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Thread Number: 64552
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Loading a Bendix |
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Post# 872184 , Reply# 1 3/12/2016 at 23:02 (2,959 days old) by gansky1  (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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 What a great scene, looks like a Quonset hut laundry - on a military base? I've never seen the movie, nor the rolling of clothes before loading.
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Post# 872187 , Reply# 2 3/12/2016 at 23:43 (2,959 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Over the years since their invention
Various techniques, tips, or whatever were invented to deal with loading H-Axis washers and to avoid the tangled mass of laundry that often results.
If you watch the film "Peggy" is pretty much rolling all her laundry into some sort of bundle before placing it into the washer. Can only guess the purpose is that by starting out in a bundle things won't tangle at once, especially if the machine is fully loaded. A poster mentioned in another thread that when loading bed sheets into large commercial front loader as part of his job he basically bundled sheets up into a sort of "ball". IIRC the thread was about tangling up of bed linen during washing. Since this Bendix washer lacked reverse tumbling perhaps it was yet another housewife trick to avoid the dreaded "rope making". The actress wouldn't have done this on her own unless either directed or otherwise knew how to load a washing machine I shouldn't think. | ||
| Post# 872716 , Reply# 8 3/15/2016 at 18:17 (2,956 days old) by Gyromatic (St. Paul MN.) | ||
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Well Said Jerry, you hit the nail on the head. | ||
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Post# 872824 , Reply# 9 3/16/2016 at 06:30 (2,956 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Somewhere have saved a copy of a Bendix washer manual
It clearly stated for bed sheets one was to pick up in center, shake out any air pockets, then fold over arm midway between point and ends. One then placed the folded sheet into washer with fold facing to left, and points/ends to right.
Am going to give this a try next linens laundry day for giggles. | ||
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Post# 872842 , Reply# 10 3/16/2016 at 09:15 (2,956 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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The loading instructions for large sheets in our LTF590 flat front Westinghouse FL with the side-swing door were similar. "Grasp in center; hold up, letting corners fall. Place in Washer, center first, corners last." This post was last edited 03/16/2016 at 11:11 | ||
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Post# 872926 , Reply# 11 3/16/2016 at 19:50 (2,955 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Method behind the madness | ||
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Post# 872965 , Reply# 12 3/17/2016 at 06:34 (2,955 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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The non-slanted Westinghouse tub with the two baffles that were not directly across from each other and with tumble action provided by the the potato-shaped pulley did not tangle badly at all, unlike the slanted tub with three vanes. | ||
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Post# 873106 , Reply# 13 3/18/2016 at 06:28 (2,954 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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The Best Way... | ||
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