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Todays POD Kelvinator
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Post# 832894   7/20/2015 at 05:44 (3,195 days old) by retro-man (- boston,ma)        

Surprised that no one has brought this up today. Todays pod shows a Kelvinator that in fine print states no hot water connection necessary but in the next line it states suds saver to save hot sudsy water. Did they make a top loading machine with a heater in it or was this for another country? Was it an error in their literature? Inquiring mind wants to know.

Jon





Post# 832902 , Reply# 1   7/20/2015 at 06:52 (3,195 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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This is an ad from the Australian market. I wish we'd had more washers with heaters here!

Post# 832908 , Reply# 2   7/20/2015 at 07:01 (3,195 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
Built-In Electric Water Heaters In Washers Are Nice

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But I sure would not want to heat the amount of water a TL washer uses with expensive electricity, unless that was the way I was heating water for the house anyway, in which case it would actually be more efficient and cheaper to heat it directly in the washer.


Post# 832910 , Reply# 3   7/20/2015 at 07:09 (3,195 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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That's very true, John, it would be an expensive undertaking to heat all the water used in a T/L washer for sure. I was thinking of boosting & maintaining the temps in already hot water, much like the early Bendix combo, etc.

Post# 832924 , Reply# 4   7/20/2015 at 09:03 (3,195 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)        
That to ME, is One Pretty Machine!

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Well, if only more people had bought KELVINATORS, instead of KENMORES to just to keep the former "Product of American Motors" built-product from being the junky WCI-made underdog brand it had succumbed to!

 

Seems as though "off-brands" like that rarely, if ever made it to the laundry, let alone, if ever used water (dishwashers, included) never lasted very long, let alone really sold!

 

 

 

-- Dave



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