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Thread Number: 78563
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
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Post# 1025698 2/26/2019 at 09:33 (1,879 days old) by imperial70  (MA USA) |
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What is up with Phyllis Berens Hat? Looks like some type of bowl turned upside down over her head. Is there potato Salad hiding under that thing? | ||
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Post# 1025699 , Reply# 1 2/26/2019 at 09:36 (1,879 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK) |
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Does anyone have one? | ||
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Post# 1025716 , Reply# 2 2/26/2019 at 12:34 (1,879 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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Post# 1025732 , Reply# 3 2/26/2019 at 14:57 (1,879 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.) |
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The Phyllis Berens hat
It was in style back then...as seen on the cover of this 1957 Oldsmobile brochure.
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Post# 1025750 , Reply# 4 2/26/2019 at 18:23 (1,879 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Post# 1025752 , Reply# 5 2/26/2019 at 18:29 (1,879 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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You must be very young not to recognize a style of hat that was very popular in the late 50s into the early sixties often favored by full-figured women. | ||
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Post# 1025759 , Reply# 6 2/26/2019 at 19:12 (1,879 days old) by imperial70 (MA USA) |
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Very young? I wasn't even born when those hats were in vogue. But I'm old enough to remember Control Data Phoenix cartridge drives and 8" floppy disks. | ||
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Post# 1025760 , Reply# 7 2/26/2019 at 19:14 (1,879 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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| Post# 1025771 , Reply# 8 2/26/2019 at 20:58 (1,879 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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These really WILL Wash a napkin without tearing it Robert Perdue has one in Virginia and he actually tried it, A really good machine. | ||
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Post# 1025851 , Reply# 9 2/27/2019 at 16:03 (1,878 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK) |
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@ turquoisedude
So this is your machine I think I may have found it on youtube before? How does it work is it on a concentric wheel ????? Not sure if thats the correct term ?
Its fascinating to watch and it really does seem to be gentle how come they are so rare why did they not keep up production? I know more questions but its interesting and I love watching these old machines Thank you Austin | ||
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Post# 1025912 , Reply# 10 2/28/2019 at 16:15 (1,877 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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Austin, the agitator is on, literally, an off-centre cog driving the agitator shaft. The mechanics behind this machine are suprisingly simple (I've heard a fellow collector say these machines could be repaired with tractor parts - I believe them!).
I would imagine that because the capacity of the machine was fairly small, Kelvinator chose not to develop a larger-capacity version of it. Like so many older machines, the lack of parts to do reasonably simple repairs (like pump replacement, gaskets, hoses, etc) as the machines aged drove people to replace them. I should look through my restorations albums to see what pictures I took of the drive mechanism of this one. I'm about to head out on vacation until mid-March, though... EDIT: found a picture of the drive shaft mechanism.
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Post# 1025919 , Reply# 11 2/28/2019 at 19:02 (1,877 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Have a safe, fun trip. | ||
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Post# 1026293 , Reply# 12 3/5/2019 at 08:58 (1,872 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK) |
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@ turquoisedude | ||
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