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Default Why the Injector on Wash Machines?

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:53:07 -0600, wrote:

On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:08:25 -0500, mm
wrote:

On 9 Feb 2006 04:26:35 -0800, "
wrote:

My Washers spray fresh water on the clothes during the spin cycle. I
believe its to minimize wrinkling but dont really know. first time I


It's to rinse the clothes a few extra times, when most of the wash
water is rinsed away so the tub doesn't have to be filled again.

After that part of the spin cycle is done, the second half of the spin
cycle does nothing but remove water.

FTR, I think this has been the standard way for more than 50 years,
certainly more than 30.


OK, I have a weird problem though. When that injector is in place,
the water drips out of the holes in the side of it. But here's the
weird part. I have a well. My pressure switch is set to go ON at
30lbs, and OFF at 50lbs +/- a few pounds.
Whenever my pump kicks in, thats when the water squirts out that darn
thing.


I had an uncle with this problem. He had to see a urologist.

I took it apart and soaked it in LimeAway to be sure it was
clean. It still does that, and nothing is cracked. The machine is
inside the house, not a a cement floor and if i let it drip my floor
is going to rot out. That's why I replaced it with a standard barbed


I have no well, my machine is 26 years old, and I don't know if I have
this part. Maybe someone else knows

(I was only explaining the role of the extra spraying, that it wasn't
about wrinkles. I wasn't insisting that you had to have that.)

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