A Better Lint Filtering System In SQ TL Washers
Hi Barry, the new SQ TL washers will have neutral drain and will leave a lot less lint and crap in the clothing.
I don't know how anybody can look a a neutral drain TL perforated basket and think that all the dirty just drains THROUGH the clothing, LOOK at what is actually happening, the clothing is suspended in the water as the drain starts, the water level goes down slightly faster in the outer tub. 90% of the washer is leaving through the side holes of the wash basket carrying lint and dirt with it. { this system is not perfect, but far better than the alternative ]
Same washer spin drain: everything starts spinning, clothes are heavier that water, clothes get pushed to the sides of the wash basket from centrifugal force, over 1/2 of all dirty water is forced under pressure THROUGH your clean clothing forcing your CLEAN clothing to become a gaint lint and grit filter.
This phenomenon has been proved again and again, every manufacturer that ever built Spin Drain TL Perforated Basket machines had problems with lint redisposing and streaking of clean clothing, you can read in the service manuals and see the things they did to the design of the machines to try to minimize this affect. [ you can read the thread hear about the guy in Pennsylvania with his linting problems that they had when his WP built DD washer stopped neutral draining, and how he solved the problem ]
Fact; every TL washer manufacturer who had a machine that was capable of doing a ND DID SO, the only reason SD washers were ever built is because they were CHEAPER to build as they did not have to do another complicated function. [ every TL washer built World Wide will soon be Neutral Drain 98.9% are ND now ]
Hi John, Suds-Savers where the water was stored in a separate tub really worked very well and made a lot of sense.
First since you would almost always start with HOT water you want it to cool somewhat for the next load or two, and having the water sit in the laundry tub for 20 minutes or longer really let the heavy soil settle in the bottom of the sink [ anyone that has ever used a SS can tell you that you always end rinsing this soil down the drain between every load.
Also the better WP-KM SS washers that had the great Self-Cleaning lint filters trapped a lot of lint during the wash and rinse parts of the cycle and automatically pumped this lint down the rinse drain hose, so it did not SAVE the lint.
These are great improvements on using the water over and over in a WW, people that had these WP. KM, SS washers really loved them, which is part of the reason that WP-KM sold more than 90% of all the SS automatic washers ever sold. In the neighborhood I live in literally almost every house had a KM SS washer when I was a kid, and one neighbor after another was really upset when they eventually had to replace these washers and could not get another SS washer.
I think that most other manufactures only built and sold SS washers because Kenmore and Whirlpool forced them to because many customers wanted this feature.
When buying a new KM washer say in 1968, paying the $10 for the SS option saved enough money in the 8-12 years the washer was likley to last in a family of four essentially gave you a FREE AUTOMATIC washer compared to your poor neighbor with a Non-SS washer [ imagine if there was a $100 option on a new car in 1968 that saved enough money to pay you back the complete cost of owning the car, EVERYONE and their brother would have bought that $100 option. As with many thrifty educated people things like SS washers helped many consumers to become more wealthy than their neighbors.
John L.
