As most of you know I have been slowly reproducing all the rubber agitator parts for Frigidaire washers from 1952-1964.

I finally was able to try a test cast from the '52-'54 Frigidaire pulsator mold I made .... the pulsator on the left in the picture below. The pulsator on the right is a 65+ year old original that has seen better days. Not bad for a first try but I see there are a couple of issues that need to be tweaked. This first one gets scraped to reuse the metal flange again. I'll chalk it up in the name of progress.

Big thanks to Ben for allowing me to borrow his NOS pulsator to make the mold!

Bud - Atlanta

photos of the '52-'54 vs a '55-'64 pulsator.

Here you can see they are identical except for the overall height.

the metal flange in all pulsators are nearly identical from 1952 thru 1964 ..... AND including the smaller Jetcone pulsators that have the D shaped hole!

So don't toss out any old Jetcone pulsators. We can reuse the flange out of them for any pulsator repro going back to 1952!

Cheers!

Bud - Atlanta

is the one year only 1960 cap and the 1963-64 rings. When that is completed, I will then be able to reproduce all the rubber parts as seen in this diagram from 1952 thru 1964. Including the black ring for the 1947-1951 columns.

If you need any of these parts, let me know.

Bud - Atlanta

I keep forgetting the one year only 1955 pulsator is the taller pulsator ..... but was done in black this first year it was introduced.  It was a natural black rubber compound as with the prior pulsators.

In 1956 they created all parts going forward in synthetic rubber, ie ...... Neoprene so as to have colors other than black, where all pulsators from '56 forward, were in a light gray .... including the Jetcone. 

The diagram above shows a well weathered Jetcone pulsator, after it has turned the typical dark tan as most older neoprene will do.  As for all the other parts shown in the diagram, the colors are fairly close to original ..... with the exception of all the "green" caps.  I have found all the 58-62 neoprene caps that I've seen in person and in pictures throughout AW have all turned towards a greenish hue. The correct color is more of a turquoise blue/green.

Here is what a cap color should look like ..... well dependent upon how your monitor reproduces the actual color, but should be pretty close. This is an original cap with the oxidized layer etched away with muriatic acid leaving a fresh sample of the original 55+ year color. As you can see, more towards a blue than the weathered green you see in older caps.  Even a good quality original cap has shifted towards green.  I guess the blue dye decomposes before the green as it oxidizes shifting the overall color towards green.