Did any vintage Maytag washers offer an extra rinse option?

[maytaga806]

Hello all I just wanted to ask a quick question, I’m looking to find a new washer and dryer soon, and of course not new but new to me used. I’ve always been very interested in the older mid to late 80s Maytags with the blue powerful agitator, but I always wondered if they ever made a model of any kind with an extra rinse button or option? Yes of course I’m sure I can just turn the dial to rinse but if I’m doing other things and not standing watching my washer for an entire cycle it’s more convenient to have a button that takes care of it for you and I have a feeling I’ve seen a few models with an extra rinse button before but maybe it was something else of another type of option.

If I can’t find any Maytags then I’ll have to resort to SQ models which are already extremely rare to find used. After having direct drive models my whole life (which I love them and will still keep mine) besides an intrusion by a cabrio that wasn’t my decision to get, I’m ready to own something different that I’ve not had or been around much before like the older Maytags and SQ models or the newer SQ models and just want to see if anyone has any recommendations and if the extra rinse was ever a thing with Maytag back in the days. It just doesn’t seem local used appliance stores ever have these older ones all they usually ever have are direct drives.

 

[qsd-dan]

Extra rinse wasn't an option until the mid 1990's, right around the time Maytag dropped their full minute spray rinse that was SOP for decades.

 

[super32]

As I recall, Maytag was late in the second rinse game. If I remember right, it was offered on the electronic control stacks in the mid to late 80's. It didn't hit the regular full sized/separate models until 1990. Even then it was only offered on the upper end models. It wasn't until the mid 90's that it became a bit more mainstream.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Maytag owner's manuals used to suggest using the Permanent Press Cycle to get extra rinsing, at the unmentioned expense of diminished water extraction between wash and rinse. Maytag was not interested in offering such options. With their attitude against keeping current with what other manufacturers were offering, it is not hard to see why Maytag wound up like they did.

 

[rp2813]

Stating this as a former owner of a '97Amana (SQ clone) top loader, I think a Maytag of the vintage you're seeking will rinse better with one long spray rinse and deep rinse than a SQ with an extra rinse.

 

[bradfordwhite]

WOW

Learn something new everyday.

So the MT all push button 900 models did not offer extra rinse and if I remember right there were only two water levels and they were timed fills.

Kenmore was offering second rinse back in the 60s

I wonder about Frigidaire and Whirlpool. I know WP had models with extra rinse in the 70s

 

[appnut]

As for Frigidaire, they offered a 2nd rinse option button for the first time on their Custom Imperial Model for 1965 and did so for all Custom Imperial Models through the 1/18 series. The MT900 all-pushbutton models had a rinse & spin button that could be used as a 2nd rinse atfter the primary cycle as complete. The TOL mechanical Dependable Care (such ass the match to my former LDE9824 dryer--which would have been the LAT9824) offered 2nd rinse after the first rinse on the regular cycle only. The last generation of the Depndable Care models offerend 2nd rinse option on all major cycles. As did their NorgeTag (can we say Atlantis) models too.

 

[bradfordwhite]

The 900 looked so cool but..... not user friendly unfortunately.

After it was canceled in the early 70s, did anything replace it?

 

[appnut]

The 806 simple became the TOL. No other one-button, rapid advance timer washer replaced it. I think Maytag finally realized how constrictive the 90X models were.

 

[DADoES]

 
The pushbutton models were not timed fill.  Original version has a single pressure switch with a solenoid to engage the lower level.  An revision changed to separate pressure switches for full and partial.

 

[bradfordwhite]

Thanks for that Glenn. Pressure switch is certainly better than timed.

I was under the impression there was some adjustment on the back of the control panel for adjusting the time to fill based on the water pressure.

 

[wayupnorth]

Maytag may have not offered it but the Bendix Economat had a second rinse built into the timer dial. You would have to advance the timer to skip the 2nd. rinse.

 

[appnut]

Many early automatics had double rinses as defult in the timer.

 

[tomturbomatic]

So did the early Frigidaires. It seems strange to watch the machine go through rinses with no overflow water spraying in, but it did give better rinsing than the single overflow and that is because unlike agitator washers which moved the water back and forth and from side to side, Frigidaire washers tended to move the water vertically. After the first overflow at the end of the wash in a Frigidaire, the water under the fill inlet is markedly cooler, if a cold rinse were selected, that it will be elsewhere in the tub. While you are adding water and diluting detergent and flushing out lint, you are not getting a super great full tub mixing of water overflow rinse like in a Norge or Speed Queen.