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Post# 100901   12/31/2005 at 09:21 (6,689 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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(Besides the holy-roller from the other day...)


My GE FF from circa '91, blessed me with a hugely unbalanced load. Four same-size bed sheets and four pillow cases.

EEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRr.

There are times when it is tempting to abandon my baby here when I move out. Do you think the appliance police would ever catch me?





Post# 100903 , Reply# 1   12/31/2005 at 09:24 (6,689 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Odd, you musta loaded it strange. I use to put 2 sets of queen size bed sheets in a load of sheets in my 1978 FF and never once had an oob prob. And I dind't wash them for 18 minutes, more like 10 at most.

Post# 100905 , Reply# 2   12/31/2005 at 10:07 (6,689 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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I'm thinking: It's hard to load those items wrong.

There are grease stains (black, so don't say what you are thinking) all over a batch of whites that ran through that machine last. Sounds like my tranny is leaking fluids. (She may need a doctor).

*SIGH*

Look like an overhaul is needed. I pulled my agitator and did not find any grease to speak of on the drive shaft. Also under the plastic cover (bolt-cap), nuttin.



Post# 100907 , Reply# 3   12/31/2005 at 10:10 (6,689 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        
Deju Vu.

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It was fairly sudsy.

When mom's 70's Norge popped an oil leak into the tub, you couldn't get a head of suds, no way no how.


Post# 100924 , Reply# 4   12/31/2005 at 12:42 (6,689 days old) by kenmore1978 ()        
moving

I'm surprised you're thinking of moving since you seeem to have finally gotten your house configured just the way you like it.

Post# 101012 , Reply# 5   1/1/2006 at 06:54 (6,688 days old) by askomiele (Belgium Ghent)        

Sheets are horrible to wash!! But I figured out how to load them in a frontloader without having them tangled!! Just like bendix described in a manual. Shake them open, take them tentwise an put them over your arm. The place them in the drum!! No tangling! But I have no experience with toploaders so I don't no what you've done wrong.

Post# 101048 , Reply# 6   1/1/2006 at 11:31 (6,688 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        
Divorce in process

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Jaune:

Sometimes life takes you where IT wants to go.


Post# 101049 , Reply# 7   1/1/2006 at 11:35 (6,688 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        
Blame the victim..........

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But I have no experience with toploaders so I don't no what you've done wrong.

Neither do I - Probably nothing. LOL ROFL LMAO

I did the "four-corners" routine, and have been doing it for decades B4 I knew Frigidaire had documented it as a recommendation.


Post# 101169 , Reply# 8   1/1/2006 at 22:22 (6,688 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California)        

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"Shake them open, take them tentwise an put them over your arm."

Ah, a new, practical use for making a tent. ;-)


Post# 101206 , Reply# 9   1/2/2006 at 05:09 (6,687 days old) by angus (Fairfield, CT.)        

Also remember the curved spiral ramp activators in later GE's did tend to move the clothes around more so it is possible that even a carefully loaded wash could go out of balance. Used to happen to me all the time. Yet for all the years I used the straight vane activator, the clothes moved during the wash, but not round and round, so I had many fewer out of balance loads.

Post# 101250 , Reply# 10   1/2/2006 at 10:50 (6,687 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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Good to know.

TYVM

a good friend tells me that a rubber piece form near the top of the drive-shaft may have fallen into the machine and disintegrated. Must research


Post# 101330 , Reply# 11   1/2/2006 at 16:47 (6,687 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Are you sure the OOB isn't because the user is so unbalanced? LOL

Who loves ya Stevey


Post# 101417 , Reply# 12   1/3/2006 at 06:59 (6,686 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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WELL I NEVER..on a Sunday.

LOL ROFL LMAO.


Post# 101956 , Reply# 13   1/6/2006 at 00:28 (6,684 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York)        

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Bob you are a trip and I like!

LOL


Post# 104943 , Reply# 14   1/21/2006 at 18:55 (6,668 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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OOB? Me?

Nah. I'm just bubbly and exhuberant.




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