Ben, Thank you very much for posting this. Funny--a neighbor with an AMP said that she always stayed close by while she ran it because when they first had the machine, she started a load and left the house. She came back to find the motor burned out. Either Maytag could not or would not tell her why it happened, but she would challenge this manual's basic story.
Funny how Maytag did not give their agitation strokes or oscillations per minute until they came out with the first two speed machines. They sort of show, but do not explain the flipper's role as the unbalance switch, but it is a sales brochure, not an owner's manual.
Does anyone remember the scene in the movie version of A Chorus Line where the student sits down in a trash-strewn lot and picks up the booklet titled, "Welcome to the World (maybe Wonderful World) of the Maytag Washer" with the picture of the AMP on the front?
Maytag shows the outer tub that prevents sediment from recirculating through the clothes. Maybe some sediment, but not sand. The neighbor with the AMP ran bathing suits through several rinses after a trip to the beach before deciding to just hang them to dry and shake out the sand when the suits were dry. Consumer reports showed the sand that remained between the two tubs. Frigidaires and other solid tub machines were not super good at sand removal either, but at least what remained in the tub could be wiped or vacuumed out and not trapped like in the Maytag. Maytag went to so much work with the AMP to have a metered fill (which, at first, unlike most time fill machines, could not operate with less than a full tub of water) and to avoid the appearance of a solid tub machine when that is actually what they had. The cheapest AMP machine with time fill, the narrow post wringer Gyrator and no safety lid proved less troublesome as it aged without all of those wires in the lid developing hardening of the rubber insulation which prevented the mercury switches from functioning properly. Timed fill also offered the option of using less than a full tub of water for small loads. When Maytag went to the Helical Drive mechanism, they were actually able to make the tub slightly wider. The larger tub increased the water consumption to 16 gallons for a high water level fill.
Ben, sorry for your trouble with the DSL. Mine gave very erratic service. The cable service is much more reliable and, unlike the DSL, does not require that I boot up the modum each time I want to use the computer. There were times that I lost eBay auctions because the service would go down in the last minutes of an auction. It was mostly a no good modum, but they would not tell me that. I bought a second and when that one died, switched. The very nice lady at Verizon that I talked to when I stopped the DSL said that they would replace the modum free, but I did not get that story from the tech support people in heaven-only-knows how many different countries. I actually had to ask some of them to speak more slowly so that I could understand their directions.
