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On Nov 14, 8:39 am, Huge wrote:
On 2008-11-14, clams_casino wrote:

Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:26:01 UTC, (Gary Heston)
wrote:
In article ,
Mike wrote:
[ ... ] Then they tumble dry the washing into
submission when they have a house on a 2 acre plot and outside its 80
deg C, with a gentle breeze and blue sky as far as you can see.
[ ... ]
Not my words but essentially those of a Professor in fabric technology
at a UK university.
You have a professor at a UK university who thinks places in the US
routinely have 80C temperatures? That's 176F; doesn't happen.
Making a lot out of a typo, aren't you?
I suppose the "heat it to boiling for a couple of hours" claim was also
a typo?
No, it was the truth.

What an ignoramus.

Living in NJ USA, (and I've previously criticized in another thread, the
wonderfully expensive Maytag Neptune for stinking mold if you don't
leave the door open) but you Brits/Europeons (Ha!) forget that 80-90F
heat comes with 90-100% humidity, so, hang your clothes out for a few
days, they won't dry, something will eat them, or make a home in them
and they will smell. I first learned this lesson in Singapore, 99%
humidity does NOT dry clothes, so, you have to use a dryer. The answer
to smelly washers is to run them on 240V and put a freakin heater in
them, jeez theres a heater in the dishwasher, (Which fills from hot,
unlike the UK) can't the Yanks figure out putting a heater in a washing
machine without the Bosch showing them how to do it? Of course a US
washing machine will happily accept a V8 engine through the door which
is nice, but means there is a lot more water in there.