Thread Number: 62606  /  Tag: Wringer Washers
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Post# 851777   11/15/2015 at 13:44 (3,083 days old) by maytagmike (Burlington, Vt)        

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Good afternoon fellow members, Kind of a lazy Sunday here so i decided to do the laundry in mom's Maytag. I did three loads and she ran like a charm. Some of the clothes and towels had some pretty hefty stains, and every single stain came out. I have had simalar stains on clothes before, and when I washed them in my A408 clothes still came out with faded stains. I'll tell ya as much as I love my 408 mom's maytag wins hands down. I understand now when mom did wash many years ago and hung the clothes on the line to dry why the colors and whites were so bright.

Mike




Post# 851853 , Reply# 1   11/15/2015 at 21:30 (3,083 days old) by oldskool (Kansas City, MO)        
Yes!

 Glad to hear you had great results.

The Maytag wringers clean remarkably well. When I have time to use one of my wringers, I'm amazed at how well they consistently produce superior results. Not sure what accounts for the difference, but it does perform better IMHO.

Post# 851866 , Reply# 2   11/15/2015 at 22:39 (3,083 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)        

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Its got to be the set it and forget it and after 20-30 minutes you remember, go back and its still chugging away. Easily cleaning and not ruining anything. Thats the beauty of a wringer washer. I wished I could get my grandmothers Maytag running again, but afraid it is toast. I'm going to keep looking for another wringer thats not a zillion miles away.

Post# 852035 , Reply# 3   11/16/2015 at 17:15 (3,082 days old) by e2l-arry (LAKEWOOD COLORADO)        
Better cleaning,

 That's why those Grandmothers and old ladies refused to upgrade to Automatics. They just believed that the new Automatic washers just didn't clean as well. Less time consuming and a lot less manual labor but they wouldn't give up their wringers. That's how a lot of members got these new, out of box wringers. When these old ladies heard they were going to stop making them, they bought a new one for when their current one died. Unfortunately, they died before their trusty old washer and you had these new, never used washers.

Post# 852425 , Reply# 4   11/18/2015 at 06:31 (3,080 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

The situation with the Maytags was that the agitator that worked so well in the wide tubs of the conventional washers and gave such great rollover did not perform as well in the automatics. The tub was too narrow and the agitator fins too large. That also made the Maytag automatics cause wear on fabrics. When the first AMP was tested at CU, they judged the capacity at around 5 lbs of laundry, but that was the next to the last thing said against Maytag washers until the early 70s when, horror of horrors, they tested a standard tub Maytag against the large tub Whirlpool and discovered that the WP could wash in two loads what the Maytag washed in three. After that, they did not test a standard tub Maytag again. The sun rose and set on Maytag with never a rainy day, even during the capacity wars when they tested washers with 12 lb. loads. The Kenmore, with its regular tub was deemed overcrowded with the 12 lb. test load while the Maytag was judged to handle it just fine which, I guess, proved that no one at the testing bureaus ever devised a way to hold in the lid switch to watch the agitation in a Maytag. I guess that was because the Maytag was not meant to agitate with the lid up and to have the lid up during agitation would somehow interfere with the performance of the washer...or something.

Post# 852529 , Reply# 5   11/18/2015 at 17:21 (3,080 days old) by e2l-arry (LAKEWOOD COLORADO)        
We had a Maytag Highlander

 in 1965 and I figured out the first week how to bypass the lid safety switch so I could watch it go through it's paces. It had great rollover! As good or better as the 1952 Kenmore it replaced. So I don't think the Maytag Engineers didn't want people to see it in washing action. Opening the lid stopped the action in any cycle as a safety measure. Luckily it was pretty easy to side step with a half a spring style clothes pin!

Post# 853040 , Reply# 6   11/21/2015 at 18:13 (3,077 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

I used to use two quarters with a nickel between them held together with electrical tape.

Post# 853092 , Reply# 7   11/22/2015 at 10:07 (3,076 days old) by kenwashesmonday (Carlstadt, NJ)        

Be careful that you don't try to close the lid with something stuck in the lid switch. You could bend the lid and lose your balls.

Post# 853097 , Reply# 8   11/22/2015 at 10:37 (3,076 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Actually, with the three coins in the Maytag, they pop out as you close the lid because of the way the lid switch actuator is shaped and the way the two quarters compress around the nickel.


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