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Post# 414618   2/11/2010 at 21:50 (5,158 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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Post# 414641 , Reply# 1   2/12/2010 at 00:07 (5,158 days old) by strongenough78 (California)   |   | |
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Post# 414663 , Reply# 3   2/12/2010 at 04:10 (5,158 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York)   |   | |
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Post# 414671 , Reply# 4   2/12/2010 at 05:25 (5,158 days old) by alr2903 (TN)   |   | |
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Cleanteamofny, Togs ain't gonna let your post, just lay there. :-) alr2903 |
Post# 414701 , Reply# 5   2/12/2010 at 07:11 (5,158 days old) by aldspinboy (Philadelphia, Pa)   |   | |
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Post# 414727 , Reply# 6   2/12/2010 at 10:08 (5,158 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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This just proves the theory by so many Maytag Repairmen.... the machine was designed to "give way" to a load to sacrifice the motor and trans....rather than truly perform it's function...that's why they lasted so long...and another reason you could not watch it with the lid open...then you would realize that certain loads like jeans were slowing it down rather than make the clothes move around like in a GE filter flo or a Speed Queen....He also stated why most blue collar guys and farmers never bought Maytags...they wanted a truly Heavy Duty machine that could handle the load...that's just the way it is....all machines have pros and cons....and good salesmen will match the machine to the user for the majority of the type of laundry they are washing... some repairmen are full of information....same when buying a machine or a car...talk to the mechanic...not the salesman! |
Post# 414729 , Reply# 7   2/12/2010 at 10:16 (5,158 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York)   |   | |
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Post# 414843 , Reply# 9   2/12/2010 at 21:13 (5,157 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)   |   | |
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My A300 has the old black Bakelite agitator and is VERY aggressive. It has a slower stroke than the machines introduced with a Powerfin. I Think the Powerfin really comes into it's own with the Extra Capacity tub. It really does do a great job with the large loads. |
Post# 414947 , Reply# 10   2/13/2010 at 07:44 (5,157 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 415004 , Reply# 11   2/13/2010 at 11:10 (5,157 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Any washer ever made will do a good job cleaning if you work with it. That said MTs have always been sub-par in over all cleaning performance. They didn't get it right until they came up with the load sensor agitator and moved the belt tension springs to the same side of the motor carriage to reduce the constant belt slippage during agitation with heavy loads. When I was selling appliances at a MT red carpet service store in the 1970s if a had a dollar for every customer who told us that thier new MT didn't clean as well as thier old WP SQ GE KM NOGRE MW etc a would have several hundred dollars. MT was always passing out free stain removal cards and telling people to use more chorine bleach. I re member one women from an Italian neborhood who bought a new MT from us and was so disappointed with its cleaning performance that I took it back and sold her aWP LAA5500 washer which she liked so well she kept sending all her friends in to get one also.It was a neborhood full of blue collar tile setters and masons etc.llllllllllllllllll
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Post# 415067 , Reply# 14   2/13/2010 at 14:34 (5,157 days old) by gadgetgary (Bristol,CT)   |   | |
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Post# 415246 , Reply# 16   2/14/2010 at 02:47 (5,156 days old) by alr2903 (TN)   |   | |
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Bobby, was that the circa 1966, 1967 machine that had 8 vanes 4 vanes and 4 "speed bumps"? alr2903 |
Post# 415270 , Reply# 18   2/14/2010 at 06:24 (5,156 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia)   |   | |
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Post# 415271 , Reply# 19   2/14/2010 at 06:27 (5,156 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia)   |   | |
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Post# 415272 , Reply# 20   2/14/2010 at 06:28 (5,156 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)   |   | |
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Love that look with the white agitator and SS. |
Post# 415297 , Reply# 21   2/14/2010 at 08:27 (5,156 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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"Is the base of the agitator bigger in my 108 than in my 806? I know the agitator for the 806 is taller, but is the base wider in the small capacity tub?" The answer to both of those questions is , no. The white and blue tubs are the same diameter as are the agitators. In fact they're interchangeable AFAIC. The newer agitators in the 1990's models with the extra fins have narrower bases and are overall IMHO, inferior agitators. What I was told by one of the docents on this site, and I've seen myself, is that the water distributor cone underneath the old bakelite agitator really shoots a powerful stream of water from underneath the agitator that the later powerfins don't have. Instead, the water recirculates out of the lint filter column from four openings above the fins. It does make a difference. And as far as I'm concerned, as much as I love and respect Wash Power Maytags, they couldn't hold a candle to the early Filter-Flo's(before the asinine straight vane activators)with respect to effective agitation. And Tom, I so agree with you about Consumer Reports; how they missed that is beyond me. I think their "scientific method" needed to be rated by an independent organization. |
Post# 415815 , Reply# 23   2/15/2010 at 19:20 (5,154 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Post# 415819 , Reply# 24   2/15/2010 at 19:27 (5,154 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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Post# 415965 , Reply# 25   2/16/2010 at 06:38 (5,154 days old) by bobbyderegis (Boston)   |   | |
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I've seen plenty of muck under all brands of agitators. The newer Tag poly agitators have a hole already. Bobby in Boston |
Post# 415977 , Reply# 26   2/16/2010 at 07:58 (5,154 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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In fairness to Maytags, that picture was taken the day I got that set home and the moment I was able to remove it from the agitator drive post. Also, like many Maytag owners I've encountered(including my sister) the owner/operator of this Maytag was one of those housewives who never bothered to remove the lint filter to clean it(or maybe never even knew it was there) so a lot of the "muck" was from poor maintenance followed by years of no use. One of the reasons I'm interested in vintage washers is I remember the angle that raised me and did our laundry would regularly pull out the activator on on V-12 and clean it, being very careful not to disturb the grease on the spline. A couple of years after she left it was permanently fused on. |