Lint-filters----FEH!
My issue with lint filters is that when it comes right down to it they all do a poor job and are disgusting to clean up. Some of them are just stupid-----the old Whirly "brush" type was in my opinion the worst. You had to use a comb or fork to pick the nasties out of it. Just that process would fling nasty water off of the bristles on all that surrounded it as you worked---usually over a trash can.
Next to worst was the 1-18 with that damn "bed 'o nails" filter. Don't let that lint dry out or you might never get it all out of there.
The easiest are the filters mounted on agitators that use a recirculating type system. You just gather up the clump of grossness and toss it. The old GE "Filter-Flo" was pretty easy and was ALWAYS loaded with lint no matter what you washed. A great sales tool when selling the old Maytags was to point out all the fabric damage that the "Filter-Flo's" left in their filter-pans after each load!
IMO The dryer is where the lint is best collected anyway, and the lint filters inside a washer are nothing more than a sales gimmick. I never heard anyone (even those who used a clothes-line) complaining about lint after washing in their (solid-tub) Frigidaires or Speed Queens, etc.
In regards to the Neptune F/L.
Back in the mid-to late '90's I worked as the "house decorator" for a branch of a large chain of furniture/appliance stores here in an Atlanta suburb. Maytags were the best appliances we had to offer and we had many other brands. I used to be so good at selling Maytags, I usually sold them sight unseen while in my office writing up a sale on a group of furniture,etc. (The sales staff over in the appliance department hated me for it.)During this period the Neptune F/L's were introduced.
I sold three sets of them right off the bat to close friends who were shopping for new laundry equipment. All three of those people eventually got the washer door gasket modification----provided free by Maytag (when their service department still gave a s@#t.)
All three of these people loved their Neptunes then, and all three still love them and would be loath to part with them. I just spent a few days visiting with one of those families and that pair really gets a work out-----they have never had a problem and would not part with those machines for anything!
So "go figya". Obviously their were enough changes over the years of Neptune production to seriously degrade their quality level.( I believe the down-hill slide for the T/L's began with the introduction of the "orbital's".)
I am glad I was no longer in sales when all those changes began---it would have crippled my sales ability and would have been even more depressing that it already was just to observe from the outside.
What those irresponsible executives did to Maytag should be recorded as criminal behaviour. Shame on them.
Oh well, they are in a long line in this country--------------
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