Don't remember the '47 looking so mint.
Mike and Keven the I cosmetically restored the GE back in the summer of '06...
I don't have a warm rinse option on the TL Frigidaire.
In my basement its not whether the machines has a "warm rinse option", its whether it has a "cold rinse option" lol. I can't imagine a washer that didn't have a warm rinse, feh! Oh yea that GE Harmony of mine doesn't, but since I don't use it, it doesn't matter lol. Shhhhhh don't tell anyone, but on occasion I do something really naughty, I rinse in HOT. Oh I'm in trouble now.
Robert - when you find all those old soaps and detergents at estate sales and such, are they really still good after all these years?
Oh god yes, 90% of the boxes I find are perfecly usable. On occasion there is a clump or two, but that easily disloves. These boxes are almost always stored in nice cool dry basements which keeps everything inside intact. Sometimes you can tell if the basement had been damp over the years because the contents in the box is rock hard, but that is very unusual, the humidity in my basement this time of year runs around 20% to 25%.
There was many a time when I peeked inside during a warm wash and huge clumps of undissoled soap were floating on top.
Steve there we clumps of undissolved soap at first, but it all dissolved in the hot water pretty fast after agitation began and some of the clumps went through the holes at the top of the agitator which sent them through the recirculation pump and back through the lint filter screens, so I was clump free in no time. When the GE was designed all they had to wash clothes was soap.
Fabric softeners were around since about the 1940's
Very cool information Laundress, I never use fabric softener on my towels because it makes the less absorbent over time, but I wonder if using soap and washing them in very hot water prevents this build-up? By the way the very first rinse cycle Fabric Softener I believe was introduced by NuSoft in 1956.
