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<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: medium;">Very cool Robert! </span>
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: medium;">For some reason I thought the pump would be louder than it is.  Seems like a very nice hum.</span>
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: medium;">With this washer....would it extract more water a larger the load? </span>
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: medium;">Thanks for the video! </span>
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: medium;">Brent</span>
 
Breathless

It reminded me of a coiled boa constrictor squeezing its prey, and just as quietly.

 

Robert this is way over the top. Impressive that the suction is so great the it pulls the plexiglass down. You did a lot of work and made dreams come true for many people. Thank you. Please raise my donation fee to fifty dollars.

 

A long time ago, I told you about Mrs. Clark, my Aunts Mickey and Margaret's neighbor who never let anyone in her house which was pure torture for me as she told me the story of her washer from the alley window, a washer that squeezes the clothes. (I don't need to tell anyone here why this lady and I were talking about washers, or who brought it up.)

 

No, I said you mean wring, a washer can only wring or spin, not squeeze. "No, it squeezes them," she insisted. HOW HOW HOW, I pleaded. I understand now that she really didn't know.

 

"It just does, it squeeeeezes them." All these decades since I was 7 or 8 years old, I have waited to see the squeezing, and now you've done it . I am flabbergasted and in awe of finally seeing the BENDIX BOA.

 

A thousand thank you's
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If there is anything I can ever do for you, please ask!
 
I assume the clothes are still very wet?? Does the rubber tub go back completely to its smooth sides after the extract and when the lid is opened or only when its next filled with water??
Actually Mike there are more wrung out than the little Bolt-Down Bendix, closer to a wringer washer, but probably not as good as the best wringers of the time.  But they are certainly not dripping wet either.  And the rubber bag really does only return to its normal shape when it fills with water or when you push it back into position.  Certainly an unusual machine to say the least.

For some reason I thought the pump would be louder than it is.  Seems like a very nice hum.  With this washer....would it extract more water a larger the load?
Actually Brent it's a very noisy pump, the video really didn't capture the noise level too well.  I don't think load size makes much of a difference in the squeezing ability.

Impressive that the suction is so great the it pulls the plexiglass down.
I know Mike, it was kinda scary, I wore goggles the whole time just in case.  I do want to put on thicker Plexiglas to make it safer.

 

As for a agitation cycle film, I'll get to that next week when I can.
 
<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Thanks for the answers.  </span>

<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: georgia,palatino;">Brent</span>
 
WOW, that is really different.  Thanks for sharing.  I would love to have a window on my KitchenAid Custom 21, but then I wouldn't get any other work done.

 

 

 

PS:  Love the vacuums!!!!!!

 
 
Robert Thank you... for that wounderful contraption of a machine, that must be a powertful vacuum system to squeeze water out of fabric even if it does not extract to perfection.

Fred your vacuums are the best!!! makes ones mind boggle.

Darren k.
 
Cool, Robert

Do you know the specific purpose of  the U shaped rear of center port like slot gizmo?

My Aunt had one of these . I must have been about six at the time she was using it. I remember it being slightly relaxed after

the extraction. Completely oblivious to the hefty lid, but you know I was fiending at its difference!!!
 
Oh the Horror!

It looks like a scene from a horror movie.  I expected the glass to crack and a caramel blob to attack the cameraman.

 

LOL

 

Malcolm
 
Just makin' sure I didn't dream this. Daylight time

I didn't ~ YAY .

 

If I may, EDDIE, did you ever wash by hand? Squeezing is exactly what you do to big things, before twisting them. Gram and me before she got her Pulsamatic-- we did it many Mondays when I was a pre-schooler. Warmest fondest memories. Thanks. She sent most stuff out to a laundry, and would give a very rare correction when I deliberately splashed water on the floor. Always the need for water drama. I adored her.

 

Cool how the finished load, instead of being pressed against tub ribs, is the complete inverse, pressed against agitator vanes. A true "One and Only."

 

EDIT: DOI...off on a tangent, ME not Eddie---So you hold the piece between your hands and slowly press them together, just like the tub does. Someone made the paradigm-shifting leap from watching what hands do, to a washtub doing the same thing, and that, of course, is pure genius, and the engineering behind it, brilliant. We should find out who thought of this, locate a photo and make a fun Aworg icon to remember him.

[this post was last edited: 3/14/2011-15:42]
 

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