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help me "trick out" laundry day.
i have a maytag front loader. you get the various cleaning supplies into the wash via a drawer with separate compartments. i hate having a jug of detergent, bleach, and fabric softner bouncing around the top of the machine. any ideas how i could "tool time" it up with valves running up to bottles hidden in the upper cabinet? i imagine a magnetic stand with valve kinda like the one you find when you are doing titration experiments in chem class. maybe some clear vinly hose running to the bottles? i am willing to let my gfriend ridicule me and my nerdness.
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Not really helpful to your problem but it is laundry related click here
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I spent a couple of hours learning how to fold like that...
Vash, if you set that up with PIC controllers, you could get a crazy LCD interface going... You'd need 8 kinds of detergent, just to give some options, but you could have it trigger relays and pour the correct amount of detergent / fabric softener for the size of the load...
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You do the laundry? What's your girlfriend for? Seems you might have to marry her, if that's what it takes.
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Do it the low tech way. Use screw caps with spouts and attach clear hoses. Clip the ends closed with roach clips...er hemostats. Lay the bottles down on the sides on the shelf above and elevate the bottom slightly. Whenever you need detergent, bleach or softener, just point each hose into their respective compartments and unclip the hemostats. Some hospital labs still use this trick.
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I have found the addition of a vagina in the house makes laundry day a breeze. YRMV.
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we do our own laundry. i dont bother with the details like separating colors, and that makes her mental. chicks!
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I kid....I kid....  Believe it or not I taught my wife how to do laundrey when we got married. She hadn't a clue and I had been doing my own since I was 12 or so. She took over because I put EVERYTHING in the dryer. Want to get out of laundry? Shrink the wife/Girlfriends britches
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Back when I was a single college dude, I'd often go to a laundromat near women's dorms, sorority row...even though I had a washer/dryer available where I lived. It's amazing how far being a "helpless" male who knows nothing about lights vs. darks, how much detergent to use, can get you...
 (edit) Vash, seems to me such a "trick" system would be more work than it's worth, especially in light of detergent & bleach companies loving to change container sizes in an attempt to make you think the product really is improved. BTW, has your Maytag Neptune blown it's circuit board yet? We made the mistake of buying an early one. After finding the "reliable maytag" reputation to be a myth as far as the Neptune is concerned, we bought a cheaper Fridgidaire front loader. It's been doing well for a few years now.Did you know that there is a class action suit against Maytag for it's poor design of the Neptune washer?
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You're lucky...Circuit board(s) burning out, replacement of the drain feature, belts, the list goes on & on...we finally gave up, kissing that grand spent on a washer goodby. What's funny is that the cheap front loading Fridgidaire we replaced it with has given us ZERO problems. I feel burned with Maytag. Doubt we'll ever buy another. I also doubt we'll ever see a dime from the class action suit...Well, maybe a dime. The lawyers will get the rest.
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