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Thread Number: 81210
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
POD 11-26-19 WH L-6, LB6 vs RL-1 |
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| Post# 1052556 , Reply# 2 11/28/2019 at 07:16 (1,604 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
 Not sure about the tilt. Spent a LOT of time watching 2 of those machines, one with boot and one without. Tilt never came to attention, but then I was quite young and not looking for such detail.
'Much' tilt would have been particularly apparent in the double door, where the plane of the inner door would fall out of parallel with the outer if tilted from the position when empty. It didn't. Not memorably anyway.
The main suspension springs were toward the front. In the rear there was a coil spring dead center, and a leaf spring with snubbers L & R. There was another leaf spring on the bottom, snubbed at roughly the basket center. And snubber leaves on both cabinet sides. | ||
Post# 1052807 , Reply# 4 11/30/2019 at 20:23 (1,601 days old) by Tomturbomatic  (Beltsville, MD) |
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Thank you so much, Robert. I should have known that you would have the answer. I remember Twyla talking about her early WH. She called it "The Tangler." So the pulling down of the tub is what, over time, distorts the old door boots? Happy Holidays. | ||
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Post# 1052808 , Reply# 5 11/30/2019 at 20:30 (1,601 days old) by Syndets2000 (Nanjemoy, MD) |
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Hi Tom !! When the tub was full, the weight would pull the tub lower, and it would stretch the boot as it pulled it...when the machine finished the tub would return to it's normal position, as would the door boot... Miss u guys ! | ||
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Post# 1052809 , Reply# 6 11/30/2019 at 20:32 (1,601 days old) by Syndets2000 (Nanjemoy, MD) |
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Oh, n yea over time the boot would eventually develop stress and tear some...I know Mom's washer did.. | ||
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Post# 1052810 , Reply# 7 11/30/2019 at 20:34 (1,601 days old) by Syndets2000 (Nanjemoy, MD) |
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Post# 1052812 , Reply# 8 11/30/2019 at 21:28 (1,601 days old) by Syndets2000 (Nanjemoy, MD) |
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Tom Happy holidays to u too | ||
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Post# 1052827 , Reply# 9 12/1/2019 at 06:52 (1,601 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK) |
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Our UK Hoover Keymatics
Did the tilt too as it had a small rotating disc in the back of the drum which when it tilted with the water in tipped the water over the disc that during cotton cycles the drum rotated the one way and the disc the other causing a back and forth motion it washed well and as it had alternating actions it reduced tangling somewhat.
They too had the slant front and the boot got distorted over time but it was not too difficult then to replace it. We had one until the cable that held it up snapped and it ran across the floor as the gearbox was trying to dig its way through the tiled kitchen floor it moved forward till the hoses stopped it and I recall it was not repaired but replaced by a crappy Indesit L5. Austin | ||
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