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FL wash cycle vs total cycle On the 1:08 "Custom" cycle, no options selected, in my Miele W4840, the wash time is around half an hour, assuming no water heating delay. I've seen it vary somewhat, and other owners might even report a different total cycle time due to some kind of adaptation...

Horizontal vs. tilted axis My opinion is also personal, and, like yours, derived from my own observations. I believe the shallow pool of water at the bottom is there to get the clothes wet, not to wash them directly. But you've got Speed Queen, or at least their marketing department, on your...

Random quotes from LG: "Tilted Drum and Extra Large Door Opening: Tilted drum and extra large opening make it possible to load and unload clothing more easily." "The ultra-large stainless steel drum offers extreme durability and is tilted to improve efficiency and allow easier access for...

mysteryclock's link Wow, that really diminishes my respect for Speed Queen, or at least their marketing department. In a tilted-tub machine, only the clothes in the back are being actively washed??? Come on, the entire load is soaked, hopefully, so it's all exposed to detergent etc., and it's...

centrifugal force PassatDoc, centrifugal force varies proportionally to the radius, not the square of the radius. Look at it this way: The basic formula for centripetal force is (m * v**2) / r where v is the velocity along the circle, and r is the radius. For a constant RPM, v varies...

US gov't energy "mandates" aren't mandator I just found the link below, which confirms what I've been suspecting: US-market washers' increasingly parsimonious water and energy usage is because of tax credits, not government mandate. Plenty of buyers would probably be willing to shell out an...

Comforter size If an over stuffed king size comforter fits into the SQ, then our comforters, which are really nothing special, must be "ultra stuffed" or something like that. We can fit a full-size comforter into our Miele W4840, whose "US Department of Energy" volume is a little bigger than...

Here's the manual for the home SQ front-loaders. Longest wash cycle appears to be just 24 minutes, with no way to extend it. Temperature boost is only up to 140F, and (based on what an SQ dealer told me a few months ago) the heater is only used for boosted hot temp, not to maintain temperature...

For The First Time From Me... People say the manufacturers aren't at fault for making crippled machines (water-wise and internal heater-wise) for the US market, because the government made them do it. But in the US we have something called "lobbying", where you pay someone to influence...