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Thread Number: 84165
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
POD 8-16-2020 LK with Enzyme Pre-Soak Auto Advance |
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Post# 1085279 , Reply# 1 8/16/2020 at 14:59 (1,345 days old) by DADoES  (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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 Two drain hoses. Wash water on a sud-saver model always drains through the first hose into the storage tub (remove the tub stopper if not wanting to save). Rinse water drains through the second hose to the standpipe. Except wash water on Perm Press is always drained through the second hose (not saved) due to the cool down dilution. | ||
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Post# 1085280 , Reply# 2 8/16/2020 at 15:00 (1,345 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio) |
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Kenmore/WP suds
I don't have this exact model, but I have a 1974 Kenmore suds and a 1959 Whirlpool suds machine. Both send the regular cycle wash water into one drain hose, and automatically send drain water out another hose, you cannot choose. You simply plug the wash drain if you want to save suds, or leave it to drain out of the tub. For pulling suds back in, it's right on the timer dial on both my machines, no buttons at all. Blow up the POD and you'll see that right at the top of the dial, next to OFF, it says suds. This would suck suds back in.
My 1972 Maytag and 1977 GE Filter Flo work differently, you decide on a Maytag button or GE switch if you want to save the water instead of the Kenmore/WP "plug the tub or not" way to decide with them. I almost never use Perm-Press cycles, I can't say how any of the machines do or don't save that water. Clothes I wear to my office don't get very dirty, nor do bath towels or sheets, so I do a lot of suds saving with them. Dog bedding and throw rugs and babies clothes are a different story, DON'T SAVE THE WATER. yuck. | ||
| Post# 1085281 , Reply# 3 8/16/2020 at 16:02 (1,345 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
My new ‘63 Whirlpool doesn’t have a suds saver on it at all but there is a provision for another drain hose to be used for a suds saver but mine isn’t a suds saver model at all. If I had a machines with a suds saver I would only use it for lightly soiled laundry or small loads of laundry that aren’t dirty but other than that I wouldn’t want to save the dirty wash water for anything else.
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Post# 1085294 , Reply# 5 8/16/2020 at 17:38 (1,345 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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The 1965 Lady Kenmore Suds button was to engage the suds return function by setting/locking the timer to that position. The 1969 POD LK didn't devote a button to it, although one may need to press "Selective Dialing-Cancel" to prevent the timer from locking at some other position on the way to Suds. Something else perhaps notable on the 1969 LK is the Delicate cycle (per the POD) provides up to 10 mins of wash time. Edit to correct: I don't know what year is it. This post was last edited 08/16/2020 at 18:27 | ||
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Post# 1085296 , Reply# 6 8/16/2020 at 17:46 (1,345 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 1085320 , Reply# 7 8/16/2020 at 20:37 (1,345 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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KM and WP Washers With Suds savers Out of the several hundred different WP top load washers that had a SS NONE ever had a switch to turn the feature on or off.
Out of the even larger number of KM TL washers WP built for them from 1947- 2005 you can count on one hand the few models that had an unnecessary switch to turn the feature on and off, the user simply did not leave the plug in the sink if they do not want to reuse the suds water.
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Post# 1085322 , Reply# 8 8/16/2020 at 20:48 (1,345 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Post# 1085395 , Reply# 9 8/17/2020 at 11:16 (1,344 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1085417 , Reply# 10 8/17/2020 at 14:07 (1,344 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 1085425 , Reply# 11 8/17/2020 at 15:19 (1,344 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1085426 , Reply# 12 8/17/2020 at 15:33 (1,344 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Glenn, Sears never did a cool-down on Knits. There was a time when they did have the LK pause for 2 minute interval between the beginning of Knits and Delicate. It may have specified that under the lid cycle chart. I just remember seeing that and always struck me as a nice extra. And it was the only difference between the Knit/Delicate on the Kenmore 800 I had at home vs. the LK.
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