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Thread Number: 65744
/ Tag: Twin-Tub Washers
spin-driers became twintubs? |
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Post# 883132 , Reply# 1 6/1/2016 at 06:17 (2,886 days old) by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Really only less than ten or even five
Washing machine makers used "spin dry" or "spindrier" (the latter was copyrighted by Easy) and or made such twin tubs. Nor did any company IIRC sell stand alone domestic extractors in the USA like in Europe. law.justia.com/cases/federal/dist...
Twin tubs with spin driers never really caught on in the USA with wringer washers then semi or later fully automatic machines dominating. In fact once washers came out that could spin automatically in same basket it pretty much limited the market for twin-tubs. You can do laundry two ways: shift clothing or shift water. Use of conventional washers and twin tubs is the former; semi automatics, fully automatics are the latter. Spinning is easier to recall and market than centrifugal force in a name although some twin tubs used the latter in their detailed advertising literature. People especially housewives back then could relate to spinning I suppose. The initial allure of spin drying was to do away with the hated (and often dangerous) wringers. It is also a faster process because batches of clothing can be processed at once instead of being fed into wringer one by one. | ||
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Post# 883544 , Reply# 4 6/5/2016 at 02:38 (2,882 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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TT Semi-Automatic Washers
Despite Consumer Reports and others praising them to high heaven only ever occupied a niche market here in the USA. Even then that was mainly before WWII and a bit after until fully automatic washing machines came along.
As the design, quality and so forth of fully automatic washing machines improved housewives (and any one else) abandoned conventional washing machines and went straight to automatics. Post WWII between the boom in new construction and or remodeling, more and more American homes got full indoor plumbing including almost unlimited supplies of hot water. Once you take water savings off the table it kills a market for both wringers and twin-tub washers. To further push that knife deeper automatic washer makers came out with suds-saving models. This removed any last objections from the few Average American Housewives who needed or wanted to conserve hot water. We know of course conventional and twin tub units sold well into the 1970's and beyond, but again they were never more than a niche product. | ||
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Post# 883617 , Reply# 5 6/5/2016 at 20:25 (2,881 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Consider also
Twin tub washers with spin driers were expensive. Far more so than conventional (wringer) units. Times being what they were many housewives were happy for any sort of machine on laundry day that lessened work load.
When times improved housewives went straight for automatics. Well they would, wouldn't they? No more handling wet laundry be it feeding into wringer or spin basket. When you consider there were automatic washing machines then that spun as fast or even faster than many of the spin driers, there was little reason (aside from water savings), to go with a twin tub. | ||
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Post# 883655 , Reply# 6 6/6/2016 at 07:18 (2,881 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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Post# 883657 , Reply# 7 6/6/2016 at 07:50 (2,881 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Space savings? | ||
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Post# 883659 , Reply# 8 6/6/2016 at 08:06 (2,881 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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Growing up, the only twin tubs I ever saw advertised on TV or in magazines was the Hoover and Maytag. I know of only 2 families that had a twintub. One was a family that had a Hoover at their cottage...they kept it in the change room of the sauna which was a separate building. There was no running hot water so they would fire up the sauna (wood fire box) the night before and the attached water tank would still have warm water in it the next day for doing the laundry. The little old lady that lived next door year round had a Maytag A50 which she kept in the kitchen. She did not have a dryer due to lack of space, not lack of money. She was rolling in dough as her dead husband had been the one and only pharmacist in town. She had a beautiful home on the lake and always drove a GM convertible, never with the top down however LOL. She traded cars every 2-3 years and barely drove 5,000 miles a year, if even that. Once GM convertibles were no longer made, she went with the luxury Buicks....a Riviera being her last car before she died.
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Post# 883661 , Reply# 9 6/6/2016 at 08:18 (2,881 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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| Post# 883758 , Reply# 10 6/7/2016 at 04:38 (2,880 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
some may know
I bought a new twinny 3 years ago, $250 delivered from China via NY. Retired in a government hovel, not like I have much to do other than eat and watch cable. I value the control a twinny gives. The only options on the coin-ops downstairs is running another cycle if the result displeases. And gawd knows what was washed in them before I got there.
Yes the impeller knots sheets and towels, even though it reverses every few seconds. The spinner works so well, everything dries in the coin-op for one quarter (20min)(subsidized). The other issue solved is the necessity that the washer stay literally and figuratively 'in the closet'. Not only is space scarce but private laundry machines are forbidden. The twinny can sit unnoticed in the closet during mandatory inspections, concealed only by a decorative cloth. It just looks like another box (I have many sitting out, see 'space'). Not the giveaway profile of even the smallest automatic. Oh, and the reviews on small-footprint automatics didn't inspire much confidence. Little learning curve; I learned laundry on grandma's Easy longabout 1953. Some things you never forget. | ||
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Post# 883790 , Reply# 11 6/7/2016 at 10:00 (2,880 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Nosing around the Internet
Easy seems always to have called their units "spin driers" and or made reference to damp drying or spin drying. In fact many early spin/extractors machines sold for domestic use made those or references to centrifuge drying.
Now Dexter did call their twin tub wringer machine just that. Am thinking early "twin tub" washer makers wanted to get away from associating their products with wringer machines. Wringer washing most always involves using two or more separate tubs besides the main unit. | ||
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