Load that i am washing right now in the Frigidaire Front Loader

[exploder321]

Just put a load in the frigidaire, still shocked at what it holds...
BTW, i am not a picky sorter.. I just throw it in (yes, cringe every one)..

Heres what whent in
6 boxers
6 t-shirts
3 pairs of jeans
6 pairs of socks
2 big bath towls
2 small tea towls
3 nasty pot holders
1 queen sized sheet used to cover a chair
1 dark colored pair of kakis
and 2 pillow cases
Using warm/cold (auto temp),normal cycle with stain clean option, 1/2 cup wisk he, some el cheapo all fabric bleach, and our fabric softner mix to the max level in the dispenser..
50 min. cycle...

 

[exploder321]

Ok.. It can't spin that much stuff too well, keeps going off balance...

 

[exploder321]

Ok.. I am confused...
My frigidaire could spin fine with all of the above load minus 2 pairs of jeans...
Why?

 

[appnut]

Chad, mine has trouble spinning if it's overloaded.

 

[frigilux]

I don't think you had too much in the machine, it just wasn't balanced. Every once in awhile I'll get a load that has trouble going into the first couple of spins because of balance issues. It always seems to work itself out by the final spin, though.

The only load which ended the cycle without a final spin was when I tried to wash 1 pillow with nothing else in the tub.

 

[exploder321]

It was the final spin it couldn't do.. It would get up so far and then stop and tumble a few seconds and try again.. How does one balance one of these??

 

[toggleswitch]

Pull out heavy thing, turn the tub. Stick back in.
You may have to wring heavy towels etc. a bit by hand. or...

Sometimes I have to spin in the top loader, then go back to the front-loader for a better (faster) extract.

 

[nurdlinger]

Toggle,

You must have a 3.1cft FridGEmore. The newer ones with no mechanical timer switch won't allow the cycle to be interrupted and resumed. They won't unlock the door.

 

[exploder321]

Mine does (sort of).... I just have to wait a minuet b4 trying to open the door

 

[frigilux]

Just curious: If the unbalanced load won't go into a spin, does it keep trying to balance and spin or does the timer advance and shut off at some point? How long did it try to spin with your unbalanced load? Did it shut itself off or did you cancel the cycle yourself?

My '03 Frigidaire will try for awhile, then the timer starts to advance. I've heard some new FL'ers will do the balancing protocol for 15-20 minutes before it finally spins.

 

[exploder321]

NO i shut it off.... It was trying and would get up to speed and then slow back down and tumble... Next time i get a chance to do a bunch of laundry, i will throw a few very heavy wet towls in it and see how it does... It tried to spin for a good 10 minuets and the last spin is 12 minuets... I am thinking though mine would have gone on until it balanced out...

 

[toggleswitch]

You must have a 3.1cft FridGeMore.

Actually I have the older one with a mechanical timer. I can't figure out a way to open the door unless the machines goes through its "shut-down" routine on its own.

HOW DOES THE DOOR LOCK WORK?
Signal to lock, then a signal to unlock?
During most of the wash phase, I can just ppower-down by pushing in the main contol knob on the timer and the door unlocks immediately and opens. After that wash-phase, NFW *No f-ing way. (As in feasable.)

 

[exploder321]

I just pause mine, leave it alone for a minute or two and thats it...

 

[frigilux]

Togs---I have the same machine. You can open the door later in the cycle, but it takes a couple of minutes. Depress the control knob, then wait about 3-4 minutes. Voila! The door, she opens!

Did you watch the new vid I made of the Frigi TL'er? It's in the Super forum. This one shows the long spray rinse during the first spin.

 

[exploder321]

I take it this is no longer in use?

 

[nurdlinger]

Alright, here's what I meant...

On my Kenmore 44092 (same as GLTF2940), there is no ability to modify the cycle or skip forward or anything besides the "add a garment" feature while in wash phase. This seems similar to what Toggle posted a couple of items ago. So, earlier in the thread, a corrective action for inability to balance the load and let it spin fast was to open the door and rearrange the contents. With my computerized machine, and I am assuming the Affinity is similar in this respect, the only thing you can do is to abort the cycle. You can't interrupt it to perform this rearrangement. I had thought that the older 3.1cft machines which have the mechanical timer switch could be paused at any point by pushing in the knob, at which time the door would get unlocked, and then subsequently the cycle could be resumed from the point of interruption by pulling the switch back out. I got this impression from watching a vendor-produced instructional video about these machines a year ago or so. Toggle, however, reports that once the wash cycle is over (which is before any spinning occurs) the door stays locked on those machines as well. So, how can the advice of rearranging the load be put into practice?

 

[toggleswitch]

I am forced ( at least I thought so) to wait till the cycle finishes, then do my magic.

I wil try to wait the 3 to 4 minutes. Perhaps a wax motor is in play!

My machine is still in service. I had it ready to be donated to my mom. But no rush, the house has not yet sold. I bought a ner BOL GE top-loader that matches the dryer I have, to leave behind wehn I trander title.

 

[bpetersxx]

Door locks

on the Maytag Neptunes there is a wax motor that locks the door

on my Haier FL there is a door lock that heats a bimetal strip
inside like on the old Lady Kenmore DW

I also make some very bad videos of this lock I will post them on youtube and googlevideo

 

[tumbler]

Frigimore timers

I had a '99 "Frigimore," which had a mechanical timer in the backsplash. If it failed to balance the load for a spin cycle, the timer would continue to advance and the spin would often not happen. Recently that same model has gone with a "soldid state" timer, and it holds time if it has to go into its "balancing protocol." Also, this machine had an electromechanical lock to lock the door during the tumble cycles, and a "wax motor" lock. I now use a Whirlpool Duet, which I consider a far superior machine.