OT wash machine wars

A lot of opinions where posted but in my MOMS world this is still the best.She uses it once a week and won't have anything else.



The rinse tubs are concrete.

More power to her Charlie!
I used one of those for a while.
They definitely get the clothes clean.
The problem is the (obvious) added labor.
Sometimes change is hard though.

Thirty years ago, I salvaged an old Maytag Wringer
Washer at a property that I was cleaning up. It
had originally been one that had the "kick-start"
single cyl. gas motor on it, and someone had
removed the gas motor presumably to convert it to
an electric unit, but then never finished it. I
took the electric motor off of another dead washer
(rusted out tub) and rebuilt the Maytag and
started using it. The spindle seal was worn out
and caused it to leak badly.

As luck would have it, I just by chance met a
gentleman that had been a Maytag Repairman his
entire life and he had several of them. I GLADLY
paid $10 each (I bought two) for a $2 rubber
Spindle Cup-Seal (goes under the conical spindle
cap)& bought whatever other parts that he had that
I thought I might need(tub seal, discharge hose
spigot w/ hook, etc.) and finished rebuilding the
washer. IT WORKS GREAT! - Oh, my deep "twin-tub"
rinse tub is enameled Cast Iron (HEAVY!). I
haven't used either for many years - I'm spoiled
by the modern "automatic" washers, but I still
have them as back-ups.

Doc

P.S.: A short note of personal history - When I
was 6 years old I got my fingers caught in the
wringers on my mother's wringer washer. Gotta
watch out for those rollers, especially the ones
with the molded ribs on the rollers. - They're
hungry & they love to eat fingers and it H U R T S
!

Charlie,
Some of those old rinse tubs (utility sinks) were
actually made of soapstone.

Isn't there some sort of a saying that goes along with those
washing maxhine's ringers?

(quoted from post at 14:36:02 12/18/12) Isn't there some sort of a saying that goes along with those
washing maxhine's ringers?

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ad something to do with this, I believe:

How does it drain ?

There's a hose that hangs by a ringer post.You just drop it on the floor.