Finally Found a Suds Saver on Craigslist

[bobbi]

Yogitunes - I am located about an hour north of Harrisburg, partway between Harrisburg and State College.

It looks like our Plan B washing machine may fizzle into nothing. We have a few more local appliance dealers to contact yet, and if nothing materializes, then I will take your advice and try to find a "regular" washing machine. I have to do something very soon.

Just to let you know, Yogitunes...I had originally posted about locating a suds saver back in 07/14, and you provided some good advice, which ended up being exactly what I did with my wringer and FL. I just wasn't planning on my FL crapping out on me before I was able to located a suds saver.

Finally, an update on the original suds saver CL I had posted about is to follow....

 

[bobbi]

Update on Original Machine I Posted About...

Well, it turns out that this seller does indeed have the machine in question:
http://pennstate.craigslist.org/app/5431421048.html. It's the fourth and fifth picture over. Looks like a fairly modern machine. What would have been so hard to send pictures when we had asked?? Maybe he thinks customers looking for suds savers are a dime a dozen.

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[goatfarmer]

If he never responded, then I would write that one off.

 

I have a Maytag 806 set in Harvest Gold, that I might be persuaded to part with. Washer has a suds saver. But you're a far piece down the road from me..

 

[bobbi]

Goatfarmer - I wrote him off because he just kept putting off getting pictures to us. He had a chance to save a sale by getting pictures to us ASAP.

Yes, you are QUITE a piece down the road from us...LOL!

 

[goatfarmer]

But my wife has cousins in Jennerstown PA., just north of Somerset.....

 

[yogitunes]

well, keep your fingers crossed, can't say their plentiful, but seem that they do show up from time to time...

keep us posted as to your progress

 

[bobbi]

Hi Goatfarmer. Thank you for offering, but I've found a regular top loader, which I will use in tandem with my wringer washer.

Yogitunes - I have given up on the suds saver as I am out of time and desperately needed to do something. I have followed your advice yet again. Yesterday my husband and I found a Kenmore 90 Series. It's a direct drive. We put everything into action this morning, draining suds from the first load in the automatic over to the wringer. Then we just washed all loads in there, and did all rinsing and spinning in the automatic. I am used to doing all the rinsing in a FL, so I'm a bit shocked at the water usage for just rinsing. This Kenmore can hold twice as much water as my wringer.
Anyway, thank you for all your guidance. We greatly appreciate it!

 

[yogitunes]

where there's a will, there's a way.....

glad you got something to fill your needs for the moment, this will get you through, eventually you will find the exact machine you want....seems we never find it when were looking, once you stop, it will pop up....

yeah, those direct drives have a huge tub.....

my aunt does her laundry with a similar setup, both are Maytags.....your true savings are using the hot/warm water for washing and reuse, and cold for rinsing....

one added benefit in your method compared to an automatic suds saver, the wash water doesn't have time to cool down....

some of us have automatic machines lined up, and transfer the wash water to the next machine along the line....its a matter of what works best for you....

 

[delaneymeegan]

If you have a laundry sink, drain simply get a submersible pump for $30-$50 and put a short piece of hose on it. After the washer drains and fills the sink, simply put the hose in the washer and plug in the pump.

This way you don't have to worry about which washer you want to use.

 

[bobbi]

Ohhh...that's a great idea, delaneymeegan. I do not have a laundry sink, nor room for one either. For now, I am just starting laundry in the automatic, spinning out the wash water over to the wringer, and finishing all washing in wringer. Then all rinsing is done in the automatic. I do not see my current setup as my permanent solution, but it works for now.

I think for my wants and needs, the ultimate washing machine is the Easy Spindrier and similar washers, or the Simplicity Twin Tub. Seems to be the ultimate "green" laundry set up to minimize water usage and maximize savings on hot water. But that setup doesn't save a lot of time...unless I were to have two going at once (!) - one washing, one rinsing. Hmmm....maybe a twin tub wringer with a modern spinner extractor?! Oh man, I need a bigger laundry room.

I have to say that it seems to me that neither my FL or TL seems to clean as well as my Whirlpool wringer.

 

[bobbi]

"glad you got something to fill your needs for the moment, this will get you through,
one added benefit in your method compared to an automatic suds saver, the wash water doesn't have time to cool down....

some of us have automatic machines lined up, and transfer the wash water to the next machine along the line....its a matter of what works best for you...."

Yogitunes - Doing it this way, the water does have some time to cool down. Today I was going to keep spinning the wash water back and forth from automatic to wringer, but there's about 30 minutes between loads that way. I have to wait for the rinse and spin cycle, then I hang all my laundry to dry so it must be removed and shaken out piece by piece. So I just spun wash water over to the wringer at the first load, and kept washing with that. I'll figure out something eventually. Thanks for your input.