Steel Outer Tubs?

[mielerod69]

Thanks for checking. I have a friend who has the old WT 8/5 with the 64 liter drum and the depth of the machine is 714 mm. If they left the same drum for 9/6, I think it’s too small to dry a 6kg load. The old 7/4 kg WT used the 59 litre drum. Bosch use a 70 litre drum for their 10/6 kg washer dryers

 

[askolover]

I do believe Asko still uses stainless outer drums...last one I looked at did.

 

[twintubdexter]

It was fake

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #339966;"> I remember a few years ago when I took the front off of my Maytag washer to replace the pump. I hadn't seen the insides of one of these machines since I was very young working at an appliance store while I was attending school. I thought to myself that everything looks about the same as it did way back then. The motor was a little smaller, the Polly pump was slightly different and it had that same warning sticker on the outer tub that said that the spinning power unit could smudge your lipstick. Everything looked pretty much the same except when I took a closer look at the outer tub. I noticed it was plastic. It was interesting that it was the same color as the old porcelain steel outer tubs used to be. I thought it was unusual that Maytag (pre-Whirlpool) would go to the trouble of using this color of plastic instead of the usual stuff that looks like giant Tupperwear.</span>

 

[henene4]

Plastic color

Usually, if you see white or off-white plastic, that is virgin plastic.

Recycled plastic isn't sorted much color wise - except for sometimes clear plastic that is seperated.

Clear plastic can be recycled to clear plastic.
Most colored plastic is recycled into recycling granules that are just what ever color comes out.
You'd have to bleach plastic to get the pigment out, and that usually changes material properties even worse.
The wild mix of colours results in darker and darker results - so you often just add pigment to a dark shade to hide any inconsistencies.

Some additives can change colour aswell - and if you already have recycled plastic, adding the pigment isn't much cost and gives at least some idea of consistency if a consumer should ever open the top.

So if parts are a muddled, grey, black, brown or a very dirty shade of off-white, it is usually recycled plastic.

But even the use of recycled plastic has come far since a decade ago, and since the tub is structural in many designs (carrys bearings) they used to use virgin plastic.
But today, in some machines, they use recycled plastic for the outer tub.

 

[twintubdexter]

Looks like porcelain on steel, feels like plastic

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;"> When I first took the front off of the machine I was fooled, but only for a few minutes.</span>

 

[combo52]

Plastic Outer Tub In Norge-Tag Washers

Maytag did this on purpose as they desperately tried to get Maytag dealers to accept these cheaper to build Norge washers as a good machine, strange if they were so good they did not make it in to the coin-op side of things.

 

These machines and about a dozen other things Maytag management ruined a highly successful and profitable company in just over 15 years.

 

John L.

 

[twintubdexter]

[COLOR=#339966; font-size: 14pt] That plastic outer tub Maytag/Norge/whatever is still working fine after 20 years. The only thing I have done is replaced the pig-stuck-in-a-fence squealing pump and the belt. And yes, the two new Speed Queens I bought two years ago are still in my garage covered up with a blanket. I'm beginning to think it is doubtful they will ever make the 12 foot trip into the laundry room. The Speed Queens aren't the only things I have purchased new but have never used like big screen TV's and audio equipment. The older I get the less energy I have and the more money I waste. Lily Tomlin, in one of her  comedy skits as an"impulse shopper", would say " I would buy fresh bread and day-old bread the same day I was just not using good sense". That's me.[/COLOR]