Red lint- Filter Flos and the failure of dryers

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Okay by luck I washed the RED tableclothes in with the WHITE napkins in the Jetcone washer with JET AWAY lint removal.

The result was the WHITE napkins came out covered in RED lint so they looked red-pink! 

 

Into the 1970 GE FILTER FLO they went with the WHITE filter pan in place for contrast, then into the Speed Queen dryer to remove any - if any- remaining lint.

 

 

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This is why people who wash all of their clothes together, regrdless of color and fabric, look like bums. Any load with a propensity for heavy linting or lint transfer, especially of different colors, should have fabric softener added to the final rinse to help prevent the lint from sticking to the fabrics.
 
Jon,

Indeed the FilterFlo is catching the lint (which I never doubted, that was the other Lefever...).

But any comparison between the weight the washer and dryer caught is invalid. The washer had the chance to extract the lint first so less remained for the dryer to have a swing at. To be a fair test you needed to split the load and let the washer remove lint from 1/2 and dry the other 1/2 then compare lint weights. In that test I have money on the dryer catching more weight of lint.

I'd still love to see the results of running an empty wash load and tossing in a known quantity of lint from the dryer. Weighing the dried lint from the filter pan would directly (and indisputably) show the efficiency of the FF lint capture ability!
 
Love this test Jon, it shows what most of us know to be true a GE filter-flo washer is amazing at removing the lint and pet hair from the wash. I remember how the dog blanket used to come out of the solid tub Filter-Flo compared to other machines I had at that time, the filter pan would be full of hair and the blanket was nearly 100% hair-free.
 
MS: What a riot!

We should have a ballot to determine which one of you is Mother Superior and which on is Mother General. School in session, indeed !

Are these the napkins & tablecloth from the famous 15 dollar burger meal that Eddie saved?

Love the cloth.
 
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