Availability of Hose Hook for “push-in”-style Drain Hose on GE Top-Loader(?)

[wishywashy]

Good Afternoon Washer-Volk,

I have a US-made GE 7.5kg Top-Loader (Model No. WISR106CT5WW) that employs a somewhat unusual type of drain-hose, in so far as the end of the hose - being slightly tapered in shape - pushes into a rubber orifice at the back of the machine, and is held in place by a bespoke little plastic flexi-clip that grips a little groove in the hose near it‘s end, and is screwed to the back of the machine on either side of the hose.

This contrasts with the more typical arrangement used with most other brands whereby a rubber cuff on the end of the drain-hose pushes over a short plastic outlet pipe that protrudes from the base of the machine, and is held in place by a hose-clamp that is tightened around the cuff.

Here’s a photo of the end of the GE’s drain-hose that pushes into the rubber orifice at the back of the machine, so that you can see for yourself that it is totally incompatible with the drain-hoses that are used on virtually any other brand. The whole end is plastic - ie. that's not a rubber cuff at the end...

 

[wishywashy]

Unfortunately, the outlet-end of the GE’s hose is also unusual, in that it achieves the required curve-over into the Laundry Tub by employing sizeable concertina-type folds just in the region of the outlet end, rather than by using a greater number of smaller non-concertina’ing corrugations, of the size and type found along the whole length of almost all other brands of drain-hose. For the remainder of the GE’s hose away from the outlet-end, it too uses such smaller corrugations.

The following photo of the outlet end of the GE’s hose should give you some idea of what I am talking about:

 

[wishywashy]

I suppose the concertina-type folds are intended to endow the GE hose with a certain amount of “shape-fixity” (for want of a better term) when it is bent, but they effectively fail to adequately do so to the degree that is necessary to reliably prevent the hose-end from jumping back out of the Laundry Tub when pumping begins. With that long, slender beak at its very end, it’s obviously fine in situations where the Laundry Tub has a dedicated washing-machine bypass-type drain-hole, but it is otherwise in drastic need of a “Hose Hook” when used with older-style Laundry Tubs that don’t have such a “bypass” orifice.

Unfortunately, however, GE don’t appear to produce a Hose Hook for this hose. And what’s more, the large diameter of the aforementioned concertina-folds (approx. 41mm) near the end of the hose, seem to be far too big to fit into most of the hose-hooks that I’ve come across in my assorted tinkerings…

May I nonetheless enquire, however, whether any of you fellow GE-Owners have stumbled across a hose-hook from another brand that seems to work well with the type of GE hose in question?

Many Thanks,
WishyWashy