mickeyd
Well-known member
Here's the third attempt at a story I wrote twice before and lost:
Everyone had left, and Jackie's Ocean-liner, gone. Paul stayed for a while, but by midnight I was chompin' at the bit to try my very first, REAL suds return. I had a nice new wooden painter stirrer all set up to abort the lid switch, the return reservoir of water all ready to go, and then like a kid on his first date, I dialed up Suds Return, and I really think that I was not breathing. The low decibel hum of Maytag power ignited with the agitator whirling, but no valve clang sounded and no suds returned. Oh no. Please don't let this be broken. Tried again. Same results. With the lid and the stirrer getting in the way, had to keep re-installing the stirrer every time I redialed Suds. Did not count how many times. I tried this. An embarrassing number. Who here wouldn't ? At one point, the suds kicked in after I had accidentally hit the right button when fumbling with the lid, etc. but then I hit the wrong one in the frenzy--all without knowing any of this-- and I was right back to nothing.
Desperate, I fumbled with the suds buttons, and suddenly the Clang came and I shouted out, so relieved. Turns out, the Suds Save button MUST be pressed in to return suds. I didn't know that, thinking the buttons were only relevant to where you wanted discharging water to go. Good, another button that must be pressed for real not pretend pressing. The machine pumped the water from the reservoir so fast, but then clanged off. Oh, no now what? Back to square one: closing the lid, the annoying paint stirrer. It was then that I discovered that Ross, Bless him forever, had disconnected the lid switch. So with the stick gone, I kept redialing Suds, but nothing happened. There must be a sweet spot on the aging timer, right. So I tried and tried to find it. Nothing.
Oh well, Ross never used it, so it must need some maintenance. It'll be hit or miss. Shucks! I'll find a way. Went into a wistful fugue thinking of all the possibilities of getting this to work. As I thought, the machine was agitating in the Suds cycle, and I noticed that the water level was set to Small. Right now, knowledgeable people are grinning. Not expecting anything, and my mind now numb but in flow, I pressed Medium, and my God, the sweet clang came again. First time I experienced a Suds that did not return all the water. Only Maytag. So smart. It figures. If other machines do this, I'm unaware.
Let me tell you the system works perfectly, and I was soon playing those buttons like an accordion, and had her humming like a harmonica. The clang is lighter, clearer, and more melodious than that of the WP/KM.
Here's from a spray rinse last night ~
Everyone had left, and Jackie's Ocean-liner, gone. Paul stayed for a while, but by midnight I was chompin' at the bit to try my very first, REAL suds return. I had a nice new wooden painter stirrer all set up to abort the lid switch, the return reservoir of water all ready to go, and then like a kid on his first date, I dialed up Suds Return, and I really think that I was not breathing. The low decibel hum of Maytag power ignited with the agitator whirling, but no valve clang sounded and no suds returned. Oh no. Please don't let this be broken. Tried again. Same results. With the lid and the stirrer getting in the way, had to keep re-installing the stirrer every time I redialed Suds. Did not count how many times. I tried this. An embarrassing number. Who here wouldn't ? At one point, the suds kicked in after I had accidentally hit the right button when fumbling with the lid, etc. but then I hit the wrong one in the frenzy--all without knowing any of this-- and I was right back to nothing.
Desperate, I fumbled with the suds buttons, and suddenly the Clang came and I shouted out, so relieved. Turns out, the Suds Save button MUST be pressed in to return suds. I didn't know that, thinking the buttons were only relevant to where you wanted discharging water to go. Good, another button that must be pressed for real not pretend pressing. The machine pumped the water from the reservoir so fast, but then clanged off. Oh, no now what? Back to square one: closing the lid, the annoying paint stirrer. It was then that I discovered that Ross, Bless him forever, had disconnected the lid switch. So with the stick gone, I kept redialing Suds, but nothing happened. There must be a sweet spot on the aging timer, right. So I tried and tried to find it. Nothing.
Oh well, Ross never used it, so it must need some maintenance. It'll be hit or miss. Shucks! I'll find a way. Went into a wistful fugue thinking of all the possibilities of getting this to work. As I thought, the machine was agitating in the Suds cycle, and I noticed that the water level was set to Small. Right now, knowledgeable people are grinning. Not expecting anything, and my mind now numb but in flow, I pressed Medium, and my God, the sweet clang came again. First time I experienced a Suds that did not return all the water. Only Maytag. So smart. It figures. If other machines do this, I'm unaware.
Let me tell you the system works perfectly, and I was soon playing those buttons like an accordion, and had her humming like a harmonica. The clang is lighter, clearer, and more melodious than that of the WP/KM.
Here's from a spray rinse last night ~
