OT: Frontload washers
From : beryl
Q: my ge toploader sometimes walks around a little bit then i have to shove it back into the corner. frontloading models appear to be the trend nowadays. all the high-end machines in best buys ads are that type. those things must have a spin cycle right how the hell do they stay balanced it seems like as soon as they start to spin up with the wet load sitting at the bottom of the drum theyll be bouncing all over the room. .
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From : lisa bb
beryl flyingterrapin@chillybits.org wrote in my ge toploader sometimes walks around a little bit then i have to shove it back into the corner. frontloading models appear to be the trend nowadays. all the high-end machines in best buys ads are that type. those things must have a spin cycle right how the hell do they stay balanced it seems like as soon as they start to spin up with the wet load sitting at the bottom of the drum theyll be bouncing all over the room. i was watching a friends house while she was on vacation. i used her washer a number of times front loader. never had any off balance problems with it. .
From : jmc
suddenly without warning beryl exclaimed 2/11/2008 306 pm my ge toploader sometimes walks around a little bit then i have to shove it back into the corner. frontloading models appear to be the trend nowadays. all the high-end machines in best buys ads are that type. those things must have a spin cycle right how the hell do they stay balanced it seems like as soon as they start to spin up with the wet load sitting at the bottom of the drum theyll be bouncing all over the room. maybe its a bit off balance feet need adjusting we have a heavy-duty top loader here and it never walks around even when it gets off-balance and makes truly horrific noises... jmc .
From : tbone
ma wrote its just denying my extended warranty repair is what flames me. chrysler taking the dealership side unfairly. maybe but youre not telling the entire story about what actually took place. chrysler paid over $2000 in repairs for my 2001 ram months after my extended warranty ran out. no questions asked. just had to make a quick phone call to them and it was approved. i had an exhaust issue with my 97 ram at 93k. the local dealer said that since it was part of the pollution control system that it was covered until 100k. they fixed it with no cost to me. i did not have any extended warranty. i had actually expected to pay for the service but when it was free i just grinned and kept going. being a nice easy to get along with customer goes a long way with your service rep. michael .
From : nosey
on sun 10 feb 2008 213639 -0800 beryl flyingterrapin@chillybits.org wrote my ge toploader sometimes walks around a little bit then i have to shove it back into the corner. frontloading models appear to be the trend nowadays. all the high-end machines in best buys ads are that type. those things must have a spin cycle right how the hell do they stay balanced it seems like as soon as they start to spin up with the wet load sitting at the bottom of the drum theyll be bouncing all over the room. good question. im not sure how its done but they sure dont seem to walk around at all. we had a top loader that went for walks all the time. we rebalanced the legs took painstaking care about how we loaded it but it still walked all over. just recently we went to a ge front loader and it doesnt walk at all. we dont do anything differently it just doesnt seem to have the wandering problem that our top loader did. .
From : Annonymous
tbone wrote the maintenance for a log home is more along the lines of different rather than more or less. as others have said they do not have the best thermal efficiency its common to build an outer traditional log cabin with a 4 inside conventional framed drywall. yes that is known sometimes as half log construction but as just about everyone who has ever owned a log structure knows that it is just a stick built with a fancy siding and has little to do with a real log structure. same thing is done with brick homes. again a stick built with a fancy siding. i have seen conventional framed houses with the 1/4 thick split logs or faux as some have said. even seen mobile homes with faux log outer coverings. seem to see those more often when cost is the deciding factor. it has little to do with cost in most cases. also faux and split logs are not usually the same thing although both equate to nothing more than siding. log structures are unique and have very specific advantages and disadvantages to their structures and many who take the time to do the research find the disadvantages involved with a log cabin more of a hurdle than just the cost. maybe thats not what you have seen but it is what i have especially when someone who knows something about them explains some of it to them. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .
From : steve lusardi
front loaders can use gravity at low speed to self balance the load. top loaders do not have the gravity advantage. steve my ge toploader sometimes walks around a little bit then i have to shove it back into the corner. frontloading models appear to be the trend nowadays. all the high-end machines in best buys ads are that type. those things must have a spin cycle right how the hell do they stay balanced it seems like as soon as they start to spin up with the wet load sitting at the bottom of the drum theyll be bouncing all over the room. .
From : mac davis
on mon 11 feb 2008 215009 +0930 jmc nogroupsspam@nojodibody.homeus wrote suddenly without warning beryl exclaimed 2/11/2008 306 pm my ge toploader sometimes walks around a little bit then i have to shove it back into the corner. frontloading models appear to be the trend nowadays. all the high-end machines in best buys ads are that type. those things must have a spin cycle right how the hell do they stay balanced it seems like as soon as they start to spin up with the wet load sitting at the bottom of the drum theyll be bouncing all over the room. maybe its a bit off balance feet need adjusting we have a heavy-duty top loader here and it never walks around even when it gets off-balance and makes truly horrific noises... jmc you got it.. same with power tools... get the feel just a bit out of adjustment to let it rock and the harmonics make it dance.. no fun chasing a lathe around the shop while trying to turn a bowl.. btdt mac please remove splinters before emailing .
From : christopher d thompson
on tue 12 feb 2008 072024 -0600 mike simmons wrote steve lusardi wrote front loaders can use gravity at low speed to self balance the load. top loaders do not have the gravity advantage. steve that puzzles me. it starts off from an unbalanced state and then... what would make it want to balance think about it! on a front loader when you place the clothes in the drum all the clothes are on the bottom right as the cylinder begins to turn slowly some of the clothes fall to the bottom and are thus evenly distributed around the circumference of the drum via gravity resulting in a balanced load. gravity is just as happy if theres one big lump of clothes slinging around. you are not trying to make gravity happy you are using gravity to balance the load. they also seem to have some sort of shock absorber system that is disabled by bolts through the back when they are new. if you leave the bolts in and put a load of clothes in itll take off like a pissed off bull ask me how i know! after removing the bolts and sliding mine back into its slot we have not had it move an inch no matter what we loaded in it. -- chris .
From : christopher d thompson
on tue 12 feb 2008 100549 -0800 mac davis wrote on tue 12 feb 2008 140135 +0000 christopher d. thompson nospam@nospam.nospam wrote they also seem to have some sort of shock absorber system that is disabled by bolts through the back when they are new. if you leave the bolts in and put a load of clothes in itll take off like a pissed off bull ask me how i know! after removing the bolts and sliding mine back into its slot we have not had it move an inch no matter what we loaded in it. my guess is that theyre shipping bolts and that taking them out enables the shock absorbers or whatever.. mac please remove splinters before emailing that was my guess also but it was interesting to see the thing take off across the floor! after reading the manual i discovered the mistake....lol -- chris .
From : denny
steve lusardi wrote front loaders can use gravity at low speed to self balance the load. top loaders do not have the gravity advantage. steve that puzzles me. it starts off from an unbalanced state and then... what would make it want to balance think about it! on a front loader when you place the clothes in the drum all the clothes are on the bottom right as the cylinder begins to turn slowly some of the clothes fall to the bottom and are thus evenly distributed around the circumference of the drum via gravity resulting in a balanced load. gravity is just as happy if theres one big lump of clothes slinging around. you are not trying to make gravity happy you are using gravity to balance the load. but i happen to like happy gravity...... makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside... denny .
From : mike simmons
steve lusardi wrote front loaders can use gravity at low speed to self balance the load. top loaders do not have the gravity advantage. steve that puzzles me. it starts off from an unbalanced state and then... what would make it want to balance think about it! on a front loader when you place the clothes in the drum all the clothes are on the bottom right as the cylinder begins to turn slowly some of the clothes fall to the bottom and are thus evenly distributed around the circumference of the drum via gravity resulting in a balanced load. gravity is just as happy if theres one big lump of clothes slinging around. you are not trying to make gravity happy you are using gravity to balance the load. but i happen to like happy gravity...... makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside... yeah... sorta like heated leather seats.... ^ mike .
From : beryl
steve lusardi wrote front loaders can use gravity at low speed to self balance the load. top loaders do not have the gravity advantage. steve that puzzles me. it starts off from an unbalanced state and then... what would make it want to balance gravity is just as happy if theres one big lump of clothes slinging around. tbone may have got it with keep changing speed in the slow range. the machine loafs along waiting for the right moment to eventually come around then quickly takes off so centrifugal force can take command of the load away from gravity. my ge toploader sometimes walks around a little bit then i have to shove it back into the corner. frontloading models appear to be the trend nowadays. all the high-end machines in best buys ads are that type. those things must have a spin cycle right how the hell do they stay balanced it seems like as soon as they start to spin up with the wet load sitting at the bottom of the drum theyll be bouncing all over the room. thanks everyone for the input. even theguys impostor. this was sort of an ot joke after the log home thread but i really wanted an answer too. .
From : mike simmons
steve lusardi wrote front loaders can use gravity at low speed to self balance the load. top loaders do not have the gravity advantage. steve that puzzles me. it starts off from an unbalanced state and then... what would make it want to balance think about it! on a front loader when you place the clothes in the drum all the clothes are on the bottom right as the cylinder begins to turn slowly some of the clothes fall to the bottom and are thus evenly distributed around the circumference of the drum via gravity resulting in a balanced load. gravity is just as happy if theres one big lump of clothes slinging around. you are not trying to make gravity happy you are using gravity to balance the load. tbone may have got it with keep changing speed in the slow range. the machine loafs along waiting for the right moment to eventually come around then quickly takes off so centrifugal force can take command of the load away from gravity. my ge toploader sometimes walks around a little bit then i have to shove it back into the corner. frontloading models appear to be the trend nowadays. all the high-end machines in best buys ads are that type. those things must have a spin cycle right how the hell do they stay balanced it seems like as soon as they start to spin up with the wet load sitting at the bottom of the drum theyll be bouncing all over the room. thanks everyone for the input. even theguys impostor. this was sort of an ot joke after the log home thread but i really wanted an answer too. .
From : denny
steve lusardi wrote front loaders can use gravity at low speed to self balance the load. top loaders do not have the gravity advantage. steve that puzzles me. it starts off from an unbalanced state and then... what would make it want to balance think about it! on a front loader when you place the clothes in the drum all the clothes are on the bottom right as the cylinder begins to turn slowly some of the clothes fall to the bottom and are thus evenly distributed around the circumference of the drum via gravity resulting in a balanced load. gravity is just as happy if theres one big lump of clothes slinging around. you are not trying to make gravity happy you are using gravity to balance the load. but i happen to like happy gravity...... makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside... yeah... sorta like heated leather seats.... ^ mike kinda fell into that one huh g denny .
From : beryl
denny wrote steve lusardi wrote front loaders can use gravity at low speed to self balance the load. top loaders do not have the gravity advantage. steve that puzzles me. it starts off from an unbalanced state and then... what would make it want to balance think about it! on a front loader when you place the clothes in the drum all the clothes are on the bottom right as the cylinder begins to turn slowly some of the clothes fall to the bottom and are thus evenly distributed around the circumference of the drum via gravity resulting in a balanced load. apparently it ends up like that. some stuff sure binds together though like my pant legs tying themselves to towels. gravity is just as happy if theres one big lump of clothes slinging around. you are not trying to make gravity happy you are using gravity to balance the load. but i happen to like happy gravity...... makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside... great denny! youll still be the same when you come out of the wash inside-out. .
From : picasso
tom lawrence wrote is it possible to remove the inner rear wheels; just leaving the outer rear wheels in place without any bad affects i was thinking that might help with the fuel mileage a bit. i very rarely carry anything heavy so reducing the load carrying capacity is not a concern. no real harm in doing so but no real gain either. unless you spend all your time driving in a circle the little bit of tire scrub youll prevent wont have an appreciable impact on your mpg. youll probably gain more mpg with a tonneau cover than by pulling the inner wheels. i would like to see some proof that a tonneau cover helps fuel mileage... i know riding around with no tailgate doesnt .