Thread Number: 59713
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
Maytag DC leaving owner breathless! |
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Post# 823415 , Reply# 1   5/14/2015 at 14:43 (3,268 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 823421 , Reply# 2   5/14/2015 at 15:34 (3,268 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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Post# 823434 , Reply# 3   5/14/2015 at 17:43 (3,268 days old) by nmassman44 (Brooksville Florida)   |   | |
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The agitator comes out easily , just loosen the set screw at the base and pull up. The self cleaning filter or filters, snap out easily and can be cleaned and then snapped back in. But I doubt that the filters are the culprit here...if this washer has that Load Sensor agitator and she uses softener, the center of the agitator never flushes clean. When Scott and I got together, he had a Maytag DC washer and did it stink. He used that Xtra detergent and lots of softener with cold water, so when I saw the washer, more like smell the washer, I took it apart and cleaned out the agitator with hot water and a long round brush and got the gunk out. I took over doing laundry from then on and I banned Xtra detergent from ever gracing this Manse ever again. The agitator barrel had layers of scrud and it took a good hour or so to clean it properly.
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Post# 824315 , Reply# 5   5/20/2015 at 11:28 (3,262 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Pulled the agitator out and there were no screens under it. The only thing there was a snap in fine mesh filter ...A screen like this? Fits into a sort-of kidney-shaped cutout in the basket under the agitator? That is the self-cleaning filter. The agitator pumps water through it, then collected lint is flushed off during spin/drain. Same concept as the under-basket filter Whirlpool put into use when they eliminated the pump-recirculating self-clean system, and on majority of the direct-drive models. |
Post# 824319 , Reply# 6   5/20/2015 at 11:56 (3,262 days old) by Iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas)   |   | |
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