My 4 y/o LG made front loader

[Unimatic1140]

While my LG does not have the "Tubro-wash" per se, it does have a recirculation nozzle/system. The recirculation is very helpful in getting the entire load saturated as relatively fast.

As for the vibration in this machine, I wouldn't consider it a "problem", it simply makes more noise than it would perfectly balanced. No different than a vintage machine, except the vintage machines that spin over 1000rpm seem to not make quite as much overall vibration. Again I just attribute it to the construction materials and it's really not a big deal overall. I know it's not just this machine LG, I've seen Duets and Maytag FL do the exact same thing at 1000+ rpm.

Here is my LG...

 

[revvinkevin]

 

 

Robert, when using your LG, do you use the "water plus" option or "extra rinse"? 

 

Just curious, thanks!

 

 

[Unimatic1140]

"do you use the "water plus" option or "extra rinse"?"

Hey Kevin, I use both selections always. Except when I use the Sanitary+Steam cycle it will not let you select either WaterPulse or Extra Rinse.

 

[maytag85]

That's is a decent LG front loader. I remember our front loader would spin so fast, it would sound like a jet taking off! My Maytag does not spin as fast, but the tub is more shallow, and it does spin a good amount of water out. Maytag top load washers always had a a spin speed of about 700rpm, while Whirlpool/Kenmore had a slower spin speed of about 500rpm. My Lady Kenmore Portable Belt Drive Washer has a fast spin speed of about 900rpm.

 

[nmassman44]

Hold on...Maytag washers like he one you have only spin at 618 rpms...and some final spin cycles like on the 510 that I had long ago were not that long so I had to run another spin cycle to get out more water.

I remember that washer model from a few years ago....that washer has the RollerJet wash vanes. Mine does not have that but it has the same design vanes in the back of the drum. The newer LG washers have done away with that design and have a more conventional vanes design. One thing I find with the design is that loads of jeans and long sleeved shirts are prone to tangling. It can be a pain for the washer to spin a load that is tangled up into a wad. Nothing thrills me more than having to take the entire wash load out in a ball and have it drop into the laundry basket and have to untangle the load before as I throw the clothes into the dryer. That was sarcasm...lol

 

[brucelucenta]

nmassman44

It's too bad you aren't old enough to experience a load out of the first Frigidaire washers. They were capable of not only tangling the clothes into an entire ball, they could literally tie them in knots! The clothes sure were spun out dry though!!!! Small consolation to most! In the past 4+ years I have never had a tangling problem with my LG made front loader.

 

[Unimatic1140]

I have never experienced the LG tangle anything as of yet but it is interesting to hear it has that ability.

Yes 618rpm is the fastest a Helical-drive maytag will spin as desgined. I do know some members here have changed the drive pulleys to the 50hz European parts and that will bring the spin speed up over 700.

Early Frigidaire washers can tangle, but proper loading/sorting will minimize that down to a rarity, at least in my experience. In 1957 when they started to put loading instructions under the washer lid, the Frigidaire Unimatic rose all the way up to #1 in 1958 Consumer Reports testing. I suspect the reason was CU simply followed the loading instructions.

 

[DADoES]

 
Direct-drive Whirlpool/Kenmore/KitchenAid/Estate/Roper/Maytag, etc.) are 640 RPM, IIRC.

 

[brucelucenta]

Unimatic1140

Follow the instructions???? What's that???? LOL
I have to tell you about someone I let use a 1954 Frigidaire I had. She bought brand new foldable diapers and was going to start using them. She unfolded and loaded them all into the washer and after it cycled, they were literally one great big knotted mass! LOL