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Jetcone: I think I know where the discrepency is between what you see and what I see. I was washing a large load of cottons in my Huebsch and watched the water metre out of curiousity, that's how I came up with that number. I remembered it and used it as a worst case scenario. So, running...

Juilian, Seems to me like the AFN50F/AFN50R would be very good for modding. However, I'm sure that most of the things that AW'ers would want done would be far beyond the scope of my knowledge and ability to do. (i.e. Things like recirculating spray and a water heater.) Setting the...

Tom, You said, >You did not factor in the energy used to heat the water which is a huge cost for some and which would have been far greater with the GE than your FL. While I'm certainly in agreement in regards to this, I deliberately left it out, only because I thought that the difference...

One small comment.. I honestly like the look of the chrome ring myself. It seems to indicate to me that the control panel would be a much more easily swappable unit, should any of the membrane buttons wear through.

KB0NES: I like the piano hinge design. It looks sturdy. My own washer has it. It serves its purpose well and does exactly what it is supposed to do. :-) Bud: I don't know, but I do wonder if they use the same pressure switch as what they use in their older washers. It probably wasn't designed...

Stepping back a bit, regarding the OP's original topic... So, we've kind of established that the cost savings between an older water hogging non-HE machine and a modern HE machine are somewhat negligible. Basically, the difference is the cost of a fast food meal per year, if that. Now I have...

Jetcone, I'm a little late replying, but I thought I should clarify... > So your GE uses 47 gallons per wash and its an HE machine? Actually no, it was a conventional top loading machine. Also, that was total water usage with one wash and one rinse with additional spray rinses. > And the...

I think a lot of these spin sploding problems could be solved with some decent amounts of engineering. Maybe I don't see the whole picture but: 1. They could use a steel outer tub with foam cushions on the cabinet so it could absorb the impact of the outer tub smacking into the cabinet. 2...

So, which model is newer? The completely flat control panel or the one with the chrome ring? Glad to see someone uploaded a video of the washing action.. First thing I noticed is that it is considerably more finicky when it comes to balancing the load, doing these short low speed spins to pin...

Math... Doing some math... Water where I live is $1.7175 per 1 m3 (1000 Litres) of water. My 2004 GE TL used 180L of water per load, my Huebsch uses 83L of water per load. Thereby the cost of water per load is $0.309 and $0.143 respectively. A box of Tide 60-load 2.3 kg laundry detergent...

I noticed one has the energy star badge and the other one doesn't. It could have been removed by the end user...

The agitators on this design always seemed kind of wierd to me, especially considering the style of wash action they had. It was almost as if they were going to design an agitator for a conventional rotation and then some other engineer said, "Nah, we'll just get it to move around in circles."...

Found this on youtube... Not sure how many of you have watched it.. Not sure how geniune this is.. but note how the salesman slams Whirlpool and Maytag. Your thoughts? http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFBwnbxYbJ4

The GTW680BSJWS looks like a Samsung or an LG. The GTW460ASJWW .. Looks like it has an agipeller with an dual-action auger? I wonder if either one of these use a washing action like the new Whirlpool agipeller machines, where they lock the agipeller to the tub and then spin the tub back and...

I love hearing about these "New In Box" stories. I always find it kind of mindblowing that someone would spend that much on a machine and then never use it!

I honestly don't know. I never recall ever having to remove the lint filter. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't even have one.

Man, a set of Speed Queen Imperials would look amazing in that room. http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/usappliance_2270_509836843

If my memory serves me right, my GE washer did about 180 strokes/minute on the normal cycle. One thing that bothered me about it was that the agitator stroke was quite short, only just a few inches.. maybe about 10 degrees? In comparison, the Whirlpool I had before that had a much longer...

I'm a fan of the ramped GE agitators. I like how the clothing turns over and moves. Never was fond of the dual action auger/straight vane agitators GE used. While the dual action auger/straight vane agitator did work somewhat to force clothing to turn over, I found it was prone to ripping...

Washing clothing is dependent on a few different things: - Time duration and harshness of mechanical washing action - Water Temperature - Water Volume - Chemical Action If you can imagine, a pie chart with all of these factors which come into play. Since HE machines use less water and colder...