Thread Number: 69973
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
Ugh! My washer ate my wife's sweater. |
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Post# 928907   3/25/2017 at 20:00 (2,560 days old) by ryner1988 (Indianapolis)   |   | |
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Hello all,
Well, tonight, it finally happened. After several months with the WTW4816FW whirlpool washer, and it never shredding anything, it ate one of my wife's favorite sweaters. I don't know how to describe the sweater except to say that it has this really delicate looking knitted crochet structure around the neck and sleeves. I put it in with just one other sweater, and selected cold water, delicate cycle, light soil setting. No extra rinse. When I went to take it out, to my fury and horror, because I'm going to have to tell her it got wrecked, there was a huge, gaping, several inches large hole slashed right in one of the sleeves. How in the hell did this happen? To my knowledge, the agitation of this washer isn't particularly rough, and as I said, I used the delicate setting. Is there something about the way the washer is put together on the inside that could have caused this? Just trying to figure out how to prevent this from happening again while I put off telling my wife that one of her favorite sweaters that my mom purchased for her got ruined. Thanks, as always, for all of your insightful info. Ryne |
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Post# 928917 , Reply# 1   3/25/2017 at 20:25 (2,560 days old) by whirlykenmore78 (Prior Lake MN (GMT-0500 CDT.))   |   | |
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Post# 929089 , Reply# 2   3/26/2017 at 16:52 (2,559 days old) by joeypete (Concord, NH)   |   | |
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Post# 931442 , Reply# 4   4/9/2017 at 16:43 (2,545 days old) by Hotpointwfwt02 (Manchester)   |   | |
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Post# 931454 , Reply# 5   4/9/2017 at 19:09 (2,545 days old) by murando531 (Augusta, Georgia - US)   |   | |
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I'm not sure what would have caused that, unless the sweater was REALLY fragile. The Delicate cycle on these machines doesn't even fully agitate. It fills, then pulses the agitator each direction with about a second between each pulse, and the oscillations can't be any more than a 45 degree arc. Could it have gotten caught somehow in the paddle early on and with the movement and then spin it could have been stretched like that?
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