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Post# 406467   1/16/2010 at 11:31 (5,185 days old) by supersurgilator (Indiana)        

I would love to have a washer like this one as a daily driver. It is a shame that we can no longer have machines with a warm rinse, and I like those that have a hot/warm setting as well.

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Post# 406590 , Reply# 1   1/16/2010 at 18:40 (5,185 days old) by kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC)        
Bruce....

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I totally agree with you about the warm rinses. I am using one machine right now that has three temp. selections: Cold/Cold, Warm/Cold, and Hot/Warm. I don't usually use the full warm rinse, but I do put it on the hot/warm setting at times to get extra water flow for the spray rinses. This has saved me a few times from running a second deep rinse due to sudsy towels, etc. I also like how the fabrics come out of the machine warm, plus they take a little bit less time to warm up in the dryer.

Gordon


Post# 406774 , Reply# 2   1/17/2010 at 09:29 (5,184 days old) by stainfighter (Columbia, SC)        
Warm rinse...

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agree with u Gordon, shirts and blouses less wrinkled when rinsed warm = less ironing! Had the same KM when we were Innkeepers - a true workhorse, had two have two dryers just to keep up with it!

Post# 406829 , Reply# 3   1/17/2010 at 11:59 (5,184 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada)        

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sometime i wonder why they stop putting the warm rinse option on washers so far with the kenmore desing i think that this is the only model that as the warm rinse option witch they called extra warm?


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Post# 406862 , Reply# 4   1/17/2010 at 13:42 (5,184 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)        

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most of the whirlpools I have seen lately have the warm rinse option.....but the rinse water fill is cold....warm water is sprayed on the fabrics during the final spin....

don't know if all of them do this


Post# 406922 , Reply# 5   1/17/2010 at 17:51 (5,184 days old) by supersurgilator (Indiana)        

As Gordan was saying, I didn't realize that even the older models would use a warm spray rinse when on the warm rinse setting.

Post# 406991 , Reply# 6   1/17/2010 at 20:41 (5,184 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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My 2006 Frigidaire TL'er has a Warm/Warm setting. The deep rinse is cold; the spray rinse in the final spin is warm. Deception!

My 2002 Frigidaire FL'er has a Warm/Warm setting. Rinses 1 + 2 are cold. The third (final) rinse is tap-warm.


Post# 407024 , Reply# 7   1/18/2010 at 00:07 (5,183 days old) by mattl (Flushing, MI)        

My '96 Kenmore has a warm rinse options, but all it really is is tempered cold water. It fill with cold and every 20 seconds or so there is a splash of warm water, not hot, just warm added to the cold. So even back then there was not a true warm rinse.

Post# 407080 , Reply# 8   1/18/2010 at 09:03 (5,183 days old) by kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC)        

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Matt -

Your machine probably has ATC - Automatic Temperature Control, or whatever Kenmore calls it, where the mixing valve is thermostatic and it measures the incoming water temperature to some prescribed temp. They do just what yours does - open and close the hot valve to approximate the temperature that it is set at to make 'warm' water. The action there depends on the temperature of the cold water. I've not heard many people here say they like these. The premise behind these originally was to prevent warm from being too warm and thereby causing fading of colors.

I have a 1993 Kenmore machine, and it has true warm rinses where both valves of the mixing valve are wide open when 'warm' is selected. ATC became a more and more common option in the 90s and may be standard now on everything, I'm not totally sure, but I am pretty sure there were still some Kenmores in the later 90s that offerd 'old school' non-thermostatic mixing valves and warm rinse selections, however they certainly were few and far between.

Gordon



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