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Post# 139971 , Reply# 1   7/4/2006 at 08:47 (6,478 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 139978 , Reply# 2   7/4/2006 at 09:11 (6,478 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN)   |   | |
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That ad only reminds me when I first heard about the DAA. I broke away from my mom, hauled @$$ through Sears and opened the lid of the new washer with DAA, and then saying to myself "This is the washer of the future!" |
Post# 140126 , Reply# 4   7/4/2006 at 17:59 (6,477 days old) by brettsomers ()   |   | |
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so when did Whirl start using the DA? how soon before others reacted to the DA? and indeed, that sure sounds like the numbers werent in Maytags favor. |
Post# 140130 , Reply# 5   7/4/2006 at 18:16 (6,477 days old) by agiflow ()   |   | |
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I can remember seeing a WP washer with the DAA as early as 1984. GE and Maytag didn't switch over till about mid ninties. |
Post# 140141 , Reply# 9   7/4/2006 at 18:27 (6,477 days old) by westytoploader ()   |   | |
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I agree, I'm quite surprised they didn't pit the DA against the Frigidaire...perhaps they knew who the real winner was? |
Post# 140160 , Reply# 12   7/4/2006 at 19:31 (6,477 days old) by agiflow ()   |   | |
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I remember that commercial. Though every BD DAA i have seen had much better turnover than what they showed in that video. I think it was rigged. |
Post# 140194 , Reply# 15   7/4/2006 at 20:47 (6,477 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Today's POD is a brochure that I picked up when I was 13 years old in a Sears store in New Brunswick, NJ back in 1976. It was a stand-alone Sears store (not connected to a Mall) that we always went to as when I was a kid. They day I picked this up was the very first time I had ever seen a Dual-Action agitator and when I saw the spiral, my first reaction was that it must pulsate up and down. No such luck! Anyway, those pictures of those bib are very suspect. If you look closely it seems that some didn't get clean at all and others are completely clean. Why aren't there more bibs on any of the other machines that sort of came clean with just light spots left? And we know why they didn't included 1/18 in this test. I would think that the Whirlpool would have beaten more of those bibs clean as well so I have a hard time believing that this was a totally fair or accurate test. |
Post# 140195 , Reply# 16   7/4/2006 at 20:51 (6,477 days old) by agiflow ()   |   | |
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Yes Robert that store is still standing today and doing pretty well i would imagine. I don't have to go that far anymore to get to Sears now as they have opened one up here in Woodbridge mall. |
Post# 140202 , Reply# 17   7/4/2006 at 21:07 (6,477 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Austin, I sometimes ran an 18-pound load (weighed on a bathroom scales) in our Supreme 80 with a Super Surgilator (not winged), and there was turnover. It was typically a mixed-cottons load of towels, socks, underwear, etc. Not usually any bulky/heavy items like sheets or jeans mixed in. A goodly-loaded 1-18, like what I saw run at John Lefever's, has relatively slow turnover. I have a video clip of it. |
Post# 140220 , Reply# 18   7/4/2006 at 21:29 (6,477 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 140599 , Reply# 20   7/6/2006 at 17:51 (6,475 days old) by norgeman ()   |   | |
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It also had the 202degree turbosweep Agitator. Straight Vanes. |
Post# 140607 , Reply# 21   7/6/2006 at 18:29 (6,475 days old) by unimac104 ()   |   | |
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norge washers were always great for roll over and cleaning, i know my laundromat customers always loved these machines and any machine that replaced them got complaints, i guess next best they liked the filter flos. |
Post# 140658 , Reply# 23   7/7/2006 at 01:11 (6,475 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 141172 , Reply# 24   7/9/2006 at 23:25 (6,472 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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I have the GE that came in second. It washes for 18 minutes followed by a three minute pause. Then comes the magic. The machine throws the water so fast that the centrifical force keeps hurling and sloshing the water up from the outer tub back into the inner tub in a fascinating display that can only be called a spinning flush wash. I have has this machine for only two years, but never tire of this flooding sudsing spectacle. Of course as the water pumps out, the fireworks are over. No surprize here that it cleans so well.
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Post# 141279 , Reply# 26   7/10/2006 at 14:07 (6,471 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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That 20 pounder made in the 80's was the machine I used every day, had it for a decade, loved it, won so many CR cleaning ability sweepstakes. I'm surprized you think the gyrator is more powerful. For me the Norge leaves the Maytag in the dust. I'm with you the Norge is king of cleaning and mind-blowing turnover. The only way to beat it is with Frankensteining: Put the giant Kitchen Aid aqua agitator inside a Whirlpool. When I become iphoto and utube literate, I'd love to show you. Later, Dude. |