Tub index

[washman]

Modern SQ indexes

when new.

Here's my first vid uploaded right after I got the machine



Next, dozens of cycles later:



As you can see, the indexing has settled down quite a bit. Only on the heaviest cotton blanket loads does it index and even then, it is very slight.

 

[cammurray22]

A golden oldie.

The older models wash better than the newer machines of today. The older work better too. Here's a pic:

 

[kenmoreguy89]

That's for sure camMURRAY22, I of course agree ......but why a pic of a fan?

 

[ovrphil]

Comments

I love that SQ indexing, even if other non-indexing washers get clothes as clean. I can't imagine this idea not helping out with certain stains, dirt and fabric types/combinations. Anyways, thanks for posting the video - I learned something new.

 

[thefixer]

"No Washer manufacturer ever set out to design a washer tub that indexed during agitation"

So, your saying the Whirlpool VMW (DD replacement), whose tub indexes significantly due to the planetary gearing and no braking at all, is not designed to do that?

 

[mrb627]

Clarification

I believe what he meant to say is that no manufacturer ever decided at the design phase to produce a machine that would positively index the tub. Of course, marketing research to determine if their was ever a manufacturer (WCI) proclaiming any benefit to a rotating wash action...

I always thought the indexing tub in the WCI machines helped take the strain of agitation off of the transmission. In an overloaded condition, I have seen those tubs really move...

Malcolm

 

[washman]

The WCI

"stacker" that mom and dad had briefly in FL when they moved it indexed like a beast.
It also cleaned like an-about-to-be-fired maid. In other words, not well. They used it because, well it was there. But once it gave up the ghost, Dad got an Amanatag from Lowes. Along with an Amanatag gas dryer, that amazingly, still works!

 

[thefixer]

"I believe what he meant to say is that no manufacturer ever decided at the design phase to produce a machine that would positively index the tub."

Well, the tub in a VMW machine moves back and forth significantly during the wash cycle and it is obviously designed to do this. Whether you can call this indexing or not is a matter of semantics I guess. If we refer to indexing to mean a tub moving when it shouldn't be then I guess the term doesn't apply to the VMW as it clearly is supposed to rotate back and forth during the agitation cycle.

 

[cammurray22]

Pic of Galaxy Box Fan

Just to let you know that I love using the older stuff. I had that fan and my dryer since 1982. Me and my appliances are 32, the more you take care of your stuff the longer it lasts. Just like these Unimacs at my job in the laundry. Here's Big Troy:

 

[cammurray22]

The other 3:

washers Lil Troy, Rose, and Esther:

 

[ovrphil]

I love that you name your dryers (and washers?).