laughable conjecture
Leave it to one of our members to come up with such a laughable experiment to "prove" his premise that lint filters on some washers have little to no outcome on wash results.
Somehow he thinks putting dryer lint in a filter-flo plan proves this???
Only someone with enough ignoranance to say GE's time-tested and proved tower wash couldn't clean dishes in the corner of racks could come up with such a useless (and pointless) experiment.
Conjecture, without evidence, is just a meaningless exercise. If he doesn't think that a lint filter, on more recent Filter-Flo's, has any outcome of clothes cleanliness or freedom from lint he should do an experiment. Opinions without data have little meaning.
At least do design an experiment that has some logic and practicality. Try doing several loads of similar composition in a GE Filter-Flow with and without the filter pan.
About I stated "cleanliness" as well as freedom from lint, as things such as dog hair and cat hair when left on clothes would in some people's mind be associated with cleanliness. The filter-flo pans excel in this.
When washing my bed clothing in my filter-flo and my 1-18 I get sizeable amounts of cat hair, from my five feline friends, in the lint filters of each.
Also I have been known (which I hate to admit) to leave things in my pockets, such as grocery lists, Kleenexes, chash register receipts, etc. in my pockets. These often get reduced to specks of paper and are caught in the filter-flo pan.
Whether these would have stuck to the bedclothes or been washed down the drain, I don't know so I am not going to guess on the outcome, as this would be conjecture. Solely my opinion with no basis in reality. I suppose that would be a worthwhile experiment. Maybe one day I will try it. Until then I am not going to give an opinion as my opinion would have no observational backing. That's not what we are here for.
It doesn't take much of an I.Q. to be spouting opinions all the time in order to build one's ego. It takes a little more intelligence to withhold opinion until one has at least some physical, or practical basis for it.
It can be difficult to come up with the perfect experiment, as there are often variables we don't account for. There can also be experimenter bias, which can happen (almost at a subconscious level) in the way the results and reporting of them can be biased to show what the experimenter was aiming to show.
As I mentioned above, one of our members made the ludicrous comment that GE tower washes could not clean in the corners of the top racks, when relying on the power tower alone. Just that statement alone defies logic, as the tower wash system has been in use in their two door model machines since the early 1960's. These machines have certainly been best sellers with the consumer for well over forty years. They have often been rated over Whirlpool, Kitchen-Aid and Maytag machines in washability by CU over the years.
So my experiment was not perfect, but as you saw from the pictures I posted of my GE 1200 some months past. The tower scrubbed off baked on cocoa fudge, with ease, in cups in the corner of the racks, when I had blocked the lower wash arm spray to the upper racks with pots. At least the experiment was based on normal consumer use of the machine and I tried to duplicate it.
I can't see too many practical ramifications in putting dryer lint in a filter-flow pan. I guess to the person who thought of this experiment, he thought it would fail and would in some twisted way show he is the king of the Automatic Washer site and his opinion means more than everyone else's, even though these opinions often have no basis in rationality. This person delights in building up machines he likes, whether they be dishwashers, disposers or washing machines, and putting down what many others like.
We are on this site to share information and have a good time doing so. When someone is spouting opinions all the time to build himself up and to put others down, this is not right.
When you ask them to support their opinion he can't validate them but will often site generalities about their years of "experience" or experience of the "customers". When asked for data, he often fabricates it. (as in the case of a GE DW motor being 30 percent efficient. When asked to give the source of this laughable data he got suddenly mum.) He couldn't give the source because he fabricated it in an attempt to prove make his unsubstantiated opinion look as if it had supporting mathematical data. I also don't mean to put anyone down. We all want to be noticed and we all have egos. That's part of being human. But we don't always have to be degrading others, and their ideas to do so. (which I guess is what I'm doing, too.)
So it could very well be that the cleanliness and lint load of washed clothes may be no different in a GE Filter-Flo with and without the filter pan. I am not going to say one way or another as I have no empirical data to share and with which to form an opinion. It would be a fun experiment! I hope someone tries it.
