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One of the things I liked about our WP DD machines is that they wouldn't kick out on the start of the spin cycle like the Maytags of the time. Nothing like going down to the basement and finding a load of clothes floating in half a tub full of water when you thought they should be ready for the...

I'll defer to your expertise. I have read claims that too much liquid detergent and too cold water causes problems, but if that's not true, then shame on me. Once the many class-action FL washer suits are settled, maybe it will be clearer to people like me that just want to buy a problem free...

I think the primary goal of hotel/motel laundry with respect to towels is to get them white. Softness is probably way down the list. I'd bet the towels hotels/motels buy are selected for durability/washability first, and everything else later, unless you're lucky enough to stay in a really...

I can sure see how hair would be a potential bad thing with a wringer. Hair was also a problem with stamping machines, before they put the big cage guards in front and had the one-foot and one-hand controls that made sure the operator was far enough away to make sure nothing could get caught...

I spent some time looking at that site a while ago, and it's complete garbage. IMO, of course... Like Consumer Reports, they claim to use scientific methods in their evaluations, but their over-the-top editorializing, their poorly constructed graphs (who makes a graph where the x-axis and...

Manufacturers are setting themselves up for failure if they are assuming that users are going to read the manual, and carefully and loosely drape clothes around the outside of the drum on an HE TL machine, while leaving a hole in the middle. If you don't believe me, go to a laundromat and see...

I don't have one of the GEs, but I see that Whirlpool has a similar device on their higher-line FL machines. It's probably smart on Whirlpool's part, since there seems to be some evidence that using too much liquid detergent and/or fabric softener leads to buildup which leads to mold growth...

I would think that commercial laundry equipment designers don't give a whole lot of credit to the machine operators for treating the equipment correctly. After all, laundry work is really pretty low on the employment totem pole. If there were a machine that could take the dirty laundry from...

Hey, if countertop curiosities work for you that's great. Most of the stuff I've bought over time, like the Presto hotdog electrocuter, the air popcorn popper thing, the thing that was supposed to soft-cook and poach eggs, the George Foreman Quesadilla maker and so on have turned out to be duds...

That's a blast from the past. I remember when the defense contractors like Raytheon and Litton got into the appliance business. If I remember right, Raytheon bought the Amana company to launch consumer microwave ovens, not that they thought they would make big bucks selling refrigeration...

Looks good to me. Is the Hotpoint brand in the UK built by GE as it is in the U.S.? There have been so many popular brand name changes over the last couple of decades that it's hard to tell.

A saucepan and a cheap Ecko steamer basket that can be found in any grocery store sundry aisle works as well as any dedicated veggie steamer machine IMO, except for the dedicated Japanese rice cooker machines, and even then, you can make steamed rice just fine in a saucepan with a lid and a...

Sure, airplane engines fail very, very rarely, but airline transit is by far the safest mode of transportation - much better than cars, buses, railroad and so on. It's no fun going to modern airports and suffering all the scheduling and security indignities, but the odds of meeting your maker...

That's one of the great thing about the internet. Many years ago (before the interwebs) we had an old Maytag dryer (coppertone, don't remember the model number) where the drum was suspended from a spindle assembly in the back of the machine - similar to how the modern front load washers work...

Thanks, everyone for the good advice. I appreciate it.

LOL, the corn is too busy being harvested and sold for $7.50/bushel to have any time to listen! Not that anyone would ever consider Leon a tourist destination, but it is pretty country with rolling hills, a Mennonite population, and so on - plenty of tourist traps have been built with less...

Next thing you know they'll be selling a pressure washer wand and a set of clips like they have at the carwash for your floormats...

I'm think about buying a particular used washer. It would have to travel about 250 miles to reach me, from Central IL to Central IA. Who do you folks use to ship something like that? What's a reasonable cost? What do you ask the seller to do to prep for shipment? Put on a skid, block the...

Multi-family and commercial buildings are a little different story - multiple dryers feeding into a plenum, longer runs to daylight and so on. Those vent systems tend to be designed by mechanical engineers that know what they're doing, taking static pressure and code requirements into account...

What does it sound like when it's running? Dryers are pretty simple machines. Look at and listen to the drum support rollers, glides, idler pulley, etc. Local parts houses should have anything you might need.