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Thread Number: 76222
/ Tag: Twin-Tub Washers
My brand new twin tub washing machine. |
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| Post# 1000526 , Reply# 1 7/17/2018 at 14:41 (2,102 days old) by unclejohn (Can) | ||
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Ooops! Thought i was posting this thread in Deluxe, instead ... These are no vintage machines by any means ! : | Anyone on here ever used them ? Please, share your questions or comments. (anyway, more photos and details will follow sooner or later) | ||
| Post# 1000529 , Reply# 2 7/17/2018 at 14:51 (2,102 days old) by unclejohn (Can) | ||
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Some more photos, including money shots : Basically, marketed under several brand names (original overseas companies?) | ||
Post# 1000535 , Reply# 4 7/17/2018 at 15:53 (2,102 days old) by ea56  (Cotati, Calif.) |
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I used a Maytag A50 twin tub exclusively from 1977 till 1981 and I loved it! I believe the A50 was a bit larger than your new machine. And it had twin, reversing impelllers on the back of the tub. I could do a full weeks wash in about an hour. This machine was a joy to use. I hope that you will enjoy using your new twin tub as much as I like mine. They are the perfect solution for anyone that doesn’t have plumbing connections for a full size washer.
Eddie | ||
| Post# 1000617 , Reply# 6 7/18/2018 at 01:19 (2,102 days old) by hippiedoll ( arizona ) | ||
CONGRATULATIONS!! | ||
| Post# 1000630 , Reply# 7 7/18/2018 at 06:39 (2,102 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
 Loved the TT principle since grandma let me work the handles on her Easy roundabout 1952. Had a Panasonic in the 70s; splendid engineering and operation.
Now have Panda XPB45. Going on 5yrs (light use) no problem. It's no Panasonic though. Have to cycle impeller on-off/soak. Little too aggressive, shredder. Also knots badly. Spinner pretty admirable in operation, towels come out dry enough to use (if you don't mind clammy). But if I run it too much without resting, something electrical smells hot. Stretching the overall chore.
Does 'soft' alter the speed, or only the duty cycle like mine? Are those dimples in the spin drum? Should work incrementally better than the plain cylinder in mine.
Plus, the kind of OCD custom operation and results I like. Minus, whole operation demands attention but I have that to spare. | ||
| Post# 1000722 , Reply# 11 7/19/2018 at 04:38 (2,101 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
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Yes, I would be much more satisfied with a low speed impell. Stir rather than thrash. Your styling is more alluring too. Should I wear this one out I would buy another.
This 'Panda' company seems one of the more serious players. Broadening and updating product lines. Looking to compete with Haier. And from (memory of) my research buying this one, either somewhat more reliable or the sample was too small to be valid. At the time, the larger one was only avail from ebay. A'zon wasn't going to stand still long for that. Suggests their buyers perceive value. Bezos didn't become a 150-billionaire by being wrong a lot.
With a standard scoop of Tide and tablespoon of STTP concentrated in the small tub, powerful cleaning. Remarkably, no standing suds. Our water is quite laden with calcium though. | ||
| Post# 1000743 , Reply# 12 7/19/2018 at 13:41 (2,100 days old) by hippiedoll ( arizona ) | ||
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NOOOOOO... | ||
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Post# 1000747 , Reply# 14 7/19/2018 at 14:20 (2,100 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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When I owned my Maytag A50 I would do all the washing first, starting with the whites, light colors, darks and so on, spinning out each load and holding the washed loads in laundry baskets. Then I drained out the wash water rinsed out the tub, refilled it with clean, fresh warm water and rinsed each load in the same order in which they had been washed and spun them out. I usually only agitated each load for rinsing for about 2-3 mins. I could get four loads done this way in about an hour.
I have read that some of the twin tubs would allow for adding fresh rinse water to the spinner to rinse that way, but the directions for the Maytag A50 were to do the rinsing as I’ve outlined above. Eddie | ||
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Post# 1000764 , Reply# 15 7/19/2018 at 18:02 (2,100 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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IIRC British Consumer Magazine 
Rated most twin tubs "poor" for rinsing which IIRC included the Hoover that used the spin can for said process.
Probably best results in Hoover or similar are with a load of small items that one can move about and saturate with water before spinning. Large items and or heavy loads tend to have poor results. At least in my experience this is because water cannot get every where. Then you have to consider repeated extraction in that small can often leads to washing that is dreadfully creased. For larger items or loads treat my Hoover TT like the Maytag wringer; things are washed, extracted then moved to bath tub or some other container for rinsing. After two or more deep rinses, load is bunged back into spin can for final extraction. | ||
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Post# 1000842 , Reply# 18 7/20/2018 at 16:11 (2,099 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Have said it before, and am doing so again.
*LOL*
One's heart goes out to those poor UK housewives and mothers saddled with just a Hoover or some other TT on washing day. Yes, know many loved them, they were better than some other alternatives and so forth; but the work involved to get though a family wash just seems tiring. Not to mention the noise...... After doing just a few loads in my Hoover TT one wants to have a lie down with a cold towel on forehead. *LOL* Owing and having used both, would take a Maytag or any wringer washer over a TT. If anything maybe adding a spin dryer to get more water out after final rinse. Now the Easy "SpinDrier" with that fancy cone in center of spin tub is something different. All this being said have found if one uses a good "HE" detergent (low to nil suds, it is possible to whizz through laundry in a Hoover TT with far less effort. More so if one uses a large basin, tub or other container for rinsing. | ||
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Post# 1000855 , Reply# 19 7/20/2018 at 16:51 (2,099 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Having used both a Maytag wringer washer and a Maytag A50 Twin Tub as my only washers years ago, I found them both no problem at all. Granted the wringer had a larger capacity, but that A50 would handle double bed blankets, quilts and bedspreads, and got them spotlessly clean too. The tub was full to capacity, but the double, reversing impellers efficiently moved the large items thru the water, and I did have to really push hard to get them into the spinner, but it worked out just fine.
If you use the same method of washing and rinsing with the A50 as with the wringer, washing whites first, following with light colors, and so on it really goes pretty quickly. Yes, it was a full hour of concentrated effort, but then the wash was DONE. The only thing I did differently with the A50 as opposed to the wringer, was that with the wringer, I rinsed in the bath tub (I didn’t have a laundry tub), with the A50, I followed the owners manual instructions, and rinsed in the impeller side of the machine, in the same order as they loads were washed, allowing the rinse water from the spinner to drain into the kitchen sink, then topping of the rinse water with fresh water to replace what had been spun out in the load before. So, the rinse water wasn’t murky with detergent, and did a great job rinsing from the first load thru the last. But 4 loads were the max I would wash and rinse with one fill. This equaled two regular sized laundry baskets full, or a full weeks wash for two. The bed linens were done on a separate day, by themselves. To me this was a whole lot easier and less expensive than schlepping the laundry to a laundromat. I suppose if a housewife was doing the wash for a family in a Twin Tub, she would have needed to either drain and refill at least once or twice to get a full weeks wash done in one day, and spend 2 or more hours to finish, or wash on more than one day a week. But it would still be less labor intensive than hauling heavy laundry to a laundromat, and then back home again, especially if she lived in an urban location with no car at her disposal. And it sure would be less work than using a wash board! Eddie This post was last edited 07/20/2018 at 17:41 | ||
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