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Thread Number: 90038
/ Tag: Wringer Washers
How do YOU use a wringer washer? |
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Post# 1146331 , Reply# 1 4/12/2022 at 03:03 (738 days old) by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Because don't have time to pre-soak or pre-wash whites or anything else that will be washed in hot water....
Fill tub of Maytag wringer with warm water. Add detergent or soap and let agitate minute or so to mix with water. Then begin adding wash piece by piece until load is complete, or tub is filled to max indicated via roll over. Items wash for 4-6 minutes, maybe longer depending upon soil level. Stop washer, set up tub and move wringer into position. Wring out wash into waiting tub. Now here is where one differs from days of old. If only doing one load, will drain wash water, clean tub and fill with fresh water for rinse. Start agitator, drop things into washer..... rinse, wring.... Most things will then either be bunged into spin drier to extract more water. This or put into the Miele or AEG washers for same. Depending upon what was washed things may to into modern front loader for full final rinse and spin. Tend to use my Maytag wringer for bulky and large items that give issues in either Miele or AEG washers. Blankets, mattress covers, heavy terry bath robes, | ||
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Post# 1146363 , Reply# 3 4/12/2022 at 17:07 (737 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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"...I wonder how many people would use the wringer washer and then bungle everything straight into the dryer?..."
In United States at least it was fairly common for those who could afford or otherwise get a tumble dryer to put things in straight from semi-automatics. Hence many clothes dryers back then had heating power ranging from "Very Hot" to "Broil". *LOL* They needed to run hot in order to bake all water out of comparatively sopping wet laundry. Wringers have a comparable rpm (in terms of final spin) of about 240. That is pretty weak. But then again early Bendix front loaders weren't much better (around 300 rmps?), and many early fully automatic top loaders were about 500 to 600 rpm range IIRC. So really either way you wanted a dryer with powerful heating that could get things done quickly enough to keep up with washing machine. There is of course an art to feeding things through a wringer power or hand cranked. If done well you'll get better results, no where near "damp dry" as modern washing machines, but still.... OTOH if things are sent through wringer improperly you end up with sopping wet and heavy wash laden with water. Major part of damage to laundry from using wringers was caused by people attempting to tighten things down (to extract more water), that it was a chore to feed and get things through. This was hard on wringer, rough on textiles (ripped off buttons, hooks, fastenings, rips and tears...), and generally left creases that no amount of ironing would totally erase. Power wringers with self adjusting rollers such as Maytag often were busted by people trying to feed items too bulky for thing to handle. That bearing or other parts gave saved from destroying wringer head totally, but then you had to take apart and repair the thing. | ||
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Post# 1146385 , Reply# 4 4/12/2022 at 20:48 (737 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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My neighbor V. used a wringer washer until they got the Kenmore 800 set in the early 70's. They had a dryer much earlier, and it was a 1957 Kenmore hi-speed model connected to a 50 amp circuit. | ||
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Post# 1146390 , Reply# 5 4/12/2022 at 21:32 (737 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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If my math is correct at 240v that 50 amp circuit maxes out at 24,000 watts.
Such fun those high speed dryers! www.automaticwasher.org/c... Early Hamiliton dryer with dual voltage. Note at 240v it runs at over 4000 watts. www.automaticwasher.org/c... Thing to remember is late as 1950's, 1960's when wringer washers still prevailed many home textiles and clothing were far heavier than today. Bed linen often was muslin (unless family used lighter percale), which weighs a lot after washing. Dungarees (blue jeans) were of heavier material than today as well. | ||
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Post# 1146430 , Reply# 7 4/13/2022 at 06:22 (736 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Less residual moisture coupled with higher heat would translate into shorter drying times I shouldn't wonder.
Dryers at laundromats and other commercial/industrial settings often still get very hot in order to keep up fast through put. Don't know BTU ratings, but 11 pounds of wash spun at 1100 rpms in my Miele or 1200 in AEG will dry in about fifteen minutes or so when done at local laundromat. If use their washers (modern Speed Queen front loaders), things take about thirty minutes. | ||
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Post# 1146432 , Reply# 8 4/13/2022 at 06:37 (736 days old) by Adam-aussie-vac (Canberra ACT) |
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It makes me wonder if the reason why they got rid Of extractors, was because they cut drying time which means by they cut profits, as well as reducing spins beads on commercial washing machine | ||
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Post# 1146436 , Reply# 9 4/13/2022 at 08:00 (736 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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If you are referring to extractors in laundromats, legal action was brought against Bock more than a few times by employees of laundries and customers of laundromats for claims of injury. One particular case involved a young boy who lost an arm...
law.justia.com/cases/texas/supre... When Braun (IIRC), came out with first industrial/commercial washer that could extract (washer-extractor) days of separate extractors in commercial laundries were numbered. Many places hung on to them for various reasons, but newer laundries and or places that had major upgrades of equipment got rid of spin driers in favor of washer/extractors. Laundromats fearing lawsuits began to so same. As places moved away from top loading to h-axis washers in American laundromats again there was less need for centrifuges. Hard mount coin front loaders while having lower rpm than machines today, still were better at final extraction than most top loading washers. American housewives never really experienced spin dryers. To best or my knowledge they never were sold here for domestic use. What there was came part of twin tubs like those offered by GE, Hoover, Easy, and others. Blessed with abundant natural resources, and often low energy rates (well compared to Europe or elsewhere), once tumble dryers came along housewives and others doing laundry weren't that bothered about final moisture retention with automatic or even semi automatic washers, washers, or even using wringer, things were just bunged into dryer that baked all that water out of laundry. All this being said apparently there still are some laundromats out there in USA still with Bock extractors... This is a lawsuit waiting to happen.. | ||
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Post# 1146448 , Reply# 11 4/13/2022 at 12:23 (736 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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Launderess, you made a miscalculation in your circuit capacity. A 240 volt 50 amp circuit is rated at a maximum of 12000 watts (50 x 240 = 12000). It would have to be a 480 volt service to provide 24000 watts on a 50 amp circuit. That voltage isn't used in residential occupancies in North America, only industrial. | ||
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Post# 1146471 , Reply# 12 4/13/2022 at 16:35 (736 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Historically and probably still today laundromats make their money on dryers. Hence anything that speeds up that process (such as high extraction for final spin), would have a financial hit. This could be managed of course by raising prices for washers, and or fiddling with cost for dryer which is usually "X" per "Y" minutes.
Most laundromats use hard mount h-axis washing machines which tend to have lower final extraction speeds than soft mount. The SQ washers are local laundromat are new, and supposed to offer "high final extraction", but things come out far more wet than when spun at home in any of my European front loaders set to just 1100-1200 rpms. Because they are bolted into several feet of concrete h-axis washers will still transmit huge forces down into floors and thus spread throughout building. | ||
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Post# 1146516 , Reply# 14 4/13/2022 at 22:57 (736 days old) by Adam-aussie-vac (Canberra ACT) |
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It’s amazing how everybody thinks condensing dryer is a new Concept, but believe me, not even eight years after the war the first one was already made | ||
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