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Thread Number: 82234
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
1957 Westinghouse laundromat help needed |
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Post# 1062378 , Reply# 1 3/5/2020 at 16:06 (1,117 days old) by Hoover28  (Oneida NY) |
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Ps It's a model L100 2 belt | ||
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Post# 1062421 , Reply# 2 3/6/2020 at 00:23 (1,117 days old) by Hoover28 (Oneida NY) |
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Post# 1062428 , Reply# 3 3/6/2020 at 05:51 (1,117 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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WOW! What a beautiful machine. Love the puppy potty pad under the transmission. What's the story of this machine? It does not look like it got much use. | ||
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Post# 1062490 , Reply# 4 3/6/2020 at 19:13 (1,116 days old) by Syndets2000 (Nanjemoy, MD) |
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Please post some pics of inside the unit...the suspended tub has to be a specific degree... otherwise the unit will leak....also, what is the correct amount and where did u get the information from? What weight oil did u use ? | ||
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Post# 1062514 , Reply# 5 3/7/2020 at 00:57 (1,116 days old) by Hoover28 (Oneida NY) |
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Took the back apart. The rubber boot sleeve has turned hard as a rock. It fell apart when I touched it. The pin that pushes it in to high speed has a bit of play in it. Hope this can be fixed, I will try to make a new boot. | ||
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Post# 1062526 , Reply# 6 3/7/2020 at 07:38 (1,116 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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I've had some that were a bit leaky as well, but not enough to make it concerning. Unfortunately like you said it looks like you'll need to retrofit and attach some kind of rubber boot onto the push shaft and shaft bearing. You'll probably have to seal it to both ends using clamps and possibly silicone. Something like this...
amzn.to/2v23CuV... or... CLICK HERE TO GO TO Unimatic1140's LINK on eBay | ||
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Post# 1062541 , Reply# 7 3/7/2020 at 10:50 (1,116 days old) by hoover28 (Oneida NY) |
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ok thank you that's what i was thinking too. have to see what i can come up with. Chris | ||
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Post# 1062561 , Reply# 8 3/7/2020 at 18:23 (1,115 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Yay Robert! | ||
| Post# 1062572 , Reply# 9 3/7/2020 at 20:08 (1,115 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
 Help me out here. Confused about when W'house went from the gearbox to the sheave for spin speed. Quick, go to the POD page and tell me what year that pair is. The one matching those that we got prior to moving in 1957 had the sheave. The double door (inner glass/outer metal very early 50s) before that had the gearbox.
I presumed after they made the change that they never went back. But if the one pictured in OP is 1957, I must be mistaken.
Both arrangements had their weaknesses and both failed in time. The gearbox was replaced when I was 9yo. I rebuilt the sheave drive when I was 14yo, without instructions or supervision. At no time in my electromechanical career, would I have undertaken to rebuild the gearbox. As both performed (roughly) the same function and the sheave was much easier to maintain AND much cheaper to produce than the gearbox, I would have thought once the change was made it would have been permanent. So what DID happen?
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