Overview Of The Vintage Kenmore Belt Drive! + Quick Test 

@@grnappliance7297 Thanks!

Yep, belt drives have always had SOUNDS. Sounds of their own that no other machine can hold a candle to!

@@SaturnMist09 There's more to come!

@@erg844 You got that right!

@@lizboz When I was 8 years old I would stand next to my mother's Kenmore direct drive washer and dance to it. It was music to my ears.

@erg844 Same here. Sometimes I would stand and listen through the whole thing if I didn't have anything else going on!

​@@lizboz in other words it sings like The Jackson Five

@@christophermurray3825 Har har!

@@MatthewJames-st5wv You'll find one soon enough. Depending on what it needs, you should have other collectors who sell parts to source from for a long time.

@@MatthewJames-st5wv the only parts you’ll need is a bearing & seal kit, a spare pump, wig wag assembly & plungers, tub seal, a few other odds and ends. Belt drives actually are more reliable since there isn’t the pesky neutral drain pack that can fail.

@@maxyang-y2p They'll be coming shortly!

@@billyisthegamemaster6880 This one was made in 1983. They didn't make these in the 90s.

Thanks for the info.

@@lizboz believe it also has the comb type of lint filter under the inner tub. Unfortunately, self cleaning lint filters don’t work all that well, seems like a manual clean filter works better since it filters out everything.

@seana806 Those self-cleaning filters seem to be good for only one thing; rust promoters. Depending on how you use the machine, if you only ever wash in cold, only liquid detergent, maybe even RIDONCULOUS amounts of fabric softener per load, and never run cleaner through it, you'll get more of that buildup over time.

@@lizboz despite the marketing, detergents don’t work that well in cold water. Doesn’t allow them to work at their fullest potential, will lead to dissatisfactory results. This is why I usually wash mainly with warm water, usually rinse in warm but since the ambient temperature of the cold water has been warmer with the heat waves, been rinsing in cold. Not very often I rinse or wash in cold, but usually is done in the warmer months. As soon as it cools down in the fall and winter, will either be a hot or warm wash, followed by a warm rinse. As for fabric softener, don’t really use very much especially with towels since it will not allow them to be very absorbent. If you get a tub ring from a donor machine with the manual clean lint filter, just have to remove the rubber plug from the third port, run a vinyl hose to the lint filter and you’ll be in business.

@seana806 That's why machines had warm rinses back in the days. They actually cared about you keeping your washer running for as long as was possible. Not today. I hear it squawked time and again from these washing machine warriors that you shouldn't use fabric softener because it will gunk up your machine. For crying out loud, do what you want and be done with it. Run the occasional maintenance cleaner cycles through it (once a month is best) and you'll be fine. That's good to know that the waterfall is easy to source and install on these. That might be a future modification for this machine that I'll put in the cards.