1 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: Get in touch with technology with text stuff from stuff 2 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to tech Stuff. 3 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: I'm Jonathan Strickland and I'm Lauren Focalum, and today we 4 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: have an episode brought to you courtesy of Thomas f 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: via Facebook, who has asked us this question. Hey, guys 6 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: and gals at tech Stuff. It's just really the two 7 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 1: guys in the moring down an old guy. But okay, whatever, 8 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: I've wondered about some things for a while, and maybe 9 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: it's a possibility for episodes, or maybe I'll just get 10 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 1: answers right here on the site. I don't know, but 11 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,480 Speaker 1: I'll throw them out there. How washing machines and dryers work. 12 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: I find it fascinating how it can warm up the 13 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: water and temperate itself. The same with the dryer. Where 14 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 1: and how does it create this heat? And is it 15 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: a lot of heat? So we really decided that we 16 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: were going to split these up, so right now we're 17 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: just going to talk about washing machines because if we 18 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: try to do with washers and dryers, we'd have to 19 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: kind of gloss over everything. Yeah, I believe it or not, 20 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: this is a really interesting and complicated topic, as as 21 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: per everything that we go into going like we'll pick 22 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,279 Speaker 1: that one because it'll be nice and simple, it'll be short. 23 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: The other thing is that we often look at these 24 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 1: and like, well, we'll be able to explain how it works, 25 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: but it's not going to be a very good episode. 26 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: And then as we start to do research, like, hey, 27 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 1: there's a lot of other stuff we can really really 28 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: is interesting that ties directly into this, and both of 29 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 1: us like talking a whole lot. So you guys when yeah, 30 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 1: so all right, Lauren, yes, Jonathan. Have you ever had 31 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: to clean any of your clothes without the benefit of 32 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: a machine to do it for you? Actually sinkwash a 33 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,759 Speaker 1: lot of stuff. It takes some effort, doesn't it. Yeah, 34 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 1: it sucks. Yeah, it's not fun. It is not a 35 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: fun thing to do. It is the opposite of fun. 36 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: I have also done this. I Lauren and I have 37 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:55,559 Speaker 1: both in the past, not together, Warren costumes for various occasions, 38 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: like you know, it's Thursday, Yeah, and so Thursday is 39 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: my favorite someday. Some costumes you just they're not washing 40 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: machines safe. They're delicate. Yeah, so you got a kind 41 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: of not so delicate that you don't have to put 42 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: in a ton of effort to get them clean. Though. 43 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: So here's how washingtons to work. You get some water, 44 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 1: you put some soiled clothing in the water. Then you 45 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: agitate the soiled clothing. And I don't mean you say 46 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: nasty things about its mother. You actually have to physically 47 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: move that clothing around in order to shake loose the dirt. 48 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 1: If you really want to say nasty things about its mother. 49 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: I mean, it pretty much naturally happens. It's not going 50 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: to hurt. Yeah, it might actually make you feel better 51 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: as you're as you're scrubbing up to your elbows, make 52 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: your roommates think you're really weird. That ship sailed a 53 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: long time ago. So yeah, you have to put in 54 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 1: all this this physical work to kind of shake loose 55 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: the dirt, and then you take the water away, You 56 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: take the clothes away from the water, You take the 57 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: water away from the clothes. However you do it, and 58 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 1: then you rense it off, and then you try and 59 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: wring it out, and then you hang it up to 60 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 1: dry or however you want to dry it. So what 61 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 1: we needed to do was find a way of making 62 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: this process. It used to be that that used to 63 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: be the way we cleaned everything didn't matter if it 64 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: was delicate or not. We need to find a way 65 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: to make that less of a chore. So we want 66 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: to talk about the history of washing machines as well 67 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: as how they worked. And to begin with, the history 68 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:18,959 Speaker 1: is not all that clear because, as it turns out, 69 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: a lot of people just didn't really bother, you know, 70 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:26,519 Speaker 1: recording all the developments in washing machine technology. Well, the 71 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: thing is that most of the time the washing was 72 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: being done by um, by people in the lower classes 73 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: who were not also writing scientific papers about advancements in 74 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: this kind of text. So so there's there's a whole 75 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: lot of disagreement on when stuff happened, where it happened, um, 76 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: what the terminology was, because the terminology varied from like 77 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: town to town. Yeah, yeah, whether or not you had 78 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: a stomp bucket or not. Yeah. Like, there's some great 79 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: terms that we're going to talk about here. But so 80 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: excited we're going to We're gonna do our best to 81 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: wade through the confusion and lead you to the other 82 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: side where the light will be seen by all and 83 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: we'll have clean clothes there. That's my goal. So first, 84 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: we're gonna start with ancient Rome, because this has nothing 85 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: to do with washing machines, but it was so cool 86 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: I had to bring it in. So the ancient Romans 87 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 1: were among the earliest people's to offer public laundry services. 88 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,919 Speaker 1: They had an entire class of people who whose job 89 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 1: it was to clean clothes. And those those people were dudes. Yeah, 90 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: they were dudes. This was this was men's work because 91 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: it was heavy duty, hard work. You see, back in 92 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: Roman times, all the clothing was made out of wool. Wool, 93 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: that's heavy. Yeah, cotton didn't exist yet. Yeah, so I 94 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: don't know if you've been to Italy or various other 95 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: regions that were part of the Roman Empire, it's warm, 96 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: you know, and people people get a little uh, you know, 97 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: a little little sweaty lit little stinky, little stinky, and 98 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: so you need to clean those clothings. So they had 99 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: these people, these men called foulon is now Fulons were 100 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 1: the They were the in charge of cleaning the clothes. 101 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: You would pay them and they would take the clothes. 102 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: They put them in a vat. It would be a 103 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: vat that you know, go up to like say the 104 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 1: waster so has some water in it, and then they'd 105 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: stomp on the clothing and stomp and stomp and stop. 106 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,479 Speaker 1: And this is that physical agitation action we're talking about 107 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: that shakes loose the dirt. Uh, And then they would 108 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 1: end up pulling that out, ringing out the clothes, laying 109 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: them on the ground or hanging them up. They would 110 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: also use other materials to try and whiten anything that 111 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: needed to be white, They try and bleach it. They 112 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: would also use the sun to bleach the stuff. So 113 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: this is the way the earliest clothes here. You know, 114 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: we're talking about Roman times, how they were washing them 115 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,280 Speaker 1: all the time. And uh, like we said associate with men, 116 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: that would be about the last time we say that 117 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: except to my house, I do the laundry. So I 118 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: do the laundry and I do the cooking. You know, 119 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 1: we're not we're not tied down by gender roles and 120 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: at any rate medieval Europe. So this is where we 121 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: start getting into some interesting terminology. So people would use 122 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: things called washing bats, also called beetles or battle doors. Yes, 123 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: raise the battle door and wash that tunic. Yeah, it's 124 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: essentially it's something that you would use specifically to again 125 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: agitate the clothing while it's in flowing water. So usually 126 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: this was done for most people literally along the side 127 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: of a river. Yeah, yeah, you'd use it as kind 128 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: of a I think that washing bats referred to like 129 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:32,799 Speaker 1: the scrubbing related devices, like it was used in conjunction 130 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: with the scrubbing boards, right right, right, yeah, yeah, the 131 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: scrubbing boards you also had there, and you had to 132 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,239 Speaker 1: go to where the water was. I mean some people 133 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 1: had water come to them, but not very many. And 134 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: again use that physical motion to loosen dirt washed away 135 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: by water. You can do this in a tub with 136 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,280 Speaker 1: a handheld agitator if you weren't near any sources of 137 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,840 Speaker 1: running water. And that's uh, that's kind of how things 138 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: how things went for centuries. Yeah. Do we get to 139 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: the eight teenth century and uh, at this time, this 140 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: is when we start to see the concept of laundry 141 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: being quote unquote women's work. The idea being that women, 142 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: since you know, they don't have to go out and 143 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: farm all day, they can stay at home and do 144 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: the easy work, you know, like the backbreaking laundry that 145 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: has to be done by hand. It really was a 146 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 1: very tough job. I mean, especially in places where you 147 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: have to go run out and get the water. What 148 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: does the washing Yeah, I got a quote here from 149 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: a Nevada housewife from the The Kind of the Pioneer Days. 150 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: Really her name was Rachel Haskell, and she said that 151 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: doing laundry was the herculean task which women all dread, 152 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: and also described it as the great domestic dread of 153 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 1: the household because this is I mean, it wasn't just 154 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: that it was backbreaking work. I mean you had to 155 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: really put effort in it if you wanted clean clothes. Also, 156 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: the materials you used could be kind of rough on skin. 157 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 1: I mean we're talking about some caustic materials. Yeah, for 158 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: a long time, white and natural fabrics were soaked in 159 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: pure lie instead of being washed with soap because soap 160 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: was really expensive. So so that's really fun um. A 161 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: recent study out of the University of Montreal suggested that 162 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: advances in household technology during the twentieth century was partially 163 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: responsible for a jump in the number of of married 164 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: women being in the workforce from five percent SIRC nineteen 165 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: hundred to SIRC nineteen eighty UM and a decrease in 166 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: time spent per week on household chores from fifty eight 167 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 1: hours to just eighteen hours in the same approximate period 168 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: of time, so dropping forty hours a week, a full 169 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: time job worth of chores dropped in a week because 170 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: of devices of convenience like the like the washing machine. Yeah, 171 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 1: you know, if you didn't have that river handy, you 172 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: would uh, you would have have your have your bucket 173 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: and a tool called depending on where you were. And 174 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 1: I had to add this note because all of these 175 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 1: tool names make me so happy. H a poser, Dolly dasher, 176 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 1: punch or punch. I'm sure I'd want to punch if 177 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: I had to do this. And something that at any 178 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: rate looked a little bit like a plunger with like 179 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: holes events in the base um to let water squeeze through, 180 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: and you just stand over a tub on the floor 181 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 1: and and manually agitate the laundry. Yea. By the way, 182 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: you guys are really missing out because Lauren and I 183 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 1: are both expressive people, and when we talk about how 184 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: this happens, we acted out. So it's too bad this 185 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: isn't a video podcast. No no, no, no, it's really 186 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: good that it's not a video podcast. So moving on, 187 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 1: we now get to seventy two. Now over in Great Britain, 188 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: a fellow named h. Sidgier invented what we think was 189 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: the first washing machine. And what this was was essentially 190 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: a cage of wooden rods and a handle to turn 191 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: those rods, and turning the handle move the rods which 192 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: would agitate clothes within a VT. So you're still using 193 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 1: hand power to do this, but you're no longer like 194 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: actively in the water moving clothing around. Yes, so that 195 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: that was a slight advantage, and other people started making 196 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: similar sorts of washing machines. Now most of these were 197 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: not really convenient for like home use. This was stuff 198 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: an industrial level, and this is just too big and 199 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: too clunky and too expensive for most people. It just 200 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: wasn't practical for them. But it was showing where things 201 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: were moving. The first patent wouldn't show up though, until 202 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 1: about eighteen forty six. Right, Yeah, that's when you've got 203 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: a patent in the U. S. Patent Office for a 204 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: washing machine that cleans closed by rubbing them between two 205 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: curved surfaces. And once again you mechanically move this yourself. 206 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: You had a lever, and the lever is what made 207 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: these curve surfaces move against each other. And it was 208 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: that rubbing motion within water with these curve surfaces that 209 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: would actually clean the clothing. Uh. It ended up being 210 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: a pretty popular design and in fact would last well 211 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: into the well the early nineteen hundreds, so nearly a century, 212 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:54,440 Speaker 1: even after other alternative methods were introduced. So eighteen fifty 213 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: one we get James King who invented the revolving drum 214 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 1: that's the basis of most washing machines and even dryers today. Yeah, 215 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: that's that's what you've got to come probably. Yeah, although 216 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: an improvement was made just a few years later, in 217 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 1: eighteen fifty eight, you had Hamilton's Smith who invented the 218 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: revolving drum with reversing action, meaning the drum could actually 219 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: revolve in either direction. Uh. So this would allow lots 220 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: of different washing machines to use that kind of back 221 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 1: and forth motion as a form of agitation. So if 222 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 1: you have to help do some of the work for 223 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 1: you of moving all that water exactly. So like the 224 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: front loading uh types of washing machines we see today, 225 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: most of those can turn in either directions, so they're 226 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: really descendants of Hamilton's Smith's work. Then in eighteen seventy 227 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: four I had to add this in, and I'm going 228 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: to include the snarky joke I wrote in the notes, 229 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: which is that William Blaxton, who was a corn planter 230 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,439 Speaker 1: and manufacturer, created a washing machine and gave it to 231 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: as a gift to his wife for her birthday, and 232 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: then she threw corn at him. Okay, so, so while 233 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 1: I make a joke about the guy buying his wife 234 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: another appliance for her to do work with, and reality 235 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: it actually was simplifying her life quite a bit at 236 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: that At that point, it could probably be considered a 237 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: sweet gesture. Yeah, yeah, because it means taking hours of 238 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 1: time off of all the chores that she would have 239 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: to do. I mean hopefully there was like chocolate involved 240 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: two or something. Maybe it was maybe it was partially 241 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: made from that, in which case it was probably not 242 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: not a very effective but but no, no, actually a 243 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 1: lot of washing machines, like he actually started to offer 244 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 1: to sell them because she did like this. It did 245 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 1: make it easier for her to wash clothes. And again 246 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: this was mechanically operated. There was a hand crank. It 247 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:37,079 Speaker 1: wasn't like it was some sort of automated. He wasn't 248 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:41,439 Speaker 1: pouring steel drums in his scoring field, not steam powered 249 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: washing machine or something. So she she would turn it 250 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 1: by hand, but still made it easier, and because it 251 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: was so practical, he started to sell them. And the 252 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: price tag on a washing machine a William Blackston washing machine, 253 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 1: according to the sources I saw, and keep in mind, 254 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 1: this is another one of those things where I'm skeptical, 255 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 1: but every source I found said it two dollars and 256 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:08,719 Speaker 1: fifty cents for a washing machine. That's uh. In eight 257 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: seventy four, the calculators don't even go back that two 258 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: dollars and cents would buy you the Nevada territory, but 259 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: or a washing machine. Then in eighteen eighty eight we 260 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 1: had Ellen Egloy, who invented a ringer to sit a 261 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 1: top washing machines and helped dry out the laundry. She 262 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: sold the rights to her idea for eighteen dollars. The 263 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 1: story goes that she only sold the idea because of 264 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: being a black woman. She didn't think that white women 265 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 1: would buy the product if they knew who had created it. 266 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: Um and I guess eighteen dollars really wasn't too shabby 267 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 1: at the time, though, the fellow that she sold it 268 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: to wound up making a good deal of money on it, 269 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,839 Speaker 1: although more on that in just a moment. So in eight, 270 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 1: we have the Maytag Corporation being founded. Yeah, now, it 271 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: wouldn't be until seven that they would come out with 272 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: a washer because Maytag did more than just washing machines, 273 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 1: and and that was still mechanical, Yes, that is true. 274 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 1: Still mechanical was not electric washer at that time. Well, 275 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: which makes sense because only um eight percent of US 276 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: homes at the time had electricity, only had running water. Yeah, 277 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 1: so you know, if you're going to market it to 278 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 1: a large group, and if you want to actually help people, 279 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: then you have to design something that's going to work 280 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 1: for the most people, right. I do think that the 281 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 1: Maytag repair guy probably got called out for more repairs 282 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: back in the mechanical days. He doesn't get a lot 283 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: of according to the commercials, he doesn't do very much 284 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: these days, although although at the time, since since telephones 285 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 1: weren't very popular thing, I'm just stand outside. Also, it's 286 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: Colin Ferguson who's the Maytag guy now, which is kind 287 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 1: of weird. That's very strange seeing the guy from Eureka 288 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: as the Maytag repair guy. In nineteen o five, we 289 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: have Alva J. Fisher who produces the first electric washing machine. 290 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: Now the motor at that time was bolted to the 291 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: side of the washing machine and was unshielded an electric motor. Now, 292 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: I don't know about you guys, but I've been taught 293 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: that two things you don't necessarily want to mix together 294 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: are water and open electronics. Apple has told me many 295 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: times that if I do introduce those two things, it's 296 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: totally my fault. Um. Yeah, So it turns out that 297 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: water from the vat could sometimes come out and hit 298 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 1: the motor and cause a short circuit. Sometimes this would 299 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: result in damage to the device. Sometimes it would result 300 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: in a jolt of electricity hitting a person. But it 301 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 1: wouldn't be until the nineteen thirties, presumably after one too 302 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: many laundry workers got zapped that they would start to 303 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: shield the motor from the rest of the washing machine, 304 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: thus preventing water from actually hitting the motor. Uh. Kind 305 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: of funny that it took nearly three decades for that 306 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 1: to happen. We have the Hurly Machine Company of Chicago 307 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: introducing the first electric power washing machine, which had the 308 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: name of four According to one source, it was actually 309 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: called the Mighty Thor and this was based off of 310 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: Alva J. Fisher's design. So Fisher was working for the 311 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: Hurly Machine Company at that time, so thor hits the market. 312 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: And in nineteen eleven we have developments with the oscillating cylinder, 313 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 1: which and also with domestic washing machines using sheet metal 314 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: tubs mounted on angle iron frames to be the the 315 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: basic design of your washing machine. That same year, the 316 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: Uptown Machine Company, which would later become the Whirlpool Corporation, 317 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: formed and produced electric motor driven ringer washers. You know 318 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 1: we we mentioned ringers, you said, the ringer on the 319 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: other one. That was one of the patents that they 320 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: bought in order to build this machine. There you go, 321 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: So you if you wonder what a ringer actually is, 322 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: it's think of two rollers that are really tightly space together, 323 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 1: and you ring the clothing by putting it between the 324 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: two rollers. You turn a crank. This kind of pulls 325 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: the cloth through and it squeezes that excess water out. 326 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 1: It's kind of like imagining to steamrollers right next to 327 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: each other. And also you don't want to put your 328 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: fingers anywhere near there because they will get squish. All right. 329 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:09,399 Speaker 1: So then we get up to the nineteen twenties. That's 330 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: when some manufacturers begin to introduce electric or gas water 331 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: heaters that are part of the washing machine itself, because 332 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: while we started to see running water entering in more homes, 333 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,880 Speaker 1: not all homes had water heaters. If you had water, 334 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: there was a chance it was just going to be cold. 335 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:27,719 Speaker 1: So in order to make a more effective washing machine, 336 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 1: hot water tends to wash clothes a little better than 337 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 1: cold water does, so we'll get we'll talk a little 338 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: bit about that with the modern ones as well, some 339 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: machines had on board water heaters electric. Yeah. So but 340 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 1: then once we start seeing water heaters going into homes, 341 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:47,919 Speaker 1: this became less important and you stopped seeing models with 342 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: their own onboard heaters. For the most PARTO Maytag introduces 343 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: a washing machine with an agitator. Um, it doesn't use 344 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,919 Speaker 1: an agitator to introduce a washing machine. That would just 345 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: down irritating some guy coming to your house and say, hey, 346 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:05,120 Speaker 1: you're closer dirty, you need to wash them. Now we're 347 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 1: talking about an actual component within a washing machine. Lauren 348 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 1: is doing her head shaking thing. Uh. Nineteen thirties, we 349 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:14,439 Speaker 1: have manufacturers who begin to include a drain pump motor 350 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,159 Speaker 1: to remove water from a washing machine once the cycle 351 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: is over. Because if you're thinking these early washing machines 352 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:23,679 Speaker 1: meant that water magically entered into the machine, then you 353 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: did your washing, you turn some cranks or whatever, and 354 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: then the water magically went away. No, you had to 355 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: put the water there. You had to take the water 356 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 1: back out, you know, you had to find some way 357 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 1: of of you know, some of them had like a 358 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: little drain spout type thing that you would drain at 359 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,959 Speaker 1: the end of the day. Whatever. This was an actual 360 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: pump that would use mechanical motion to pump water back out. 361 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 1: So again, uh, using electronics to kind of simplify work. Uh. 362 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 1: Nineteen thirty seven, we have the Bendex Corporation introducing the 363 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: first fully automated washing machine. Now, this involves using a 364 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 1: clock timer that's connected to the washing machine controls. It 365 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:01,159 Speaker 1: tells the machine essentially what stay age it's in and 366 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 1: therefore switches because before that you had a manual switches 367 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 1: that were that were operated by a human human person. Yeah, 368 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 1: you had to actually sit there and and or come 369 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 1: back even more frequently to your washing machine. Right right, 370 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,399 Speaker 1: you have to sit there and say, oh, you know 371 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: that that the timer says that the time has passed 372 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 1: for it to do the wash cycle. Now, need to 373 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: go and switch it over to do a spin cycle 374 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: or something along those lines. So, yeah, this, this is 375 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 1: another big advance. In the nineteen forties, washer production in 376 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 1: the U S would largely stop as supplies and factories 377 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: were bent to the war effort, because that was when 378 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,119 Speaker 1: World War Two was happening. For example, Whirlpool, which was 379 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 1: then under the name nine hundred Corporation, produced some two 380 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: million components for P forty Warhawk aircraft, from like propeller 381 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,959 Speaker 1: pitch controls to carburetor parts. Yeah, I hear they were 382 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,640 Speaker 1: the cleanest parts in all of the war effort. She's 383 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: shaking her head again, and I'm just gonna move on. 384 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: Ninety seven. General Electric claims that they invented the first 385 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: fully automated shing machine. Now we assume that they mean 386 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 1: fully automated washing machine that actually had an agitator, right, 387 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:09,880 Speaker 1: the previous one did not have an agitator. The agitator's job, 388 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:13,719 Speaker 1: again is to to provide that motion within the washing machine, 389 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: within the tub. That's that's moving the water. And yeah, 390 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 1: it's really it's really meant to simulate an ancient Roman 391 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,400 Speaker 1: stomping on your clothes. That's really what agitator is meant 392 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: to do. That's the way I like to put it. 393 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 1: So we then have very slow evolution in washing machine technology. 394 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 1: It wasn't exactly one of those areas that required uh, 395 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:37,639 Speaker 1: a lot of of of advances to keep it, to 396 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: keep the industry healthy. For one thing, once you buy one, 397 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 1: you pretty much stick with it for a really long time. Yeah, 398 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 1: you don't need one for a good bit. Yeah, because 399 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,880 Speaker 1: I mean they're expensive and uh and they generally last 400 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: a pretty long time. So we didn't see huge advances, 401 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: but we did see some. And then we're gonna skip 402 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: to nine. That's one of certain James Dyson, British inventor, 403 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: creates a washing machine that has two cylinders rotating in 404 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:06,679 Speaker 1: opposite directions, which actually reduces the washtime and supposedly it 405 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 1: actually washes clothes more effectively than traditional machines. Wouldn't surprise me, 406 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,120 Speaker 1: Dicens made a lot of interesting stuff. Two thousand eight. 407 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 1: The last thing we have in our timeline. That's when 408 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: engineers at the University of Leeds create a washing machine 409 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 1: that uses just one cup of water to wash a 410 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: full load of clothing. Yeah, when we talk about how 411 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:35,399 Speaker 1: much water are normal washing machines used one cup is crazy. 412 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about using less than two per 413 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 1: cent of the water and energy required by conventional machines 414 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,199 Speaker 1: to wash clothing. And also the clothes are pretty much 415 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:47,360 Speaker 1: dry after you wash them. We haven't used that much water. 416 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 1: So um, yeah, I don't have any more details on 417 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:53,880 Speaker 1: that about what is actually happening. I suspect laundry gnomes. 418 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: I always suspect laundry. Now do to that. They're suspicious 419 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: little jerks. Okay, so we've got We're gonna actually talk 420 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 1: about what's going on in modern laundry machines washing machines. 421 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: But before we do that, let's take a quick break 422 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: and thank our sponsor. Okay, So let's talk about how 423 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: modern washing machines work. And we're gonna start with top 424 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,919 Speaker 1: loading machines. So these are the machines where there's a 425 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: little door at the top of the machine, you lift 426 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,400 Speaker 1: it up, you put all your clothing in. Most of them, 427 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 1: almost all of them, have an agitator inside. That's the 428 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: kind of the central post that sticks up from the 429 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 1: bottom of the of the washing machine. Although from now on, 430 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,679 Speaker 1: if you really want to, you could probably call it 431 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: a posterer. Dolly dasher punch or punch. Okay, so if 432 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 1: you're using your poster Polly punch, dasher paunch, it's like 433 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: Rudolph uh. But the agitator has usually it has some 434 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:55,199 Speaker 1: fins on it and some other uh like protrusions on 435 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: the bottom of it. Now, these serve a purpose. When 436 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: it's turning in the water, it actually has this action 437 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 1: upon the clothing that's that's also inside the machine. It 438 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: will either pull it down towards the bottom of the 439 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,239 Speaker 1: machine or push it back up toward the top. And 440 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: that's the agitating movements. You get to shake loose all 441 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 1: that dirt. So again, trying to replicate all the other 442 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,239 Speaker 1: means we've used to clean clothes over the years. That 443 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,920 Speaker 1: inner drum that the clothes are sitting in itself may 444 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: or may not move as well. Yeah, usually you have 445 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: one that will uh spin because it has to drain 446 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:31,120 Speaker 1: up the water. But during the actual agitation process, it's 447 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 1: pretty common that there's gonna be a breaking system on 448 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 1: that thing, and it holds it in place. So the 449 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,480 Speaker 1: agitator is doing all the moving. Because if the drum 450 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: were rotating the same time the agitator's rotating, it would 451 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: reduce the effectiveness of the agitator. So yeah, most of 452 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: these are going to have an inner drum that's going 453 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: to be steady. It's connected to an outer drum. The 454 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: outer drum is watertight. It has to be, or else 455 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: you have a huge mess every time you attempt to 456 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 1: make to clean clothes. The inner drum has holes in 457 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: it that allow the water to drain out, and then 458 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 1: it usually it's been picked up by a drain pump 459 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 1: that pulls it out of the machine itself. But with 460 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 1: your top loading washers, you've got intake valves that allow 461 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: water to come in, and you have a cold water 462 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: and a hot water one. Right, So generally speaking, most 463 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: of these washing machines, uh, they if you set a 464 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,440 Speaker 1: washing machine to wash cold, it will only allow water 465 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: from the cold intake to come in. If you want 466 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 1: it hot, it will only allow water from the hot intake. 467 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: So the machine itself for most of these, doesn't have 468 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,920 Speaker 1: its own discrete heating element. It's just relying on the 469 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: temperature of the water from your house to provide the 470 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: heat or the cold water. If you want warm, it 471 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: does a mixture of both, right, So, uh, not too 472 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,679 Speaker 1: complex there Now, some some washing machines do have a 473 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 1: little heating element and they'll allow uh warm or hot 474 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: water to go across it to make it even hotter. Uh. 475 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,960 Speaker 1: That tends to be more common in front loaders that 476 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,639 Speaker 1: I've seen than top loaders, but it's possible that you 477 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,439 Speaker 1: could find id a top loader that also has its 478 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: own discrete, little electric heating element. It kind of looks 479 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 1: like the sort of thing you would see an electric stove, 480 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: and then water just goes over it and that heats up. 481 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:15,639 Speaker 1: So then you've got a a water level sensor that's 482 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 1: inside the machine itself, so when the water hits the 483 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 1: right level, the sensor is triggered and that sends a 484 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,360 Speaker 1: message to the control center in the washing machine to say, hey, 485 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,199 Speaker 1: stop letting water in. It sends a signal to the 486 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: intake valve. Has a little solenoid there that when you 487 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 1: trigger it, it'll shut that intake valve so no more 488 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: water will come in, so you don't have to worry 489 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: about a huge overflowing mess. And solidide evolves, of course, 490 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,880 Speaker 1: being the kind of thing so that there cannot be 491 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,719 Speaker 1: a exchange of water back out from You can't get 492 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 1: the dirty wash water going back out into your neighborhood. 493 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, into the pipes type. Yeah, because that would 494 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 1: be that would be really bad. So yeah, the valve 495 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,199 Speaker 1: has two purposes. One to stop more water coming in 496 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 1: and to stop all the dirty water going back out. 497 00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: You only want the dirty water to go out through 498 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,400 Speaker 1: the sauce. Solenoid is like a one way thing. Yeah. Yeah, 499 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 1: a lot of pinball machines its solenoids. That's what all 500 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: the little triggers are used. Solinoids are using those just 501 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: a little little trivia there. People who listen to uh 502 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: current Geek have heard me bust out that trivia in 503 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:17,199 Speaker 1: the past. So now you've got the water has hit 504 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: the right level, the mode goes into wash cycle. That's when, 505 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 1: By the way, for these top loader ones, I don't 506 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,159 Speaker 1: know if you guys are familiar with this, but generally speaking, 507 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 1: you have to put the soap in manually. Like you 508 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: don't put it into a dispenser or something. It doesn't 509 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 1: go in automatically. Now now you just you pour it 510 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,120 Speaker 1: on top of the clothing. Whether you're using liquid detergent 511 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,320 Speaker 1: or or a solid detergent doesn't matter. You put it 512 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: in with the clothing. If you forgot to put it 513 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: in there. You are not going to have that, you know, 514 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 1: Daisy Fresh scent or whatever brand you happen to get. 515 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 1: So the agitator begins to turn and it usually will 516 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 1: what you guys, you've got to drive motor. Normally it's 517 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:58,200 Speaker 1: on the bottom of the washing machine. It also tends 518 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 1: to act as a counter balance, a counterweight, which, by 519 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 1: the way, you've got several counterweights in your washing machines 520 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,439 Speaker 1: because you've got lots of motion going on, and if 521 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 1: you didn't have them there, you're washing machine would be 522 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: dancing all over the place. Yes. Yeah, anyone who's ever 523 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: had an unbalanced load and a washing machine and you 524 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 1: start hearing that thumping noise, if you didn't have the 525 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: counterweights in there, it would become catastrophic. Oh yeah, yeah. 526 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 1: There's there's actually a really complex suspension system. UM. It 527 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 1: involves like a like a inner frame, a cable and 528 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 1: pulley suspension, and these little like disc brake like mechanisms 529 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,159 Speaker 1: that connect that inner frame to the corners of the 530 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 1: outer walls. UM. And that's so that when the frame, 531 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: that interframe shakes, they slow it down softly so that 532 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 1: it doesn't hit against the outer wall of the washer. 533 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: And then because otherwise you would just be convinced that 534 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: your house had been invaded by a horde of extremely 535 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: loud ghosts, you know, who apparently are mad that you're 536 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,439 Speaker 1: doing laundry, really clumsy robots who are also anti long 537 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 1: It could be ghost robots. That's yeahs terrible. So next 538 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 1: you have the once the dry motor gets going and 539 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 1: it starts moving the agitator. Uh. Once the agitator is done, 540 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,360 Speaker 1: it's done oscillating, which is that that rotating motion where 541 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: it goes in one direction, stops, goes in the other direction. Uh, 542 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 1: that's what's actually moving the clothes around getting them washed. 543 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 1: Then you have the drain pump pulling all that wastewater 544 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: out from the tub of the washing machine and through 545 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 1: the drain pipe. Uh. That's uh, it's it's actually the 546 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,400 Speaker 1: same pump that circulates the water into the tub during 547 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 1: the wash cycle. Um. Thanks to the pump motor being reversible, 548 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 1: it spins one way when you're driving a wash cycle 549 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 1: and the opposite way when you're draining the tub exactly. Yeah. 550 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 1: And so after this, then you've got the the those 551 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: brakes that are on the inner drum that keep it 552 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: from rotating while the agitator is moving, they release and 553 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: the inner drum begins to spin. Uh. And and that 554 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: that removes the water from the clothes. Yeah, it can. 555 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 1: It can spin a lot faster than the agitator does 556 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,280 Speaker 1: because the although the motor itself usually only has one speed, 557 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: and that's the fast speed, a gear reduction mechanism will 558 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: translate the motion to to the gentle agitators speed. It's 559 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: kind of like a washing machine version of a transmission Yeah. Yeah, 560 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: because and and there's even more than that involved, because hey, 561 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: the pump and the agitate spin mechanisms are both driven 562 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,960 Speaker 1: by the same motor. In some machines, there's in fact 563 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: an actual transmission system with this automatic clutch that UM 564 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 1: that spins free with the inner drum during the agitate 565 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 1: spin cycles and then locks into the outer drum and 566 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 1: the pump system during the water related cycles. UM. Or alternately, 567 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: the motor can hook in via a pulley system, which 568 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: I understand less well and thus we'll not talk about. 569 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: Essentially uses pulleys where you have different sized disks to 570 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 1: uh to translate the motion either as fast and and 571 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: frantic or more. You know, kind of makes sense, makes sense, 572 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 1: but Yeah, so that's when you've got all the counterweights 573 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: draining away when when that thing is in spin, it's 574 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: really there's some serious g forces coming out of that 575 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: spinning drum. So that's why you have to have those 576 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 1: counterweights to keep that washing machine from bursting out and 577 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: killing your family. Frequently, they're made of concrete because why not. 578 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: So if you've ever thought, oh, this machine is so heavy, yes, 579 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: for a reason. It's filled with concrete and crazy crazy mechanics. Um, 580 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: if anything goes wrong during this entire process, there's usually 581 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: an overflow port that will pipe water directly out onto 582 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: your floor. Yes, that was not a design flaw. It 583 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: was intentional because if it goes up over the sides 584 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 1: of the inner tubs, um, it could get those electronics wet. 585 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 1: And then we're right back to that old bolting the 586 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: motor directly to the side of the washing Yeah. Bad times. 587 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: So we talked about how that that uh that special 588 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: uh leads team gut one that would wash a load 589 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:49,960 Speaker 1: of clothing with one cup of water, and we talked 590 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 1: about how that was less than two percent of what 591 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,400 Speaker 1: your average washing machine is able to do. So top 592 00:30:55,440 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: loading washing machines, if you're using a high efficient top 593 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 1: loading washing machine. We're talking one that is as efficient 594 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 1: as they come. You're talking still talking about using around 595 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 1: twenty gallons of water per wash. That s A typical 596 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: non high efficiency top loading washer is closer to forty 597 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 1: gallons a k A hundred and fifty one, and older 598 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 1: ones are even thirstier than that. Some use as many 599 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 1: as fifty five gallons two hundred eight liters of water. 600 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: So uh and again, you know, we talked about how 601 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: this technology doesn't necessarily develop that quickly and that there's 602 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 1: not a pressing need necessarily to upgrade because these are 603 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: expensive purchases for most people. It's one of those things 604 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: where you're like, unless it breaks down, we're keeping this 605 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 1: going as long as we can keep it. Oh yeah, 606 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:43,880 Speaker 1: and they're they're they're even expensive enough. I mean plenty, 607 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 1: plenty of households do not own their own washer drivers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 608 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 1: I mean it was it was quite some time before 609 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 1: I had my own. I often was doing one of 610 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 1: those people I had to go to the laundromat pretty 611 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: recent for me, so so so yeah, if you if 612 00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,200 Speaker 1: you end up having one of these things, then it 613 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 1: can be it can be tough to make the move 614 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 1: to say, let's go to something that conserves more water. 615 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,680 Speaker 1: But the nice thing is that even if you take 616 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 1: the environmentally friendly stuff and you say, let I can't 617 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 1: consider that because it's it's my my price range. If 618 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,479 Speaker 1: you look at the long term, and I'm I'm talking 619 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 1: like a few years here, you can save more money 620 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: with one of the more efficient machines just from the 621 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:27,800 Speaker 1: water and energy use. Yeah, because front loading machines and 622 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 1: these high efficient machines, the high efficient top loaders use 623 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 1: less water and less energy, and therefore the ongoing expense decreases. Uh. 624 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,120 Speaker 1: It's it's lower than what you would use for a 625 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 1: traditional top loader, and you will save money in the 626 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: long run. But that's the long run. Not everybody has. 627 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 1: So let's talk about front loading machines. They're pretty similar. 628 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you've got a door that opens in 629 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 1: the front as opposed to on the top. Uh, And 630 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 1: there's a spinning drum inside them, and there's no agitator, 631 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,200 Speaker 1: so the drum does all the agitating on its own. 632 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: You have water coming in along with soap. In fact, 633 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 1: the early process is identical to top loading. The water 634 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 1: comes in through intake valves. It may move over a 635 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 1: heating element, it might not. Uh. It actually comes in 636 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 1: through the drum. The drum, the inner drum has holes 637 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 1: in it that allow the water to pass through rather 638 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: than a spout at the top of them sheen, which 639 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 1: is what most loloaders have exactly. Uh. There's also an 640 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,000 Speaker 1: outer drum, just like with the top loadery of the 641 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 1: inner drum. That's where all the clothes are and that's 642 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 1: where the water comes through. The outer drum is again 643 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,080 Speaker 1: watertight or else to just be a big mess um. 644 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 1: And then the the inner drum will spin one way 645 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 1: and then the other will have this oscillating motion, very 646 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,720 Speaker 1: much like an agitator, and that's doing all the agitating 647 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 1: for your clothing. Again, you have to have counterweights on 648 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 1: the drum, the outer drum itself in order to stabilize it. 649 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,040 Speaker 1: And there's some counterweights also in other parts of the 650 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 1: washer to make sure it doesn't go walking. Um. Now, 651 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,280 Speaker 1: once the water comes in, a lot of these front 652 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 1: loaders have a detergent drawer. You put the detergent inside 653 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 1: the drawer and then you close it. When the water 654 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 1: comes in, it will actually flow through that drawer first 655 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,880 Speaker 1: and then pull that all the soap and stuff into 656 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,880 Speaker 1: the inner drum itself. So it's you know, this is 657 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,239 Speaker 1: one where you don't put the soap in after you 658 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 1: put in the clothing. You put it in on the drawer, 659 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:19,520 Speaker 1: and then you close the drawer and then you start 660 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 1: the washer. Uh, presumably put the clothes in there already. 661 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,080 Speaker 1: Otherwise I would hope at some point you would put 662 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,319 Speaker 1: the clothing, because otherwise you just have soapy water. It's 663 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,399 Speaker 1: fun to watch. I get bored and not. Netflix doesn't 664 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,040 Speaker 1: always have something I want to watch. So anyway, again, 665 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,120 Speaker 1: you have the hot and cold water, You've got the 666 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,480 Speaker 1: you know, the same store stuff as top loader. It's 667 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,879 Speaker 1: got a water level sensor just like the top loader does, 668 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 1: so it knows when to shut it off. That basically 669 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,959 Speaker 1: is taking its cues from either whatever setting you've said, 670 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,880 Speaker 1: like whether it's a light load, a moderate load, or 671 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,680 Speaker 1: a heavy load or some of them can actually detect 672 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,320 Speaker 1: how many how how much clothing is in there based 673 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,160 Speaker 1: on weight or other parts of the water sensor, and 674 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,959 Speaker 1: we'll just shut off automatically. So it's ridiculous. Yeah, it's kindle. Also, 675 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,320 Speaker 1: you can put in more clothing in a front loader 676 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 1: than you can of a comparable size of a top 677 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 1: loader because there's no agitator there, so so you've got 678 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 1: more space, right, so you might be able to put 679 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: in a few pounds of clothing more than you could 680 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,759 Speaker 1: with a top loader, so fewer loads of laundry. It's 681 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,920 Speaker 1: another way of being more efficient. Yep. So then you've 682 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 1: got a motor that's bolted to the tub. It's often 683 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,120 Speaker 1: acting as another counterweight just with the top loader, and 684 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 1: it's job is to turn that drum, to turn it, uh, 685 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 1: you know, make it oscillate, and then also to spin 686 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,200 Speaker 1: it when it gets to the spin cycle that you 687 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,680 Speaker 1: know it's already drained the water. There's also a drain pump, 688 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,279 Speaker 1: just like with a top loader, and then the whole 689 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:42,839 Speaker 1: drum spins wicked fast until it pulls most of that 690 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 1: water out. So the brains of it is a control module. 691 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:50,120 Speaker 1: This is the same for both machines top loaders and frontloaders, 692 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,080 Speaker 1: and it usually will be sent signals to all sorts 693 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:59,240 Speaker 1: of stuff like when to allow one phase of the 694 00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,080 Speaker 1: the washing process to go to the next. It also 695 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:06,480 Speaker 1: will maintain information about the door because unlike a top loader, 696 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,120 Speaker 1: which often you can open the door while the top 697 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:14,399 Speaker 1: loader is working and it will continue working different stuff. Yeah, 698 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 1: I had an old one at my my parents had 699 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,319 Speaker 1: an old one where if you opened it in the middle, 700 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,520 Speaker 1: it was just going away, so you could still you 701 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,560 Speaker 1: could add more stuff to it. In fact, in some 702 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 1: cases that you had to manually add in, like if 703 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,239 Speaker 1: you want to put in fabric softener, you had to 704 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,920 Speaker 1: wait for it. It was not fully automated. You had 705 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:32,239 Speaker 1: to wait for the right time and then pour it 706 00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:36,120 Speaker 1: in manually. Um front loaders are different. They have a 707 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:40,400 Speaker 1: locking mechanism and yeah, yeah, and it's only if that 708 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,800 Speaker 1: mechanism has since that the door has actually closed it 709 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,560 Speaker 1: will allow it to start. Otherwise you could end up 710 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:49,920 Speaker 1: with lots of leaking. Yeah, that sounds much messier potentially. Yeah. Granted, 711 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,520 Speaker 1: if the sensor is not working, then it may think 712 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,480 Speaker 1: it's closed when it's not really closed, and then you 713 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,359 Speaker 1: get water everywhere. But assuming everything's working correctly, you should 714 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,120 Speaker 1: be fine. In any case, it's slightly less water than 715 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,200 Speaker 1: you would be using for a top loader generally. Yeah. Yeah, 716 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,440 Speaker 1: it's normally somewhere around the twenty gallon or seventy six 717 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,640 Speaker 1: liter amount. So that's the same as that high efficiency toploader. Uh. 718 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,200 Speaker 1: And it tends to use less energy, so it tends 719 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:17,799 Speaker 1: to be both more energy efficient and water efficient. And 720 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,279 Speaker 1: you can find some that are even more efficient than that. 721 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,000 Speaker 1: And it all depends upon things like the angle of 722 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,400 Speaker 1: the drums. Some of them are not angled directly horizontal. 723 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:28,239 Speaker 1: Some of them are angled so that they're kind of 724 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,600 Speaker 1: like there's a deep end and a and a shallow 725 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,239 Speaker 1: end in a way from when you're looking at it 726 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,279 Speaker 1: in the front, it's like tilted downward a little bit. Uh. 727 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,279 Speaker 1: And some of them are just it's based upon how 728 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,839 Speaker 1: the water comes in and how efficient it is. Uh. 729 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,920 Speaker 1: You still see lots of of advances, Like whenever I 730 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:46,840 Speaker 1: go to C E S there's always some companies that 731 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,040 Speaker 1: have like the cutting edge washer dryers, and they talk 732 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,279 Speaker 1: about how their technology has has improved to the point 733 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,640 Speaker 1: where you're you're using less water than ever and less 734 00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,960 Speaker 1: in electricity than ever. So we're still seeing those advance 735 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,440 Speaker 1: and of course we're also seeing this come into the 736 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,080 Speaker 1: Internet of things side. Oh sure, you know you get 737 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,000 Speaker 1: push notifications when your laundry is done, or you'll be 738 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:12,040 Speaker 1: able to have it work in tandem with other electronics 739 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:16,400 Speaker 1: in your home. For reasons I don't fully understand. I mean, honestly, 740 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,360 Speaker 1: if I if I could just get my dryer to 741 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,839 Speaker 1: dry my clothes without me having to run back up 742 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,439 Speaker 1: the three flights of stairs to where my laundry room 743 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,000 Speaker 1: in my house is. And I'm not I'm complaining here. 744 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:30,239 Speaker 1: I know that a lot of people have it a 745 00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,479 Speaker 1: lot harder, and I'm overall really glad that I don't 746 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,359 Speaker 1: have to do this in a river. Yeah. By the way, 747 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,279 Speaker 1: if if someone does covet you a little bit about 748 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,919 Speaker 1: about having to take a little extra effort, that does 749 00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:45,160 Speaker 1: not automatically mean that person feels that they are in 750 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,400 Speaker 1: a worse position than anyone else on the Facebook planet. 751 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,760 Speaker 1: So let's all just accept that just because some people 752 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,600 Speaker 1: on the internet, uh do feel that way, that they 753 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,439 Speaker 1: are in a worse position than anyone else on the planet, 754 00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,759 Speaker 1: Let's not let's not make the assumption that everyone isn't dead. 755 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,880 Speaker 1: Because once in a blue moon, I do plain about things, 756 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,880 Speaker 1: but I do so with the full knowledge that yes, indeed, 757 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:10,120 Speaker 1: I inhabit a very privileged position in multiple ways. So 758 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,560 Speaker 1: at any rate, as someone who does the laundry in 759 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,719 Speaker 1: my home and our our laundry machines are not on 760 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:20,440 Speaker 1: the same floor as our bedroom, which means that there's 761 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,880 Speaker 1: lots of hauling up and downstairs. I also feel that 762 00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,480 Speaker 1: I want my electronics to be interconnected so that when 763 00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:31,239 Speaker 1: I go to cook something, it tells me, Hey, your 764 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,520 Speaker 1: cooking shirt is clean. You want to put that one 765 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,200 Speaker 1: on because that's the one. You don't care if you 766 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,840 Speaker 1: get grease stains on it. Yes, slob, I would like 767 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 1: it if it were more polite, but I don't have 768 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,960 Speaker 1: high expectations of my electronics in that regard, so at 769 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,880 Speaker 1: any rate that wraps up. That's my main concern. I 770 00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,239 Speaker 1: want to I want to live Yeah, yeah, I want 771 00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:50,920 Speaker 1: to live on the on the heart of gold and 772 00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:56,080 Speaker 1: have my doors be very planked. Yeah was it? Was it? 773 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,120 Speaker 1: Thank you for I can't remember what they said every 774 00:39:58,120 --> 00:39:59,560 Speaker 1: time you opened it up, but they would say thank 775 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,239 Speaker 1: you every time they open and thank you every time 776 00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:05,440 Speaker 1: they closed. Um, yeah, drove it drove Marvin the Martian 777 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,560 Speaker 1: batty as I recall, Yeah, Marvin, Marvin the Robot, Marvin 778 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,040 Speaker 1: the Martian is And you're right, I said, Marvin the Martian. 779 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,360 Speaker 1: Yet this is just yet another example of how if 780 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:14,920 Speaker 1: there are two names that are similar, I'm going to 781 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:18,759 Speaker 1: mix them up. Marvin the paranoid android, your plastic pal 782 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,080 Speaker 1: who's fun to be with. So, now that we're done 783 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,920 Speaker 1: with all that, and I, you know, once again shown 784 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,440 Speaker 1: my ability to take any two names and mix them together. 785 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,080 Speaker 1: I want to thank Thomas F. And I know I 786 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,480 Speaker 1: got your name right because I'm reading it via Facebook 787 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,160 Speaker 1: for asking us the question about the washers and the dryers. 788 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,399 Speaker 1: We will. We will do a dryer episode at some point. 789 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,720 Speaker 1: We will, we will, But this was surprisingly fascinating. Yeah again, 790 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,080 Speaker 1: you know, we had we had everything from gender politics, 791 00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:48,440 Speaker 1: to historical uh significant things that are happened over the 792 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:53,080 Speaker 1: course of centuries, to just engineering and and thinking outside 793 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,520 Speaker 1: the box on how can we make something that's as 794 00:40:55,600 --> 00:41:02,560 Speaker 1: laborious and and tedious and a herculean dreadful task less 795 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,040 Speaker 1: So and it was kind of fun. So if you 796 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,000 Speaker 1: guys have any suggestions for future topics for tech stuff, 797 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:12,000 Speaker 1: maybe you've got your own terrible task that you just 798 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,120 Speaker 1: want us to cover, let us know. 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