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Post# 707581 , Reply# 1 10/6/2013 at 14:49 (3,853 days old) by yogitunes  (New Jersey) |
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| Post# 708575 , Reply# 2 10/11/2013 at 10:19 (3,848 days old) by rayjay (Carteret, New Jersey) | ||
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Is that the Fuller Brush detergent? I have used it and it is really good. | ||
| Post# 708578 , Reply# 3 10/11/2013 at 10:37 (3,848 days old) by frocco (Sauquoit,NY) | ||
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Question, On my new SQ, should I be using powered or liquid? | ||
| Post# 708581 , Reply# 4 10/11/2013 at 10:46 (3,848 days old) by washman (o) | ||
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Frocco I think either or. Danmantn has vids on youtube where he states he is using powdered detergent in his SQ 
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Post# 708586 , Reply# 5 10/11/2013 at 11:23 (3,848 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Frank: My daily driver detergent is powdered Tide With Bleach HE (top-rated by Consumer Reports). It gives excellent results in my front-loader. For the SQ, I purchased a jug of Wisk Deep Clean Original (which can be used in either a standard or HE machine). Wisk gets an overall score of 80, very close to Tide's 82.
I measured a "medium" dose and washed a load of whites. All I can say is I've never seen such tenacious suds! I have softened water, and I'm used to Tide being all about the suds, but after FIVE deep rinses, the Wisk was still producing a lot of suds in the SQ. I'm not talking a few bubbles, here; it was still producing a thin layer of foamy suds! In fact, after the 4th deep rinse, I pulled the clothes out, refilled the washer and let it agitate. No suds at all. I started adding the clothes back in, and immediately there was suds was all over the place. I used powdered Sears detergent (the version in the green box) for the next load, and had a crystal clear rinse. Sears' detergent isn't rated as high for stain removal by CR, but it does a good job in my front-loader. (It is also designed to be used in standard or HE machines.) I'll have to experiment with the Wisk, as it is by all accounts an excellent detergent. There was a good 1/2-inch to inch of suds in the wash, but the machine had no trouble spinning it out. At any rate, I've never seen anything like it. As for your question: By far, most people use liquids these days. I don't think any harm will come to your new SQ with either format. 
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Post# 708587 , Reply# 6 10/11/2013 at 11:35 (3,848 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Sorry, Ben, didn't mean to hijack your Fuller 86 thread, but was answering Frank's question.
Back on topic: Have never heard of Fuller 86. But yeah, 40 cents per load seems extremely high-priced. Even top-rated products by Tide come in between 18 to 23 cents per load. Is the Fuller detergent low sudsing, and does it rinse out well? 
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Post# 708604 , Reply# 7 10/11/2013 at 12:50 (3,848 days old) by joefuss1984 (Little Rock, AR) |
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I use Wisk Deep Clean and it is wonderful. 40 cents/load for the Fuller sounds kind of high to me. You can usually get 1$ coupons around here for the Wisk in the Sunday papers. True it does suds up a lot but I measure on to the second highest line for large loads in my top loader and it usually comes out about right.
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Post# 708606 , Reply# 9 10/11/2013 at 12:54 (3,848 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Joe-- I want to use Wisk Deep Clean, as it's rated very highly by Consumer Reports. I just have to figure out why I wasn't able to shake the suds despite many deep rinses. It was crazy! Don't know if it was because of the softened water or using too much, although I only filled the cap to the "medium" line. I'll try again using half as much and see if that improves things.
I also used liquid chlorine bleach with that particular load, but I can't imagine that would cause a sudsing issue... This post was last edited 10/11/2013 at 18:23 | ||
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Post# 708620 , Reply# 10 10/11/2013 at 14:13 (3,848 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 708623 , Reply# 11 10/11/2013 at 14:23 (3,848 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Glenn-- I'll have to try it in both the front-loader and in the top-loader without chlorine bleach to see if that gives different results. It was almost as if the detergent was locked into the fabric. There was even some suds clinging to the tub wall just above the clothes...after the spin of the 4th deep rinse! Freaky.
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Post# 708682 , Reply# 12 10/11/2013 at 18:33 (3,848 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Post# 708686 , Reply# 13 10/11/2013 at 18:50 (3,848 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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Eugene.....
I too love powder Tide with bleach, a great clean and scent....I have softened water too.... Sears Ultra Plus is also great.....and inexpensive... but I do a mix.....taking the scoop from SUP...and put one scoop of both SUP and Tide w/bleach into each machine.....takes care of every stain the first time...give it a try! Dollar General is a good place to get detergents inexpensively...just a thought | ||
| Post# 708707 , Reply# 15 10/11/2013 at 21:55 (3,848 days old) by Washman (o) | ||
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BTW Does anyone remember Rinso? Rinso white, Rinso bright............forgot how the rest of it went. I think they sponsored Amos n Andy during the Golden Age of radio. CLICK HERE TO GO TO Washman's LINK 
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Post# 708725 , Reply# 16 10/12/2013 at 00:59 (3,848 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA) |
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Post# 708734 , Reply# 17 10/12/2013 at 04:25 (3,848 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Post# 708746 , Reply# 18 10/12/2013 at 07:23 (3,848 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Wisk Deep Clean Original: OK, my bad. Still baffled by the suds-o-rama that was a load of whites washed in the SQ (five deep rinses and still sudsy), I shone a flashlight into the Wisk's measuring cap. There are five very hard-to-see markings, numbered 1-5. 2 is for medium loads (and the amount used to determine how many doses per jug); 3 is for large loads. The instructions say to "add more for heavily-soiled loads."
For the load in question, I had unwittingly filled the cap to just past line 3. Obviously too much. Plus that load had 1/2-cup of WalMart's concentrated liquid chlorine bleach (1/2 cup concentrated = 3/4 cup regular strength bleach) in it. It will be interesting to see if the bleach exacerbated the sudsing problem.
I washed a load of dress shirts last night (line 2 in Wisk cap) on Permanent Press and sudsing wasn't a problem. Ditto for a load of sheets washed in hot water on the Normal cycle this morning.
I'll wash a super-stained load of kitchen whites tomorrow with Wisk, adding more due to the heavily-soiled nature of the load, plus 1/2-cup of concentrated bleach. We'll see if Mount Vesuvius erupts again, LOL.
Gotta say....liking the Speed Queen. If it had a suds-saver and a 1000-rpm spin, I could maybe, possibly even consider it as a daily driver. It uses so much hot water (and water in general), and I'm equally startled by both the brevity of the wash cycle (about 30 minutes) and the increased length of the dry cycle. Even longer than for clothes spun in the Frigidaire Immersion Care...which was, in turn, longer than loads spun at 1300 rpm in the Frigidaire front-loader. And there's more lint in the dryer filter on loads washed in the SQ, so it is obviously not as gentle to fabrics as the front-loader.
But it is fun having a "vintage" washer in the house. This post was last edited 10/12/2013 at 08:17 | ||
| Post# 708754 , Reply# 19 10/12/2013 at 08:11 (3,848 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
Wisk Deep Clean | ||
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