When I was up at Geoff's this past weekend I shot a short video clip of the clear bleach dilution "chamber" in a pre-1966 Maytag automatic as it was emptying during the drain/spin. Enjoy![this post was last edited: 10/11/2011-21:54]
Maytag bleach dispenser emptying
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Cool stuff! never knew those machines had those kind of things!
geoffdelp
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That load was unbalanced; it was the load from the NX!
I wanted Ben and Mark to listen to my automatic (1964 A700S); it is louder than other machines I've heard. Well ... we discovered there are no motor glides on it! Good grief; it sat in a woman's basement for 45 years never used without the glides. Who knew?
Thanks guys; I'll find my parts book and order a set.
Ben ... hope you didn't burn your hands in the water; it was HOT. Thanks, Mark, for the video!
I wanted Ben and Mark to listen to my automatic (1964 A700S); it is louder than other machines I've heard. Well ... we discovered there are no motor glides on it! Good grief; it sat in a woman's basement for 45 years never used without the glides. Who knew?
Thanks guys; I'll find my parts book and order a set.
Ben ... hope you didn't burn your hands in the water; it was HOT. Thanks, Mark, for the video!
laundromat
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It looks like backwash. Was there bleach to be used in there or not?
It's technically not dispensing at this point. It's simply emptying. It's a dilution chamber. When you put bleach in before the wash it gets gradually diluted during the wash cycle. It fills with water whenever there is water in the tub.
MAYTAG SO CALLED TIMED BLEACH DISPENSER
The bleach is pored into the dispenser as the washer is loaded and as the washer tub is filling with water, water also fills the rest of the bleach reservoir. This system does a very good job of keeping the bleach away from the clothing and diluting the bleach. As soon as agitation begins the diluted bleach is slowly being mixed with the wash water. When I first had one of these washers with this dispenser [ A900S ] we put blueing in the dispenser to watch it work and all the blueing was mixed in the water within one minute after the start of agitation.
All in all it was a very clever way to dilute the bleach, but the bleach still goes in way too soon for best cleaning and whiting of the clothing with minimal fabric damage. Bleach should go in much closer to the end of the wash period, as almost all good machines do now and even back then.
The bleach is pored into the dispenser as the washer is loaded and as the washer tub is filling with water, water also fills the rest of the bleach reservoir. This system does a very good job of keeping the bleach away from the clothing and diluting the bleach. As soon as agitation begins the diluted bleach is slowly being mixed with the wash water. When I first had one of these washers with this dispenser [ A900S ] we put blueing in the dispenser to watch it work and all the blueing was mixed in the water within one minute after the start of agitation.
All in all it was a very clever way to dilute the bleach, but the bleach still goes in way too soon for best cleaning and whiting of the clothing with minimal fabric damage. Bleach should go in much closer to the end of the wash period, as almost all good machines do now and even back then.
That's interesting - the blueing that is
From the Maytag literature thay claim it takes 4 minutes to completely dilute the bleach once agitation begins. But I have wondered how quickly the bleach would be detected in the water. Your blueing test tells the truth.
From the Maytag literature thay claim it takes 4 minutes to completely dilute the bleach once agitation begins. But I have wondered how quickly the bleach would be detected in the water. Your blueing test tells the truth.
That's interesting - the blueing that is
From the Maytag literature thay claim it takes 4 minutes to completely dilute the bleach once agitation begins. But I have wondered how quickly the bleach would be detected in the water. Your blueing test tells the truth.
From the Maytag literature thay claim it takes 4 minutes to completely dilute the bleach once agitation begins. But I have wondered how quickly the bleach would be detected in the water. Your blueing test tells the truth.
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