POD 6/26/2012 New Maytag All-Fabric 2-speed washer

[appnut]

I find it interesting the ad states the agitator can be used as a suds (detergent) dispenser. And that's what I always did with all Maytags, lift out filter and pour in detergent granules. However, thge A806 user manual posted on DD a while back, said to pull clothes away from agitator and pour detergent there. Totally opposite instructions. Fascinating.

 

[Unimatic1140]

I also noticed the same thing Bob, I always put the detergent down the center post of our 806, but I experimented with the instructions in that 806 manual. I never even noticed it until I scanned the thing.

Overall I noticed no difference what so ever, the detergent is dissolved either way.

 

[wayupnorth]

On my LA511, I always start it filling with water. Its slow because I am on a well. Put the detergent down the middle of the agitator, fill the softner dispenser with Downy and by then water is disolving the detergent as I put the load of wash in. Wished it would stop raining so I could use the clothesline. The owners manual said the same thing to pull the clothes away from the agitator and put the detergent there. No thanks, I'll do it my way.

 

[tomturbomatic]

With the last agitator design, it really made no difference whether you put the detergent down the barrel or around it because it fell onto the top of the skirt, but in the early lint filter agitator washers and even into the first turquoise agitators, the skirt on the underside of the agitator held the detergent inside it until the agitation started. I always thorugh it was strange in the instructions for the AMP models that the detergent was to be sprinkled on TOP of the load where it could cause something called "detergent burn" when in contact with damp fabrics before it dissolved. It seems like it would have been better to put it at the bottom of the basket to get it dissolved quicker.

The ad mentions that Maytags were sold in Canada. Do Canadian washer boys remember them being very popular there? I guess they were only made in Newton and shipped up there.

Which is a better term for AW members: washer boys or agitators, as in "He's a fellow agitator"? I like the male connotation of the term as well as the varied designs of agitators.

 

[gansky1]

Remember the sand test picture?

Unless the AMP outer tub - under the basket was filled with sand, most of the detergent would have sat, undissolved if added to the empty basket before starting. LOL!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Very good point, Greg

So you don't think that the agitation currents would have mixed it up. I see how what you say makes sense, I just thought that if the sand was redeposited on subsequent loads there would be enough turbulance to mix in the detergent. Maybe that happened during the spin drain. I had hoped that the rising water coming through the bottom of the tub would have dissolved the detergent. I wonder if it would have worked if the detergent had been poured around the barrel after the clothes were loaded and if it would have stayed on the agitator skirt. I just wonder how much fabric damage was done by the very caustic early detergents sitting on the fabrics as the machine filled.