A17CM Maytag washer

This video has been assembled, using Mac's Imovie software, from a collection of preexisting one-minute videos which were originally created with a 15 fps Pentax Optio S4 camera in August 2004. The washer pictured here is a top-loading Maytag model A17CM that was located on the grounds of Roxbury Holiness Camp from the late 1970's through the year of 2010. I must add that the earlier-model Maytag clothes washers like the one shown here have, from my early childhood years, been my most favorite type of washer because of their style and because of their pleasant-sounding agitation rhythm, which is the main reason why I have put an especially high emphasis on showing this washer's agitation cycle. I must also add that these washers have been durable and long-lasting because of the simplicity and the ruggedness of their mechanical components. Down below the tub in the bottom of the washer's enclosure, an electrically reversible half-horsepower motor drives, via belt connection, the water pump and the large center pulley which drives the tub and the agitator transmission. Spinning in one direction during the agitation cycle, the motor drives only the agitator transmission while at the same time spinning the water pump in reverse so that it can't pump out the water. Spinning in the other direction during the spin cycle, the motor drives only the tub while at the same time spinning the water pump in its forward motion so that it then pumps out the water as the transmission spins freely on the tub's drive shaft. Water filtration during the agitation cycle is accomplished via rhythmic pumping action generated by the agitator's oscillation which pulls water downward through the lint filter that fits into the top of the agitator --- unlike present-day models in which the washer's water exhaust pump also circulates the water through the washer's self-cleaning lint filter.

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[JSneaker]

THIS is the REAL Maytag agitation that had the best oscillating action for fantastic washing turnover. I had a new horrible one with the fast jerky agitation that couldn't even wash well and not able to pump all the water out! I got rid of it fast at a huge loss and bought a great Kenmore I had for 15 years!