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I'm not sure what would have caused that, unless the sweater was REALLY fragile. The Delicate cycle on these machines doesn't even fully agitate. It fills, then pulses the agitator each direction with about a second between each pulse, and the oscillations can't be any more than a 45 degree arc...

I love old appliance designs just as much as I love new. The KitchenAid Superba washing machine we had growing up is still one of my favorite washer designs, and I'd give anything to find a well-kept Lady Kenmore/Whirlpool BD. The Maytag RR dishwashers and the WP PowerClean are still the...

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If I can add my two cents, with all respect, that load was with a FULL bowl of oatmeal that had been prepared and then left on the counter for hours to dry up. I've done the same in the 2001 PowerClean that is sitting in the closet on the other side of the wall I'm typing from, and the same...

The float switch has nothing to with fill levels at all really. Even in my PowerClean with a new inlet valve and our excellent water pressure, the water never reached high enough to cause the float switch to click, but it was plenty for the pump to hum along with never a surging or choking...

At least Whirlpool's design doesn't sound like a dying bread machine and the agitator isn't about to flop off.

Surprisingly, the video of the larger machine with the true dual action thrashed in the spin the least of all the other machines I've seen. But yes, otherwise it looks like the upper half of the agitator is about to fly off in these machines. And that cheese grater looking paddle setup on the...

And this, right here, is why I rarely come to this site anymore, and is possibly the reason there are so few good members who still offer logic and intelligence. Now it's become a gathering of old crotchety "Queens" that are grouchy because we can't (nor should we) use 50 gallons a cycle to wash...

I may stand corrected. Now that I'm looking at pictures, I think it was actually the handle-cover that disappeared because for a time we had to use a coat hanger to pull the lint filter out, then when my parents bought a replacement lint filter, they got the one designed for a Whirlpool that was...

I believe all Whirlpool built dryers with the lint filter at the back/top are now built designed with the handle integrated also as a cover. They've been doing this since at least the early 2000s if I'm not mistaken. We actually had a Kenmore dryer for almost my entire childhood that had that...

They did the same thing to the last model DD's that GE did to their lower end models before the HydroWave platform came out. At least with the Whirlpool designed machines, you can adjust the hidden water level switch, and there is enough agitation time that you can get a decent deep rinse with...

You can't compare today's HE top-loaders to anything that called itself "HE" or had an impeller back in the 90's. Those machines, much like the small portable washers made by Haier like we had to use when we were in Australia last year. They can't even be considered the same type of machine. The...

I completely understand your feelings Bruce. While I can't speak from experience because I've never owned or really gotten to use a front loader (except from the nasty ones the few times I've had to go to a laundromat), I can certainly see front loaders being the most gentle on fabrics of all...

Uh oh. Here we go... *braces for impact*

Isn't this model stainless? https://www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin/ajmadison/MDB9750AWB.html

I also just grabbed about a minute of the load of towels washing at the moment, to try out the upload function on the iOS YouTube app. Here you'll see that pesky thimbleful of water that is somehow up 3/4 of the tub, and there is *absolutely* no rollover. The items you see blooming and rolling...

It's funny; this mention that the machine "doesn't clean, doesn't rinse, is hard on clothes, uses a cup of water". Apparently I missed the memo somewhere. In two years owning and using a HE top loader, I've not had a hair of damage done to any clothing. There are towels I own that came from my...

Also, here's a video of a much smaller load, though what would have amounted to a medium-large load in the 3.4 cu.ft tub of the Whirlpool agitator machine. This is using the Colors/Towels cycle, which I don't use often because the pretreat and wash portions are much shorter, but the machine is...

Started just using my phone to record the videos, rather than the GoPro, because the phone doesn't distort the view with that weird fisheye look the way the GoPro does even with distortion correction turned on (which is why in some of the previous videos, it looks like there's a 1-mile gap...

Also, from what I've seen of this machine through FaceTiming lately with the grandmother who owns this machine (after requesting that she try the option and show me how it works, despite us both knowing it's a waste of water), it seems to do just fine with a full load on the deep water setting...