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RE: Portable Compact Mini Twin Tub Washing Machine and Spin Cycle w/ Hose, 13lbs. Capacit - Heidi Mull - 12-20-2017
Alright. I finally broke and ordered the Panda spin dryer. Not only were my hands hurting from wringing out wet laundry, but also it was taking about 24 hours for the trickiest items in a load to dry. Since I was too exhausted to do more than one load at a time, this has meant that in reality in order to stay on top of laundry we'd need to be doing it every other day and always have clothes hanging up throughout the RV in some state of drying.
Which is totally survivable, but not how I'd prefer to live.
I've been using the EasyGoProducts laundry plunger for about a month now. It definitely makes agitation a heck of a lot easier. Clothes are getting cleaner and rinsed more thoroughly, for less effort.
I'm hopeful the Panda spin dryer will make it doable to wash all laundry once a week and have it all dry the next day. A gal can dream!
RE: Portable Compact Mini Twin Tub Washing Machine and Spin Cycle w/ Hose, 13lbs. Capacit - AbuelaLoca - 12-21-2017
Can't wait for the update!!!!!
RE: Portable Compact Mini Twin Tub Washing Machine and Spin Cycle w/ Hose, 13lbs. Capacit - Texjbird - 12-21-2017
(11-12-2017, 01:40 PM)Motrukdriver Wrote: Hand crank wringers are out there. Not cheap by any means but worth the price to keep from hand squeezing out water from your clothes.
https://www.lehmans.com/pro duct/lehmans-best-hand-wringer/ <--- expensive but this is what a lot of Amish use.
https://www.amazon.com/Crank-Clothes-Wringer-Calliger-Rollers/dp/B00OAPW6GM <--- cheaper but not much
https://www.kleen-ritecorp.com/p-968-76-3-lake-city-handwringer.aspx <--- much cheaper
I'M WONDERING IF A NEW MOP WRINGER WITH BUCKET MIGHT WORK? THE ONES LIKE OFFICE CLEANERS USE. ALSO I'VE FOUND REASONABLY PRICED WASH BOARDS AT HISPANIC FOOD STORES. I'M THINKING ABOUT THE SMALL WASHER THAT WAS IN ON OF BOB'S VUDEOS.........NOW I'VE GOT TO GO BACK AND FIND IT.
JEWELLANN
RE: Portable Compact Mini Twin Tub Washing Machine and Spin Cycle w/ Hose, 13lbs. Capacit - Snikwahjm - 12-21-2017
Most janitor buckets have a press rather than a wringer. They are kind of bulky.
RE: Portable Compact Mini Twin Tub Washing Machine and Spin Cycle w/ Hose, 13lbs. Capacit - AbuelaLoca - 12-22-2017
Our mop and bucket here at work is a spinner. You press a lever with your foot and it spins the excess water out of the mop head.
Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Casabella-Spin-Cycle-Mop-Bucket/dp/B013E43SR0/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1513930333&sr=8-6&keywords=Mop+bucket+spinner
RE: Portable Compact Mini Twin Tub Washing Machine and Spin Cycle w/ Hose, 13lbs. Capacit - Snikwahjm - 12-22-2017
Nice but I’d have to store something in it... then store it.. but to be fair, could you try washing out some jeans in it and get back with us?
RE: Portable Compact Mini Twin Tub Washing Machine and Spin Cycle w/ Hose, 13lbs. Capacit - AbuelaLoca - 12-22-2017
It could double as the shower basin/tub!!! Hmmm.....
RE: Portable Compact Mini Twin Tub Washing Machine and Spin Cycle w/ Hose, 13lbs. Capacit - frater secessus - 12-26-2017
I've seen folks spin water out of small items in a salad spinner.
Available at garage sales everywhere for cheap. :-)
RE: Portable Compact Mini Twin Tub Washing Machine and Spin Cycle w/ Hose, 13lbs. Capacit - Heidi Mull - 12-26-2017
(12-26-2017, 12:55 PM)frater secessus Wrote: I've seen folks spin water out of small items in a salad spinner.
Available at garage sales everywhere for cheap. :-)
I have the exact same salad spinner as shown in the video.
There's no way it's gonna spin my sheets, jeans, sweatshirts, etc. Only the small items that are already super easy to wring out on my own. E.g. pillowcases, underwear, socks.
It was doing a load of five jeans that finally broke me into buying the panda spin dryer. And my jeans are relatively tiny.
I have the largest OXO salad spinner, and actually bought it with this possible dual purpose in mind. As an experiment, I got one of my clean pairs of jeans soaking wet and then placed them in the salad spinner. My 00 jeans *barely* fit. After over half a dozen times of pumping it up as fast as it would go and draining the water, by the end of it I was exhausted, no more water was coming out in the spinner, and the jeans would still drip water when you squeezed them.
I'm glad these life hacks work for some people, but IMO the salad spinner trick is specific to less heavy duty items of clothing.
RE: Portable Compact Mini Twin Tub Washing Machine and Spin Cycle w/ Hose, 13lbs. Capacit - frater secessus - 12-26-2017
I was thinking socks and underwear, mainly. I'll report back after I try it.