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Thread Number: 49259
Need tips on now to clean a Maytag agitator lint filter |
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| Post# 712846 11/2/2013 at 20:08 (3,820 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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| Post# 712847 , Reply# 1 11/2/2013 at 20:09 (3,820 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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| Post# 712848 , Reply# 2 11/2/2013 at 20:10 (3,820 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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| Post# 712854 , Reply# 3 11/2/2013 at 20:25 (3,820 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It....
Daniel - you are, as the British say, for it. Cleaning these is a bit of a hassle!
The good news is that once one is cleaned, good maintenance (meaning cleaning the filter after every load) sees to it that you never have to go through the job again. The one in my Almond 806 was so nasty it looked like it had never been cleaned in all its 35 years of service. The buildup was an unholy combination of impacted lint and lime encrustations. It was tough as cement, trust me. Cleaning it took repeated soaking in Lime-A-Way, fierce scrubbing with a stiff scrub brush, and finally, cleaning of every damned one of those little holes with a toothpick, which is probably what you're going to have to do. It was Not. Fun. But it has never built up again in the three years since. Here is a before and after photo, which will hopefully show you that there is hope for even the worst filter. And YES, that is the identical filter in both shots! 
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| Post# 712856 , Reply# 4 11/2/2013 at 20:32 (3,820 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
Soak it.
In Hot Water and Soap. For about 1 hour.
Then scrub it with a tooth brush or another suitable brush. Inside and Out. Most of the stuff should come off. Then you can just rub your finger on the outside of the filter, (downward stroke) and inside the filter all around at the end of the cycle. Most of the moist lint after it's clean will come off after each use. Lint Ball courtesy of the Great Boston Filter Flo Challenge in Melrose Mass. (ducks and runs) :0 
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Post# 712860 , Reply# 5 11/2/2013 at 21:05 (3,820 days old) by YoGiTuNeS  (New Jersey) |
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Post# 712879 , Reply# 6 11/2/2013 at 21:54 (3,820 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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| Post# 712927 , Reply# 7 11/3/2013 at 07:27 (3,820 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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Post# 712929 , Reply# 8 11/3/2013 at 07:44 (3,820 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 712940 , Reply# 9 11/3/2013 at 09:25 (3,820 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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| Post# 712966 , Reply# 10 11/3/2013 at 11:46 (3,820 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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Post# 712968 , Reply# 11 11/3/2013 at 12:12 (3,820 days old) by YoGiTuNeS (New Jersey) |
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Post# 712991 , Reply# 12 11/3/2013 at 15:24 (3,819 days old) by whirlykenmore78 (Prior Lake MN (GMT-0500 CDT.)) |
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Agreed Yogi. | ||
| Post# 713000 , Reply# 13 11/3/2013 at 16:28 (3,819 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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Well I put the agitator back in the washer. I ran it throuhg a cycle with hot water, colox bleach, fabric softener, bathroom cleaner, CLR, laundry detergent, Lime Away, 409, and tons of liquid Tide. I put ALOT of cleaners in cause the tub was full of nasty lint, slime and who knows what. It is perfect now, it is shiney now. But the bad thing about cleaning the washer was it overflowed with suds. But it was well worth it. SO then we had towels to wash after that ;). Now we have the Maytag A107 as our normal washer. We got rid of the cabrio set washer and dryer. We have a 1980's Maytag dryer. Similar to the Maytag A212.
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| Post# 713010 , Reply# 15 11/3/2013 at 17:17 (3,819 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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| Post# 713027 , Reply# 16 11/3/2013 at 18:53 (3,819 days old) by dustin92 (Jackson, MI) | ||
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Still not a good idea. | ||
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Post# 713597 , Reply# 17 11/6/2013 at 20:11 (3,816 days old) by washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i) |
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