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So glad I have a Filter-Flo
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Post# 360194   6/28/2009 at 16:14 (5,408 days old) by tristarcxl ()        

Boy......I did the bedding from the Ferret cage today and all I can say is THANK GOD I have a filter-flo! Check out the results from this washing! They're both shedding.....good luck doing this load in a front loader!

Here's the load.....the funky purple thing is their hammock where most of the fur came from...





Post# 360195 , Reply# 1   6/28/2009 at 16:14 (5,408 days old) by tristarcxl ()        
And of course the Filter Pan...

I've never gotten lint balls like this before!



Post# 360214 , Reply# 2   6/28/2009 at 18:05 (5,408 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)        

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I have recommended to many people with animals who lose large amounts of fur to find a GE filter flo, most other washers get clogged and can't handle fur from german sheppards and siberians, most machines leave the fur behind inside the machine which you have to wipe and vacuum endlessly, but a GE rinses the tub so well, there's hardly a trace, right machine for the right job.....

Post# 360236 , Reply# 3   6/28/2009 at 20:01 (5,408 days old) by autowasherfreak ()        

I've done a couple of test loads in my Maytag 806 and I couldn't believe the lint and pet hair that was the filter. Do the front loaders not have lint filters? There is alway a ton of lint in the dryer filter after doing bedding and whites.

Post# 360244 , Reply# 4   6/28/2009 at 20:21 (5,408 days old) by qsd-dan (West)        
Do the front loaders not have lint filters?

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No lint filter in any of the front loaders that I know of.

Post# 360245 , Reply# 5   6/28/2009 at 20:24 (5,408 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        
Yes, Some Front Loading Washing Machines Have Lint Filters

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But they are more for catching items and such before it can enter and cause damage to the pump than anything else.

Top loading washing machines by virtue of the large ratio of laundry to water ratio, and the fact said water is recirculated via pump are better at removing lint and such than your average front loading washer.

Mind you given proper machine design and water use, some front loaders can do a decent job with pet hair. Many of the larger commercial and laundromat washers simply by virtue of their size and large amounts of water used for washing and rinsing cope with pet hair well.

Whenever one has to deal with any item covered in pet hair, bring out the Hoover twin tub, which is as close to a top loader as one can get at the moment. No filter, but by lifting laundry out of wash water an into spin basket, it does leave much of the muck and hair behind.

L.


Post# 360341 , Reply# 6   6/29/2009 at 08:46 (5,408 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas)        

On our Whirlpool I use a 4 inch circular screen that is concave from a Chinese kitchen supply place and run it in a circle around the agitator while the machine is washing. When we wash dog beds, it'll fill up several times with dog hair.
It is also great for catching lint from dark items too.
The Whirlpool has a "Magic Clean" filter, but all I see is some pretty dense screening at the bottom of the tub.
How does the Magic Clean filter system work on a WP?


Post# 360344 , Reply# 7   6/29/2009 at 09:10 (5,408 days old) by westingman123 ()        
Whirlpool filters

We had a 1963 Whirlpool set with the filter, and I remember
Mom brushing it with a comb after every load. It looked like
a stainless steel hair brush, and really pulled every bit of lint out of the machine. Her newer Whirlpool had a plastic
sort of a filter that never had as much in it, and she was
always distrustful of that.


Post# 360350 , Reply# 8   6/29/2009 at 09:30 (5,408 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)        

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the magic clean filter of whirlpool/kenmore filter the water of the outter tub and only lint that got pushed out by agitation would be filtered, and thru a series of valves and hoses it got backflushed down the drain, I always prefered a filter flo style, where the water was returned to the inner tub and the lint caught either by a brush system or filter pan, the idea of the self-clean was so you didn't have to touch the soggy lint, but to me, seeing was believing, and you knew it was working....IMO, you could take out the self-cleaning filters and connect the hoses together, and you wouldn't know the difference, and you can't convince me that the new maytags/whirlpools/kenmores DD with that filter comb under the tub is catching anything, of all the ones I have taken apart, there hasn't been one speck of lint that got trapped on this thing to be removed, and you're gonna tell me it cleans itself tha well...not happening!



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