You could be wasting electricity and not know it?

[Norm]

 I'll try to make this not too wordy.

 Got a Maytag washer, about 25 years old?

 Couple of years ago, water all over the floor.

 The filler tube has a little gadget.....

http://www.partstore.com/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductSKU=5945499&s=youramigo.

 That nozzle and thin rubber tube are the key

ingredients ...when it wears out...I guess water

erosion after 10 or 15 years, it no longer works,

it backs up and runs out the plastic basket that

this gadjet is contained within.

 Why can't you just run a straight tube here? ,

I asked the parts service manager.

 'I don't know, I've asked several Maytag persons

and they don't seem to know either.',she says.

 Maytag must have had a reason ?

 I installed the new part....no leaking...

 Then the wife says afterward....

The clothes seem to dry quicker now !

.....

 Well of course ! It has to do with injecting the

water as a spray during the spin and rinse cycles

 Without the injector, during the spin cycle, the

water would just dump down to the bottom...and

that way it doesn't really spin and rinse efficiently.

  Well that's my theory anyway....

  So without this gadjet or even if it's not

working as good as it was designed to do, you'd

be using more electric (or gas) to dry what

amounts to soapy wet clothes instead of clean

rinsed damp ...almost dry clothes...It's almost

amazing ...isn't it?

  Especially if that electricity to run the dryer

was made by a homebrew system that you had done

so much research and money to make as effecient

as possible.

  ...it would be like stepping over dollars to pick up nickles....

      Like some of us say ...it's easier and better

to save electricity than to make it...Right?

              Havin Fun in NE Ohio !

                   ( :>) Norm.

 

[elvin1949]

Hi Norm

 I had the same problem a few year's ago.

It make's a big difference.The motor is in a strain

when it is in the spin cycle to-.More hard earned juice up in smoke.

 Got to where i check everything on a regular

schedule around here. [Everything is old or scrounged]even the computer is built from junk.

later

elvin

[Volvo farmer]

My services as appliance repairman seem to be more in demand than usual around here.

I think I know what thing does. It is supposed to make it impossible for dirty washing machine water to ever get sucked back into the house plumbing, should the water pressure system lose pressure or go into a vacuum. My opinion is that it does nothing to improve the spraying of the water onto the clothes. the length of the hose between the injector and the tub negate any sort of "jet" effect that you thought might be happening. If you look where the hole is in the top of that tub, it drops right on top of the spinning clothes for the spray rinse. The only reason you wouldn't want to replace that injector with a straight piece of pipe is because of the possibility of polluting your pressurized water system.

Usually the only part that fails is the little "monkey rubber" that goes over the plastic cone. I hope you didn't pay $44 for the whole kit. That little piece wholesales for a couple of bucks.  

You've got one of the most durable washing machines ever built there. If you're really concerned about saving electricity though, get a horizontal axis machine, your water use will drop by 60% and it will use much less electricity and hot water.

[Norm]

  Well I think the parts cost about $15 had the

Maytag for about 25 years or so....that's about

55 cents a year so I figure it was worth the new parts....

                ( :>) Norm.

[Norm]

  I figured what you said about the gadjet ...

but maybe the clothes getting dryer was just

imagination....but at least now I can tell the

lady at the appliance store what it really is

for....

  and like I said it only cost me $15 for the kit

which didn't include the hoses...just the 'monkey

rubber', the plastic cone, the plastic grid thing and 2 hose clamps....still high but after 20-25

years with that being the only part.

  But I think I might have outsmarted them on the Maytag dryer...it was making hell of a racket..

turned out the blower hub was made of plastic and it was slipping on the shaft....that was about

5 years ago....well I'm not about to replace that

plastic hubbed pulley every 10 or 20 years no

matter how cheap....I just don't like to have the wife yelling out every 5 years or so about the

washer or dryer or heater or furnace not working

just when I'm involved in a project out in the

shop...not that I don't mind helping her ....

but sometimes it just don't have to be that way !

.....so I just cut out the plastic hub...cut a

metal hub from a metal pulley and pop-riveted it

in and it's been 5 yrs. now (knock on wood)and

still seems to be running pretty quiet.

  That was when I was 70 now that I'm almost 75

....I think when it goes I'll either get a new

one or a 'solar dryer'.

  Thanks for the enlightment Volvo...I appreciate

it !

              ( :>) Norm