John Eich, John Fev, and Jon Char & Other Pros: Need Combo Expertise on GE's 66 Version

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Will never tire of agitated draining. I could watch it all day. This is the Soak Cycle in progress, during the drain period: Fill, a two minute or so tumble, a tumble drain, followed by a one minute very slow spin, at maybe a hundred RPM's; the clothes are literally "soaking wet," so they stay in solution till you come & get 'em. The Soak is really necessary for stained stuff with only a 9 minute maximum wash. Curiously, the Ephemera says the 57 washed for a nice long 18. Wonder why they cut it short.[this post was last edited: 11/7/2013-23:06]

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Piece by Piece for MG + Confession

Tempted to show how the GE Combo can easily swallow both quilts in this house; no other machine here can do that, but I will resist the temptation, so as not to strain the belts or the motor. The Ephemera says the two machines for which doctrine is available hold 9 and 10 pounds. When I saw the new young dude load up his two new FL's with a mountain of laundry, I was nearly peer-pressured into trying the two quilts in the Combo, and with Jon's Cryptic comment like the Oracle from the Matrix or Delphi, I was even more tempted, Somehow, and with uncommon self-control, I resisted.

Now for the confession or as the new saying goes, "too much information." There are actually 3 standard bath towels in the machine, almost lost in all that space. With baseball cap season over, I must get ready to reveal my thinned-down-to-almost-nothing head of hair. I learned one day a few years back by total accident that a towel rinsed in a moderate dose of fabric softener gives a little more body to my hair--must be the wax. So there they are my head towels in the midst of a soft soak, getting ready for the season.; no other towels get the luxury because I don't like them that soft. My best friends have very little hair, too! In motion to jump & lick.

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Quilts in the Combo

Fear not! The combo can handle a double quilt quite nicely BUT don't use the dry cycle (when it does come back on-line...). The fabric would get a wee bit too close to the calrods as I almost found out the hard way.

I ran a couple (one at a time) through the Ogden Kitchen Centre Combo earlier this summer and I was astonished at how well it coped with them. That tub is pretty darn big, so there was plenty of room to slosh it around and with the number of rinses (5, yes 5 in the 1956 model) it did a great job.
 
I wonder

if my 1955 has 5 rinses?? Just cleaned the guts of the whole machine today with Crystal Simple Green my go to for 50 years of grease. You couldn't even see the wire colors now its a GE rainbow in there.

Mikey glad you "direct rinsing" and not afraid of a little water- Sometimes we hide behind the glass doors too much!

 

Your best friends look eager to help! 
 
Best Friends, Harrrummphfff

They're very upset with the photo insisting that it is most unflattering and that they will NOT give back the Dychenerol Transponder which makes the GE Combo dry until I post a new, handsomer picture. They're such bitches. LOL. When I ask them where they buried it, they just grin and won't say a word.
 
Hi Rusty ~



Thanks and Welcome to Automatic Washer. You can thank the strong steel safety switch for the leg.

Gotta ask, " Where is Konkin mir? " Real head scratcher there.
 
Speaking of Gay

Would you show a close-up shot of your fill port termimals' wiring while the General is still naked?

T'ank You.
 
Weird GE plumbing: the fill inlets for H & C are inside the machine as in my 1st pic @ top of the thread. Show this inlet valve using a front ariel shot of the wires and terminals connected to the water inlet.

"We are Borg [Warner]. We will assimilate you. Resistance is futile." I love it that Norges are made by the Borg. Praise God. LOL. Who knew?
 
"The start of a black hole Mike in reply 15 pic, ha ha.&

YEAH ! That, my friend, is a Borgian Vortex, and I am smitten with it. HI MIKE !

We only have Doctrine for the 56 & 57. [ Think I have the first date right. ] I'll check. Read 'em both a few weeks ago. One machine is listed at 9 pounds, the other at 10, but the tubs all look identical and I bet they are, including the tub in Jon's 55 above. I'll re-read tonight and get back to you because they DO list the wet pound weight as well, for one of the two machines.

Following the new fingers rule I recently learned in Deluxe, you can see that there's plenty of room. For Paul, I loaded my two quilts into the machine just to see, but they weren't dirty, so I didn't wash them. I bet you guys would confidently add another quilt. The temptations are so great to pack the General silly. Don't know how much longer I'll be able to resist.

Before I got the machine, John and I were talking about how fast the drying would be if I spun load in the Unimatic before drying, Doctrine says the General spins at 225. We'll see as soon as I get the Transponder back from the Poochees.

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225?

Dang, this is cool machine, but, yeah, you'd expect a bit more. It would have really cut the dry time. but...
then, the motor would have needed to be larger, and the bearings....

What was that about a naked black hole and the close-up of a fill port? I'm intrigued. I'm just as interested in how big the fill valve is, how long the tube is, and if it has a bend in it.

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Thanks

for spotting that, MickyD, I corrected the spelling error.

MickyD ? Are, are you a Dee-Jay?

related to Rick Dees, by any chance, on the FM side of your family?
 
The rinses are the most interesting. They come in six phases.

First, a cold flush with the drain valve open as the tumbling continues, 2. then a pause followed by a cold tumble fill, tumble, and drain. 3. a warm flush, pause 4. warm fill, etc. and drain. 5. hot flush, 6. pause, hot fill, etc. and drain, then on to the breathtaking spin cycle.

Imagine what Jon's & Paul's 55 & 56 are like with FIVE rinses. Even Tom would be satisfied. The 66 gives decent rinsing with only 3 if you use HE detergent, but with suds one-third to one-half way up the legendary window in regular Tide with Downy, the rinsing is imperfect, but the clothes smell "real nice" and it works our fine for me. Lucky I guess, and surprised I don't have sensitive skin.

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