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

[combo52]

How many pairs of dirty jeans washed?

Hi Ken, the thread was about a super capacity Maytag so it’s always good to list what you’re talking about. The jean size is a good idea as well.

So we’re down to 7 1/2 gallons of water still a huge amount of water

My jeans are smaller I wear a 32,34, my partner wears 34,36.

An older belt drive 18 gallon standard capacity tub whirlpool with easily wash six pairs of your jeans.

A dual action agitator super capacity direct drive machine will easily wash 8 to 10 pairs of the larger jeans we’re talking about.

My three year old Speed Queen frontload machine will still easily do 10 pairs of even the larger jeans you’re talking about in a load, they will be double washed and triple rinsed for around 2 gallons per pair of jeans and be much cleaner and better rinsed.

John

 

[kenwashesmonday]

If you're wearing Wrangler jeans, an 18 gallon Maytag tub will wash 6 of them without breaking a sweat.

 

[qsd-dan]

19 gallons is the factory setting for large capacity washers.

 

[kenwashesmonday]

That would only leave 2 gallons for a 1-minute spray rinse?

 

[DADoES]

 
A test of ten pairs of jeans, probably 32" or 34" waist, 32" length.  The full wash period isn't shown, it was probably 18 to 20 mins.  If a little F&P with a toy straight-vane agitator can handle it, then a robust Maytag or WP direct-drive surely can do so!

Note:  The video was taken in 2002 with an ancient camera.

 

[norgeway]

Ok my opinion...

I wouldnt have a direct drive or a Maytag, ive owned 6 Maytags the first being a brand new 1984 model Mother bought, after about a year She handed me her checkbook one day and said Go get us a washer that i dont have to babysit, I have tried to like them, ive had 5 more every single one stayed out of balance, not a one would wash more than 3 loads without being out of balance! , Now for the DD , if i want a deep narrow tub i have to stand on my head to get something out of, ill go to the laundromat, I dont like that thrashing short stroke, Im using a 40 year old Hotpoint rimflow that washes whatever i pack into it, rarely gets out of balance and in the 5 or so years ive used it has never required any service.that being said I wouldnt trade a belt drive Whirlpool or Kenmore for everyday dependable service for anything else.

 

[bajaespuma]

Respect must be paid

In my humble opinion:

 

The Maytag family won US service awards for aircraft parts that helped the WWII effort; don't forget the significance of that when talking about their appliances which were some of the finest stuff the US has had to offer. And Maytag made and sold some of the best-cleaning, most capacious and best designed automatic dishwashers of the late 20th century.

 

Some points to consider:

Cons:

<ul>
<li>One could describe washers' performance and mechanics as "boring"; not a lot of drama.</li>
<li>Not good at heavy duty cleaning</li>
<li>Stingy rinses</li>
<li>Never had the most convenient dispensing systems like TOL Kenmores or Norges when accommodating extra rinses, soaks or pre-washes.</li>
<li>Bad handling of even slightly overloaded washes.</li>
<li>Inconvenient panel trim to clean (sorry, old CU review joke)</li>
</ul>
Pros:

<ul>
<li>Quietest washing machine on the market in its time</li>
<li>Compact design; simple controls</li>
<li>Low water use in comparison to other perf-tub machines.</li>
<li>Classic (boring?) industrial design using "circle in the square" geometries</li>
<li>Most accessible cabinet design for servicing until the Frigidaire 1-18s.</li>
<li>Very good spin effectiveness</li>
<li>Decent manual lint filter: important to those of us who have septic systems where it isn't good to flush more inert waste (lint) down the drains.</li>
</ul>
Not my choice for a daily driver (especially now that we have machines like Mieles out there) but one of a good many American appliance brands that existed before they were sold out to the uber-corporations (who regard US consumers as patsies) that deserve credit and respect as icons of what WAS good about our industries.

 

 

[qsd-dan]

Stingy rinses

I wouldn't call a 1 minute spray rinse stingy, that award goes to belt drive Whirlpool/Kenmore washers. Even GE FF's spray rinses are 1 minute through the most of the 80's.

 

[combo52]

Older, whirlpool spray rinse

Belt drive whirl pools had four spray rinses in each spin. And the water came out at the rate of 9 gallons a minute three times faster than Maytags stingy one minute spray rinse with only 3 gallons a minute in only the first spin period Before the deep rinse.

John

 

[maytag85]

Reason why Whirlpool did a total 4 spray rinses for about 6 seconds each is the pump on those machines can only pump out so much water at a time, I’ve had my Whirlpool water lock a few times even though everything is adjusted and set properly. Usually it’s towels or anything that holds a bit of water that can cause that.

 

[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.