So they had seven rinses. One deep rinse and the rest spray rinses or a combinatioon? Also how many gallons of water did these machines use! Greg
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Four sprays in the first spin, deep rinse, two sprays in the final spin. Typical of belt-drive WP for years. There was also a period of time, some models had nine rinses, four sprays in the final spin. All that applies to the Normal cycle. Gentle/Delicate, Perm Press/W-n-W, and Knit had no sprays in the final spin. Kenmore followed the same pattern.
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Our 1970 Kenmore 800 had 4 spray rinses for both spins on Normal. The optional 2nd rinse had no additional spray rinses. [this post was last edited: 11/19/2024-14:11]
The spray rinses, especially in the first spin, were carefully controlled to a few second seach to achieve flushing of suds between the spin basket and the outer tub without generating more foam and flushing of the suds left on top of the load after the neutral drain. They did not do a big old honking one minute long spray rinse like Maytag and GE did. That would have suds locked it.
Neutral drain...
Was another reason one quickly fell out of love with WP convertible/portable.
Never in one's recent memory had one seen wash covered with so much muck and lint. This even with doing a second rinse, WP's famous "Magic Mix" lint filter/dispenser and all those spray rinses after wash and rinse cycles. Just felt as wash or rinse water was being strained through one's laundry.
Far as wash day drama few are better than WP's "Surgilator".
Was another reason one quickly fell out of love with WP convertible/portable.
Never in one's recent memory had one seen wash covered with so much muck and lint. This even with doing a second rinse, WP's famous "Magic Mix" lint filter/dispenser and all those spray rinses after wash and rinse cycles. Just felt as wash or rinse water was being strained through one's laundry.
Far as wash day drama few are better than WP's "Surgilator".
I've never seen a WP or KM belt-drive that did 3 sprays in either the first or last spin.
Our 1962 (LJA32VW00) did 4 sprays first spin (both Normal and Gentle). Two sprays in the final spin on Normal, none on Gentle. The timer was an oddball with 75-sec (1.25-min) increments.
Whirlpool washers, pulsed spray rinses
We're extremely effective if you were using a warm rinse which was common back in those days, the flow rate on a whirlpool belt drive machine was almost 10 gallons a minute, whereas machines like a Maytag that had a long spray rinse were only filling it a little over 3 gallons a minute so there was really quite a lot of water being thrown into the tub while it was spinning on a belt drive whirlpool.
So yes, if we're a pull, it had a one minute long spray rinse. It would've bogged down the spinning process very quickly because of the large volume of water.
Neutral drain versus spin drain I know this issue has been argued extensively but the facts are that every washer ever made that had the capability of a neutral drain. That's what the manufacturer designed into it because of its superior performance for getting dirt and lint out of clothing.
As everybody knows Speed Queen makes their top load washers for Canada and Australia with neutral drain because people don't use dryers as often and they would complain about the streaks of lint in their clothing if it's spun drain.
I'm sorry to have to rehash this, but that's the problem in a democracy If you don't stay vigilant, false rumors and information spread everybody can have their own opinion. That's great but the facts are what they are.
John
We're extremely effective if you were using a warm rinse which was common back in those days, the flow rate on a whirlpool belt drive machine was almost 10 gallons a minute, whereas machines like a Maytag that had a long spray rinse were only filling it a little over 3 gallons a minute so there was really quite a lot of water being thrown into the tub while it was spinning on a belt drive whirlpool.
So yes, if we're a pull, it had a one minute long spray rinse. It would've bogged down the spinning process very quickly because of the large volume of water.
Neutral drain versus spin drain I know this issue has been argued extensively but the facts are that every washer ever made that had the capability of a neutral drain. That's what the manufacturer designed into it because of its superior performance for getting dirt and lint out of clothing.
As everybody knows Speed Queen makes their top load washers for Canada and Australia with neutral drain because people don't use dryers as often and they would complain about the streaks of lint in their clothing if it's spun drain.
I'm sorry to have to rehash this, but that's the problem in a democracy If you don't stay vigilant, false rumors and information spread everybody can have their own opinion. That's great but the facts are what they are.
John
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