My washing machine is rated at maximum 6kg load. Does anyone actually weigh their washing before they put it in? I just stuff things in it until it's full and hope for the best.
Ours supposedly weighs the load itself and then provides the appropriate amount of water. Not that I really know as my wife usually does the laundry as she doesn't trust me to do it for some reason.
The manufacturers advise against overloading. It can fuck the bearing apparently. But I think life's too short to weigh your washing.
I was kind of kidding. I don't have it so fill that being able to close the lid is hit or miss, but I don't weigh it either. Ours has this ring around the inside that marks the limit of how full it should be. I consider it more of a suggestion
Old machines used around 40 gallons of water per load.....new load sensing front loaders use about 7 gallons. The bad part is the machine itself weighs about 200 -250 lbs. due to the huge cement block they put in them to cut down on vibration.
i sort of think you can usually see how full it too full without actually weighing. more the 3/4 volume, not just bearing but they need a big of sloshing room. haven't lived where i had my own since wifie died back in 2009. when i was in high school we had one on the back porch, that was the kind with the seperate ringer on top. it was on the back porch so to easily drain into a kind of dry well ditch we dug for the grey water. no such thing as dryers in those days. when it was to cold or wet to hang our for the sun, strings inside for the room heater to dry out. but that was the 60s, and this was tech that had been obsolete for 20 years already even the. obsolescence is an odd word. it ain't wore out but its old, lets get a new one. sometimes the new one is something that works better or does a better job, and sometimes its just a more aesthetic package that looks more gosh wow then it really is. sometimes, not always, but sometimes, works as good or better. that's why, where things have to work and keep working, you'll see unexpected mixes of old and new, and the most wonderfully bizzaar, and to me often aesthetic, kluges, to integrate them together. sort of wandered there for a bit. base had a nice set up when i rented a room in his house three years ago, or was it four already now. that was the last time i didn't have to go to a laundrymat to do mine.
Bought An Almost New 8.5 kg Front Loader As Part Of The Deal When I Bought This House...... A Friend And I Pushed It Aside And I Put My Twin-Tub In It's Place... ...When I Told The Previous Owner What I Did......He Gasped......A "Twin Tub"......(gasp)......That Is A Beautiful Machine, Still Under Warranty....(gasp)......Seriously, I Thought He Was Going To Have A Seizure....Tee Hee.... Cheers Glen.
We had those when I was a kid. You had to watch getting your fingers stuck in the wringer. I remember turning the handle. Then we got one with an electric wringer. We also had an old gasoline washer, but I don't remember using that thing. It had a kick starter on it. My brother still has the engine.
I don't trust the machines at the laundrymat. I always feel like the person before me might have washed poopy diapers! lmao
ours was electric, and other then that, other then having been mass produced and of a virticle cylindrical shape, only very slightly more advanced. the tub was a bit deeper, and the outer covering, a shiny white ceramic coating enamel. the wringer was indeed, save for its decorative coating of white enamel, completely identical in form, nature and manor of attachment. likewise the drain hose.
I remember some of those wringers were of the "Safety type" meaning they would pop open if you got your fingers in them. Mandated in 1952. Here's some stuff I found:
Some of the washing machines from decades past had a weigh scale. Clothes would be placed on the open lid of a top-loading machine and it would push down on a mechanism that moved a pointer that showed the weight.
we used to have a dyson for years until dyson stopped supporting them (spares ) and the drum bearing went on it ! we have had two since then but nothing as good as that one
