How is this possible? 1968 Hotpoint washer

[yogitunes]

Puzzling design......what happens to the filtering action while using the mini tub.....if your bleaching in the bottom area, and washing colors in the top basket, does the bleach water get pumped up and into the mini tub?....

would be interesting to actually see one in action.....Solid tubs, and yet knows how much to exactly put in each section.....and yet never mix the two waters together.....

one other thing they mention, but not possible, to wash fine lingerie in the top, and heavy garments in the bottom, and then be able to select two different wash/spin speeds for each section, I could see temps being seperate, but speeds and cycles....that doesn't seem possible!

 

[combo52]

Hotpoint Duo-Load Solid Tub Washer

Hi Martin, and Happy New Year, if you read Kens post #14 it describes how they keep the lint filter pump from mixing the water from the lower tub up into the top wash tub. As you suspected you can not wash at different motor speeds in the top and bottom tub for the same Duo-Load, but what I think they are implying is the action will always be more gentle in the upper tub [ like a Mini-Basket in a GE Filter-Flow washer always is ] so you should put the delicate items in the top basket.

 

[launderess]

Just Out Of Idle Curiosity

What was the reason solid tub washers finally died out? I mean aside from any advantages in terms of lint filtration by having a pump recirculate the water. It would seem a soild tub top loaded needed less water because there isn't the gap between tubs to deal fill.

 

[cornutt]

Laundress, I'm guessing that it had to do with machines getting bigger and there being no good way to engineer water level sensing on a solid-tub machine. Imagine a modern super-capacity machine trying to work with timed fill.

 

[joelippard]

Frigidiare had developed an effective method of pressure fill on a solid tub but I think to get the capacity from the at the time 12 pounds up to 18 would not have been possible from an engineering standpoint.  I hope others will chime in about this.

 

[washerlover]

I always thought the benefit to a perforated tub is more water extracted from clothes during the spin cycle than in a solid tub...