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Dog Fur, Meet Your Match |
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Post# 642624   11/29/2012 at 16:15 (4,137 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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IMHO, the ONLY way to deal with dog fur. Bought this one over the weekend and used it for the first time yesterday. It went through all parts of the "Regular" cycle without problem, no leaks were observed. It was not level, so it wasn't happy during the spin, but that can be corrected. I have made a first pass at cleaning up the exterior; can pop the top Saturday and remove smeg from the innerds. The Mini-Basket is missing, but that doesn't bother me since the intent is to wash dog sheets in this one. It does need new bumpers on the lid if anyone has a lead on some, please speak up.
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Post# 642626 , Reply# 1   11/29/2012 at 16:15 (4,137 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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Post# 642627 , Reply# 2   11/29/2012 at 16:17 (4,137 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 642633 , Reply# 3   11/29/2012 at 16:30 (4,137 days old) by applianceguy47 ()   |   | |
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Almost TOL, It's missing the Spotscrubber cycle. Not a biggee.
My parents had the TOL in 1985, with matching electric dryer in almond. |
Post# 642634 , Reply# 4   11/29/2012 at 16:37 (4,137 days old) by tecnopolis (Ocala/Dunnellon, Florida 34481)   |   | |
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Post# 642637 , Reply# 5   11/29/2012 at 16:41 (4,137 days old) by tecnopolis (Ocala/Dunnellon, Florida 34481)   |   | |
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Post# 642638 , Reply# 6   11/29/2012 at 16:51 (4,137 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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Thanks for the info, I'll check out your thread. Actually, this woodgrain-slathered console is the predecesor to the black-and-chrome console and I believe the "Extra Cleaning Cycle" morphed into the "Spotscrubber Cycle". This version is from about 1980 through 1985, in 1986 GE stripped off the woodgrain. This is the first time I've had a programmed washer!
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Post# 642639 , Reply# 7   11/29/2012 at 17:05 (4,137 days old) by tecnopolis (Ocala/Dunnellon, Florida 34481)   |   | |
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Post# 642640 , Reply# 8   11/29/2012 at 17:24 (4,137 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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Post# 642647 , Reply# 9   11/29/2012 at 17:45 (4,137 days old) by tecnopolis (Ocala/Dunnellon, Florida 34481)   |   | |
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Post# 642650 , Reply# 10   11/29/2012 at 17:53 (4,137 days old) by applianceguy47 ()   |   | |
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Lawrence, you beat me to the punch. When I saw Alex picture with the black console, vs yours with the woodgrain....
Have fun with your new toy. If rubber bumpers on the lid are your only issue, you picked well. |
Post# 642655 , Reply# 11   11/29/2012 at 18:13 (4,137 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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One other difference in mine and Alex's; note the description in the upper left hand of the console. Through the woodgrain years, GE built "Heavy Duty" washers (std capacity) and "Heavy Duty Large Capacity" washers (+/- 18 lb). When they switched to the black-and-chrome look they re-vamped their terminology. The tubs and capacities were unchanged but the names had been changed to protect the innocent. They started calling the washers either "Heavy Duty Large Capacity" (std capacity) or "Heavy Duty Extra Large Capacity" washers (+/-18 lbs).
Mine has the larger, 11" filter pan.
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Post# 642746 , Reply# 13   11/30/2012 at 00:12 (4,136 days old) by tecnopolis (Ocala/Dunnellon, Florida 34481)   |   | |
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I retrofitted the smaller mini basket to my newer "large" capacity Filter-Flo since It didn't come with one. You'll also need the version with the curved vanes to fit your ramp style agitator.
In this photo you can also see the little lid bumpers. When you close the lid it feels like it landed on marshmallows. |
Post# 642784 , Reply# 14   11/30/2012 at 06:09 (4,136 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Now that is a tub light! Congratulations, Lawrence, on your new-to-you GE. As Ernestine told J. Edgar, "There's nothing like a Hoover when you're dealing with dirt" and there is nothing like that FilterFlo for catching dog hair and rolling it into a ball. |
Post# 642794 , Reply# 15   11/30/2012 at 06:46 (4,136 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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Post# 642795 , Reply# 16   11/30/2012 at 06:48 (4,136 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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Post# 642796 , Reply# 17   11/30/2012 at 06:50 (4,136 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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Post# 642805 , Reply# 18   11/30/2012 at 07:02 (4,136 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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Post# 642810 , Reply# 19   11/30/2012 at 07:20 (4,136 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Nice Washer Larry
While the GE FFs will do a fairly good job and you at least will not clog the machine with pet hair, I have found that the older WP&KM BD washers with the back-flush SCLFs collect far more hair and discharge it from the washer than the GEs could ever hope to collect. I have tested this by holding a dryer lint filter under the drain hose as the machine drains and on the GE you add this lint from the drain hose to the little that the filter pan collects and then compare it to the discharged lint from the BD machine and the WP_KM will collect at least double the lint and fur through the full cycle.
But the best machines that I have ever used to get of lint are the old Combs with the huge drums and large holes to allow lint to be flushed and or be blown away. I had one customer who had a 29" KM combo in her kitchen that was not even vented, the dryers discharge just blew against the wall behind the machine. There was never any lint anywhere around or inside that machine because these machines were so effective at allowing the lint to just be rinsed away. |
Post# 642813 , Reply# 20   11/30/2012 at 07:37 (4,136 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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I don't think I've ever owned one of the "true" self-cleaning KM/WP machines, although my mother owned several. My own objection to those machines is what they dump into the sewer line. When I washed the test load the other afternoon and collected the two fur-balls out of the filter pan I was pleased to know that not only could I remove that stuff from the water and the clothes, but also to know that those wads didn't get flushed into my sewer lines. Maybe with reasonably-new construction that wouldn't be a concern, but for a 50-year-old-plus house with the original cast iron sewer lines, I'd prefer to keep the fur and lint out of the lines.
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Post# 642835 , Reply# 21   11/30/2012 at 10:33 (4,136 days old) by doug (West Virgina)   |   | |
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