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John wasn't the seven minute sheet drying also because they were spun in their Unimatic washer?

It was a delayed bleach injection system, not timed.

This is similar to one we saw in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.

When used to walk through side streets off 41 in Sarasota, I would dream of having a job in retirement of doing laundry for a small motel.

I would think that if a house had room for two combos, it would be able to accommodate a washer and dryer pair which would allow faster throughput.

I found a nice LK Combo in the basement of a big downtown church in DC. It was amazing the wealth of churches back then. They stopped using it because it developed a leak. Jeff and I and maybe our friend Phil went down and got it. I gave the church a contribution for it. All of the gay kids...

I was only referencing the 50s Norges to show their early relationship with Calgon.

I'm not surprised. Norge started offering the Dispenser wheel that sat on top of the agitator to dispense Calgon in the mid 50s. The next year it was replaced by the Burp-o-Lator agitator-mounted lint filter. Then when the Dispensomat washer was introduced, there was a special compartment for...

I remember reading about a section of SF where the terrible smell of the clogged sewers comes up through the street. All of the toilets on the line were low flow and the main sewer lines were half full of "sludge." I would bet that my sewer line is clear because of the amount of laundry I wash...

Have you checked the filter screen? If it is heavily coated with food soil, water flow through the pump will be restricted and the pump will not draw enough current to heat up the bi-metal spring to release the dispenser cover.

Many homes in the South did not have basements so machines were installed on wooden floors. A hole was drilled through the joists and the machine anchored through the joists to a steel plate under the joists. This could cause some wild movements of cabinets when the spin started. I remember a...

Thanks for posting. Decades ago, after a Washington Post article about our appliance collection, we were called by the son of a recently deceased woman in Arlington, VA who was a German war bride. The house was a museum of carefully used household goods with many of the small electrics stored in...

The interesting thing about Calgon, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Na6P6O18 is that unlike the other Sodium Phosphates, a 1% solution has a pH of of 6.8 which places it below the neutrality of 7 and makes it better for dealing with Calcium hardness than Magnesium hardness. The solutions are not...

Calgon is chemically known as Sodium Hexametaphosphate. If you search Sodium Hexametaphosphate on Amazon, you will find several suppliers. It was never cheap and it is even more expensive now.