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Thread Number: 97645
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Norge Double Rinse Tubs |
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Post# 1225585 2/28/2025 at 15:26 by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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| Post# 1225588 , Reply# 1 2/28/2025 at 16:05 by qsd-dan (West) | ||
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Post# 1225592 , Reply# 2 2/28/2025 at 16:32 by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Post# 1225593 , Reply# 3 2/28/2025 at 17:18 by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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| Post# 1225594 , Reply# 4 2/28/2025 at 17:44 by qsd-dan (West) | ||
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Actually you only need the one wringer | ||
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Post# 1225597 , Reply# 5 2/28/2025 at 18:37 by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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| Post# 1225598 , Reply# 6 2/28/2025 at 18:52 by qsd-dan (West) | ||
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Post# 1225601 , Reply# 7 2/28/2025 at 20:21 by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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In my parents basement 60+ years ago we had a double concrete tub. My mother used one side to wring the clothes into the rinse water, the other to drain the Kenmore wringer washer into, my job was to catch all the clothes coming thru the wringer back from the rinse tub into the clothesbasket and carry it out to the clothesline. Before we got a Kenmore automatic washer and Bendix gas dryer which was a godsend.
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Post# 1225604 , Reply# 8 2/28/2025 at 20:40 by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Sadly it often seems those old concrete or even porcelain enamel "utility" or wash sinks are given the push when homes are renovated.
Our home was built in early 1960's and had huge concrete utility sink that mom's washer drained into. Could also be used to wash paint brushes, tools and anything else forbidden in kitchen sinks upstairs. Could be wrong but think those old sinks in basements or elsewhere were called "slop sinks". Some sinks either porcelain or concrete had built in scrub boards. lazyguydiy.com/how-to-restore-a-... Many grand estates, large homes, laundries or whoever also had three or double porcelain sinks in a row. www.flickr.com/photos/reb... | ||
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Post# 1225628 , Reply# 10 3/1/2025 at 15:39 by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Don't these get purchased to be filled with ice and used for outdoor parties? Our Homart single tub was white on the outside and galvanized on the inside. | ||
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Post# 1225651 , Reply# 11 3/1/2025 at 19:17 by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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"Don't these get purchased to be filled with ice and used for outdoor parties?"
Could be, but don't believe people are paying prices one has seen just for that use. Can find modern metal rinse or wash tubs usually for far less money. www.lehmans.com/product/g... Reading old laundry or housekeeping books it seems a common complaint from laundresses hired by private households were metal tubs taken from laundry to be used for parties (holding drinks or whatever in ice). Apparently not all caterers or domestic staff returned metal tubs where they belonged and or not in condition a good laundress left them after previous use. So before she could begin her work laundress had to scrub or otherwise clean tubs getting them restored to point fit for use. | ||
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Post# 1225653 , Reply# 12 3/1/2025 at 19:21 by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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More to point wringer washers along with other vintage semi-automatic washers are selling out there. Someone is nabbing all those Maytag, SQ and other such washers. Pile on those who are totally off grid doing the work manually.
Problem one finds with new modern metal tubs is they all leak. Have two large round ones by Behrens and both have slow leaks. | ||
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Post# 1225714 , Reply# 13 3/2/2025 at 17:40 by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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 Most of the older homes that I can recall from my childhood years in the 50’s and 60’s had concrete laundry tubs either in the basement or the laundry room. The basement tubs were usually double tubs and those in laundry rooms were usually single tubs.
The home that may family moved into in 1963 was built in ‘61 and it had a porcelain laundry tub in the kitchen that was surrounded by an enameled cabinet and it was next to the washing machine, which was a Lady Kenmore automatic when we first moved into the home. Mom already had a ‘62 Whirlpool automatic which she preferred. The driveway from the road into the property needed to be graded. So she bartered with a guy that had a grader for him to resurface the driveway in exchange for the Lady Kenmore that came with the house. A win/win all the way around.
BTW, Launderess mentioned that many called their laundry tubs “slop sinks”and that what Mom always called the one in our kitchen. All the large pots and pans were left to soak in the slop sink.
In ‘69 Mom got rid of the Whirlpool automatic and replaced it with a new Maytag ELSP wringer washer which put the slop sink into regular good use for rinsing the laundry.
Eddie This post was last edited 03/02/2025 at 17:56 | ||
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