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Thread Number: 49637
a few questions about the Maytag Twin tub |
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| Post# 717504 , Reply# 1 11/24/2013 at 19:58 (3,803 days old) by mr-maytag (Minneapolis, MN) | ||
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| Post# 717513 , Reply# 2 11/24/2013 at 20:29 (3,803 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
HI Kitty
You can: use half of a wooden clothes pin or something else to bypass the door latch on the spinner, and squirt the load as it spins, being careful, of course.
If that sounds too risky for you: Spray down the load, getting it quite wet, then close and spin, repeating till discharge is clear. Or simply fill the spinner with water, and slide your arms along the sides of the tub and slosh the load up and down; it's a good forearm workout. I can't exactly remember if you can drain both tubs at once, but I think the switch closes one drain and opens the other, if I remember correctly. | ||
| Post# 717515 , Reply# 3 11/24/2013 at 20:45 (3,803 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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OOPS ! | ||
| Post# 717651 , Reply# 5 11/25/2013 at 13:52 (3,802 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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I hear you and I understand, and I would be aghast if I caused someone to weaken or break a machine.
For a summer before I joined this club, my A 50 sat on the deck, and I would fill the wash tub with steaming hot solar -heated water from an enormous hose arranged in long links on the side lawn. Then I'd rinse with cool tap water using the the garden hose to which I had attached a nozzle featuring 10 different sprays all of which mimicked the various fill flumes I now recognize from all the washer flix featured here at AW. The spinner would be spinning and drained of sudsy water when I started the spray rinse, so there was never too much water in it. I would enjoy the different sprays, but if I had too much pressure, the sound would change, and I'd lighten it up. Honest. the machine is still fine, and I had no problem doing this But if you're not comfortable....... Remember, the biggest strain on the motor occurs when you begin the first spin after loading the water-laden laundry from the wash tub. There is no draining away as you load. It's all there when you start the spinner. So there is actually much more water in the spinner then, than when spin-rinsing. I agree that if you were to operate the spinner continuously with a full spinnerful of water, you would injure the machine, but that's not what I was doing. | ||
| Post# 717655 , Reply# 6 11/25/2013 at 14:05 (3,802 days old) by kitty () | ||
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I hear what you're saying I could spray them w/ water to do a spray rinse. If I do it with the hand shower it might go on top of the clothes because it is going 2,000 RPM. Cheers! | ||
| Post# 717721 , Reply# 7 11/25/2013 at 21:19 (3,802 days old) by mr-maytag (Minneapolis, MN) | ||
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| Post# 717751 , Reply# 8 11/25/2013 at 22:18 (3,802 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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| Post# 717865 , Reply# 9 11/26/2013 at 14:20 (3,801 days old) by mr-maytag (Minneapolis, MN) | ||
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| Post# 717925 , Reply# 10 11/26/2013 at 20:22 (3,801 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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| Post# 717928 , Reply# 11 11/26/2013 at 20:42 (3,801 days old) by mr-maytag (Minneapolis, MN) | ||
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| Post# 720155 , Reply# 12 12/9/2013 at 13:52 (3,788 days old) by kitty () | ||
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Oh well... I guess that I'll just have to try out the spinner/washer drain. Thank you for posting anyway. | ||
| Post# 721514 , Reply# 13 12/16/2013 at 19:41 (3,781 days old) by kitty () | ||
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Electric pump Do you think I could put an electric pump on it wired to the motor and I would do fine? Thanks. | ||
Post# 721587 , Reply# 15 12/17/2013 at 07:29 (3,780 days old) by combo52  (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Spin Rinsing In A MT TT | ||
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Post# 721589 , Reply# 16 12/17/2013 at 07:37 (3,780 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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 I've used Chris' method many times with the Maytag twinnie. Usually, when pulling clothes from the wash side over, I'll use the hose (since it's running around loose anyway) to rinse as they're going into the spinner. When using fabric softener, I stop the spinner and add water until there is enough to slosh the clothes in, add softener, soak for a minute or two then spin them out. I've never noticed the motor strain when spinning out any amount of water in that spinner and you're not going to hurt that Maytag poly-pump with "too much water".
Have fun and get wet :-) | ||
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