POD 7/13/2017

[mickeyd]

Have been at this for days now, ever since the dasher thread went up. No one in the club has one and this was the first POD. Have been enthralled by this agitator forever, and would just die to have one or see one an action. What a magnificent creature the Spiral Dasher is--and OH those holes!!! We've seen holes in the bottom of Norge Agitators, and some others, but none where all three fins are festooned with them. Will they make a million mini-currents? The one in the thread of course only has only two fins and I was wondering if Brad was going to grab it and do his wonderworks to it. I sure hope so!

Mainly I was trying to imagine how the dasher moved the load. At first blush, it looks like a lot like a Spiralator which keeps a load moving around and around and down. But then when the POD went up those fins looked to kick backward at the bottom which would mean the load would move in like manner to that of a Rotoswirl or a Surgilator. We'll have to wait to see the automatic version of this again to be sure. Maybe someone would email it to me.

But gosh dang, if our work is not desperately set out for us in the pursuit of the illustrious dasher, I don't know what is.

 

[frigilux]

Not the automatic; but this shows the swoopy Spiral Dasher in action.

 

[mickeyd]

Oh my God, Frigilux, those vids are fabulous, especially the low water level performance. Have been gobsmacked lately with the tempo--the speed of agitation--of some of these old, old, very old machines. The Spiral Dasher is furious, just like the Hydractor. When you consider the typical loads of the 40's and 50's, such as: thick diapers, heavy linen, stiff denim, 100% thick cotton garments, little wonder these behemoths of agitation were the washday standard.

And if you had something fragile, the instructions were to wash for only one or two minutes. In fact, there is an ad somewhere, featuring a pic of the Spiral Dasher in very low water levels, an inch or two, for delicates, too low for any kind of fury, boasting that the Apex can wash anything.

Thanks so much for finding these, Gene; now who's gonna be the first to snag one of these rare pterodactyls? We all know--right here, right now!--that sooner or later, someone WILL find one. And isn't that simply wonderful!

 

[speedqueen]

The gentleist action for Fine Fabrics...

And Consumer Reports drones on about how modern TL machines are rough on clothes? Give me a break. Email them that and they might just drop the fabric wear test all together!