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What happened to the Maytag top load TL washer with the rotating "disc agitators"?? Are they still in production or have they been pulled?

Does anyone have one? And does anyone have any video of it in operation??

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a friend of mine in the industry tells me.........

There were several incidences with this model damaging clothing. Since Maytag is still a little "gun shy" from the class action settlement regarding their first generation Neptune machines, they yanked the plug on this little gem.
 
I have one...they're a little different. Some things you just can't wash in it. The lid locks when you start the cycle so I have never seen it operate other than when a tech was working on it he lifted the upper cover while it was washing.
 
Maytag TL Neptune - Weird concept

I thought that was the toploader Neptune. It didn't look promising to me. Pity, I wonder if the departure from their workhorse machines, and basic design is what contributed to the aquisition by WP, (ugh ugh ugh!). Just today I called a Maytag dealer and found I could still get the only Dependable Care washer that's still in the channel for $599.00 I'm tempted to spend it and replace my newly purchased WP TL. I miss my old Maytag!

Anyway, the other weird concept to me was the Calypso washer, which I think was WP and Kenmore. Not quite like the Cabrio. Does anyone have video of the Calypso?
 
Oh, I didn't expect that. Nice and sudsy and splashy.

On the down side: why do I envision a tangled, twisted load of laundry at cycle end?
 
Video

Wow, that update must have gone up at the same time I was posting. It looks like a Kitchen-Aid mixer kneading bread dough. I also kind-of expected that the tub would also alternate back and forth a bit.

How well does this machine rinse?
 
Does any one have a model number so i can see if maytag has the owners manual online?

@ expolder - You've got mail :)

(As a matter of fact, I have 300 MB worth of manuals stored on my HD... and almost 900 MB of "See It Wash" videos I downloaded from aw.org and YouTube *oy*)

Alex
 
Downloads from YouTube....

Hello all.... thanks much for all the info on this (dare I say, failed) Maytag!!! The video was very interesting.... THANKS!! I would not think one can wash very large loads in it though.... but who knows.

Alex... how does one download videos from YouTube?? I have tried (thought not aggressively).

Thank again!!!
Kevin
 
MAYTAG is now owned by Whirlpool???????

WOW.... when did this aquisition occur?????????? Maybe I have been under my rock too long!! LOL

This little video link has nothing to do with washers... but about one company (AT&T) owning everything... maybe it's the same as WP taking over Maytag?? If you haven't seen it, it's quite funny none the less....

 
The Neptune TL in the video was one I found sitting behind Lowes one day, worked perfectly. It was missing the model/serial tag so I'm sure it was credited back for some reason. The washer holds a huge load - more than you'd expect and in fact, it washes much better when loaded full than with small loads. It does a great job cleaning but trips and falls when the rinses start - not very impressive at all. The washer has trouble balancing the load for spin sometimes and between wash & rinses, will sometimes have to give up and skip a spin altogether which impairs it's rinsing ability even more. It was a great idea that might have been a popular choice for a top-loading HE machine if it had more time to "evolve" and get the bugs worked out but alas, Whirlpool swooped in and gobbled up Maytag (saving it from bankruptcy and aquisition by Haier) so this machine is now history. It's a great example of the last completely American design of a top loading washer.
 
Yes Kevin, it is quite sad. Are you a Maytag fan?

Yes... I like the older Maytag's.... grew up with a pink 1963 or 1964 model (had a backlit console and a tub light, cool!!), otherwise not really wild about them since they introduced the Neptune front loader and their other models have gotten so generic (they no longer LOOK like a Maytag).

On that note… I'm going to create another post about a friend that had problems with his Neptune and what I did to help him with it....
 
I imagine that rinsability would not be very good in this disc type of machine due to the fact the clothing appears to remain wadded up in a ball.
I could just imagine a string of some kind from an article of clothing getting stuck behind one of the discs.... like when washing a riding hood.
 
Kevin,

That AT&T clip was sent to me by a friend who knows where I work and what I do. Suffice it to say it really hits home. And the crazy part of that little piece is that he didn't even mention the entire list of "baby bells" that were swallowed up by the swaggering SBC cowboys. It's also incorrect to show the entire country as AT&T territory since Verizon (previously known as GTE) was the largest phone company in the US up until AT&T ate Bell South less than a month ago. We also have the northwestern area of the country still being served by Qwest, which neither AT&T or Verizon wants to touch since that company is soooo messed up mangerially and financially, and a ton of small mom & pop phone companies serving rural and outlying areas all over the country. In California alone, the list of phone companies providing local exchange land line service is much longer than you might think.
 
not quite accurate....

Begging your pardon ahead of time, rp2813, but Verizon is not the company formerly known as GTE. It is the company that was formed from the merger of Bell Atlantic (one of the baby bells) and GTE.
 
not quite accurate

Begging your pardon in advance, rp2813, but Verizon is NOT the company formerly known as GTE. Verizon is the company formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic (one of the baby bells) and GTE.
 
Downloads from YouTube....

Well, AFAIK there are two possibilities:

- you can either search the video, after you've viewed it, somewhere in the Temporary Internet Files folder

or, which IMO is much easier

- you use mozilla Firefox and download an add-on called "VideoDownloader" (see link below) -> just click on the VideoDownloader button and you're done.

link: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/
 

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