The Very First General Electric Automatic Washer - Full Cycle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ธ.ค. 2022
- Here is a complete cycle of my 1947 General Electric Automatic Washer model AW6A2. This is the very first automatic washer GE ever produced. It is a fascinating machine. It features:
- The very first and very effective self-cleaning lint filter system,
- Detergent dispenser that dispenses during the wash cycle even if you select a pre-soak,
- 1140rpm spin leaving clothes very dry,
- Direct drive transmission and motor combined and sealed in oil bath
- Automatically saves rinse water in outer tub to be pumped back up and used in next wash load if you wish or you can empty the outer tub before starting the next load for a fresh fill of wash water. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
This had to have been designed by some WW2 Air craft engineers. The spin is just unbelievable. Great restoration. The water reuse I think was designed to save heating cost and laundry soap. Water and sewer was so cheap back then. Thank you.
no it wasn't, $5 back then is a lot more today
This is a very interesting machine, I've been eyeing your collection for years hoping that one day some of your machines would get a video, and this is one of those machines. Your collection is definitely something to be proud of.
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I completely agree. I'd love to see the inner workings in action.
The design of water level sensors, self-cleaning lint filter and rinse water recycling system is GENIUS!
The ability to save the rinse water for the wash water for the next wash cycle is so obvious and clever and water efficient. I wonder who designed this machine: it's like they asked housewives what features they wanted and actually listened.
Biggest problem is the government regulations that force the companies to do their bidding first before the Women. To be fair though, this is what Women voted for to begin with anyways so plenty of inefficient machines on the market exist today that also contribute to a ton more e-waste than the older machines did.
I think the wash water never stopped when the water filled up
These videos confirm that we actually aren't making "progress" in many situations; we came from "progress."
We have made progress .these modern washers r taking back down ther no good don’t last
@@sebertstover2788 That's what the person who wrote that comment just said. We started with progress and then regressed very rapidly by the beginning of the 21st shitty miserable century where money making is the only thing that matters and nothing else.
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Washers today are expensive garbage
And to think that older machines were way more exciting to use than today’s junk
It's amazing how ahead of its time this washer is. The spin speed is truly amazing. Finally, we notice that we haven't invented anything fabulous since those beautiful days. I had found in 2015 in England an American washing machine (with a little regret Whirlpool but equipped with a classic agitator) to use it in France and its spin speed does not exceed 710 rpm! The washer you show is really great. You have done a very high quality restoration job. Cheer !
Wow this machine must of really been the cat's whisker back in it's day... Great video and great job restoring it!!!
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What a beautiful restoration, looks like it performed very well, a bit overloaded, but did a great job.
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That is a solid-looking machine! I bet that weighs almost as much as a stone cathedral. Stuff used to be built to last!
Hey Robert! As you know, wringer washers are my thing, but admittedly, this is a VERY cool automatic! Great video!
Is that the machine were you have to wring your clothes out with the connected rollers if so I love that machine does he have any good videos with that type washer 😍
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Wow, 1140 rpm! They don't build them tough enough to do that anymore. Great post! Cheers.
You mean *WhirlPoop* doesn't build tin-can trash-loaders to do that anymore. Thankfully, LG still knows how to innovate and not just keep cost-cutting a 63 year old design.
You misspelled Whirlpool.
Ge invented the self-cleaning lint-filter in 1947!
that's cool
Wow!!! This spin has the Frigidaire spin beat!!!. I'm highly impressed with this machine.. Nice vid 👍👍
Like the design of the early GE agitators. This machine just looks high quality.
What did you think of the wash action? God bless you.
@@jeromedavis8575 It was a little overloaded. These have good wash action though. Very advanced for its time overall.
@@patcola7335 What was the agitation arc? I understand that they later ramped it up to 100spm.
@@jeromedavis8575 I think GE changed the speed when the first ramp activators came out and that was about 1961. Ask Robert.
@@patcola7335 I'll ask.
Really cool machine way ahead of its time! Cool feature of saving the water! Beautiful restoration! Thats a Labor of Love!
Thanks for the great video, Robert. I enjoyed the close-ups of the timers advancing too. I remember watching this awesome machine at the last wash-in of yours I attended. Happy Holidays!
I love how the owner of this channel, Robert, was featured on tlc's show "My crazy obsession"
Excellent restoration.
Great video and a Great machine, thanks for posting
None of today’s machines will ever be as good as any of these machines in your laundry room
Wow Love That Old Washer It Spins Really Good For An Old Machine Great Video Bro 😊
Robert is it posssible you could do a full run of the 1947 Frigidaire Unimatic ? I'm sure many people would love to see Frigidaire's first washer and how it performed
I am d e s p e r a t e to own one of those. That white drum is spectacular, everything about all the Unimatics is to be honest. There's just something about the 1940's machines that is so heavenly however. And the 50's machines too. Both decades of American automatics are truly something to behold.
@@CBF1 I think the first unimatic is unique because as you say that white perforated tub and it is very bowl-shaped. What I didn't notice on that tub is the deep lip that the later unimatics had that kept the clothes from escaping the tub during spin. They didn't use a wire clothes guard like a lot of other manufacturers, but the very design of the tub itself kept that from happening. How cool is that !
@@patcola7335 Simple really, but more solid at the same time. All I know is that I want to be informed when another 1947 Unimatic is found. I literally n e e d one, as do I every single Unimatic and Pulsamatic out there. In any nice colour to be honest. The 1940's and the 1950's had some of the best freaking colours in appliance history.
@@CBF1 I hope one turns up for you. I'm in the U.S. and if I see one for sale or find one you will get first dibs. While they are really cool machines, I'm more partial to the old belt driven Whirlpool/Kenmore machines.
@@patcola7335 So do I despite how insanely rare they are. Robert's and another one without it's original drum are the only 2 that I have so far seen on the internet.
In 2022 I did see a 1949 Maytag AMP appear for sale. I didn't claim it though that is on my list. I can say that Whirlpools are on my list as well, specifically the 1956/57 Kenmore model which Robert also owns(his is in 1950's light pink), a late 70's/early 80's Whirlpool belt-driven portable like the one Pete Maz had which he recently sold on Ebay, a Direct Drive portable from the 90's which Pete Maz also once had but sold years ago, and a few others probably as well. All them 1940's - 1960's American automatics are the damn best in architectural style. My Hoovermatic 3174 isn't far behind but England was ravaged by World War 2 so badly it didn't really get much of any automatics until the 1960's/1970's. At least it really begun to expand in the 1970's in the UK.
i think the lint screen spray flush is technically a spray rinse because the water flies out of the lint screens and into the wash basket
Totally ahead of it's time.
I am surprised it is as early as 1947. Your restoration work is superb! Previously, the oldest, fully automatic I have seen demonstrated in a video was a top loader too, 1952 (if I remember correctly) and it had a center agitator jumping up and down. 1947 was before enzymes, but I guess washing powders were commonly available. With soaking and long main cycle, powders do very well in these machines too. I am totally fascinated ;- )
The 1952 washing machine brand and model with that agitator bouncing up and down was Frigidaire Unimatic with
model number WO-65-2.
@@Dog-Lover36 It is interesting to see all the various technology they developed early on. Some even turn up in machines today; like impellers or those flat agitators, pumps running water over the clothes, etc...
This is just amazing. Thank you for posting. I love the explanation at about the 4 minute point about how it knows the water level. Great technology of the time. Also the water saving feature with the water in the outer tub getting used for the next wash. So far ahead of its time. I am old. When I was 5-8 years old my Mom had a GE automatic washer that they had probably bought new in 1953. It was in a wash shed, away from the house. She would light the water heater out there (steel tank, no insulation) and then use the washing machine. I spent hundreds of hours leaning over watching it agitate and then spin. I can still visualize the start of the spin when the water was cone shaped as it left the center of the tub and moved outwards. There was also a "water saver" pushbutton on the top right of the console that I pushed hundreds of times, just to break the monotony I guess. We did not have a dryer so the clothes would go to the clothesline. The washer only lasted until 1960 or so when the motor burned up. Knowing what I now know about ohms law, I am sure the voltage drop on the wiring form the main house to the wash shed was enough to limit the life of the motor. Thanks for posting. I love your collection and in particular GE machines. I worked as a test engineer for GE after retiring from the Air Force. Good company that went to crap once they quit making their own appliances.
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2:30 the filling solenoid sounds like a modern washer's drain pump
That because the machine fills into the outer tub and the electric recirculation pump forces the water into the spin basket through the lint-filter screens at the top of the wash basket.
i have been watching your videos since i was 9 or 10 years old. now im 23 ;D
these days, i don't only watch washing machine videos, i also watch various other kinds of videos, mainly theme park videos since they interest me
That's great and glad you enjoy my videos. When I was 9 or 10 years old (1972) I could only dream of having something like the internet/TH-cam to see washing machine videos. The only thing we had was tv and magazine ads. With TV ads there was no way to record them (other than audio tape cassette recorder) and you had to catch them by chance. I used to write away to the washing machine companies and ask them to send me brochures at that age! I would come home from school and hope I had a package of brochures in the mail!
@@automaticwasher it Would Be Better If You Upload Some New Video
Fantastic!❤
A great machine
I noticed you've rearranged the machines. The 56 Hotpoint is in a different place. What happened to the 59 Philco dryer that goes with the washer and the Philco front loader?
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GE designing a self cleaning lint filter, a direct drive transmission, and water saving capability. Why that thought has been discontinued doesn't make sense🤔
In 1948 Cary Grant & Myrna Loy appeared in GE print ads promoting this washer. It was a promotional campaign in conjunction with their film " Mr. Blanding's Builds His Dream House". The house was fitted with the latest GE appliances. Also a contest was held where houses like the one in the movie could be won and built for the winners. I think about 75 got homes built across the U.S.
What an awesome machine. It must have been expensive when new relative to what people earned.
For a very early Automatic top loader this is VERY impressive in that the inner rotating drum is a sealed type meaning that the outer tub doesn't have to fill as well to fill the machine so saving a lot of water. Also the hot water can be used again for another load.
The now obsolete British Hotpoint top loading Automatic (first introduced in 1964 .... models 1504; 15690) inner rotating drum is not sealed (it's like a Colander) so the outer drum has to fill with water too. This makes automation easier. Suds saving is not possible.
Small load (up to 4 lbs dry weight of Cottons) ..... used 8 UK gallons of hot water
Medium load (4 - 7 lbs dry weight of Cottons) ..... used 12 UK gallons of hot water
Large load (7 - 10 lbs dry weight of Cottons) ..... used 16 UK gallons of hot water
I remember the gas boiler in my parents' kitchen coming on half way through the Hotpoint's hot fill !!
After the maximum 12 minute wash there were two rinses meaning that, for a full load, 48 UK gallons of water were used.
Spin speed at first introduction was 850 RPM increased to 1050 RPM after a few years.
Why can’t we have nice things anymore?
I suppose that the layout of the FilterFlow allowed for increasingly larger capacities but this was a much more advanced machine. It’s a shame they didn’t stick with the format and develop the concept.
Why would you want this machine it doesn't even have a cold water option. What do you want your clothes to shrink?
@@commanderinchiefv1nce141 Clothes do not shrink in the washer, it's the dryer heat that causes clothes to shrink. Hot water at 140 from the water heater is lowered to less than 120 after it hits the cooler clothes and cold metal of the wash tub.
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wait i recognize the house werent these two guys feature on my weird obsessions on tcl one guy like old toasters and one liles washers and i belive every one is hooked up to.
I sure like that old washer I only like old washers I like to see more videos if you could do it on all of your washers
Hi Robert, great video this is a wonderful machine. Happy holidays to you. Brett
Oh wow!! A 1947 G.E. and still working. This is fantastic!! What year did the first g.e. filter flo come out?
70's i believe
General Electric introduced the first Filter-Flo washer during 1957. The first model came out with Mini-Basket during 1963.
I believe 1955.
That was just like a grandmother’s washing machine.
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I noticed that the waher to the right of this machine is a Frigidaire. Which model is it and could you make a video of it sometime plesae?
I just notied that the model to the LEFT is a Unimatic. I was talking about the portable to the RIGHT. I confused myself.
The machines to the left and right are both Unimatics. On the left is the very first Frigidaire washer from 1947 model WJ-60, the one on the right is a 1950 Frigidaire model WO-65. To see pictures check out this post: www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?87358
@@automaticwasher I damn want the WJ-60... Pity that they are so incredibly rare. It would be nice to have the 1947 GE as well, aren't they a bit less rare? I remember you owned 2 AW6's and that one appeared in Australia.
In the event that I do find a WJ60 with it's SPECTACULAR original white holed drum, the amount of videos I'll make out of it, well it'll be a big amount!
What does the pre-soak cycle do?
That thing ain't joshin' when it's spinnin'!
Frigidaire washers, the old ones have always been my favorite washers. That rapid dry is Awesome!!!. Hate that they stopped that. Don't know why either. A bad idea to me
WOW, this is a verry amazing machine! and 1140 rpm spin ! realy futuristic for this time ! what was the cost to buy one ?
$349.75, very expensive for 1947
@@automaticwasher Crazy !! that in compairement of today around 4000$ !! the same amount we pay in Swizzerland or germany for a washer... long time to safe money for a family to buy one, or they rentbuy it...
this machine's self-cleaning lint filter system works very well for its time. i wonder why they switched to having the filter manually cleaned and on top of the agitator on most of their filter flo machines, with the system changing back on their last model in 1995 before they started making the "chug-chug" machines the following year
I'm guessing they went to manual clean filter for those on a septic system or have long runs to the street for sewer. Lint and hair do not bode well on septic systems.
General Electric actually
made the last Filter-Flo
washer and matching
dryer during 1994.
@@muziklvr7776 oooh
It's a thing of beauty but I'm confused as to the exact process it uses to rid itself of the water that goes down below to start agitation and then on to the cork float area and so forth,, how does it remove that water ??
The cup that catches the water and lowers down to start agitation has a small hole in it to drain the water out of the cup, when the drain pump starts the water level drops down below the top of the agitator so the water flowing to the cup stops and the cup rises up stopping agitation. At least I think that is what you are asking?
@@robertseger6454 Thanks but what I was asking is where does that water go and how...
@@robertseger6454 How aggressive is the agitation? What was GE's selling point when it came to cleaning performance?
@@robertseger6454 When did GE change the speed and stroke of the agitation? Why did they do this? The longest I remember was when they did the 100spm agitation. That's the first GE I've had.
@@jeromedavis8575 1961 was when GE changed to the shorter stroke faster agitation speed. This is when they introduced their perforated basket design.
How did this machine handle lint after the filter flush?
It pumps it down the drain, the lint comes off in many separate tiny pieces so it wouldn't clog the drains, unlike the later Whirlpool/Kenmore self-cleaning filter that spits out one big clump of lint all at once and sends it down the drain. The Whirlpool design was much more likely to clog the drains than the earlier GE design.
Thanks. That explains why the flush is done at full speed.
How fast does this thing spin?
1140rpm! 1947-1950 GE washers as well as 1947-1958 Frigidaire Washers spun at 1140rpm, much faster than other top loaders.
I can´t believe what they have done to us, the consumers.
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This would have been a VERY expensive machine in 1947.
It's a fabulous washing machine it's overloaded though clothes need to move freely.......
Very nice but can you please do a video of the white front loader washer in action with a load in it?
Not sure what Medium Wash Temperature means, though
that feature could mean Extra Warm for dark loads.
It provides water at a temp between tap hot and 100 warm, probably 110°-115°
@@automaticwasher How does the soak cycle work?
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1140rpm speed is also From unimatic
As far as I and other washer collectors know, Pre-1951 GE's and all Unimatics are the only top loaders to ever go at such a speed and they are the fastest spinning top loaders in history. Only that the Unimatics are less rare... Pre-1951 GE's? Extremely hard to find as far as I know. Robert is very lucky to own 2 of the 1140rpm-spinning GE's...
Hot wash ( rinse is warm ) with 10 minutes
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Those clothes are hardly moving in the water at all, especially on the surface. I can't see how it would be a very effective washer compared to a front loader
It's a bit overloaded. Would be fine with a few less clothes.
Interesting. Been watching the channel for about 5 years and wanted to see this particular machine in operation. The spin speed was faster than I expected. It's also interesting that it holds the rinse water. It seems to stay balanced better during the final spin. How fast is the spin speed?
It is 1140rpm, the only two top loaders to ever reach that high of a spin speed was 1947-1950 GE washers and 1947-1958 Frigidaire Unimatic washers.
Thanks, thats what I was thinking. My Grandmother had a Frigidaire RollerMatic with Rapid Dry. Im kinda young to remeber the specifics of that machine but I can remeber how it would shift into its higher speeds during its final speed. These vintage machines are fun to watch.
@@automaticwasher What is the agitation arc?
I was curious about the soak cycle. Since you can adjust the wash time from 3-20 minutes. Once the machine fillled, would it agitate for three minutes and sit until you advanced the timer manually to wash?
@@andrewclarke3622 I'm curious about the soak cycle too.
Pretty close to 200 G-Force
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Not bad.
It sounds like a truck motor
This washer is great for pets too.
Well, not for pets that can be washed, but it will remove the pet hair on the chothes.
Next time, you should do a soak cycle.
13:37 the drain pump saying "WWAATTEERR!!"
As an autist6ic kid I had and still do have a fascination with washing machines.
Same here. I have been passionate about washing machines since I was 3 and people say I'm autistic. I'm honestly unsure about whether I am autistic to be honest.
This is a machine. The mothern machines are crap.
You made a typo. The
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I can't tell you how much I miss analog knob controls