POD 4-17-12 35 loads a week Maytag ad

[tomturbomatic]

10 children and 35 loads a week and she wants a Maytag dryer. I hope she had some kind of dryer then and that it held more than a HOH. Granted it was the 60s, but today you look at that ad and shudder. Wonder if she had a sudsaver model?

Many years ago, there was a cartoon where a woman who had many children died. A mourner said, "They are finally together again." Someone who heard the comment said she thought the husband was still alive; what did she mean? The first mourner said, "I was talking about her legs; they're finally back together in the coffin."

 

[polkanut]

This ad is a good example for birth control.  Here I go touching off a flame war.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Surely some of what that "new generation" Maytag can't hold, Mrs. Gross can line-dry!

That, or, she can buy a newer 'Tag, w/o the HOH, and by then she'll be ready for a new washer, too!

By, then, as well, at least two or three kids in her brood will be grown & have flown the coop!

Just sayin'...

 

[tomturbomatic]

Her new generation Maytag was a washer, not a dryer, so hanging laundry to dry would not solve the capacity problem. The larger capacity dryers did not come along until the late 70s and this ad is from the mid-late 60s.

I used to see Maytag washers paired with GE dryers because both received high ratings from CU. An elementary school friend's home had a Maytag paired with a Norge dryer since both got high ratings in the 1954(?) CU washer and dryer report. After Maytag introduced the HOH design, their dryers did not rate highly like the check-rated model with the huge perforated drum.

 

[kenmore71]

Judging from from the picture in the ad, those were 1966-1969 machines. It's very possible that her "old" dryer is an early HOH. The switch-over year from the perforated drum dryers to the HOH was sometime in 1957. Of course, maybe she has no dryer at all, but I find it hard to believe that 35 loads a week could be washed and dried without a dryer. The physics of it just don't seem possible IMHO. My grandmother 7 children with no dryer and a wringer washer. I know for a fact that she did not wash 35 loads a week! From the stories I think it would have been more like 12-15 loads through the E2L. Monday was the BIG washday with bed linens included, probably 10-12 loads. Thursday was the "short" day with only diapers and towels.

 

[easy]

HOH capacity

Quite a few people have mentioned how small the HOH capacity is and I'm confused.

I own a HOH and have calculated the capacity to be 5 cubic feet. Not much different than my 10 yo kenmore with a whopping 5.5 cubic feet (and that was
designed for and paired with the matching front loader).

Growing up our DE806 had no problem with any load that came out of our A806 washer. As the instruction book stated `a washer load is a dryer load`.

 

[akronman]

HOH

My 1975 DE606 is TINY. How they used such a big cabinet and came up with such a small drum is a surprise.

 

[toggleswitch]

Easy, the blower was behind the drum.

 

[combo52]

HOH Drum Capacity

Is diffidently something under 5 cubic feet in capacity and dryers with the heater directly outside the drum you don't want to pack really full as you risk clothing damage or worse.

 

EASY no WP built dryer has been less than 5.9 cubic feet in capacity since 1967, if you have a KM machine that is 5.5 it must be a Frigidaire built machine, another machine you don't want to pack full.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Say what you want, the HOH was designed when the Maytag washer tub was the small one and it was not enlarged when the DEEP tub came out. It was adequate for the smaller tub washer, but crowded with a large load from the DEEP tub washer. Aside from size, the speed was slow with the lower wattage heating element which was mandated by its close proximity to the fabrics at the front of the drum. It was not so bad when I had my 1967 WIN with Rapidry 1000 and a small tub capacity, but with the larger capacity 806 and its slower spin speed, the drying speed of the DE806 was noticeably slower than a higher wattage dryer like a WP or GE. The electronic control was great, however.

 

[magic_clean]

My

mom had a 606 pair from the early '70's. She always divided the extra-large wash loads so as not to stuff the Halo of Heat gas dryer. Mostly this was with heavyweight towel loads and our playclothes.....jeans, corduroys etc. Otherwise things would get quite wrinkled.

The dryer worked great as it vented directly through the exterior laundry room wall.

L.P.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Unless there's something Im not getting:

To clarify, a "new generation" Maytag dryer was what I meant, in saying that "Mrs. Gross" wanted to add one to her "new generation" Maytag washer...

So until Maytag would increase its drum capacity in its dryers, she'd have to line-dry if the Halo Of Heat couldn't hold that the same amount of clothes that were washed in the washer, as was discussed...

-- Dave