MAYTAG AMP Design

[spin-it]

Hi All, Hope we are all doing well. I was reading over the service manual for the 1950 AMP washers and found out something I never knew; the perf porcelain basket is actually "screwed" to an outer solid spin tub. It has a deep "drain" tub, which I also didn't expect, I thought it would be like a WP/KM outer tub design, just slightly bigger than the perf basket. So the operation is much like a solid tub, spinning all the basket water into the drain tub?
What is the purpose of the inner perf basket, why not just use a ST clothes basket (quite cool design however) and how long did Maytag keep this design. Thanks,
Kevin

 

[tomturbomatic]

If you look quickly before the POD for 3-4-11 goes away, you can see two of the bolts that hold the tubs together. As to why they did it, who knows? It was a terrible trap for sand. I guess that's what Maytag meant when they advertised "one tub for the clothes and one for the dirt." Unlike a solid tub, you could not wipe or vacuum the sand from the outer spin tub that held the water. With the narrowness of the cabinet, having to make room for the two tubs inside the drain tub made the perforated clothes tub unnecessarily narrow. Maytag automatics were sold on the reputation of their wringer washers, but if someone at Consumers Union had not been absolutely in love with Maytags, they never would have sold like they did. It is true that they became simple machines with the Helical Drive models and they would last a long time in most cases, but they had small capacities and were hard on clothes. Most loads did well to get pulled completely under water in the 2 minutes of agitation in the deep rinse and forget about turning over a few times, but of course, it was a forbidden cycle so only we curious little boys saw what was really not happening. All our neighbor knew was that if we had several days of rainy weather and she took the clothes to the laundromat to dry them, they came out of the dryer yellowed. She blamed the dryer, but couldn't it have had something to do with all of the Tide that was not rinsed out of the fabrics?