OT: Why don't washing machines pump dry?

[GB]

When I clean the filter on our washing machine, I invariably need to cope with a litre or so of water that comes out before I can get to the filter. Why doesn't the machine pretty much pump itself completely dry?

No, it's not Phucker asking silly questions, just for attention. This is a real nuisance for users, and it probably explains why some people rarely clean the filters.

I haven't studied the designs, but I guess it's a centrifugal pump, and I don't really see why it leaves the sump half full of water?

[Bob Eager]

I wonder if the pump (which generally pumps upwards, at least through the external drain hose) has the water stuck as a column in the hose? Can't be pumped out without pumping air (which the pump isn't designed to do). So it's not a half empty sump, so much as a half empty hose, thus pump.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Well, I really do not see why it all has to go to the bottom of the machine in the first place, surely level with the drum bottom would be enough, with a genital slop. That way you could get a bowl under the drain. Brian

[mm0fmf]

You get genital slop when Jim wears his wife's panties. The kinky f*ck.

[Richard]

That's funny. :)

[Jimmy Stewart]

Bigger laugh watching chebs moobs jiggle up and down...tee hee

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Yes I suffer from it in hot weather. It itches and is known in some circles as 'raining in China' and as I say comes with age, but where the saying comes from is a bit of a mystery, it used to be army people who tended to say it. We do digress due to my typos though, and it seems to me it is unacceptable by the public to have a little door below the loading door, from which to drain and clean the filter. Instead they take all the way to the bottom corner then up again to the outlet hose. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Yes the filter is often fairly large square openings designed to stop things big enough to clog a hose. My Panasonic has a little thing like a boat propeller in it that you can rotate, and one assumes this is supposed to aid it somehow. but I don't see quite how. Brian

[Stephen Cole]

The gussets are absolutely rancid within minutes, the dirty old bastard.

[Stephen Cole]

Jim?s sick kinks cost his poor wife a fortune in new scuds from Primark. She can?t get the stains out after Jim?s been in them, see? Shit right through the fabric.

[Custos Custodum]

Probably a fungal infection known as 'tinea cruris'. The Americans call it "jock itch".

[The Natural Philosopher]

Dhobi itch.

Apply canesten cream daily for a week

[Jimmy Stewart]

usually found in sweaty fat folds....reay and chebs FMF will be rife with it...tee hee

[Jimmy Stewart]

or stop it forming in the first place by washing every day rather than every week and dry properly...and lose weight...

[NY]

Ah that explains a humorous comment I read in a novel somewhere: someone described his car as a Rover 3500 Tinea Cruris. I realised that "cruris" related to the crotch.

[Fredxx]

I associated it with an increase in weight and middle/old age spread.

I understand antiperspirant deodorant, which blocks the sweat pores, is also very effective.

[Jim Stewart ...]

wouldn't know....

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Brian Gaff (Sofa) has brought this to us :

I have had to clear our machine filter maybe 3 times in the past decade or so. It's a machine pulled out and raised on milk crates job to clear it, then is is contained in a large rubberised housing, clamped by a large jubilee clip - they didn't make it easy.

The filter is like a strainer, but with protrusions facing the flow - I assume to catch threads before it entangles in the pump. The pump business end, is just a paddle wheel, with a propeller on the other end of the motor shaft for a cooling airflow to the motor.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Bob Eager presented the following explanation :

Not if you pull the machine out and jack it up. I arrange blocks at each side, then gradually lean it one way, then the other, gradually raising the height of each side, until it is high enough to slide milk crates in.

[Bob Eager]

The shallow pan is easier! I only have to empty it once during the drain- down. Thde entire operation of draing, removing the filter, cleaning it and putting it back takes less than 10 minutes (I do it regularly).

No faffing around with blocks, although I see what you mean.