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Thread Number: 8114
I Fear NO Unadjustable Pressure Switch!! (Frigilux's Finest Hour) |
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Post# 155172 9/17/2006 at 18:21 (6,430 days old) by frigilux  (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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I DID IT I DID IT I DID IT!!! Take THAT Frigidaire. I fought fire with....well, with a red rubber band and a picture hook. AND I WON!! The new washer fills to what I consider a full tub of water, now. It ain't pretty, but it works. The tension holds it just enough past the SUPER setting to get the tub to fill to the..... 
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Post# 155173 , Reply# 1 9/17/2006 at 18:22 (6,430 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Post# 155197 , Reply# 2 9/17/2006 at 20:27 (6,430 days old) by wiskybill (Canton, Ohio) |
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Question??? Is that a "ACME Precision Series" rubber band or just the one they put around your newspaper? LOL Seriously, Congrats!! (still LOL) Bill | ||
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Post# 155263 , Reply# 3 9/18/2006 at 03:08 (6,430 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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Clever-and simple!!No adjustments required.Amazing what can be done with a rubber band and picture hanger! | ||
| Post# 155268 , Reply# 4 9/18/2006 at 04:13 (6,430 days old) by sudsman () | ||
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here here Good ol american engineering | ||
| Post# 155289 , Reply# 5 9/18/2006 at 06:51 (6,430 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN) | ||
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In the south, we'd call it... umm.... a job well done patner! | ||
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Post# 155290 , Reply# 6 9/18/2006 at 06:57 (6,430 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Post# 155335 , Reply# 8 9/18/2006 at 10:28 (6,429 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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The thing that bugs me is this: The machine's capacity is noticeably less with the decreased maximum water fill. At the unadjusted maximum fill, a full load was 4 large bath towels, 8 hand towels and a few wash cloths. When I increased the water level, it would wash (and by that I mean rollover) 6 bath towels plus the other items. That's quite a bit more capacity for a few more gallons of water. | ||
| Post# 155556 , Reply# 9 9/19/2006 at 14:14 (6,428 days old) by golittlesport (California) | ||
Whirlpool/Kenmore too
I had a DD top load Kenmore years ago for a short while that drove me insane with the low fill...about a third of the agitator was above the water line when set on the highest water level. I recall the salesman opening the lid to show how "HUGE" the tub was...little do people know only 2/3's of it is usable. A modern Whirlpool top loader I recently used did the same thing....half of the auger is above water doing nothing but making a breeze.
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Post# 155568 , Reply# 10 9/19/2006 at 15:11 (6,428 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Rich-- I thought manufacturers would do things like increase spin speeds to make their machines more efficient. I should have known they'd opt for just decreasing the water level. Doesn't take much engineering savvy to do that. But that also decreases usable capacity, which doesn't really make the machine more efficient per pound of clothing washed. My new Frigidaire spins pathetically slowly. It doesn't appear to spin any faster than the 1960 Kenmore I grew up with. I'm not sure what the maximum allowable rpm is for a plastic tub, but I'd hope it would more than what my machine is doing. I love the TL'er for the fun factor, but it is a water hog compared to my FL, plus there's noticeably more water left in the clothing at the end of the cycle. I've started to use my FL'er as an extractor when I wash towels, jeans, etc., in the TL'er. I'm amazed at how much more water gets wrung out of them at FL'er speeds. | ||
| Post# 155571 , Reply# 11 9/19/2006 at 15:35 (6,428 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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Post# 155585 , Reply# 13 9/19/2006 at 18:03 (6,428 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 155589 , Reply# 14 9/19/2006 at 18:08 (6,428 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Peter---I'm told the pressure switch on my machine is not adjustable. There is no screw-type adjustment as there is on older machines. I adjusted the water level on two Kenmores, a Whirlpool and a KitchenAid, but this one doesn't seem to have anything to adjust. I'm not too worried about an overflow; the water level knob naturally wants to go back toward SUPER, not forward to reset. There isn't enough tension on the rubber band for it to move toward RESET on its own power. Boy, those read like famous last words, don't they, LOL? I only use the SUPERPLUS setting occasionally, with a very full load. When I don't need it, I remove the jerryrigging. That rubber band has the perfect amount of tension, so I don't want to stretch it out. | ||
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