My New 'Koh-I-Noor' 2800RPM Spin Dryer

[mattywashboy]

Hi Guys

Just taken delivery of a new purchase (its never ending these days) for the laundry room.

Its a Koh-I-Noor Eco Spin Dryer, 2800RPM. Holds 5.2kg of clothes.

I was searching around the internet for any spin dryers available in Australia, there appeared to be none to be found. Then I found a link via Twitter for the Oziel Eco Appliance website and they have just begun to import Koh I Noor spinners into Australia, with Sydney as their base. Its an Argentinian based company I believe.

Anyway I shot the guys an email asking about prices and shipping to WA. They were so good and informative and sent a lot of info on the appliance. I considered it for about a fortnight (during which I got the Frigidaire washer) and then sent off the money and they packed it, shipped it and it was on its way.

I have never really used a spin dryer before, my family in England had a few amongst them but I never saw them using it, the closest I got was the spin dryer on my grandmothers Servis SuperTwin and my other grandmothers Hoovermatic, both of which I was terrified of because of the noise. In later life my Hoovermatic Grandmother had a spinner in the corner of the kitchen but she never used it while I was around, she was from the era where you got up at 5am and did all your laundry before 9am before heading down into the town to shop...

I bought one because of the busy lifestyle I lead and the struggle to get laundry dry in the cold Perth winter without running the dryer for hours and hours on end. I set aside one or two days and if I don't get my laundry done on those days then it gets leftover to the next week...

The Spinner really does get much more water out after the 900rpm spin in the Frigidaire, teas towels and socks come out almost dry and towels come out needing only an hour or so on the line. I am yet to try it on T-shirts and such but all will remain to be seen, so far, very impressed.

If any other Australians are interested in this appliance I will put a link at the end of this post to their website, it is still under construction but the email address is there for sales. I paid $466 for the machine, 1 year warranty and shipping to Perth.

For now here are the obligatory pictures and a short video...

Enjoy

Matty

http://https//twitter.com/#!/EcoAppliances

 

[mattywashboy]

More photos.

Very nice inner drum.

 

[mattywashboy]

The branding,

Interesting that we have an Indian restaurant just up the road called the same as this 'Koh I Noor', not bad food either, usual after effects of spicy food apply though...ahem.

 

[mattywashboy]

Finally the very simple video I quickly made.

Apologies for the dust and dog hair around the floor, once the laundry was all done i went into the mad sweeping vaccuuming mopping phase of my one of two days off from work. Leave it up to the housemates and we would be able to build a replica of the Titanic out of dog hair....

Anyway thats all for now, thanks for viewing

Till next time.

M

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[rp2813]

Interesting.

The only Koh I Noor brand I'm familiar with is the one that makes (made?) Rapidograph technical pens.

 

[tolivac]

Now put this on the VFD motor drive controller!

 

[limey]

Soil In Laundry After Final Spin

Matt
Thank you for the video. Could you please just clarify a couple of points?
1. The laundry placed in the video had come from the Frigidaire after its ‘fastest spin’ (900rev/min), is this correct?
2. What is the diameter of the tub in the spin dryer? For the following I have assumed it to be 12 inches.
The Frigidaire trundling away at 900rev/min has a linear speed at the periphery of the 22 inch diameter drum of approximately 5,184 ft/min (52.9miles/hr)
The spin dryer at 2,800 rev/min and assuming a 12 inch diameter drum has a linear speed at the drum periphery of approximately 8, 796 ft/min (89.8 miles/hr), no wonder it takes out more water!

Did you notice how ‘dirty’ the water coming from the spin dyer was? The amount of soil left in that water is the same, in proportion, as the ‘water’ left in the laundry. The more ‘water’ you leave in the laundry and then dry, by whatever means, the more soil you leave also.
Additionally as front loaders use so little water for rinsing the proportion of soil left after each ‘rinse’ is larger than for a similar capacity top loader using more water. The problem is, in my view further compounded by front loaders not utilising the maximum spin speed for the selected cycle after each rinse, this would thus remove not only more water, but more soil as well.

 

[3beltwesty]

"YOU GET MORE FROM KOH I NOOR!"

RE "Koh I Noor brand I'm familiar with is the one that makes (made?) Rapidograph technical pens"

As once a Koh I Noor dealer; their slogan for technical pens was "YOU GET MORE FROM KOH I NOOR!"

 

[mattywashboy]

Hey Limey

Yes the laundry in the spinner was out of the Frigidaire after a Regular spin at 900rpm, never timed how long the spin is.
This was just a small load in the spin dryer of small socks and tea towels, i still couldn't believe how much more water it was able to drag out. When I spun the other half of the load which were big bulky bath towels, the water was virtually flowing out of the spinner, brilliant because they only needed a small amount of time on the line before they were dry.

Not sure what the diameter of the tub is, around 12 inches sounds about right but i can't find it on the machine.

I am very happy with it so far, washing my clothes tomorrow so will see how it does on (a) my jeans and (b) my light t-shirts, wondering if it will crease them too much but i imagine they would just be about ready for ironing once coming out of the spin.

The Frigidaire is not the best at rinsing. It uses a low level and does two short spins in between the rinses if you use Extra Rinse (i always do). With E.R not selected you get a slightly longer 600rpmish spin. THe spinner certainly dragged out more soap and dirt.

 

[limey]

Drum Diameter of Spin Dryer

Matt,
For the diameter of the drum just measure the diameter of the 'safety disc' you refered to in the video.

 

[mixfinder]

Time for New Glasses

I wasn't able see soil in the extracted water and an opaque container on a yellow floor could certainly "color" the outcome.

 

[arbilab]

Which Frigi are we looking at, and how much difference is there between two of them? Mine is from 1998, the first one offered in US, 800r spin, but it has FIVE rinses. Sudsaway spray and 4 fills. If I've dosed detergent right, final rinse water looks like I could drink it.

Besides the nostalgia of growing up with FL, I paid more than double the TL price for this thing specifically because FL rinses better with less water. In a large volume single rinse, what's left after wash spin can only get "so" diluted, and the same remnants in the rinse water remains in the load. In multiple small volume rinses, the remnants get progressively diluted and extracted. Not possible to convince me that a single 16 gallon rinse works better than four 4 gallon rinses.

 

[whirlcool]

That looks like a nice machine of high quality. It sounds very quiet and almost no vibration. You'll love how much water it takes out of shirts and denims!

 

[limey]

Water And Soil Extraction

arilab,
Thank you for your comments. I would largely agree with you. However please note that the original poster, Matt, did note soil in the water extracted by the spin dryer.

Electrolux, who totally own Frigidaire, have informed me, in writing, that the water consumption per each wash or rinse phase of the cycle is 5-6 US gallons, depending on load size, for that model of machine, I also have one.

The main point I was trying to make was/is that ‘modern’ TL or FL machines do not spin fast enough to get as much of the residual water and thus soil, out of the laundry, as does the 'old fashioned' spin dryer.

 

[streakers]

Love it!

and want one!

Matty could you please provide me with the details of their website? I've just done a quick search - but can't find a website for them??

Many thanks and Congrats on your purchase!

Cheers
Steve

 

[mattywashboy]

Hi Steve,

I have sent you an email to the address in your profile page with all the details I had on the websites and email address needed to contact the seller.

Regards

Matt

 

[arbilab]

Hard to imagine being stingier per fill than my Frigi but anything's possible specially in 13 years.

Enchanted by "EL" Secarropos Centrifugo. Reminds me of my Pana twintub, you could wear shirts or use towels right out of the spinner. By comparison the Frigi is no big whoop.

 

[supersuds]

Koh-i-noor

also makes shaving brushes.

http://www.shoeboxshaveshop.com/kohinoor-boar.html

 

[limey]

Rinsing

To arbilab,
First my apologies for incorrectly spelling your name in my last post.

Secondly I have just noticed that our Frigidaire built ‘Kenmore’, the very, very close relative of the one Matt has, does not ‘spin’ at the end of the wash cycle but just ‘pumps out’, thus leaving more contaminants for the first and subsequent rinses.
I would not have thought that this was the most effective way of obtaining ‘clean’ laundry.