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Perm press cool down |
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Post# 404932 , Reply# 1   1/9/2010 at 23:45 (5,192 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 404946 , Reply# 2   1/10/2010 at 03:22 (5,192 days old) by rapunzel (Sydney)   |   | |
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...still does the partial drain and re-fill. It also fills and agitates with the lid open. |
Post# 404953 , Reply# 3   1/10/2010 at 05:38 (5,191 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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My Whirlpool partially drains, pauses for about a minute, then fills with cold water, agitates for a minute or so, then drains totally. Oh then there are three spray rinses before the deep rinse. How is that for "Cool Down Care"? "Whirlpool has so many ways to get you through your busy day.. Whirlpool!" |
Post# 404995 , Reply# 5   1/10/2010 at 08:41 (5,191 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 405072 , Reply# 6   1/10/2010 at 12:22 (5,191 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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If one washes in cold, cool or even perhaps warm water, then the PP cycle becomes less necessary. Polyester and the rest of the man made fiber lot are thermoplastic textiles. Thus if one washed such items in hot water and then spun at once, whatever wrinkles created by the wash cycle and certainly the spin, would be "set" by the heat. A final cold rinse would seal the deal, and there you have it, "permanent" pressed wrinkles that no amount of ironing or tumble drying would remove. The above is also the rationale for long cool down cycles on dryer's PP setting. You want to make sure such items are at room temperature ( or below) to prevent wrinkles from being heat set. |
Post# 405106 , Reply# 7   1/10/2010 at 14:15 (5,191 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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My 2006 Frigidaire top=loader has no perm-press cool-down. There is a 20-second cold spin-spray in every cycle. This is a worst case scenario for perm press items. The machine is almost always up to speed when the spray takes place, so the items are compressed first, then sprayed with cold water, which sets in a million wrinkles---even when you choose a slow spin. I can't wash my perm-press catering/banquet tablecloths in the top-loader. They come out horribly wrinkled. That's the nice thing about my Frigidaire front-loader. Every cycle has an automatic cool-down at the end of the wash cycle via the suds-kill flush-out. I wash the banquet tablecloths in hot water on the Whites cycle, and they come out wrinkle-free thanks to the cold water suds kill before the first spin. |
Post# 405280 , Reply# 9   1/11/2010 at 01:53 (5,191 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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The ~10-years-old Kenmore 90 I refurbished recently does a Whirlpool "standard" partial-drain, refill, and agitate on its Permanent Press II cycle. It has a separate speed selection switch, and interestingly the timer does not force a slow-spin on PP ... it follows the switch selection. Look up a tech sheet at ServiceMatters.com and check the timer sequence chart to see what newer Whirly models do. |