I have an Amana Heavy Duty Washer that is top loading and has a built-in self-cleaning lint trap between the inner and outer tubs. The lint trap is nowhere near as effective as lint screens used to be at removing the fine lint from the water. The result is that clothes end up looking dingy after a few washes due to tiny fibers of other colors that aren't quickly removed from the water weaving themselves into the fabric as the water washes through the fabric.

Once this happens, there is no way to undo it. The clothes are effectively ruined. They appear to be faded, but under a magnifying glass, you can see that the faded appearance is not due to loss of dye, but rather from off color fibers accumulating in the fabric.

In reading various boards, the lowered effectiveness of these new self-cleaning traps seems to be a common complaint though few seem to realize what it is doing to the clothes versus their sewer lines and septic tanks.

So, my question is does anyone know of an effective aftermarket solution for pulling fine lint out of the water? Is there perhaps some device that can be put into the water that will catch it more effectively than the clothes? Or is there some simple way to add a filter inline to the circulation mechanisms of these machines?