Mike--I don't recycle water too much, unless I'm suds-saving in the Easy Spin-Drier, a practice that Scott instilled in me

. Most drain water goes out into the yard, unless it's here at the house, and then it goes into that boring standpipe.
We just had the rigging affair put together that evening so we could play with the machine.
Eugene--I think mine was close to a 1980 machine. I know, can you imagine the difference? The WCI 1-18s were not bad machines, but they were not a 1-18, and any consumer trying to make the transition from a machine that held a megaton to a machine that was pretty average had to be completely torqued.
My "1-18" was a Westinghouse top-loader under the hood in every respect, with a straight-vane agitator that was kind of cool (the top vanes were removable, leaving a rather Hotpoint-longneckesque agitator). It didn't have so much of the suds barf-back issue as the Franklin Kelvinator pictured above, which decidedly could re-christen even the purest, clearest rinse with a gallon of concentrated suds and make it look just like the wash.
By 1986, didn't WCI use-up their Westy toploader parts and go to solely Franklin machines? I'm thinking your later machine was a closer kin to the Kelvy than my faux 1-18. However, *I* didn't get the Jet-Circle fill--travesty!! It all came out of that one little spot at the ten o'clock position--à la Westinghouse, all the way.