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Thread Number: 48318
Why wont lint filter work in Maytag Powerfin agitator? |
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| Post# 700240 8/31/2013 at 17:20 (3,884 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
I have a powerfin agitator, with four holes in it for the lint filter to work.I dont use the agitator in the actual washer, I use it in a large plastic tub right now since our whirlpool washer is currently being repaired. We have ALOT of clothes. And towels. I work the agitator back and fourth almost the same speed as the acutal Maytag machine would do. I will dump the water out into our bath tub and I will see alot of lint at the drain. Why isnt my lint filter catching this? Its completely clean? Will it only work in the washing machine? I need help!
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| Post# 700242 , Reply# 1 8/31/2013 at 17:29 (3,884 days old) by nmassman44 (Brooksville Florida) | ||
Methinks it will only work in the machine. Working this agitator by hand as got to be tough on the arms and your probably not moving as much water thru it. Remember this agitator on regular speed moves at 63 opms using a helical 5 gear with pitman arm transmission or at 155 opm for the orbital. The vanes create the suction needed to get the filter to work and the filter won't work if the water level is below the barrel openings.
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| Post# 700251 , Reply# 2 8/31/2013 at 17:49 (3,884 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
Also:
Even in a machine, these don't come up with a helluva lot of lint.
With my average large load, a little flat disc of lint somewhere between the size of a nickel and the size of a quarter is the norm. Most loads done on the "Small" water setting don't result in any lint on the filter at all. Which makes you wonder just how long the filter in my Almond 806 had to be neglected to get into this condition before I got the machine: 
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| Post# 700256 , Reply# 3 8/31/2013 at 18:08 (3,884 days old) by nmassman44 (Brooksville Florida) | ||
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I agree and it also depends on the load size and how much laundry is actually in the machine. I noticed if I used the Ex Large setting on a load that would have easily just been a Large load water level, the more water movement and clothes really moving thru the washbasket, the better the filter would work. Plus the Swirl Away drain system works very well in a Maytag washer. That filter pic looks totally plugged up in the openings. It had to have been like that for a long time.
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| Post# 700268 , Reply# 4 8/31/2013 at 19:05 (3,884 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Mike: | ||
| Post# 700272 , Reply# 5 8/31/2013 at 19:15 (3,884 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA) | ||
Stubborn? You have no idea... LOL!
That filter's nothing! I've had them so packed that I've had to break plastic to even come close to removing it. Seriously. Then there are the people who never even KNEW that there was a filter IN there to clean. Usually those who came by the washer 2nd hand, handed down from family or just forgot...
Ask anyone in the field about the atrocities committed on or to Maytag lint filters. Sheesh! RCD | ||
| Post# 700275 , Reply# 6 8/31/2013 at 19:20 (3,884 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Drew: | ||
| Post# 700665 , Reply# 9 9/2/2013 at 17:24 (3,882 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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I just use it for towels. Large loads, so the water DOES go over all four holes. I do work the agitator very fast, It isnt alot of work too. But i have a plastic lint trap before the drain hole in the bath tub, so it all collects there. And the towels still come out cleaner than our Whirlpool Cabrio.
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