Optimum angle for wash basket in a FL machine...

[stricklybojack]

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Does such an animal exist in theory or practice?
Flat or horizontal being hard on bearings and/or spiders.
Tilting reduces such concerns and allows for a decent amount of soaking...but uses
more water and/or energy and less efficient use of basket space?

That how far i have thought on this issue...just enough to cause some damage no doubt!
It seems a fill button would be a damn nice thing to have on our FL Speed Queen so we could soak a decent amount of cloths in the machine rather than in the sink.
Tilting would obviate this need i would think.

Put on yer think caps people and plop any ensuing brain droppings down here please.

[this post was last edited: 11/14/2015-11:36]

 

[henene4]

I thought tilted saves water. You know, water level (so depth) would be great with a same amount compared to a drum with 0 inclination.
It should add more aggitation as well due to a kind of front to back gravity induced movement.

But could increase tangeling as well. And spinning might get more fuzzy.

 

[yogitunes]

for one thing, at least with the Neptune, a tiled drum allowed for easier loading/unloading.....

and there is sort of a cross tumbling while agitation.....

and sort of center of gravity while spinning, all the clothes stay centered in the back....for some loads this is an advantage....

a horizontal tub allowed for more water to cover completely across, and sometimes works a bit harder at distributing the load for the final spin.....

not apparent to all machines, but when you view enough of them, you have to wonder why some have a better advantage of handling a load than others....

 

[arbilab]

And some loads have an advantage balancing over others. I've only been watching washers spin for 60 years-- what do I know?-- but it's almost totally random which do and which don't.

Like, jeans and towels tend to glom on one side. Sometimes. Other times they're fine. Might be which phase of knot/unknot the tumbler is in at the time. They all do it irrespective of slant. Even absolutely-vertical washers like my washplate twintub have knotting issues. But a TT doesn't have to spin knots. Unless the operator doesn't know any better.

There are just too many variables-- specially at the user end-- to say there is 'one ideal' tilt angle. As a BORSA (bend over restricted American) tilt is definitely easier to unload.

 

[combo52]

Best Tub Angle In A FL Washer

Completely Horizontal allows the best tumbling with much less chance for tangling and balling of clothing, ever notice that all real commercial including all Speed Queen FL washers do not have tilted tubs. The only advantage of a tilted tub is loading-unloading.

 

There would be absolutely no difference in bearing life and spider life with either system that I could imagine, but then again with all serious commercial and SQ FL washers having horizontal tubs it might be better not to have it tilted.