16:26 i expected the spin to work like the frigidare 1-18 machines in which it speeds up slower and shifts to a higher speed after a while edit: it does shift to a higher speed; i just didn't expect it to get going that fast
In todays products companies build products with something called planned obsolescence. This is the practice of making things break after a certain time so companies can keep selling newer and newer models to maximize profits. BUT Americans decided to do away with regulations that stopped that sort of thing because regulations are bad.
Let’s see today’s garbage have that type of roll over action. Personally I’d take that machine over anything built today . Speed Queen still builds good ones .
Which was the Whirlpool model that would buzz loud and flip the lid open when it was done? We had the model, it was made in the late 50s, but cannot figure out which one it was.
Oh my God I have never seen anything like that in my whole life. That is one machine for sure you keep the lid closed during the wash cycle.It's insane!
I have a new LG washer and dryer just a few years old now, and have already had issues with them. Even some of the lettering on the front that shows the cycles, that I’ve never even touched, has started to come off. Meanwhile my parents’ Whirlpool washer that they had from around the early 90’s only just recently had to be replaced. Man do I hate the “throw-away” society we’re in today. You can buy things that are good quality today, but it’s an expensive niche market with brands like Wolf and Sub-Zero, where you can pay over $400 just for a toaster.
NEW GE top-loaders are a shame compared to this! If you happen to own one (I do) go ahead, watch it agitate. No deep cleaning at all! Yours pulls those towels down and back around every 15 seconds. Whereas new ones, can't do that once in 30 minutes!
I remember my parents having this type of Frigidaire washer, my mom loved it as my dad was a trucker and his uniforms got filthy with grease and stuff. When it got to the point of the tub rusting to the point of leakage, they went to replace it. Mom was upset when the salesman at the appliance store said that Frigidaire did not make them like this anymore. He officially said that they did not make them due to the noise they made, unofficially he told us that GM owned Frigidaire back then, but had since been sold off. GM actually had the patent for the transmission that made the "whomp whomp whomp" center section, and the deal of the sale did not include the rights for it. So, Frigidaire became the boring "twisty" center section that everyone else had.
I'm sorry but this is just too cool. Back when they put fluorescent bulbs in it just because. And you could rip your arm off in the spin cycle if you wanted to.
