Thanks for posting. Decades ago, after a Washington Post article about our appliance collection, we were called by the son of a recently deceased woman in Arlington, VA who was a German war bride. The house was a museum of carefully used household goods with many of the small electrics stored in their original boxes. Her Bendix Automatic Home Laundry looked like new after more than 40 years of use with no stains, scum, rust or mineral deposits anywhere. He told us of seeing her carefully wipe the area of the soap trap and, indeed, the whole machine, inside and out, dry after each washday. He said that she was very impressed by the wonderful consumer goods she encountered in America.
