Anyone else in the group unhappy with some of the modern washers and the operation of "no clean lint filters". I find that even though I closely sort, etc., I pick up way more lint than I did with my old GE Filter Flo.

Most of the "linting" complaints I've heard come from Maytag Toploader owners -Atlantis, and the herrin built performa machines.

What Kine you got?

I have a ge profile...stainless steel tub....

I'm still trying to find the lint filter on those and Magic chef/Jenn Air Norge machines.....

They don't have a lint filter on the Norge/Magic Chef Herrin design Maytags. They claim that the graduated holes in the tub get rid of lint. (yah, right)

I thought the GE have a self cleaning filter under the agitator like the whirlmores and the dependable care maytags, but I could be wrong

well from what i read they are to have a built in filter. However, doesn't seem to do as good of a job as the old GE filter flo... .Cleaning the lint was never an issue for me....

I always wonder and even looked at Sears.com under parts to see the diagram for that Jenn Air/Norge and the filter was no-where to be found. So those perforated holes was the filter? They may be right, sis is not complaining about linting at all!

Well, she wasn't MY customer, but my co-worker at Sears helped her. She started with the top of the line Maytag Insignia (Sears version of Atlantis), had linting probs. So she returned it and got the next model down. She went through 4 machines and either she decided to put up with it or she's happy-I dunno. You would think after machine 2 she would try something besides Maytag.

This is an isolated case and the woman was a bit nutZ

GE does have a fine mesh "screen" in the bottom of the tub. I suppose, in theory, it does stop some lint from being recirculated in the wash & rinse water but I'll bet the organisms living in the honeycomb cels on the outside of the wash basket reach out and snatch themselves a lint-snack which is probably just as effective. ;-)

IMHO, self-cleaning filter "rings" or screens under the tub don't do as good a job filtering as an agitator-mounted "passive" filter or a recirculating filter, and from what I've read, front-loaders tend to remove more lint than top-loaders. The Westinghouse FL tested in CR's 1991 report was judged "Excellent" at "Linting". In the Maytag, the majority of the lint gets trapped in the agitator-mounted filter rather than the self-cleaning screen below the tub, however, that is due to the fact that the Power-Fin doesn't have (or need for that matter) "pumping" vanes to move the water through the screen like the LoadSensor does. I sort clothes into 4 groups (dark jeans & pants; shirts & "other" darks; lights; whites) so there's not an obvious linting problem. However, I still like to see how much lint the washer traps.

Fred, I don't see why your GE Filter-Flo wasn't good at picking up lint. "Linting" was "Very Good" in CR's 1991 automatic washer tests, plus it had a recirculating filter, not a self-cleaning one, so you could see how much stuff was caught in it after the wash. How can you determine the amount of lint being picked up by your current machine if you sort?

From my experiences, the dryer removes the most lint though.

--Austin

GE filter flo was the best at capturing lint and easy to clean. Downside was churning water always makes for suds up, and you have to remove the pan to get to the clothes.

Austin
you misunderstood me. I said my old filter flo was excellent at lint removal and it never bothered me to clean the filter manually.

Austin
you misunderstood me. I said my old filter flo was excellent at lint removal and it never bothered me to clean the filter manually.

Austin
you misunderstood me. I said my old filter flo was excellent at lint removal and it never bothered me to clean the filter manually.

Hmm. When I was visiting my folks back East at Christmas, I stayed at my Mom's place, and ran a couple of loads through her new Maytag TL and matched dryer. Noticed a decent amount of lint stuck to my shirts even after the dryer got done with them.

GE Filter Flo: I think that was the one we had when I was a little kid. There was a circular white plastic thing that we'd stick on top of the agitator, that was perforated with lots of tiny holes. We'd put the detergent in there, and the recirculated wash water would dissolve it into the load. Then at the end we'd always find little round lint balls in there, which were easy enough to take out. Anyway, seems to me that's the most sensible way to deal with lint, and all the more so because the lint gets balled up due to the movement of the lint filter along with the agitator.

To me the best lint filtering systems are:

Recirculating (any configuration)

in agitator (burp-up or Maytag-style)

Any other system just doesn't move enough water in the time alloted to make a difference.