design 2000 whirlpool washing machine serial number

They lived up to the vision of Whirlpool Engineers of being US designed and Union Built in Ohio. The DD washers went on to be the most produced, reliable, easiest to service, longest lasting and best performing traditional Top Load AWs ever in North America. The DD washers accomplished all this and more after just a few problems, the biggest of which was the cost saving idea of having a spin drain and taming the aggressive agitation with different agitators and wash speed options.

WP knew that a more modern, better performing, more reliable less expensive to build and easier to service AW washer would have to be built if they were to continue to be the largest builder of AWs in the North America.

The project was referred to as LEAP I forget what it meant. I know about searspartsdirect, but I'd like to see the machine as a whole to really appreciate it's design.Īs a WP authorized Servicer in the 70s we often heard rumors that WP was working on a heavily redesigned washer, we know that it was ongoing by the early 70s. I recently saw a court document about Whirlpool's initial invention and troubles of the dual action agitator in 1972, and it popped the questions of When did Whirlpool (or Sears) designers initially conceive and start designing the direct drive system, behind the scenes? And what design configurations did they originally come up with before building the prototypes? Or is this all unknown? If anybody has any information they'd like to share, feel free to, I'm very curious about this.Īnybody have pictures of any 1980-1982 Whirlpool/Kenmore direct drive rear motor washers they'd like to post here? Maybe even a video? I'd love to know how the spin drain transmission sounds on those at the start of the drain cycle. I've been wondering this for a while now, and I couldn't remember the password for my old account on here, so I had to create a new one to post this.

Design 2000 whirlpool washing machine serial number