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Lint filter or Overflow rinse
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Post# 832262   7/14/2015 at 15:01 (3,180 days old) by turnamat (Germany)        

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What´s Your opinion??Lint filter like in the old GE,british Hotpoint toploaders,Whirlpool/Kenmore machines,or overflow rinse??Which kind of providing lint is Your choice??




Post# 832267 , Reply# 1   7/14/2015 at 15:36 (3,180 days old) by marky_mark (From Liverpool. Now living in Palm Springs and Dublin)        

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Hey Thomas!

 

Well I can’t offer an opinion on this as I have never experienced an overflow rinse.  So I can’t compare them.  But as we have both seen, when you have come over to my place for a wash-in, my Hotpoint toploader with the filter pan does remove a bit of lint but definitely less than is captured by the dryer’s lint screen.  I wonder how this compares to an overflow rinse.  I wonder if it makes any difference at all after tumble drying.

 

Could I add something to your question: is an overflow rinse only possible if it’s a solid wash basket with no holes?  If so, does this mean that heavy soils such as sand and grit can be left behind in the basket/laundry?

 

Hope you can drop by for a wash-in next time you are in Sitges!

 

Hope all is well

Mark

 


Post# 832320 , Reply# 2   7/15/2015 at 00:42 (3,180 days old) by mrsalvo (New Braunfels Texas)        

Having owned both type of machines, I would have to go with a good lint filter such as the GE filter flow. It was good system at removing some, but not all, of the lint. Just my humble opinion.

Post# 832342 , Reply# 3   7/15/2015 at 06:16 (3,179 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

An overflow rinse was helpful in solid tub machines for getting rid of lint and, in the early days of using soap in automatics, of suds and soap curd, a product of soap, hard water and precipitating water conditioners. They were not necessary as GE showed by the mid 50s where an overflowing tub fed a recirculating lint filter and most automatic laundering was done using a synthetic detergent. Mostly they used an inordinate amount of water (almost as much as another deep rinse in some machines) and a single overflow rinse is not as effective as double deep rinses with a spin period after each rinse. Today they are way too wasteful of water for all but demonstration purposes in the hallowed halls of laundry museums and even then, the water should be saved for another use.


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