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Thread Number: 30230
Maytag sudsaver without paying for it |
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Post# 458444 , Reply# 1 8/22/2010 at 11:11 (4,993 days old) by gansky1  (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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If you pulled the plug in the tub, you wouldn't risk overflowing the washer during the rinse cycle but then would lose the wash-water.
If my grandmother knew about that reverse pumping action during agitation, she would have used it. Even with a metered fill machine, you could fill to low water level and suck the rest of the water back into the machine once agitation began. Not full water savings, but better than none. She had a complex system of plastic tubs and processes for reusing the wash water in her Highlander, fishing the clothes out of the water and resetting to wash the next load. Not sure why she didn't just buy the suds-saver machine to begin with. | ||
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Post# 458451 , Reply# 2 8/22/2010 at 11:37 (4,993 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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I have an Aunt that does the same thing sort-of.....a little complicated to follow at first, but you can get the hang of her method......there is no laundry tub, just a drain port sticking out of the wall, which feeds her superb flower garden...
she uses 2 top loaders, a (1)white-westinghouse and a (2)maytag.....she washes in machine 1 and drains into number 2, after the first spin is done, clothes are taken out of machine 1, set aside, and then the hose from machine 2 is placed into machine 1 to return the wash water, the washed clothes are then placed into machine 2 for the rinse and final spin, and another load is started in machine 1.....you have to stay and monitor the whole process, and yes a few times she has loss track of them and flooded the floor...... I have done the same process with a wringer machine, I save the wash water from the FL and use it to wash shop rags or the dogs blankets....but just the same you have to be there when the first spin stops and move the hose to the laundry tub....probably the best would be to just wash all the loads in the wringer and transfer to the FL for a rinse and spin many different methods can be done, find which works best for you and the equipment you have | ||
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Post# 458480 , Reply# 3 8/22/2010 at 15:16 (4,993 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Watering the garden Martin, is there a reason why she just does not start the second load in washer #2? I have a 30 gallon container with a submersible pump into which I drain the rinse water from my toploaders so I can pump the water out onto the yard through an unused dryer vent. | ||
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Post# 458507 , Reply# 4 8/22/2010 at 17:15 (4,992 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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she only has the one drain pipe, and its behind the water softener system, and up high, so she has a milk crate she steps on to move the hose back and forth from the drain to machine 1, machine 1 only has a hose long enough to make it over top to the maytag.....and its not like she does big loads, a few pieces at a time, she could even reduce the water level, but insist on full levels, I even told her she could have 2 rinses in the Maytag, by using half levels and setting the timer into the 4 minutes of wash.....can't teach an old dog....but she swears she's saving water with her method
then the clothes go into the dryer for about 10 minutes to warm up and remove any lint, and then hung out to dry everyone has a method to their madness.... on another note...curious about the time fill Maytags, I got to use one once, but we filled it with a hose from the laundry tub faucet, never got to use the time fill feature, but was always curious how did these fill without overflowing, the fills gave a long time for filling of the one I seen, unlike a solid tub machine, did the drain hose have to be placed in a position as to not let the machine overflo?.... | ||
| Post# 458509 , Reply# 5 8/22/2010 at 17:21 (4,992 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
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Post# 458541 , Reply# 7 8/22/2010 at 20:34 (4,992 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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I need to find some of thoses restrictors, or make them somehow, I have 2 Speed Queen solid tubs with the restrictors gone, and super high water pressure, on cold only I can fill in a little more than 2 minutes, usually I turn the valve back, but selecting warm fills in no time, but I like the high pressure to run several things at once without loss of flow...
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