Having used both a Maytag wringer washer and a Maytag A50 Twin Tub as my only washers years ago, I found them both no problem at all. Granted the wringer had a larger capacity, but that A50 would handle double bed blankets, quilts and bedspreads, and got them spotlessly clean too. The tub was full to capacity, but the double, reversing impellers efficiently moved the large items thru the water, and I did have to really push hard to get them into the spinner, but it worked out just fine.
If you use the same method of washing and rinsing with the A50 as with the wringer, washing whites first, following with light colors, and so on it really goes pretty quickly. Yes, it was a full hour of concentrated effort, but then the wash was DONE.
The only thing I did differently with the A50 as opposed to the wringer, was that with the wringer, I rinsed in the bath tub (I didn’t have a laundry tub), with the A50, I followed the owners manual instructions, and rinsed in the impeller side of the machine, in the same order as they loads were washed, allowing the rinse water from the spinner to drain into the kitchen sink, then topping of the rinse water with fresh water to replace what had been spun out in the load before. So, the rinse water wasn’t murky with detergent, and did a great job rinsing from the first load thru the last. But 4 loads were the max I would wash and rinse with one fill. This equaled two regular sized laundry baskets full, or a full weeks wash for two. The bed linens were done on a separate day, by themselves. To me this was a whole lot easier and less expensive than schlepping the laundry to a laundromat.
I suppose if a housewife was doing the wash for a family in a Twin Tub, she would have needed to either drain and refill at least once or twice to get a full weeks wash done in one day, and spend 2 or more hours to finish, or wash on more than one day a week. But it would still be less labor intensive than hauling heavy laundry to a laundromat, and then back home again, especially if she lived in an urban location with no car at her disposal. And it sure would be less work than using a wash board!
Eddie[this post was last edited: 7/20/2018-17:41]
If you use the same method of washing and rinsing with the A50 as with the wringer, washing whites first, following with light colors, and so on it really goes pretty quickly. Yes, it was a full hour of concentrated effort, but then the wash was DONE.
The only thing I did differently with the A50 as opposed to the wringer, was that with the wringer, I rinsed in the bath tub (I didn’t have a laundry tub), with the A50, I followed the owners manual instructions, and rinsed in the impeller side of the machine, in the same order as they loads were washed, allowing the rinse water from the spinner to drain into the kitchen sink, then topping of the rinse water with fresh water to replace what had been spun out in the load before. So, the rinse water wasn’t murky with detergent, and did a great job rinsing from the first load thru the last. But 4 loads were the max I would wash and rinse with one fill. This equaled two regular sized laundry baskets full, or a full weeks wash for two. The bed linens were done on a separate day, by themselves. To me this was a whole lot easier and less expensive than schlepping the laundry to a laundromat.
I suppose if a housewife was doing the wash for a family in a Twin Tub, she would have needed to either drain and refill at least once or twice to get a full weeks wash done in one day, and spend 2 or more hours to finish, or wash on more than one day a week. But it would still be less labor intensive than hauling heavy laundry to a laundromat, and then back home again, especially if she lived in an urban location with no car at her disposal. And it sure would be less work than using a wash board!
Eddie[this post was last edited: 7/20/2018-17:41]
