Thread Number: 78556
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
I couldn't say no to these black KMs |
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Post# 1025635   2/25/2019 at 19:54 (1,885 days old) by Kafooty06 (washington )   |   | |
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I was thumbing through offer up last Sunday and ran across these bad boys guy wanted 200 but I got him down to 175 . I fired them up and they work great !
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Post# 1025639 , Reply# 1   2/25/2019 at 21:07 (1,885 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)   |   | |
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Post# 1025674 , Reply# 3   2/26/2019 at 01:45 (1,885 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI)   |   | |
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Yeah, good machines. I've got the Bisque colored set, if I recall bought them in '95 - wow 24 years ago at this point... |
Post# 1025675 , Reply# 4   2/26/2019 at 04:40 (1,885 days old) by Kafooty06 (washington )   |   | |
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Post# 1025684 , Reply# 5   2/26/2019 at 07:15 (1,884 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 1025692 , Reply# 6   2/26/2019 at 08:37 (1,884 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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the last of the 'Limited' series.....close to if not exact, 1999....as I have a set of these...
preference would go to the 1995 models.....
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Post# 1025705 , Reply# 7   2/26/2019 at 10:53 (1,884 days old) by Kafooty06 (washington )   |   | |
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Post# 1025746 , Reply# 8   2/26/2019 at 17:43 (1,884 days old) by fan-of-fans (Florida)   |   | |
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They have the "swoosh" logos on them so have to be late 90s era. I think I would have trouble passing these up too, especially for $175. |
Post# 1025763 , Reply# 9   2/26/2019 at 19:37 (1,884 days old) by Kafooty06 (washington )   |   | |
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Post# 1025792 , Reply# 10   2/27/2019 at 01:22 (1,884 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI)   |   | |
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My model number is : 110.2695690 serial CG4003522
According to appliance 411 it's from September of '97. Guess I was off a couple of years. CLICK HERE TO GO TO MattL's LINK |
Post# 1025928 , Reply# 11   2/28/2019 at 21:44 (1,882 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)   |   | |
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Post# 1025932 , Reply# 12   3/1/2019 at 00:39 (1,882 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI)   |   | |
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No, you can modify time down, not up, and modify cycles in terms of temp and extra rinse. I consider the machines very flexible. |
Post# 1025943 , Reply# 13   3/1/2019 at 06:01 (1,882 days old) by Kafooty06 (washington )   |   | |
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Post# 1026310 , Reply# 14   3/5/2019 at 12:12 (1,877 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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there are a few things that the electronics do that a regular timer wont....
if set to HeavyDuty for example....wash speed will only be HIGH if the water level is set above half....lower levels default to lower agitation speeds for better fabric care... neutral drain periods are matched to the size of load, smaller loads don't require the full 4 minutes for pumpout… during the PermPress cycle, bleach dispenser is not activated, as thought that bleach would not be used during this cycle....I think they may have changed this as people would pour bleach in during one of these loads, it would not be dispensed, and then on the next load of a Cotton Sturdy cycle, it would...and people would complain that it poured bleach over a colored load....all the more reason to pay attention to the owners manual... as you know, people would not dare blame themselves... top part of the console will lift to change the bulb or for more usage instructions... one feature the 1988-89 dryers had was a 'toss to the front' option....it helped unload clothes from the rear of the drum... |
Post# 1026330 , Reply# 15   3/5/2019 at 16:04 (1,877 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)   |   | |
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Post# 1026332 , Reply# 16   3/5/2019 at 16:14 (1,877 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 1026333 , Reply# 17   3/5/2019 at 16:22 (1,877 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 1026344 , Reply# 18   3/5/2019 at 17:45 (1,877 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)   |   | |
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Post# 1026347 , Reply# 19   3/5/2019 at 18:21 (1,877 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 1026358 , Reply# 20   3/5/2019 at 21:10 (1,877 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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I never knew this interesting feature had a name, As Martin mentioned it was only on this TOL KM dryer for about two years.
When you opened the hamper door there were two little buttons on the left and right sides of the recessed door area near the top of the opening, to use the feature you pushed both buttons at the same time using both hands, when you did this the motor started just till the centrifugal switch in the motor tripped then everything stopped.
The effect was that the load of clothing in the drum turned over about once, this helped you find one item in a load or if the drum had been 1/2 unloaded it helped bring the clothing toward the front of the drum.
The reason you had to use both hands to operate this feature was so you could not have one hand in the drum when it turned over, this feature automatically bypassed the door switch.
This was another great example the creative engineering at Whirlpools laundry development center, WP engineers would come up with new ideas and if Sears wanted to pay the development and engineering costs WP would offer it to Sears for a certain period of time. Sometimes Sears would not bite or WP just kept the idea for themselves like WPs Easy-Clean 100 dryers where the lint was separated out of the exhaust stream with out a restrictive lint filter screen to slow down air flow and allowed the used to dry up to 100 loads without emptying a lint filter.
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Post# 1026360 , Reply# 21   3/5/2019 at 21:37 (1,877 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)   |   | |
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Post# 1026363 , Reply# 22   3/5/2019 at 21:49 (1,877 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Oh, yeah ... the switch(es) were at the door, not on the console. My (deceased) boss from a previous job and his wife have a WP dryer with the EasyClean 100 filter. Only time I've seen one. The latch on the cover is broken. He mentioned "we clean it after every load" so they don't understand the concept. I explained but don't know if they (she) changed the habit. |