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Dumb questions OK, going to spring the question: what is AMP an acronym for? Automatic Maytag what? And another: why did their first design have that close double tub bolted together like that? Seems like it would fill with sand and debris over time and get nasty. And those exposed...

Cabbage and stewed tomatoes When funds were low I used to braise a head of green cabbage (chopped into 1-2” pieces) with canned stewed tomatoes, especially when stewed tomatoes were on sale. I added canned drained kidney beans for protein. If I had a lemon, some lemon juice brightened it up...

I want to see Pix of the SQ FL behind the turq dryer. I’ve see two videos of that prior generation SQ FL. Malcolm’s and someone else’s. I like the spray rinse. The other video was a simply amazing total suds lock that it cleared out with spray in a matter of seconds. I’m very happy with my...

Try Using Regular, Eco dry, Near Dry. On the 9 series, that is. Yields the result I want every time. Never overdries and doesn’t get too hot either. For sheets I use Dry. For jeans I use Less Dry. No complaints. I have two of them, both gas, and both perform identically. Heavy Duty...

Tide scent I guess I don’t remember what the Original Tide scent was, and I’m curious when it changed, and what the difference is. Maybe I’m an old man or Zicam fried my olfactories but I don’t think laundry detergents have even the smallest fraction of the scent they used to have. When I was...

FWIW In front load washers anyway, the amount of body oil and antiperspirant in clothes can vastly affect the amount of suds. New clothes seem to have a finishing chemical that kills suds the first time they are washed. The Persil 2in1 requires a larger dose than the Original. The Odor...

What do people think about Woolite? Oh, why not start a new opinion thread. It’s been awhile. My experience has been that clothes such as knits emerge from a Woolite wash with less fading than from Cheer or other detergents such as Dreft, and there’s a marked difference, with much more fading...

It’s great But it has a different scent than the signature scent in Original and 2in1 Stain. I prefer the signature scent but nonetheless I use the odor version for sweaty stuff and it is fantastic.

Why not use Vinegar and a Mr Clean Magic Eraser Pad?

Inflation $370 in 1959 is $3150 today! Even a pair of TOL SQs don’t cost that much today. I tend to think those heavy cabinets, porcelain, chrome and backlighting were just a freebie of the times, but consumers had to pay for those frills. No wonder why people got so excited about a new...

Don’t you wish You could hear the sounds of those cash registers again? And the Muzak in the air. And the ringing, rattling sounds of those steel grocery carts. And the noisy cooler cases. And the overwhelming cacophony of scents in the detergent aisle. I always wonder: have they...

Don’t you wish You could hear the sounds of those cash registers again? And the Muzak in the air. And the ringing, rattling sounds of those steel grocery carts. And the noisy cooler cases. And the overwhelming cacophony of scents in the detergent aisle. I always wonder: have they...

Yes That makes sense. Then again, a slow spin speed never stopped Whirlpool belt drives from sudslocking. Although I think they were so prone to sudslock because the spray spins were too short. A good long continuous 1 minute spray like Maytag and GE worked better at clearing a potential...

I stopped buying Niagra starch some time ago. It was bought out, first by Phoenix Brands and then by Faultless. They changed the formula. It does not make the iron glide like it used to. More importantly, it scorches. Spray a white collar, iron it dry, and it turns yellow or brown, depending...

The answer re no blankets I have two of these machines, residential models. They are the best washers I have ever had and I love them. BUT they can get unbalanced with a load of blankets or big bath towels. Not often, but rarely they will mysteriously fail to abort an unbalanced spin and the...

I have two TOL 9 series SQ gas dryers And they are just fine. They do not get very hot and they do not overdry either. They can cause you to think they are going to overdry. I have opened the door and thought the towels were dry and yet the dash would say it had say 26 or 29 minutes to go...

Googled it. Hit a 1966 newspaper ad for it, price $399.95. Per the online inflation calculator, in today’s dollars that was a $3000.00 machine. Imagine that!! Do any club members have one? If so, photos, stories about how found, and comments please!

And I was probably doing it all wrong the whole time. I was putting it in the wash water. I’ve gotten the impression from vintage Norge ads that the idea was to put it in the rinse water. Whatever. The Culligan man came here for a visit 20 years ago and I’d never be without a water softener now.

Ohhhhh, that’s right I forgot all about that. I always looked for and picked the boxes with the P code. And, now I remember: that’s why I stopped using Calgon. After the P formula was no longer available, the no phosphate formula didn’t seem to be effective, so I thought this stuff is...

And come to think of it At the same time I was using washing soda and borax too. Again, once I stopped using those things, tub seal failures and rust spots stopped happening.