Roper Rinse Rash

[combo52]

BROKEN DRIVE CUPPLERS ON DD WASHERS

Again the Drive couplers are not designed to break if the washer is overloaded. That said as a service man I have seen many cases where a very large load did cause an OLD or Worn coupler to break. The same thing happens with old worn belts on dryers and other appliances, when someone puts in a extra large load it snaps. But believe me WP is not selling a washer that will not easily make it through the 1 year parts and labor warranty. Just one warranty call would wipe out the profit on three basic DD washers.

 

[supersurgilator]

I agree, having grown up with a DD machine, I've washed many heavy overloaded loads and never had a coupler break yet.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

low level wash and rinse

Not meaning to revive this thread again, but the commercial Maytags with the load size selector on my dorm do the same thing. They always short change how much water is used on the large setting. Most students don't notice!

 

[DADoES]

 
Jerome, commercial Whirlpool models afflicted with the low-level rinse restriction have an optional wiring connector in the console that changes the rinses to use the wash-fill water level control so the rinses are the same as the wash.  Those Maytags probably also have it.

 

[Chetlaham]

Spray Rinse vs Partial Fill Rinse

These washer would all have benefited from a series of spray rinses, IMO. Or better yet a resource saver re-circulation approach.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

low level wash and rinse

The water level never reaches the full level during wash or rinse. Both the wash and rinse is the same. There are no spray rinses to make matters worse.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

and to top it off...

The maintenance people don't know or care to know what I am talking about! The dryers are just as bad, but that's another story. They suck at drying. I'll leave it at that.

 

[lovestowash]

WOW! Terry Lattz!

Thanks GELaundry4ever for this thread revival! Brings back such good memories! And now I live here, selling appliances at Home Depot!

George

 

[maytaga806]

Yes I know exactly what you’re talking about! We have a late 2000s Admiral direct drive at my senior living complex, it’s the last direct drive we have there the rest are all commercial speed queens. Anyways, this has that stupid auto regulated low rinse to “conserve water” beats the heck out of the clothes due to filling to only a small load when set to medium or large. You can audibly hear how hard The transmission is working to try and agitate and rinse a full large load on a small load size setting it’s absolutely ridiculous it’s too much stress for the machine and totally unlogical. This admiral is in really rough shape, I don’t imagine it’ll last much longer.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

stupid excuse

The stupid excuse of why the washer doesn't fill all the way to the top is because that when the washer agitates, it will flood the laundry room if the washer is filled completely. That is a stupid excuse! It was from the college dorm staff who told me this.
So let me get this straight. So the agitator is so powerful to where the clothes will have water shooting to the top? I don't think so. Only fills up halfway. Nothing has changed.

 

[DADoES]

 
It may be possible that consumer DD models with reduced rinse levels via a second, hidden water level switch may also have the alternate wiring connector to re-route the rinse level to the wash water level switch.  Examination and/or a wiring diagram/tech sheet would confirm.

 

[appnut]

George, yes, my heart strings were tugged when I saw Terry Lattz's name/id.

 

[golittlesport]

Terry

Same here. Seeing this old post from George and Terry (and Glen and Bob) brought back warm memories.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

revival reason

The reson why I revived is thread is because nothing has changed. In fact, they've only seem to get worse. Low water washing and rinsing in addition to the low intermediate spin after wash and before rinse is insanity to me.

 

[qsd-dan]

I don't believe any top loading manufacture is using extremely low water fills on the deep rinse cycle anymore. That's an idea/design that received a ton of backlash and was thankfully scrapped.

 

[repairguy]

When manufacturers were doing this for a couple of years at the time this original thread was made GE would fill the tub to 1/4 for rinse and sit for a few minutes and drain back out. That was the rinse, no agitation or nothing.

 

[DADoES]

 
Rinsing is essentially a process of dilution and extraction but one static minimal fill with perhaps no spin spray is questionable.  Multiple spin sprays and extractions is reasonable but some of the flume spray patterns don't cover the load surface area very well for thorough saturation.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

stupid rinse

What GE did to their rinse was absolutely stupid. The Maytags with the load size selector set to large always fills halfway at bo the wash and rinse. That too is stupid! They should've had the spray rinse at final spin. Nothing has changed.