Perm press cool down

[supersurgilator]

I was just wondering on the older machines that have a warm rinse, what is the point of the perm press cool down if using the warm/warm setting. Also could the machine still use cold or warm water for the cool down refill.

 

[kenmore71]

ALL of those machine would over-ride the warm temp setting and use a cold rinse regardless of the temp. settings.
I remember that in the 1970s my aunt would ONLY use the Permanent press setting on her 1964 Lady Kenmore washer because it used cold rinses. They were on well water and had an electric water heater so the extra cold water meant no appreciable added expense as opposed to the WARM rinse on the REGULAR cycle. That particular model had no over-ride to chose cold rinses when using the White or Colors REGULAR cycle.
I never had the heart to tell her that she may have lost the benefit of the water heating savings by the fact that the LK would only spin for 4 minute on the slow setting after the deep rinse on PP as opposed to the 6 minutes of fast spin on the REGULAR setting. The additional water extraction of that longer fast spin may have helped offset the additional time in the electric dryer that clothes spun on slow would have. Not sure. Perhaps experiments are in order in the 1967 Kenmore 800...

 

[combo52]

PERMA-PRESS COOL DOWN ON WASHERS

If you followed the directions for washing PP fabrics they always suggested using a cold rinse setting. But on most KMs and WPs that had separate temperature settings in the 1960s and into the 1970s if you used the PP cycle and set the temp switch for a warm rinse not only would it rinse in warm but the CD would be all warm water. Huge waste of hot water, later machines would override the warm selection if used on the PP cycle.

 

Mark its too bad that your Grand mother didn't know that all she had to do to get a cold rinse on the normal cycle on the 1964 LKM was push the cold wash F button immediately after selecting a hot or medium wash on the normal cycle and the machine would give the hot or medium wash temp with a cold rinse. I think the owners manual explained how to do this, saving hot water is nothing new.