) and it sounds like a Norge!! While we hear the washer in the background Viv says...”sounds like you’re milking a cow out there!”
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Post# 1025168 , Reply# 14   2/20/2019 at 03:22 (1,863 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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Post# 1025272 , Reply# 15   2/21/2019 at 10:02 (1,862 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 1025283 , Reply# 16   2/21/2019 at 13:02 (1,862 days old) by qsd-dan (West)   |   | |
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Good save! The slower speed on the 208 will come in handy for those delicate items.
I have a minty A207 console with wiring I've been trying to get rid of for years now. I keep threatening to throw it away and even had it in the recycle pile a few times but just couldn't follow through with it. Has a Mallory timer. It's yours if you want it. |
Post# 1025285 , Reply# 17   2/21/2019 at 13:15 (1,862 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)   |   | |
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Post# 1025662 , Reply# 19   2/25/2019 at 23:03 (1,858 days old) by pumper (SE Wisconsin)   |   | |
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Post# 1025780 , Reply# 20   2/26/2019 at 22:02 (1,857 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)   |   | |
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Post# 1025795 , Reply# 21   2/27/2019 at 01:39 (1,856 days old) by Ralph611 (Berwyn, Il)   |   | |
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Thanks Jason. I sent you an email with my cell number if you want to text me. Check your inbox. The setvyou havecis awesome! |
Post# 1025939 , Reply# 22   3/1/2019 at 03:10 (1,854 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Look like great machines, along with what Lucy won (& did she have to forfeit anything for damage to the department store? All that reminds me of what I go through at where I work!)...
780 N. Gower is Paramount Pictures address (as was where Desilu was formerly located?)... Greatbold days, and saw those old episodes, remembering them far more than HERE’S LUCY, my mother mentioned that series of, ever more as what followed up I LOVE—... Wish the gene pool in my fam’ made me more of a Jr. Des, sometimes along w/ little Luci appearing in episodes of the show... — Dave |