Do maytag A608 clean just as good as a direct drive Kenmore/Whirlpool ?

[qsd-dan]

And the water came out at the rate of 9 gallons a minute...

 

I poked around YouTube and I don't see any evidence of that. Even the smaller capacity belt drives take up to 3-4 minutes to fill up. 

Maytags stingy one minute spray rinse with only 3 gallons a minute...

I just tested mine and it filled up 19 gallons in 4:28 with water pressure at 59 PSI. That's about 4.8 gallons a minute.


...in only the first spin period Before the deep rinse.

I don't want my fabric softener washed out from the deep rinse.

 

[kenwashesmonday]

The old Whirlpools had a spray rinse in the final spin so you wouldn't see any suds on the clothes caused by the neutral drain.

 

[DADoES]

 
Maybe we had ultra-high water pressure but the 1962 WP could sometimes fill to the low level in less than 75 seconds ... the timer had an oddball 75-second increment mechanism, and it'd pause on the rinse fill until that increment elapsed for the timer to advance for agitation to begin.

 

[qsd-dan]

but the 1962 WP could sometimes fill to the low level in less than 75 seconds 

Here's Seans '63 Whirlpool Imperial. I'm not sure how many gallons it holds but I'm guessing it's somewhere between 16 and 20. It took 3 seconds short of 4 minutes to fill. Seems on par with Maytag.



 

 

 

[ryner1988]

My super capacity DD Whirlpool takes approx. 4 minutes to fill the tub on warm water, probably longer on cold, and about twice that length on hot. If I remember correctly, the Maytag A112 I had took about 3 minutes to fill on warm. Granted, that was a 16 gallon tub.

 

[nmassman44]

One thing one has to remember is that with a Maytag washer the spin speed is 618 rpms and a Whirlpool belt drive was about 515 rpms. I would think that the higher spin speed in the Maytag would drive the water quickly thru the load compared to Whirlpool's slower speed. Plus every sales training book states that each spray rinse in a Whirlpool washer is about 2 quarts each but I would think that would be at high water pressures being delivered to the washer.

I had one Direct drive Kenmore back in the 90's that did to a 1 minute spray rinse in the first spin and 2 short 15 second sprays in the final spin. That washer always rinsed well in my opinion.
The Maytag 510, 613 and the Orbital 9356 washers all did ok rinsing but I found myself doing an extra rinse cycle and that did boost rinsing in the Maytags.
Now my current front loader ...the LG4000 series rinse amazingly well using a series of spin spray rinses and deep rinsing.