Calypso Jeans Load

[DADoES]

I've been wanting to run a load in a machine the garage, haven't had opportunity. Last night I had a bit of time, and 9 pairs of jeans and a few other cotton/darks items (OK, underwear. Not tighty-whities for those concerned about the "dark" part.). I did some yard work yesterday afternoon, so one of the jeans had muddy/dirty knees. I tossed the whole bundle into the Calypso, which filled it to the edge of the basket, per the User Guide loading guidelines. Tide HE. Downy Advanced. Jeans/Darks cycle, Ex Heavy soil level. Being as there's no accessible hot water tap in the garage, I carried a 5 gal bucket from the house.

The load definitely got washed. Lots of showering/splashing and bouncing/bumping. But the knees did not come clean. Well, one side was OK, but the other looked hardly touched.

Also, the softener siphoned out prematurely into the wash water. I added more detergent to compensate. I refilled the dispenser toward the end of the wash period, and it slowly drained again, mostly into the first rinse.  :-|

A pair of casual shorts got hung over the wash dome, but came loose when the final spin accelerated to maximum. The load was balanced surprisingly well for spin.

I dried half the load in the DE906. It didn't dry completely, coming out a little better than what I'd consider damp-dry.

Rest of the load in the F&P dryer was fine.

The jeans with the dirty knees, I ran again in the F&P, at Normal+ soil level with Ariel. It was clean. I should have run them again in the Calypso, solo.

Sorry, didn't take any pics.

 

[gansky1]

Even though the washing and drying were a bit of a disappointment, you had a good time?

I never had any problem with the knees of jeans not getting clean in the Collapso, but I usually don't wash jeans all in one load.

 

[DADoES]

Oh sure! The Calypso is lotsa fun. True, there was virtually no rollover with that large load, even with all the bouncing. Jeans/Darks cycle runs a medium nutate speed (250 BPM?) as compared to Heavy Duty at 300 BPM.

 

[appnut]

Glad ya had fun Glenn!!!!!!

 

[whirlcool]

Thanks for contributing this report. This is the first time I have ever heard of what a wash is like in a Calypso!

 

[DADoES]

^^^ If you'd come over here you could see it!

Anyways, Leslie advises that the Heavy Duty cycle (of course!) would have done better on the dirty knees. Jeans/Darks cycle takes steps to minimize fading of dark dyes and is a less aggressive wash action.

 

[westytoploader]

9 pairs, wow! But that wide drum will take every single one of them, and it will probably give a tremendous amount of splashing!

I wonder how much of an improvement on stain-removal power the faster nutation would have?

 

[DADoES]

Is that underwear in your pocket?

Ran another jeans load last night. 7 pairs. On Heavy Duty cycle, but Light soil level. Also included a few underwear. There were no muddy/dirty knees involved so they came out OK.

I loaded them like Robert did his Unimatic for the jeans test. Each pair dropped in a bundle, the seven pairs evenly spaced around the wash dome. Again, there was plenty bouncing and CCW rotation, but no appreciable rollover. Maybe there isn't supposed to be rollover?

Somehow, one pair of underwear ended up IN the right-front pocket of a pair of jeans. Not partially in/out -- fully, completely stuffed IN the pocket. Which of course they were NOT in there when the load started.

Kinda wild!

 

[washoholic]

Glenn, that’s a very interesting story. I’ll bet it’ll never happen again in a million years.

 

[gansky1]

But the burning question is: Were the underwear clean??