Today's POD: Seven rinses & suds saver?

[Cybrvanr]

Wow, seven rinses, that is great...won't be any soap residue left on those clothes! The thing I thought was odd however was that this washer is equipped with a suds saver, yet has that many rinses. I thought the idea of a suds saver was to reduce water consumption...but seven rinses sort of blows that though out of the water I guess you could say!

The other question is that this machine is equpped with a UV lamp too. I'm wondering how that was installed. I always thought that water would block UV radiation pretty quickly and a washer full of water wouldn't allow the UV radiation to make it to the clothes.

That is definitely an interesting machine in the ad. Any you you guys have one of those?

 

[Unimatic1140]

No one that we know of has the very first Whirlpool washer in their collection and now it would be a great find. I did find one once many years ago at an estate sale and now I'm sorry I didn't buy it, but it was very rusted out and needed major work.

 

[DADoES]

Seven rinses, of course, means four sprays in the first spin, one deep rinse, and two sprays in the final spin. 4 + 1 + 2 = 7

The UV lamp was a sales gimmick to draw in the housewife accustomed to hanging her laundry outdoors for drying.

 

[frigilux]

My 1959 Lady Kenmore had an ultraviolet lamp in addition to an interior tub light. The ultraviolet light made the layer of suds glow/reflect brilliantly. The light may not have been strong enough to do what the manufacturer claimed, but it was worth it just to see the suds "pop".

If it was seven DEEP rinses----could you imagine the water/energy bill, since I'm guessing this machine defaulted to a warm rinse---not to mention the wear and tear on clothing? It would be like putting each load through 3-1/2 complete cycles. You'd run out of hot water halfway through one load.

A machine like that would make the double wash/extra rinse GE Dispensall look positively frugal, LOL.

 

[tomturbomatic]

And those were tiny, short sprays of about 8 seconds, not like the longer Maytag spray rinse.

 

[DADoES]

And then the later models had even shorter sprays, maybe 4 seconds.

 

[agiflow]

Does anyone know if WP throughout their 38 years of the BD design always had the seven rinses?

 

[neptunebob]

Taking a cue from Disney....

I suspect that Whirlpool wanted "Suds Miser and the 7 Rinses" to have a nice ring to it, just like "Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs", the Disney movie that came out around that time. I suspect 6 of the rinses were the spray rinses.

 

[gmmcnair]

To agiflow...

....every belt drive machine that I encountered from the late 50's all the way thru the 80's had that same spray rinse sequence....although the later models had a shorter rinse.

 

[rickr]

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Oh! I just couldn't live without all seven!! I live for every one of them

 

[rickr]

the power of marketing...

The fifth, the deep rinse. The water is clear enough to drink, and we have two more rinses to go....

 

[rickr]

For items like heavy towels, this does not work as well. Other than that as far as I am concerned, these are great machines.

(PS I really do not live for the seven <

 

[agiflow]

Thank you gmmcnair.

Rick, i just love that machine of yours. Too bad WP did not hang on to that center dial design for a while longer. For me personally i think this style and the 58 WP timeline Imperials were WP at it's best style wise.

 

[peteski50]

Whirlpool!

Rick,
I love the Whirlpool model you have. I do also wish they would have kept that center dial design. That is really a clear rinse, what type of soap was used?
Peter

 

[rickr]

Hi Pete, I had used Purex liquid for that load.

 

[golittlesport]

Hi Rick
What a beautiful, colorful picture of your Whirpool in action! Looks just like an ad from 1958.

 

[frigilux]

Rick-- The picture in post 153998 is probably my all-time favorite at AW. The colors are so deep and saturated and the water looks inviting. And I do love the waterfall lint filter. Our '60 KM had it too---they're sleek. Rich is right---it could be an ad for the machine. Gorgeous.

 

[rickr]

thanks guys! It is only gym clothes and underwear in a 56 Whirlpool. It's not the diamond, it's the "setting" lol!!

 

[mickeyd]

Hi Guys

I have WP BD LDA6900 J0 and i just steppped into the garage and fired her up and counted just to be sure because i knew there were more than 7 rinses. This model has 9: 4 sprays after the wash; one deep rinse; 4 sprays after the deep.

I am always impressed at the way you know what year your machine was made. This baby is old. She has the double cooldown on Permanent Press and one cooldown on Knits. You can hear all of her wonderful noises especially the snap of the pipes after each spray all through the first floor of the house.

Rick,I remember when you first showed that load, and it was so cool looking and you said something funny like : "I had no idea my gym short could be so interesting."

Tommyturbo, I timed the sprays for you; they are exactly six seconds each. That's 56 seconds almost tie with Maytag's Norge's and GE's 60 seconds.

 

[frigilux]

Mickeyd-- The Kenmore Model 80 (1960) I grew up with also had four sprays in each spin. First spin: 2 minutes with water going out the suds-saver hose. Then you'd hear the 'clunk' of the pump valve shifting to the other drain hose, followed by 4 spray rinses. Final spin: Four sprays in the first two minutes, then 4 more minutes of spin (in the whites/colors cycles).