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Laundramatt, thanks for the details. Interesting about the passive soak rinses. Some years ago when I was experimenting with hand-powered washing methods, I found that a "passive overflow rinse" could be done by putting a load in a tilted container in the bathtub, and letting water trickle in...

Very interesting mechanism! A word of caution about those mercury switches. Check them to be sure all the mercury is in the glass bulb and it doesn't have any cracks or breakage. If you have a broken mercury switch, you have a more-or-less invisible toxic hazard to clean up and that should be...

Careful about caffeine intake, it can actually cause problems of that type. Some people have what's known as a "paradoxical reaction," e.g. Mrboilwash above. Re. that intermediate state: it's known as the "hypnagogic state." For some people (including me) it consists primarily of *very*...

Agitator w/ no window: Nothing quite so Freudian; probably a way of differentiating the product and attracting more attention to the disc model. And dealing with the user's curiosity about how this new contraption actually works. Now if the disc model uses half the water of the agitator...

Interesting points, Laundramatt; warm then hot = a kind of early profile wash. And yet if one wanted to, one could rinse in the second tub instead of the sink. I was thinking the standard routine with (single-tub) wringers was: 1) Agitated wash, then empty the tub while wringing out, and put...

That's quite a find there! Okay, dumb questions dep't: I think I see the water temp control doesn't have a Cold setting, is that correct? Is it continually variable between Warm and Hot, or are those two distinct settings? Are the water level controls etc. under the lid electrical? and if so...

Mickeyd, where'd you get the Spanish info about the controls? I couldn't find the manual in the manuals list on the site. Okay, now there's two of us who want to get one of these imported. Any others? Note, I wonder about having some Mexican appliance dealer ship them directly over here? Or...

Tongs, platters, and the microwave eh? Nothing like nuking out the dirt, for whiter whites than boiling on the stove!

Sudsmaster, clearly you don't need my or anyone else's permission to post your opinions. BTW, an Amazon review does not make for having read the book (it's merely another opinion about the book), and if it's peer-reviewed papers you want, there are plenty in the bibliography. But you're welcome...

No duty on the first $400 of goods, and 10% thereafter. As for UL etc., that may be so, but we don't know they are or aren't approved; and in any case, "personal use" might be an exemption. Now the question is, what's the status of someone who goes across the border, buys a small truckload of...

...and yet...! 20 years from now, this poor ol' GE will be considered a classic by some, one of the last large TLs, with a few quaint quirks to be sure but cool no less. I'm sure some of the machines presently considered classics came in for their share of criticism when they were new, Consumer...

So, uh, not to go asking indelicate questions or anything... but what was it that was causing the nasty smells in the Siemens...? The picture isn't clear; was that a dead mouse or some kind of poo in the drum...? And what did you finally do to clean it up and make it usable? And how many...

Nah, just the American tendency toward bigger-is-better, which works up to a point. I suppose the next size up from Canyon would be called an Oceanic:-) Here's another speculation on what they might mean by "reverse rollover." Perhaps if the water level is just right (i.e. less water than a...

It sounds complicated but would have become "muscle memory" quickly enough and gotten easier to keep track of. Given the rinse cycles by hand in sink tubs, I wonder how thorough that would have been. Did any of these machines have overflow drain lines, so rinses of multiple loads could have...

That's cool, never saw one like it before. What do the controls do, and how are they labeled? Seems to me this would have had a lift-off lid like a wringer; is that so, or was it designed to be used with an open tub? I'm thinking it might be possible to bolt it to a round 1" thick plywood...

Windows: Sounds like someone at Sears is hanging out here:-) Or they saw the trend in Mexico & Brazil and thought it would be cool to do here. Something on the website referred to "reverse rollover action." Does that mean up in the center and down at the circumference of the tub? How does it...

Norgeman: I can't see what's on your link there; requries some kind of account to log in. If you're responding to the part of this thread about getting the Easy imported to the US: The key here is we need to find someone in this group who's bilingual English/Spanish, who can do email & phone...

the7, thanks; and good observations on your part also, about the indentation in the door serving as a second paddle, and about load distribution going into spin. Re. safety interlocks: they're designed to prevent small kids and idiots from Darwinizing themselves. As for the rest of us, common...

Ah, but look in the animated parts of the web site on the home page for example, and you see interior views of the auto washtubs. Those drums and agitators do not look like GE. Meanwhile, anyone up for a trip to Mexico to bring back a few...?

Re. air bubble: probably not, it looks like it's made from concentric short cylindrical shapes stuck together in one molding. So air could easily escape, and water could escape also though more slowly so as not to splash.