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Thread Number: 86114
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
What is the strangest stuff you found in an washing Machine |
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Post# 1106772 , Reply# 1 2/4/2021 at 17:30 (1,169 days old) by Lorainfurniture  (Cleveland ) |
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1. I once found a $20 bill and some change in the coin trap. 2. I was cleaning out my vacuum that I used on road calls and found a men’s ring. I got $350 for that in gold scrap. It probably came from a dryer. | ||
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Post# 1106773 , Reply# 2 2/4/2021 at 17:31 (1,169 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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Years ago, when I started my washing machine fix/repair/collection hobby, I would get machines people would leave for garbage pick up on "Big Junk" week, which happened twice a year.
I picked up a 1970 Whirlpool washer with several used condoms in the tub. Like they had just been thrown in there....along with the hoses and some other junk. | ||
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Post# 1106776 , Reply# 3 2/4/2021 at 17:33 (1,169 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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Post# 1106781 , Reply# 4 2/4/2021 at 18:06 (1,169 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1106821 , Reply# 5 2/5/2021 at 00:16 (1,169 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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Play the camera card to see what was on it!!Card "players"-"readers" available at most electronic places-connect to any computer. | ||
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Post# 1106862 , Reply# 6 2/5/2021 at 10:37 (1,168 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA) |
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Not the washer but in the dryer...
I was asked to look at a dryer by a neighbor who said they did not know what brand because "it's not fun to use so I don't look at it" and I found a stash of marijuana, it had to be almost a kilo. This was back in the 80s when it was illegal.
The people in reply #2 must have believed in population control. | ||
| Post# 1106899 , Reply# 7 2/5/2021 at 14:37 (1,168 days old) by rpms (ontario canada) | ||
Glass eye.
When I worked at a nursing home the students came in in the morning before school to make or strip the beds. One old guy's glass eye went missing.They figured it was in the sheets. The hunt was on. The sheets had gone to the laundry.Big front load washer.The eye was going round staring at the laundry staff. | ||
| Post# 1107383 , Reply# 10 2/9/2021 at 16:58 (1,164 days old) by Iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas) | ||
Not is a washer, but a Gift from heaven
Once when we were growing up, poor as church mice. I think my dad had just had his second heart attack, and the washer broke down. At that time it was like $38 or something to fix it, it was the 60s.
So Mom took our laundry to the Wash-o-mat and did what had to be done. As she was loading the dryer she saw something stuck in the tumbler in the back of the dryer. She reached in and pulled out a Dollar bill, she reached back in and pulled out more. She kept it up until she couldn't find anymore, and the total in the dryer was $38. the amount she needed to get our washer repaired. Some can judge that it belonged to someone else etc. It was in an empty laundry, there was no one to turn it into. She took it as a gift from heaven. | ||
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Post# 1107386 , Reply# 11 2/9/2021 at 17:37 (1,164 days old) by whirlykenmore78 (Prior Lake MN (GMT-0500 CDT.)) |
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I have a good one:
One restaurant I worked at we did the laundry in house. As I was the guy who did
basically every job in the place except serve and bartend I often did the laundry. I found a few interesting things when washing the cooks uniforms. One day I found a $20 bill in that Whirlpool DD when I was moving things to the dryer. Another time I was unloading clothes and heard something clank in the bottom of the tub. Laying next to the base of the agitator was someone's glass crack pipe! I gave it to the owner and told him he had a drug problem in his kitchen! HE WAS PISSED! WK78 | ||
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Post# 1107447 , Reply# 13 2/10/2021 at 10:54 (1,163 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK) |
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back in the 90's when repairs were common
I used to go to the local dump and see what machines were any use for spares etc I was on the hunt for a certain drain pump and found one on a battered relic of a washer, Asked the scrap yard owner how much for a pump he replied £3 and that was how much was inside it in coins !!
Another time I was fixing my sisters Hoover 800 it had stopped draining ao took the pump apart to find a complete choke chain for a dog a large dog at that. This chain must have been there for a while as it was rusting and leaving a stain on the plastic! Austin | ||
| Post# 1107541 , Reply# 14 2/10/2021 at 22:48 (1,163 days old) by Tomdawg (Des moines) | ||
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One washer repair was a panty hose stuck in the pump of a duet sport. Another was 11 baby socks in the pump of a duet - original design- the owner said, see the laundry do it eat socks! Another was an older dryer I took apart. I found at least $17 dollars worth of coins in it... | ||
| Post# 1107663 , Reply# 15 2/11/2021 at 22:38 (1,162 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas) | ||
 The strangest thing might be live a mouse. When I tried to get it out, it managed to squeeze up under the agitator before I could nab it. So I filled the washer with water to drown it, then put it on spin. The spin cycle managed to sling the critter out from under the agitator. I then ran the washer on hot wash with detergent and bleach! LOL! | ||
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Post# 1107682 , Reply# 16 2/12/2021 at 03:26 (1,162 days old) by thomasortega (El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles de Porciúncula) |
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$3 in quarters inside a Kenmore all-in-one (fake skinny mini) $0,25 inside a Whirlpool Thin Twin. $7,75 (all quarters) inside a Kenmore Calypso Kenmore portable (World Washer) threw up a dime through the drain hose the first time I used it. Don't ask me about the dryers..... ALL my dryers were piggy banks. The Neptune Superstack came with a $50 bill in the blower. | ||
| Post# 1107749 , Reply# 17 2/12/2021 at 15:07 (1,161 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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Post# 1107766 , Reply# 18 2/12/2021 at 17:51 (1,161 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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In the first washer I ever picked up when I was 12, it was a 1969 avoocado GE with sudsaver. The motor was stuck. After detaching the motor I found a childs sock stuck in it that someone using the sudsaver must have sucked up.
That was all that was wrong with the washer. One late 70s GE dryer was loaded with lint in the chute beneath the MISSING filter and in that lint was a lot of coin change and about $12 in paper bills. In 2018 picked up a newer Estate dryer from a Menards store. Even though it worked perfectly fine was in rather good condition I thought I'd better open it up and just make sure. In the bottom there had been a busy mouse that made a perfect shaped nest in the middle with all the lint. It was all stuck together in a neat mound. | ||
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Post# 1107775 , Reply# 19 2/12/2021 at 19:14 (1,161 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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| Post# 1107810 , Reply# 20 2/13/2021 at 06:40 (1,160 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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re; snake Florida has a new deadly one. The kubine viper or something like that. It's venom can kill ten adults. No anti venom yet. Saw it on National Geo. Only chance for survival is cut an X and suck out the poison. It's black and silver with 2.5 inch fangs. Don't leave the golf carts outdoors! | ||
| Post# 1108286 , Reply# 22 2/16/2021 at 22:12 (1,157 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
Found at least $5 in change in my 1981 Maytag DG810 dryer when I got it back in 2016. Only dryers I’ve found absolutely no coins in are my 1963 RCA Whirlpool Imperial dryer and literally the only thing there was is lint. Only dryers you won’t find money in are the older Whirlpool and Kenmore dryers built before 1966 and the Maytag HOH dryers.
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Post# 1108327 , Reply# 23 2/17/2021 at 08:51 (1,156 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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| Post# 1108441 , Reply# 24 2/17/2021 at 19:05 (1,156 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs) | ||
That's "Easy"...money Every day when I got to work, either early in the morning or the afternoon if it was a school day, I'd check the parking lot to see what kind of laundry trade-ins had come in. When you spied an Easy washer, you hoped the delivery guys hadn't robbed it like some Egyptian tomb. If the agitator hadn't been loosened you were in luck. There was almost always money under the Spiralator. It was just something about the way they were designed. Most of the time the delivery guys couldn't get the agitator off by hand so I'd be in luck. I'd go out there with a hand torch and barbecue the top of that painted-white agitator until it was golden brown and then it would just slip right off. Easy's were always sold to the scrap guy. I never found a lot of money, usually a dollar more or less, but it meant something to a young kid. It certainly wasn't "dirty money" after all that washing, it was "Easy money."
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Post# 1108623 , Reply# 25 2/18/2021 at 20:44 (1,155 days old) by sambootoo (Moody, AL) |
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A falsie!! Squeezed between wash basket and outer tub of a Whirlpool direct drive | ||
| Post# 1108931 , Reply# 26 2/20/2021 at 20:20 (1,153 days old) by latchlock8111 (Sulphur Springs Tx) | ||
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Dryer find I would assist in the lint trap cleaning at a coin laundry where I worked. The big Dexter 30 pound dryers ... bullets. Live rounds. Tough customers ... | ||
| Post# 1108937 , Reply# 27 2/20/2021 at 21:41 (1,153 days old) by panasonicvac (Northern Utah) | ||
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