I wish I could say it's getting better, but it's only getting worse by the minute.
When did Maytag start to go bad?
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I think when Maytag switched to the orbital mechanism from the helical, long stroke system is when I first observed them not performing as well. Good rollover of items like jeans and sheets was always a Maytag deficiency and the orbital action only made it worse. When they later added a dual action agitator it helped quite a bit. Maybe that's why they never let their customer watch the wash action, even in their ill-fated Neptune front-loaders.
Technically, the long-stroke transmission is known as pitman. Both are helical drive.
People from a young age are conditioned to follow and believe a leader, no matter what. On one hand people are taught their old appliances are bad, wasteful ugly ect on the other how great and progressive new appliances are.
If everyone was like me there would've been an epidemic of people asking for tech sheets and bring screw drivers to the sales for refusing to buy anything with more than an ATC board.
This is what I think set Maytag back, along with the short wash-time. People should've acknowledge what the design was, but demanded a better agitator.
There is member on here who put a 50Hz pulley on their machine along with a load sense agitator which dramatically improved the performance of their machine. The machine did appear to struggle with the straight fin agitator and 50Hz pulley being present at the same time.
In any case, a larger motor like a 3/4 or 1HP would ideally complement the 50Hz pulley. There is space for a larger motor on a DC. The combo of the 3 would've rivaled Whirlpool and its what people like me would've asked from Maytag.
