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Thread Number: 11226
Clean your G-D Coin traps! Please |
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Post# 201939 4/7/2007 at 14:09 (6,221 days old) by jetcone  (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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well, working on my next project a 1955 Combo I went to clean out the cointrap. Would NOT budge! This is gonna need to soak, says I. So I poured 2 quarts of hot water into the MINT tub. Waited,waited some more ,,,waited then finally 1/2 hour later a few drips come out the drain hose! 1/2 hour no lie! So I poured more hot water on, and left, it had to soak over nite for all the water to return to the catch. Today I had to pry the cointrap out with a long screwdriver. See what was pried out with a 2 foot screwdriver!! Welcome to Quart-0-Lint!! They must have run this machine for 10 years! The lint was impacted up into the drum back into the down spout for the aircirculation -condensor tube!! Ugh!! What we do for our machines! Jet 
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Post# 201940 , Reply# 1 4/7/2007 at 14:11 (6,221 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Nice machine pic | ||
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Post# 201943 , Reply# 2 4/7/2007 at 14:26 (6,221 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 201965 , Reply# 3 4/7/2007 at 16:20 (6,221 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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G-D??? | ||
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Post# 201976 , Reply# 4 4/7/2007 at 17:11 (6,221 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Perhaps it tis a testement to my laundry skills, or just types of laundry done in my Miele, but in all these years have yet to find much of anything in the coin trap. Will say cleaning it out today after seeing this thread reinforced my theory of sticking to "HE" detergents only. Left over muck and oils not totally cleaned/rinsed from laundry sits in the sump and begins to, well rot. Even with every other daily use and several of those loads at 140F, stuff settles down and is not always flushed out with the next laundry day. L. | ||
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Post# 201989 , Reply# 5 4/7/2007 at 17:49 (6,221 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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All that lint from the drying process ends up in the pump screen. The book recommends it be cleaned after each washday but some people obviously don't read the book! That's nasty - it reminds me of the lint globs inside the Maytag combo that was used as a dryer only for many years. I've checked the screen in my GE combo and it seems to do a fairly good job of getting rid of the lint (down the drain - NOT on my socks) but I did find a dime and a penny. The Westy combo has never had a speck of lint or crud in it. | ||
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Post# 202032 , Reply# 6 4/7/2007 at 18:55 (6,221 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 202058 , Reply# 7 4/7/2007 at 20:16 (6,221 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Well Greg | ||
| Post# 202182 , Reply# 8 4/8/2007 at 06:49 (6,220 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii) | ||
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Post# 202200 , Reply# 9 4/8/2007 at 08:46 (6,220 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Hey Chuck | ||
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Post# 202204 , Reply# 10 4/8/2007 at 09:06 (6,220 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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Post# 202244 , Reply# 11 4/8/2007 at 12:16 (6,220 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 202247 , Reply# 12 4/8/2007 at 12:25 (6,220 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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Bendix Combo! | ||
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Post# 202263 , Reply# 13 4/8/2007 at 13:17 (6,220 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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General Dynamics
If it's a GD, you could sure say it is built like a tank! LOL CLICK HERE TO GO TO foraloysius's LINK | ||
| Post# 202803 , Reply# 14 4/10/2007 at 14:26 (6,218 days old) by tbolt25 (Kentucky) | ||
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G-D=Gol-Dang Maybe G-D stands for Gol-Dang. | ||
| Post# 202869 , Reply# 15 4/10/2007 at 18:24 (6,218 days old) by bpetersxx (laf in on the banks of the Wabash River) | ||
I keep my lint trap very clean always wash it off every time on the top load washers On the Haier FL I check it every few months to make sure it is clean not too hard to do 1: Flip access door down 2: twist lint knob counterclockwise 3: Pull filter out thusly 4:check and clean throughly 5:slide back in machine 6: Twist lint knob clockwise to lock 7: wash clothes again And I got the IQ of a vegamatic (this is a joke I say when I am doing something complicated so take it with a grain of salt) | ||
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Post# 202874 , Reply# 16 4/10/2007 at 18:32 (6,218 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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YOU'LL BE OMAT mister!
I'll omat you in MinnieHaHa Creek! As I was reassembling components last nite I was under the machine when another huge dry gob of lint flittled down the chute right in my face! So I pulled it out and it just kept coming and coming. I had a glob 3 times the size of my fist in seconds! This machine is gonna need a serious G-D flushing out before it ever sees soap or the dry cycle! | ||
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Post# 202915 , Reply# 17 4/10/2007 at 20:35 (6,218 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 202919 , Reply# 18 4/10/2007 at 20:49 (6,218 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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And you'll be a gassed combo for sure!
I think I would have noticed THAT lint filter at the TOP of the MACHINE. Like you said somelady didn't read her manual for TEN YEARS. I just hope its not jammed all the way through the system up to the heater box otherwise its dryer fire time again in old Melrose. Just like when Robert set fire to my 1959 Filtrator and Don and I had to drag it out of the house. My 58 was spotless to all the way through that splash fill really kept it clean. And thats what I have to assume here too that the splash fill kept flushing it all down to the bottom. | ||
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Post# 202942 , Reply# 19 4/10/2007 at 21:36 (6,218 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Uhm is there a good story here? Share-able? | ||
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Post# 202973 , Reply# 20 4/10/2007 at 22:57 (6,218 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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"set fire to my Filtrator" | ||
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Post# 203263 , Reply# 21 4/11/2007 at 22:48 (6,217 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Oh well | ||
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Post# 203294 , Reply# 22 4/12/2007 at 00:26 (6,216 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 203298 , Reply# 23 4/12/2007 at 01:03 (6,216 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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Interesting tidbit: On my '65 RCA Whirlpool, it actually has what is called a "button trap" between the tub drain and the pump. It looks like it might old about 8 oz. On the '71 Lady Kenmore, there was no such device - the tub drain goes to the pump, and from there to the lint filter or drain exit. Wonder why they decided to eliminate the button trap by '71? | ||
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Post# 203316 , Reply# 24 4/12/2007 at 05:05 (6,216 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Our 1975-76 Whirlpool LDA7800 still had the pump protector/manifold, integrated as part of the self-clean filter. Like thus: Lint Filter Assembly | ||
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