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Lucky to have a washboard

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Is that a gasoline engine washer? Must have been on the back porch, not inside.

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Gasoline Engine -- YES. Frederick Maytag created the company, Lewis took over, and "Bud" Maytag bought up an Airlines called National. I worked with until 1980 when PanAm bought us.

"Those Were The Days My Friend ---"

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They used a flexible steel exhaust pipe that you hung out the window when in use.Same thing with the drain hose.I had and used one.I had the single,pedal start,but they made twins too.

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I have a1928 Maytag to go with my 1928 open cab pickup. I have an idea of creating a "Mobile Wash" as a joke with the Maytag in pickup bed!!!

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The HECK with what he's selling! I want the truck!!! :)
Marshall

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Yes it is.It would have been inside or outside as you could get a exhaust hose with a muffler on the end and put it out thru a hole in the wall to let the exhaust fumes go outside.Most Maytag washers used either a model 92 (single) or model 72 (double) cylinder air cooled engine also made by Maytag

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Great picture Dave.I love those open cab pickups :)

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Lots of people collect the Maytag motors. I guess if you wanted to get the wash done in a hurry you opted for the 2 cylinder.


There will be a few at the Western Antique Power Associates show at Cal Poly next month. Leave you wallet at home or you'll be tempted to buy something VERY heavy.


https://www.wapa.us/index.php

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Were they both two stroke engines as I remember?

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Yes, they were 2 stroke engines. The single cylinder ran more like the hit and miss engines of the day. The 2 cylinder ones ran a little smoother. I have a couple of each.

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I have a vague recollection of my Mom telling me that her brother made a motorcycle or car with one of those motors for power.

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I remember playing out side the back porch where mom was washing with an old Maytag washer. She would throw the flexible exhaust pipe with a big cast iron ball on the end of it out on the ground and when she would let out water from a load of clothes and start another I would be playing in the mud around that muffler and pack mud on it to watch it splatter.

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Washing was done a lot different in the past. Loads of laundry were run through a soap wash and then set aside. The dirty soapy water was dumped and then rinse water added. The laundry was then rinsed in batches. The ringer squeezed the water out. One danger was getting your hair caught in the ringer. I remember what the ringer would do to the rubber dipper covers, blowing them up like a balloon and popping them.

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How about the price. $99 in the depression. That's why i said not many customers

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I collect older small gas engines, I have both the single 92 and the twin 72. All Maytag engines were 2 strokes.

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Run that flex pipe into a old 5 gal oil pai buried in the ground. Then a piece of pipe to take it to daylight. Suprising how quiet they run

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This is a short video that I made when we used to go to the schools to show how things worked in the olden years…an old Maytag that I restored…


https://youtube.com/watch?v=7X4QnBnj...86yEmf8fpbC_c6

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Yep. Right inside the house.

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I had a pail of water outside under the window.I dunked the end of the pipe in it,that worked. Still,the engine itself was noisy so I tried the exact same machine with an electric motor,running off a generator outside.That was quiet inside the house,but the washer didn't do that great of a job.So I tried a round tub Maytag.Night and day difference,the round tub was 10 times the machine the old square tub was.I still have the round tub,it sits on the porch of a little house behind my main house.I use it to wash old sheets and such that I cover things with.