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POD, 8/10/07 Maytag Lint Filter Agitator 		[Down to Last]

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Post# 229222   8/10/2007 at 05:51 (6,096 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

First, a question: What's with the Rinse Conditioner Dispenser they list as a feature in the smaller print under the picture of the pair?
Second, Notice the large area, maybe slightly exagerated, between the drain holes (I guess that with the filter in the agitator, these were no longer the lint remover holes Maytag used to advertise) on the side of the tub and the row of holes at the bottom. This is what gives such great rollover when paired with a Power Fin Agitator. The currents coming off the lower part of the agitator hit this solid portion of the tub and are almost totally deflected upwards unlike in the more modern tubs with holes all the way down the tub and even in the curve to the bottom.




Post# 229532 , Reply# 1   8/11/2007 at 01:08 (6,096 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA)        

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Since that tub looks just like a Kenmore tub, maybe Maytag had to change the later tubs so as to not get in trouble with Sears.

Post# 229541 , Reply# 2   8/11/2007 at 02:35 (6,096 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Tom, I think John has the A900 Maytag with the add-on softener dispenser that fits over the agitator. I have a couple of them for the skinny-post agitators, but have never found one for the lint-filter agitator.

Post# 230478 , Reply# 3   8/14/2007 at 13:32 (6,092 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Greg, Thank you. I remember that now that you mentioned it, but I had never seen one before the one John has. I guess information that did not go in early is less likely to be stored in the prime memory areas and is more out in the boonies where things fall off the edge of the earth. It's a symptom of the CRAA syndrome: Can't Remember Anything Anymore.

Bob, No, they changed the pattern of holes in the tub when they brought out the power fin agitator. The old high fin Gyrators had the solid section of tub right within the area of the fins. It is a given that all of the wash force in a vintage Maytag is created by the 4 fins at the bottom of the tub, without any vanes, either straight or curved, above the 4 fins to help move the clothes. This is neither that radical nor completely different from other top loaders. You know how well Maytag conventional washers with the wide, shallow tub turned over the load? The high fin worked best when the currents it created had a lot of room to move sideways so the waves of water had the strength and momentum to carry the clothes up the side of the tub and then get pushed/pulled under at the Gyrator. Also in the wide tub, the high fins had the tub width to move a great deal of water away from the base of the agitator with each stroke, allowing the clothes and water above to be pulled into the recently emptied space. All of this has to do with the wave pattern the high fins produced. In the narrow tub in the automatic, the high fin design was much less successful than in the conventional washers. The narrow tub did not allow the wide sideways currents to develop. The section of the tub with no holes opposite the fins was a way to trying to convert the wide wave into an upward water current to carry the items up the side of the tub and then take them under in the center, but the distance between the edge of the high fin and the tub wall was not sufficient for the wave to develop or strengthen. The high fin Gyrator had fins that emerged from the center post at the height of the outside edge of the fins. The Power Fin agitator had fins that emerged from the center post higher and then curved down so that they were much lower at the end of the skirt. Starting the fins higher on the agitator and tapering them down at the edge of the skirt helped create currents that pushed the items up the tub wall somewhat better. The GE solid tub Filter Flo washers had a slightly similar agitator, but with 3 fins. The Power Fins were more successful than the high fins in the narrow tub of the automatic because the Power Fins were not taking up as much space nor were the power fins interfering with the upward movement of the clothes. In the automatics, the high fins often produced more of a side to side movement with larger loads instead of a roll over. The best evidence of this is to be seen in the white tub of a high fin washer that has had LOTS of use. The white porcelain will often be completely worn down to the blue porcelain in the area of the tub directly opposite the high fins on the Gyrator.

Does anyone remember reading in the Maytag Home Laundry Encyclopedia that moving water through the clothes was more important than moving the clothes through the water?
While they would not admit it, both are needed for best results. That was written when they made only top loaders that did not move the clothes a lot and they hid the action beneath the safety lid. As soon as Maytag could put an auger "Load Sensing" agitator in their top loaders to help move the clothes, they did. However when Maytag "invented" the horizontal axis washer with the Neptune, the literature was changed to read that it was more important to move the clothes through the water than the water through the clothes. That was the spin before the real spin.


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