5 Pairs of Jeans in a Unimatic?

[westytoploader]

I was reading the old posts from 2000 on the Classicappliances2 site (back in the day before I joined...LOL), and Robert posted a message about how he could fit 5 pairs of jeans in his Frigidaire WCI-58. He said he started the wash and came back later to find them rolling over well in the 8 lb. capacity tub (or is it 10?).

That is truly amazing. I am hard-pressed to fit 5 pairs of jeans in the Maytag with the Power-Fin, and its tub is rated at 16-18 pounds. Even less with the LoadSensor (DA clone) if you can believe that. The standard-capacity '82 Roto-Swirl Kenmore can take 4 but no more, although it washes them well and they do move. Puts less of a strain on it as well.

I think it's time to re-invent the pulsating wash action!! The clear winner for working capacity is obvious here!

 

[gansky1]

Unimatic: 9lb

I put three pair of my jeans and three pair of my son's jeans in the 58 unimatic the other day and they washed beautifully. The final spin was a little dramatic at first, but it found it's balance and finished just fine. We weighed out exactly nine pounds of mixed cottons for the WO-65 once and it washed & rinsed everthing perfectly - with no tangling. The unimatics, as with all solid tub Frigidaires, usually worked best with a full-to-capacity load. Ideal turnover isn't racing quickly up and down the tub, it's a slow, steady rolling that gives all of the load ample time at the bottom of the tub so the pulse of the water action can do the cleaning - forcing water in and out of the fabrics. "Live Water Action". If turnover is too fast, you will have a ropy, twisted string of clothes by the end of the cycle. The only good thing about that is you can take the entire load out only having to reach into the machine once!

 

[gyrafoam]

It is true the old solid-tub Frigidaires do better with a really full load. I won't do that though, as the rubber agitator parts are too hard to find and mine are showing the tiny hairline fractures of age!

 

[jetcone]

HohHAH

Gyro those hairline fractures are everywhere its all surface cracking. The only real damage I've seen to pulsators is sharp belts cutting the edge then you have a problem.

Load it up and pulse away! When at Roberts and he is upstairs tending to Gladys I constantly overload his machines,I pack the tub and his machines never balk!

Nice Description Greg now I am laundry torn today between my sleek gleaming Philco Bendix and my 1967 Jet Cone,, oh the pain the pain................

jet

 

[re563]

My Mom had bought her first Whirlpool washer in '59. When I came along (and a couple years later when I stated paying attention to the washer), she always washed 5 pairs of jeans in one load. Later in '72 when she got a new Whirlpool washer (both we standard capacity--which I never understood since there were 6 of us kids) It was still 5 pairs of jeans for a load. Both machines always handled them very well. The down side to all of this is that when It came to washing sheets, she would not allow more than 2 sheets, 2 pillow cases, 2 T-shirts and 2 mens breifs in a load--never understood that.

 

[kenmore1978]

loading

That sounds like one of the "typical" loads the instruction manual probably used for an example.