Ladies & Gentlemen - Start Your Engines!

[bajaespuma]

From what I've read

The whole "Lint-Away" chazerei was just as you said, a marketing ploy to compete with Filter-Flo and the Ken - pools with built-in lint filtration. 

 

When we had a 1958 Unimatic, I switched the yellow ring with the bigger Circus-Peanut colored ring to see if it improved the "contra-splash". There was a little improvement but it still looked like a doomed swimmer trying to beat the undertow. Secondly, the "Lint-Away" could barely push excess suds/scum to the drain holes; I don't see how it would be able to make a dent in lint which is distributed throughout the wash/rinse water. Thirdly, I notice that with very few exceptions, none of the new HE machines seem concerned with lint. The good ones have a drain trap that the user can access, but that's for bigger prey.

It was always a  solution looking hard for a problem, IMHO.

 

If I had a pup or a cat, the only machine for me would be a Filter-Flo or a Rim-Flo because I can remove all that hair before it goes down the drain. I was warned by the techs who vacuum out my septic tank once a year against machines that drained lint into my already challenged septic fields.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Did these techs not provide any of the enzyme treatments that dissolve hair and plant proteins?

 

[launderess]

IMHO "over flow rinsing" was something invented and touted to win over those housewives that still clung to soap on wash day.

With wringer washers or other semi-automatics one lifts things out of soapy water. This helps by leaving muck and scum in water (well good part of it anyway).

Another of WestyTopLoader's videos (how I miss him...)



IIRC Frigidaire in auction above like Speed Queen in linked YT video had solid tubs. Once inner tub with holes and outer container arrived there wasn't need for overflow rinsing. Spray rinses were far better use of water and consumed less of it in comparison I shouldn't wonder.

 

[launderess]

Memories....

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?19826_42

 

[gyrafoam]

Lint was an issue when most people used clothes-lines-------

It is easy to forget that as late as the 1970's a lot of people did not own a clothes dryer. So of course the designers and marketing people were going to make an issue out of lint removal.

People can say the overflow rinses were not effective at lint removal, however, I have come across more than a few Jet-Action machines with completely blocked drain slots. Perhaps the slots should have been bigger, however, it was clear to me that lint removal from the laundry was very effective. The common factor was that those machines had Jet-Cones installed that had RECTANGULAR Jet-slots at the top instead of the more common SQUARE Jet-slots. Which came first I couldn't say.

My WO-65-2 very obviously chases the sudz residue completely overboard during the overflow rinsing, so I assume it is moving some lint overboard as well.

The new machines lack lint removal because it is assumed they will be paired with a clothes dryer to catch all the lint. That is fine by me because I never liked cleaning-out lint filters, anyway.

 

[launderess]

Hammer has fallen

Final price $600 clams plus fees.

Who is the lucky winner? Fess up!

 

[norgeway]

My theory on tangling

Wash a load in a Frigidaire Westinghouse slant front, or Philco and you WILL have tangling, BUT, As my Grandmother used to say about out 55 Pulsamatic, If the clothes are tangled up that means they have been washed!!! Wash a load in the much touted Maytag and chances are whatever you loaded last will be laying right on top unless you are very very careful not to overload it.