Easy Spindrier - on ebay - with ALUMINUM agitator!

[bradross]

Hello again folks ... here's something I've not seen before - an Easy Spindrier with a "non-spiralator" aluminum agitator! If only I lived closer!

Pardon Our Interruption...

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[rp2813]

I wonder if the red trim means it's a stripped down model.  Besides no Spiralator, it also has no faucets.

 

Up to now, all Easy Spindriers I've seen from this period have had blue trim.

 

[christfr]

kinda cool and kinda pretty

 

[laundromat]

This looms a bit like the one used in "Blondie and Dagwood" It was one of their sponsors.

 

[e2l-arry]

I don't know . . .

It looks bargain basement to me. As mentioned above, it doesn't even have the 2 faucets. How does it drain and fill? Not as semi automatically as the other models.
AND these's no rinse tower in the spinner. That thing was supposed to evenly distribute the rinse water evenly from top to bottom. I don't know how well that worked. There's a YouTube video of the spin dryer in action and when the owner is asked if he thought the spin rinse was effective, he said " NO, not in my opinion anyway."

Then I saw some threads on here about the Hoover twin Tubs and how you had to rinse in those. They had no center post to distribute the rinse water either. One guy said after the rinse spin, the clothes on the bottom were still warm from the wash water demonstrating that the cold rinse water never made it through those clothes. Any experts on the Easy Spin Rinse please weigh in.

 

[kitty]

They said it died...

I dunno what's wrong with it... $$$50 is quite cheap... It would be tough to find parts.

 

[arbilab]

Grandma's didn't have the 'tower' though it did have chrome stripes not paint and a single faucet. From what I'm able to gather Spindriers came in 4 trim levels for every year model. No idea what the price spread between them was.

When I used twintubs I didn't rely solely on the spinner to rinse. Rather, pre-rinse in the spinner then agitate-rinse then final spin. Much like the Westy FL I grew up with did.

Spindriers had durable porcelain tubs but the center fill panels were just painted and tended to rust dreadfully. This unit is scarcely rusted at all. And they're not asking a pirate's ransom for it. So what if you have to fill it from a garden hose?

 

[ozzie908]

Most of the older Twin tubs in the UK fill with a hose...

straight from the tap into the spinner fill it up give every thing a good swoosh up and down and spin again. It was not until much later we had spinrinse abilities )

Austin

 

[akronman]

Rinsing

Yes, this EASY looks very BOL, many other models had faucets and the shower cone in the spinner.

Rinsing in most twin tubs is not a "one time" process. You fill the spin tub with soapy clothes and spin that out, then fill with clean water and spin it out, then re-distribute the clothes around and fill clean water and rinse again. The spintub doesn't need much water, it's still efficient to fill and spin maybe 3 times before you'd use as much water as a complete wash tub fill on an automatic. It's very "hands on" but also fun and effective.

The models with the cone are better for sure, and the faucets to let you hose the soap back into the washtub and easily refill the spin tub wth fresh water. This model likely just drained out to the floor drain on both sides, and used a garden hose to fill. BOL is BOL. Did EASY BOL mean no pump at all, maybe?

Hoover Twin Tubs---I redistibute the clothes at least twice for very good rinsing. And if you want fabric softener, I have a large bucket of water with a capful of FS. For the last rinse, I puor the bucket over the clothes instead of the fresh clean water, it works well.

In comparison, have you ever checked a load of clothes in an automatic after the first spin and spray, moments before the rinse fill? In my Kenmore and Maytag, not so much GE, the bottom bunch of clothes in a large load, pressed against the perf tub, can still have a lot of hot water heat in them, meaning still a lot of suds after extraction and spray. In my 1-18 with the circle spray excellence, I only notice if it's all towels or jeans, very heavy material.

So if automatics(most of them) do Extract-Spray-Deep Rinse-Extract-Spray again(some) you really can't complain if a twin tub spinner requires a redistribution for a second rinse. And both EASY and HOOVER literature talks about the option of deep-rinsing with fresh water in the agitation tub. They are quite versatile, and ENTIRELY hands on.

All this talk makes me want to pull my EASY and HOOVER out for a washday, but with all the "hands in water" required, I'll wait until summer.

 

[e2l-arry]

As a kid I remember

A few neighbors that had Easy spin dryers. I was always interested in them, or any washer that was different from our Kenmore automatic at home. But I remember watching them in action and all the owners I saw use them, after spinning out the wash water back into the washer tub,moved the fill faucet over the spinner. There was a hole in the lid that aligned with the spin tower. They'd turn on the cold water and let then thing run like that for a few minutes. Then they'd turn off the water, let it go for a few more minutes to spin out any remaining water, and then that load was done. I never had the fun of using one myself. But I could see the advantages over a wringer washer. You didn't need 2 laundry tubs for rinsing. Although every family I knew had these in their basement, you could see that it would work just fine with only a kitchen sink.

And speaking of basements, it's time to head down to mine to start 2 weeks of wash in my Maytag E2LP. A fun afternoon ahead for me!