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Post# 407909   1/21/2010 at 00:43 (5,180 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        

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This came in to the pile the other day. I'm still trying to figure out what was the idea behind it...

RCD





Post# 407917 , Reply# 1   1/21/2010 at 00:55 (5,180 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)        

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Maybe to stop abusers from using it or to keep children out?

Post# 407940 , Reply# 2   1/21/2010 at 05:32 (5,180 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York)        
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Thou shall not covert thy neighbors washer at day nor by night.


Post# 407943 , Reply# 3   1/21/2010 at 06:19 (5,180 days old) by toggleswitch2 ()        

Illegal basement tenants who to go to their own apartment go through your laundry room?

Had friends who rented a place like that. Torture to see it, but then not be allowed to use it




Post# 408052 , Reply# 4   1/21/2010 at 13:04 (5,180 days old) by amyswasher ()        

I'm going with Toggles on this.

Post# 408056 , Reply# 5   1/21/2010 at 13:09 (5,180 days old) by drewz (Alexandria, Virginia)        

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Common laundry rooms in many apartments allow people to bring and used their own laundry equipment, yet other residents tend to use their neighbors hence the lock to keep neighbors from using their equipment.

Post# 408062 , Reply# 6   1/21/2010 at 13:34 (5,180 days old) by amyswasher ()        

Had a step-grandmother(Widow before marrying my grandfather) had a husband put a lock on the washer to make sure nobody used it unless he was there. When he died that thing was out the door, fast.

Post# 408145 , Reply# 7   1/21/2010 at 18:07 (5,180 days old) by fridgiman ()        

Keeps the kids from getting out when you're washing them.

Post# 408334 , Reply# 8   1/22/2010 at 09:12 (5,179 days old) by mynameismiele ()        
Keeps the kids from getting out when you're washing them

Yeah that is a good one :D
Maybe they where in a appartment with more people and they tend to abuse the machine.


Post# 408782 , Reply# 9   1/23/2010 at 18:28 (5,177 days old) by supersurgilator (Indiana)        

I'm surprised you got such a nice newer machine, what was wrong with it do u know?

Post# 409632 , Reply# 10   1/26/2010 at 10:25 (5,175 days old) by amyswasher ()        

Had an 80 series(I think it's one step below this). It started leaving black oil drops on the clothes four years after we bought it. I know it was a fluke. After that a Whirlpool(same thing, different name) 6 years later thing started going squirly, which is probably what happened here. Not broken completely, but not as reliable as it once was.

Post# 409989 , Reply# 11   1/27/2010 at 14:51 (5,174 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)        
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I moved into a place that had a Filter Flo. Replaced the fill solenoid. The owner told me to put a lock on the Laundry Room Door. Back in the day (1989) there was no Laundromat in P'Town. So you sent it out or drove 25 miles or so to Orleans.
Back to the story. People in town that I knew heard that I had a washer and dryer. They would stop by and ask if they could use it. I had to say no. I was in the basement studio.The Laundry was upstairs. I woke up the next morning to see the septic overflowing on my terrace. I went upstairs and someone actually broke the window in the Laundry Room and did Wash all night.
Needless to say after that, The machines were removed. Talk about Desperate Living !!!


Post# 411219 , Reply# 12   1/31/2010 at 12:17 (5,170 days old) by spinmon (st. charles mo )        
another reason

We have a 14 year old 90 series pair that still looks and operates as new. Slightly different as ours has only the 2nd rinse opt on the middle knob. I'm sure you guys are correct about 'non-authorized use' being the reason for the nasty lock. Or maybe the owner had bozo young-ins who liked to lift the lid at neutral drain,causing strained spin-up/shorter life. F@#%&!* kids! Prolly not,but I just wanted to chime in! Got my eye on a new Speed Queen tol TL,but our KMs keep 'walsing through washday'.

Post# 411246 , Reply# 13   1/31/2010 at 13:35 (5,170 days old) by amyswasher ()        

They probably traded up. Good luck putting a padlock on a front loader. Seem like to lock a front loader you would half-to buy a bar to go across the whole door and screw it in on either side of the washer.


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