Who???????????????????????????????????????

[mayken4now]

As we grow, some older and some wiser consider this:

1 - Who played with the water level on the washer, more frequent, the reset to put just a little more water in the tub beyond "Extra large" "Maxi" "Full" "Super"?

2 - Who would re-distributed the clothes and turn the timer for another spin, just to see how "damp dry" they could get the clothes before entering the dryer?

3 - Who used to sit against the washer to feel the spin from the cabinet?

4 - Who used to try and hault the agitator with thier hands, to see who had more strength?

5 - Who was head first in the machine before any clothes were tossed in?

6 - Who would take a "smell" of an empty washer tub to see if the detergent/softner fragrance was alive?

The answer to the above is I did it all!!!! LOL How about you guys and gals?

Steve

 

[DADoES]

1, 3, 4, 6.

2b. Redistribute to force as much off-balance as possible without 'walking' the machine.

5b. Stand in the basket and dance.

 

[tlee618]

The answer is yes to all 6!!

 

[tolivac]

1,4,5,6. #4 was especially helpful to see if the belts were good or adjusted properly.If you could stop the agitator easily-the belt would need attention.Try that with any washer I get.

 

[DADoES]

My F&Ps are kinda interesting on the #4 point. The agitator can be grabbed and easily pushed further on a stroke, but it can't be stopped or held still.

 

[gansky1]

Not me!! I just loaded, closed the lid (as the washer gods intended) and walked away. Ha! NO WAY! I was there for nearly every load... We had a BOL GE Filter-Flo growing up and it was good for hours of fun. My favorites:

See how the filter stream could be diverted up and over the agitator - or most any other possible direction.

How many cups of detergent does it take to make the lid raise up and spew suds down the front of the machine?? About 4.

How far would the washer walk spinning an off-balance load, pushing the dryer out of the way and stopping at the end of the hoses?? About 1 1/2 feet.

Did you know you can't spin a pair of blue socks in the filter pan? One will always fly out and into the outer tub.

Hours of fun!

 

[DADoES]

I lost a small comb (used for cleaning the brush filter) into the outer tub of the 1962 Whirlpool. Panic time! I managed to push it down through the basket perfs into the pump trap, where it lived for some years.

Also tried numerous times to make a mini-basket from various sized plastic bowls, diverting water into it from the MagicMix stream with a couple small hoses. Sock were problematic there as well, either floating/flopping out during agitation if the water flow and perforations weren't just right to prevent overflow, or flying out during spin.

And I won't even mention (oops) the time I tried to fashion a console light and melted a hole in it from the incandescent bulb. The *really* odd thing is that my dad didn't even get upset.

That poor machine had a rough life!

 

[foraloysius]

Since we had a frontloader things were a little different.

But I would indeed redistribute a load and give it another spin.

Sometimes playing with the water level by changing the programme selector to the delicate setting so water would be added.

Sitting in front of the machine and look at it wash, rinse and spin.

Playing with the water stream in the detergent dispenser (on top of the machine) during the fill.

Opening the detergent dispenser during a boil wash to get the really full smell of the Dixan detergent.

Open the door during the spin cycle and see how the drum stopped.

Playing with the timer, temperature control and the programme selector and imagining what to wash.

Clean out the lint filter, no self cleaning filters at that time! Take out the lint filter the next day again to see how much lint there had been collected.

Just doing a spin cycle with an empty washer when nobody was at home.

 

[toggleswitch]

Not so much #4. but....

1 I would love to open and close the lid or lid-switch on a old Whirl-more belt-drive with a wig-wag to hear the gears shift and engage & dis-engage!

2 I would hold the tub of our Norge after the brake solenoid was engaged (entered "spin") to get a neutral drain. I wonder why shortly afterwards it began to ooze oil into the washtub! LOL.

3 I bypassed a number of machines' safety lid swithces if they committd the mortal sin of having NO action with lid open [Maytag and a newer compact Kenmore (new design) computerized.]

4 Loved the sounds of my first washer- a GE shifting gears from low speed into high. Would shift the speeds constantly.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Post to fix and return to top of list please ignore, system error.

 

[jasonl]

WATER IN THE DRYER???

Whoa, now how did you get the water OUT of the dryer?

Being a Kenmore boy I used to sit on my grandma's Kenmore and repeatedly push the lid switch. I'd put the clothes all to one side and watch it bang bang bang across the floor.

And I wonder why I was so heartbroken when it was time to replace it.

 

[cehalstead]

guilty as charged

...did all of the above, plus I would lift the entire top of the Kenmore 900 washer, just so I could watch it spin.....always got caught when I "snapped" it back in place (very loud noise)..

 

[partscounterman]

Me too!

I did every thing you listed at the beginning of the thread!!!

I used to put socks in the barrel of the Maytag lint filter agitator to spin them. Not effective at all.

 

[mayken4now]

Water in the Dryer

jasonl, The water in the dryer was removed by leaking out through the vanes. Then I would take a towel and wipe out the rest. Like I said, if she knew it I would be dead. I did run the dryer on "AIR" not to start the heating element. Even at that age, I knew I could get perhaps shocked!!!!

Steve

 

[mayken4now]

cehalstead, Why

did we always, and I mean always, have to worry about getting caught?

I am 43yo now, will be 44 in November. Last week at my mothers house, I was helping her while she and Dad went out for a bit. she asked me to do some laundry. She knows my fettish. So they leave, and I start the machine(s) etc. Just as I wanted to see how this NorgeTag really would perform, they showed back up due to forgetting something. I felt my blood pressure rise, (the same feeling as when I was a child) WHY???????????????????????????? TOTAL GUILT FEELING

Steve

 

[jasonl]

Sigmund Freud would have a field day with us.

 

[cehalstead]

getting caught

Mayken4now:

I think the guilt was probably somewhat self-inflicted, but my Mother did come to realize that my laundry techniques were as good as hers. (Guess who taught me?) However, I could never convince my grandma that I wouldn't get hurt, rip off an arm, or otherwise kill myself watching her Frigidaire....and besides that, according to her, I was letting all the heat out of the water....

I sure am glad I have found this place, and know that I am not the only laundry lover around....there are more like me than I ever thought....

 

[SactoTeddyBear]

Re:

I did as they would say in a Multiple-Choice Test Answer, "D" all of the above, except for {#5} never happened with me. I especially {#4} loved to stop the Kenmore Agitator's while the Washer was Spinning, since they have the Neutral {out of gear} Free-Spin of the Agitator. I would especially love to stop the Agitator when the Laundry was Off-Balanced, so it would Shake me up like an Exercise Machine. {#2} I would actually Re-Distrubite the Load, to make the Washer Spin Off-Balanced, just to watch the Basket/Tub Wobble all around while Spinning. Has anyone ever noticed {I'm sure you have} while the Washer starts the Spin and increases and decreases Speed at the beginning and end, how the Agitator looks like it starts slower than the Basket/Tub and also looks like it is Spinning the opposite direction for a short time?

Peace, Happy "Agitation" and "Spin" Watching, Steve
SactoTeddyBear...

 

[agiflow]

Yes to all six

I can remember my brother stopping the agitator with his hand on my mother's Kenmore. It was pretty easy because you could get a grip on those old black bakelite straight vanes.

I tried to do that on the Norge burp-up that came after and never managed to do it, too powerful and that knobby agitator hurts the hands. But i was young when i tried it.

With an unbalanced load, the Norge would slow down and compensate for the out of balance,..not a lot of loud banging.

With the DD machines i have had, there was not that many unbalanced loads at all.

Speaking of laundry, i have a pile to get to now.

Happy washing
Pat