We had a Westinghouse full size stacking front load washer and dryer new
when my wife and I were married in 1973.
It was a good unit. Caused us very little trouble. Unfortunately, I
listened to someone that I should have been more fortunate to avoid.
(How is that for an odd statement?) Essentially what happened was that
along about 1984 one of the units (dryer maybe) needed some part and I
went to a local supplier looking for the piece. I got the part but was
told that they were obsolete and that parts were very difficult to get.
Then the washer acted up, and since we had a new baby in the house, my
wife decided we were getting a new washer and dryer. I took the washer
apart and found out that it was just full of cobwebs and dust. Cleaned
it with the vacuum cleaner and it ran fine. I sold the stacking setup to
the manager at my bank for her daughter and I understand they had years
of good service from it. I later learned that there was no problem
getting parts and that the fool who told me there was did not know what
he was talking about. He did not work for a place that sold machines so
he was not trying to sell me a new one. I think he just did not know.
RB
On 06/05/2018 8:57 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote:
that front load maytag dryer sounds like the one that went with the
front load "neptune" washer. It was aptly named. neptune sent
Maytag to the bottom of the ocean. All POS all the time. the
opposite of what Maytag was known for.
Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
We went from a GE front loader washer and a Maytag front loader dryer
to an LG top loader washer and a Samsung front loading dryer, both
bottom of the line. The GE was becoming troublesome and I tired of
having to clean out the sump regularly to prevent the “skunky” odor
that would develop from the water than was never cleared out of the
sump. And no, it wasn’t a washing machine that was covered under the
big recall that took place, either. The Maytag dryer was a piece of
crap from the get-go.
The LG washer is great, and handles as much as the front loader did
but much better as far as speed and efficiency. The Samsung dryer
does well, too, but it’s about 3-4 years old and making “rumbling”
noises. I just put a set of rollers in it to discover that they’re
not the problem. That leaves the idler pulley. Grr. But it still
does a great job drying clothes.
And they both play tunes when they’re finished - something none of my
previous appliances did.
-D
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