POD 10.21.19: Maytag "Savasuds" Outboard Suds Saving System

[frigilux]

I love this POD. Maytag's "Savasuds"; the outboard suds-saving system.

What looks like a modified sump pump turns any washer into a suds-saver. Have never seen one of these in use. Anyone in the AW family recall having or seeing one back in the day?

Were there room next to my washer for a deep sink, I'd get one of these and turn my Speed Queen 9 Series into a suds-saver faster than you can say Jack Robinson!

 

[tomturbomatic]

So typical of Maytag: lag behind the innovators then come up with something that looks like a Rube Goldberg or a W. Heath Robinson contraption and offer reasons why having all of this crap in your laundry sink is better than having it in the machine.
It makes almost as much sense as making what is essentially a solid tub machine without a timed or metered fill but with a second tub to trap heavier than water sediment and a complicated switch system for water metering in the lid.

The main thing I see from the water use table is that other machines possibly rinsed better using more water in a larger tub.

The condensed instructions omitted drying off your hands between moving the hose from the sink and plugging in the pump so that you don't inadvertently get a Maytag Permanent Wave.

 

[yogitunes]

wonder if one didn't copy off another....

Whirlpool had a unit at first that hooked on the corner of the sink for suds saving/return, until the design changed to an internal mechanism....

amazing how simplified it turned out in later years...

fast forward to 11:30

 

[bradross]

Tom hates Maytag!

At least, that's what I gather from the comments! LOL.

Martin - thanks for including that video! I'm always fascinated by the way a concept evolves with the engineers going through trial-and-error phases.

That old Whirlpool is a good-lookin' machine (for an automatic! LOL). Love that 3-vane agitator.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Tom does not hate Maytag. In fact I very much like the conventional washers which both grandmothers had. I do  not, however,  let Maytag automatics ride on the reputation of their conventional washers. The famous Gyrators were not shaped or sized properly for the narrow tub. Maytag sold their automatics on the basis of the agitation in the conventional machines, but it was not the same. Maytag Automatics only got good turnover with the advent of the Power Fin Agitator which is shaped much differently so as to pull the load down instead of mostly batting it back and forth in the narrow tub.

 

[bradross]

Good info! Thanks Tom!

Since I'm mainly a wringer washer fan, I did not know that about Maytag and the transition to automatics.