Simplicity solid tub washer

[frigilux]

Interesting that a warm or cold rinse is labeled Regular/Detergent (cold rinse) and Regular Soap (warm rinse.) I don't recall seeing it put that way on US machines. Ours always say Hot/Warm or Hot/Cold.

Extra points for the timed bleach dispenser as well! Gives the detergent time to do its job before adding chlorine to the wash water.

Cool machine!

 

[bradross]

Soap vs. Detergent in Canada...

@frigilux I'm guessing the labels are like that perhaps because real soap flakes were used in Canada longer than the U.S. I remember my grandmother on the farm (and therefore, with a septic system) preferred to use soap flakes in her wringer washer, right up until the mid 1970s. She had some notion that detergent in the septic was not a good thing.

The brand she always used was "Maple Leaf" soap flakes, made by the Canada Packers corporation - a meat packing company! I'm guessing that fat from the meat processing was used to make the soap.

 

[jamiel]

Yep, the meatpackers were looking to offload their tallow---though the soapmakers were more than happy to take it, why not just saponify it and earn from both ends of the reaction. Dial Soap was Armour's big win...Cudahy also played both sides of the equation.

 

[eddy1210]

This is the first solenoid controlled Simplicity I've seen! Most all were reversing motor models. Can I ask what part you needed to keep it going? I forgot all about this thread...