Price to be a…~ Lockport eBay Price: 400 $ Product condition: Used See details The great american Made america. They’re not quite the same as the old Maytags and they’re not made in the US, but they’ll get your clothes cleaner, faster, and cheaper than any automatic washing machine ever made. The best news is that brand new wringer washers are still being made today.Normally, gas powered Maytag wringer washers are more expensive than electric powered ones. So, it can only progress as quickly as you can be ready to switch clothes from one to the other.Wringer washer for sale Find the value of an antique Maytag wringer washer by searching through websites, such as Yakaz, AntiqueSearcher and eBay. And with two machines, it requires your personal intervention between functions. Even stacked, because of the vertical space required. It certainly would be more space saving than two machines. I wonder why they didn't maintain their popularity? Price maybe? The length of time it took to do a single load may have been an issue, but whether it was done between two machines or all in one probably wouldn't have made too much difference. They were available into the early 60's I think, from the old advertising I've seen. I wonder sometimes how much it might have had to do with changes in fabric and laundry detergents technology? Simpler fabrics without all the treatments and coatings and blends in fibers may have had an effect on how they absorbed or held dirt? I have no way to compare since I've never had to do a comparison test.īut the one I've always wanted to have was an original Bendix Deluxe front loading model that started you out with DIRTY dry clothes, and finished you up with CLEAN dry clothes - all in the same machine. Many claimed it got clothes cleaner faster than the modern front or top loading automatic. the item shown going through it is already dry! It definitely had its advantages. For the first time in 42 years I finally realize that I'm not alone. Until I stumbled upon this site, I had never heard of anyone else sustaining injuries from these machines. I learned to live with the horrible scars from the skin grafts, and I never get offered when people, especially kids, ask me what happened. Luckily, you can't hold back a little kid and I made a full recovery. I had to get skin grafts on both and was in the hospital for over 3 months. They weren't sure if I would ever be able to use my left hand again. The knuckle just below my left thumb had to be removed because it was crushed. I had third degree burns on the bottom of of my right forearm and on the top of my left hand. When he got home he was able to free my hands from the wringers. So urgent, that he ran out without paying. He got an urgent sense that something was wrong. My grandfather was having coffee at a restaurant a few miles away. It was just me and my grandmother home at the time. So my left hand was on top of my right hand, and they were stuck. I had put something in and it caught my right hand. In 1975, when I was 4 years old, I got both of my hands caught in the electric wringers of our washing machine.
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