A Little Peek at my Frankenstein Super Unimatic

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Here is a little video peak at my Frankenstein Super Unimatic washer that I’m slowly but surely building. It can really stuff this machine as its washing six huge bathsheet towels with the heater going. No low sudsing detergent needed here! Click on the link below to watch. I’ll do more complete videos and descriptions when I start to work on this machine again in a few months. The next two components I want to add is a sensor so the computer can tell if the Unimatic mechanism motor is in the start winding or not, and a sensor to measure incoming the rinse water level to tell the computer when the tub is full. The rinse water level sensor is going to be the same one that is used in the Whirlpool Duet washers.

The video is almost 30mb and its two minutes, 10 seconds long. I seem to be having a problem with the new videos that I’ve made through the lastest version Premier, when I click on the link it only plays 60% of the video, claiming the video is only 1:16 minutes long, when I right click and select Save Target As and download the video and launch it from my desktop, it plays the full version of 2:10 minutes. Is this happening to you guys and gals as well?

http://68.89.57.239/VID/TEMP/Peak_at_SuperUnimatic.mpg
 
I just can't get over how the machines were designed to throw water right into the cabinet. That's amazing. And how cool to be able to see how the water acts during an overflow rinse and subsequent spin. The circle fill is great---it was the only thing I liked about my mid-80's WCI Frigi.

The recirculation is awesome----you are really moving water, there. The obvious analogy is that you've created the Monster Truck of washing machines, Robert!

I didn't time the vid to see if I'm getting the whole thing. The vid stops mid-spin on my computer.
 
Robert

How neat MORE, MORE, MORE, I too had no idea that the cabinet was designed to take the drain water...
 
Robert:

The first time I played it, it stopped at the end of the view of the front of the machine. When I let it complete downloading, it played completely. Looks more like a media player problem than anything else. The vid starts playing before it has completely downloaded and "catches up" to the video too quick. If you know what I mean.
I always thought that all TL machines had an inner tub and and outer tub. This machine just uses the cabinet to hold the water? Just amazing. That spin action was what I have been dying to see for years! I always wondered what it looked like from the inside. Thanks for providing this awesome video.
 
Sweet Jesus Lord Almighty

That spin is beyond description, but the towels want a pusamatic which has no equal. You can do it. Frankenstein a pulsamatic into the unimatic. I'll pay. In a few years I'll be loaded when my TSA matures. My money's going into the best charity in the world: washing machine research and development.

My viewing stopped twice, but I just clicked on the > and it played out fine.

Amazing
 
This is the cool part about strong recirculation...

What are you using for a lint filter?

Here is the interesting part, I'm using Suds to act as a lint filter. Originally I had planned on using a lint filter from a Whirlpool combo, but after playing with the machine a while I realized I didn't need one. Since the recirculation is so very strong anything that floats is overflowed up and out, so as soon as there is a nice thick layer of suds in the outer cabinet, the pet hair and lint float on top of the suds layer and do not make it back into the recirculation. When the cabinet drains through the electric drain pump, it pumps away all the water, suds and whatever schmootz that was sitting on the layer of suds. The port for the recirculation is slightly higher up than the port for the drain pump so any heavier than suds/water grit that does end up in the outer tub sits below the level of the recirculation return hole and only gets into the drain pump hole.

When I'm market this machine I'm going to have a big sticker on it saying "For Best Results use less expensive High Sudsing Detergent Only!!!".
 
Other Videos?

Robert,

Weren't there a couple of previous videos of the Frankenmore? I can't locate them.

MRB
 
FANTASTIC and literally REVEALING! So interesting is your project..can't wait for the next stage..this is MUCH, MUCH better than TV..and much nicer sounds too..I'm a fan!
 
Weren't there a couple of previous videos of the Frankenmore? I can't locate them.

Nope that was my first video of the Super Unimatic. I will add more videos when I work on the machine is a few months. The prewash segment (my 4 Minutes of Magic cycle) is my favorite where the washer blasts the clothes spinning from 1140rpm coasting down to 200rpm with a high concentration of water/detergent from the recirculation pump. That cycle is very splashy and fun to watch/hear.
 
This is such a cool machine to play with - I love that the computer interface allows you to "dial push"until you're heart's content.

And the "filtering through suds" combined with the "sump" for heavier soil & sediment really does work. One of the best cycle for white clothes ever!
 

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