@@petermaz701 Thanks Pete. I want to get somebody in here who can check out this machine for me. If there's anything that needs to be done to it, will get it done if the Lord is willing.
Great video Pat, Bye Whirlpool thanks for the few walks down memory lane, You brought back a lot of good memories for me and I appreciate that!!! Have a great day Pat.... Bob
@@maryrobert80 You're very welcome. It'll be back. I just want to make sure or get some idea of how much life this thing may have in. I don't want this thing spilling its guts all over my floor and having a flood.
Look at that turnover! No modern washer today, save one of the transmission driven Speed Queens could wash as well as a Whirlpool Belt-Drive machine. I wish Whirlpool would go back to making these again. I would buy one in a heartbeat. The woo-woo sound is soooo soothing to listen to.
If a car could be compared to a washer, then this would be like a Cadillac from the same era with a large displacement V8. Very quiet, smooth and beautiful.
@@MatthewJames-st5wv I think at some point this thing was serviced in those years because of the appliance repair number on the machine. Maybe it was rebuilt ? It certainly sounds like it was.
Yay! a full load. Cleaning is via the items sloshing at the agitator fins, primarily the bottom fins, not the rollover per se. Rollover is to get all of the items through the lower zone, which happens numerous times during this 14-min wash period. It's nowhere near overloaded as some would fear, could take another towel or two or a few more small items with ease.
@@DADoESofTX Agreed! This is a machine that can wash to full capacity! That was a great agitator Whirlpool used for nearly 40 years in various revisions.
@@LlyleHunter As good as the direct drives are, I think I want another belt drive. The wash action of a belt drive is just soo much more "busier"... don't know how to word it... I missed this kind of wash action.
This 1985 Whirlpool Belt Drive Super Capacity Washer with the Double Duty Super Surgilator with wings handled this full load beautifully! No Dual Action Agitator needed! My Speed Queen TC5 with the Curved Flex Vane Agitator has similar washing action and capacity! The Dual Action Agitator is not necessary!
@@robertgwisdala5795 Yes I bought a Speed Queen AWN432 back in early 2013 because it sounded like a belt drive and had the Surgilator looking agitator. Was a great machine. Even Speed Queen knew that was a great agitator and emulated it. The Speed Queen 'flex vain' reminded me of a combination of Maytag power fin and Whirlpool surgilator.
One thing I’ve learned on AW along with the experience with my Whirlpool, always use the highest quality of detergent like Tide powdered. Lower end detergents both powdered and liquid tend to gunk up the center post and outer tub surfaces and as we all know, it’ll hold in moisture which will rot out the center post or outer tub. Hopefully the repairs I’ve made to the timer are successful and they should be since the timer worked on regular and gentle earlier this summer, but wasn’t wanting to engage into the spin on the Wash N Wear cycle. Even studied to see if the contacts open and close at the various times they are supposed to. If everything goes well, they will be more videos than you can imagine, even pre-recorded lots of videos of my Maytag A806 this summer and plan on recording more sometime next week.
@@patcola7335 Hopefully everything works as intended, though I don’t want to get my hopes up too much incase it doesn’t end up working after all. May want to study the contacts again just to be sure.
Very true indeed. Another contributing factor tends to be people always shut the lid after use which traps in moisture. I don't even think about it anymore. The lid is always opened after each cycle.
I can’t believe that my Speed Queen front loader is going on twenty years this year and that my Electrolux is almost now eleven years old. Keeping my fingers crossed but so far everything is going well with both. I had to buy a new range a few months ago.
Believe it or not after years of driving General Electrics exclusively, I found a very nice Frigidaire smoothtop with just the right features, threw it in the back of my truck and hooked it up in minutes. Not only does it work beautifully but it’s one of the prettiest ranges I’ve ever seen. I keep the light on in the range hood at night and I can’t get over how pretty it is when I go into the kitchen to refill my ice tea at night.
This washer just does amazingly well even with that large load. Nothing could be said about how smoothly this works.
@@petermaz701 Thanks Pete. I want to get somebody in here who can check out this machine for me. If there's anything that needs to be done to it, will get it done if the Lord is willing.
Great video Pat, Bye Whirlpool thanks for the few walks down memory lane, You brought back a lot of good memories for me and I appreciate that!!! Have a great day Pat.... Bob
@@maryrobert80 You're very welcome. It'll be back. I just want to make sure or get some idea of how much life this thing may have in. I don't want this thing spilling its guts all over my floor and having a flood.
Look at that turnover! No modern washer today, save one of the transmission driven Speed Queens could wash as well as a Whirlpool Belt-Drive machine. I wish Whirlpool would go back to making these again. I would buy one in a heartbeat. The woo-woo sound is soooo soothing to listen to.
If a car could be compared to a washer, then this would be like a Cadillac from the same era with a large displacement V8. Very quiet, smooth and beautiful.
@@Celeron_619 That's a great analogy ! It really is a crying shame we can't just go to an appliance store and buy one of these today.
39 years of flawless operation
@@MatthewJames-st5wv I think at some point this thing was serviced in those years because of the appliance repair number on the machine. Maybe it was rebuilt ? It certainly sounds like it was.
@@patcola7335 yeah that makes sense. I’m just glad you were able to find this gem
Yay! a full load. Cleaning is via the items sloshing at the agitator fins, primarily the bottom fins, not the rollover per se. Rollover is to get all of the items through the lower zone, which happens numerous times during this 14-min wash period. It's nowhere near overloaded as some would fear, could take another towel or two or a few more small items with ease.
@@DADoESofTX Agreed! This is a machine that can wash to full capacity! That was a great agitator Whirlpool used for nearly 40 years in various revisions.
Gosh these machines were so smooth. They were so nice to listen to.
@@LlyleHunter As good as the direct drives are, I think I want another belt drive. The wash action of a belt drive is just soo much more "busier"... don't know how to word it... I missed this kind of wash action.
This 1985 Whirlpool Belt Drive Super Capacity Washer with the Double Duty Super Surgilator with wings handled this full load beautifully! No Dual Action Agitator needed!
My Speed Queen TC5 with the Curved Flex Vane Agitator has similar washing action and capacity! The Dual Action Agitator is not necessary!
@@robertgwisdala5795 Yes I bought a Speed Queen AWN432 back in early 2013 because it sounded like a belt drive and had the Surgilator looking agitator. Was a great machine. Even Speed Queen knew that was a great agitator and emulated it. The Speed Queen 'flex vain' reminded me of a combination of Maytag power fin and Whirlpool surgilator.
God bless you!
You also Jerome !
@@patcola7335 What will be your next washer?
@@jeromedavis8575 Either the KitchenAid or the Whirlpool Gold for now. Honestly I would like to find another belt drive, but by another maker.
@@patcola7335 If you found a GE model T, would you film it?
One thing I’ve learned on AW along with the experience with my Whirlpool, always use the highest quality of detergent like Tide powdered. Lower end detergents both powdered and liquid tend to gunk up the center post and outer tub surfaces and as we all know, it’ll hold in moisture which will rot out the center post or outer tub. Hopefully the repairs I’ve made to the timer are successful and they should be since the timer worked on regular and gentle earlier this summer, but wasn’t wanting to engage into the spin on the Wash N Wear cycle. Even studied to see if the contacts open and close at the various times they are supposed to. If everything goes well, they will be more videos than you can imagine, even pre-recorded lots of videos of my Maytag A806 this summer and plan on recording more sometime next week.
Looking forward to that. Sean !
@@patcola7335 Hopefully everything works as intended, though I don’t want to get my hopes up too much incase it doesn’t end up working after all. May want to study the contacts again just to be sure.
Very true indeed. Another contributing factor tends to be people always shut the lid after use which traps in moisture. I don't even think about it anymore. The lid is always opened after each cycle.
I can’t believe that my Speed Queen front loader is going on twenty years this year and that my Electrolux is almost now eleven years old.
Keeping my fingers crossed but so far everything is going well with both. I had to buy a new range a few months ago.
@@LlyleHunter That's a blessing right there Bruce ! What kind of range did you get?
Believe it or not after years of driving General Electrics exclusively, I found a very nice Frigidaire smoothtop with just the right features, threw it in the back of my truck and hooked it up in minutes. Not only does it work beautifully but it’s one of the prettiest ranges I’ve ever seen. I keep the light on in the range hood at night and I can’t get over how pretty it is when I go into the kitchen to refill my ice tea at night.
Water temp?
I think warm cold