Possibly apart of an old GE filter-flo washer?

[kenmorewasher72]

Hey everyone, I had brought home this ring from my Grandma's house last year, and I'm wondering if this is the filter-flo ring off an older GE washer she possibly had. If anyone could tell me what this is, I'd love to know!

 

[Unimatic1140]

Yes that is exactly what that is. Here is a 1962 model...

 

[kenmorewasher72]

Okay cool, thanks for the info!

 

[ottoreese]

Is that an unused ff, Unimatic??

 

[washdaddy]

KENMOREWASHER72-

That ring is actually a clothes guard that mounts onto the top of the washers tub. It's purpose is to prevent clothes from going over the top of the basket while the machine is running.

It doesn't have anything to do with the filter-flo operation of the machine.

 

[bajaespuma]

...and they didn't do too great a job of that.

 

[kenmorewasher72]

Oh okay, thanks Washdaddy.

 

[yogitunes]

something isn't quite right....

that is a bit puzzling, as I have seen clothing get stuck in a pump....

how exactly did it get there?.....of all the years of having filter-flos, have yet for anything to 'spin-out' over top, as caused by the machine....

just willing to bet its more of mainly while un-loading, clothing pulled out in clumps, that a sock or similar item, get dragged across/under the tub ring, and fall behind the tub...

has anyone ever seen this actually happen by the machine?.....I would have expected to see more of this type of thing with a solid tub, as clothing would actually be pushed up against the tub ring.....most loads in a filterflo, or even a Maytag, are plastered under the balance ring, rarely would you ever see a piece go further up!....

I have seen one machine that would forever have a tube sock wrap under the agitator for one lady, I ran load after load, nothing would turn up wrong....she would run the next load, and theres that stuck sock again.....

 

[goatfarmer]

I've had one FF over the years, that a small child's sock locked up the pump.

 

[ken]

Child's sock

is what I found in the pump of the 83 FF I got a couple years ago. Worked fine after removing it.

 

[kenmorewasher72]

Yogitunes-

I've never owned or used a GE filter-flo before, so I wouldn't know.

One thing I do know however is that on an old GE, the space between the inner and outer tub is pretty far compared to say a Whirlpool direct drive, so I guess I'd say there's a pretty good chance of clothing getting lost between the inner and the outer tub. I think that's mainly the reason they eventually put tub rings on the later models, so that wouldn't happen, but sometimes even that doesn't help..

There are many videos on Youtube of that occasion happening with machines that have supposedly sealed tub rings.

 

[gansky1]

Spinning socks in the filter pan doesn't end well. Luckily, my grandparents were coming to town and my grandfather got lucky checking out the reason it wouldn't run... Nobody ever knew what I'd done and it was a free "repair."