Lint filter or Overflow rinse

[turnamat]

What´s Your opinion??Lint filter like in the old GE,british Hotpoint toploaders,Whirlpool/Kenmore machines,or overflow rinse??Which kind of providing lint is Your choice??

 

[Marky_Mark]

 

<span lang="EN-US">Hey Thomas!</span>

 

<span lang="EN-US">Well I can’t offer an opinion on this as I have never experienced an overflow rinse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>So I can’t compare them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>But as we have both seen, when you have come over to my place for a wash-in, my Hotpoint toploader with the filter pan does remove a bit of lint but definitely less than is captured by the dryer’s lint screen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I wonder how this compares to an overflow rinse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I wonder if it makes any difference at all after tumble drying.</span>

 

<span lang="EN-US">Could I add something to your question: is an overflow rinse only possible if it’s a solid wash basket with no holes?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>If so, does this mean that heavy soils such as sand and grit can be left behind in the basket/laundry?</span>

 

<span lang="EN-US">Hope you can drop by for a wash-in next time you are in Sitges!</span>

 

<span lang="EN-US">Hope all is well</span>

<span lang="EN-US">Mark</span>

 

 

[mrsalvo]

Having owned both type of machines, I would have to go with a good lint filter such as the GE filter flow. It was good system at removing some, but not all, of the lint. Just my humble opinion.

 

[tomturbomatic]

An overflow rinse was helpful in solid tub machines for getting rid of lint and, in the early days of using soap in automatics, of suds and soap curd, a product of soap, hard water and precipitating water conditioners. They were not necessary as GE showed by the mid 50s where an overflowing tub fed a recirculating lint filter and most automatic laundering was done using a synthetic detergent. Mostly they used an inordinate amount of water (almost as much as another deep rinse in some machines) and a single overflow rinse is not as effective as double deep rinses with a spin period after each rinse. Today they are way too wasteful of water for all but demonstration purposes in the hallowed halls of laundry museums and even then, the water should be saved for another use.