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1 UseAndCam A Note To You Understanding Washer Safety Knowing Your Washer s Features 0 aehyrng Your d Other Features Laundry Tips If You Need Assistance Or Service Warranty Ca us with questions or comments. ONE SPEED AUTOMATIC WASHERS

2 A Note ToYou Thank you for buying an Estate appiance. You have purchased a quaity, word-cass home appiance. Years of engineering experience have gone into its manufacturing. To ensure many years of troube-free operation, we have deveoped this Use and Care Guide. It is fu of vauabe information on how to operate and maintain your appiance propery and safey. Pease read it carefuy. Aso, pease compete and mai the Ownership Registration Card provided with your appiance. This wi hep us notify you about any new information on your appiance. Your safety is important to us. This guide contains safety symbos and statements. Pease pay specia attention to these symbos and foow any instructions given. Here is a brief expanation of the use of each symbo. This symbo wi hep aert you to such dangers as persona injury, burns, fire and eectrica shock. This symbo wi hep you avoid actions which coud cause product damage (scratches, dents, etc.) and damage to your persona property. Our Consumer Assistance number, , is to-free 24 hours a day. If you have a question concerning your appiance s operation, or if you need service, first see If You Need Assistance Or Service on page 21. If you need further hep, ca us. When caing, you wi need to know your appiance s compete mode number and seria number. You can find this information on the mode and seria number pate (see diagram on page 4). For your convenience, we have incuded a handy pace beow for you to record these numbers, the purchase date from the saes sip, and your deaer s name and teephone number. Keep this book and the saes sip together in a safe pace for future reference. Mode Number Seria Purchase Number Date Deaer Name Deaer Phone 2

3 IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS To reduce the risk of fire, eectrica shock or injury to persons when using your washer, foow basic precautions, incuding the Read a instructions before using your Do not tamper with the contros. washer. If your hot water has not been used Do not machine wash or machine dry items ceaned, washed, soaked in, or spotted with wax, paint, gasoine, oi, or recenty (usuay 2 weeks or onger), hydrogen gases may buid up in your water heater and your hot water pipes. other fammabe fuids. The fumes can HYDROGEN GAS IS EXPLOSIVE. To create a fire hazard or exposion. Aways hand wash and ine dry items containing these materias. prevent injury or damage, before using your washer, turn on a hot water faucets and aow water to run for severa min-. Fammabe fuids (dry-ceaning sovents, utes. This wi aow gases to escape. Do kerosene, gasoine, etc.) shoud not be not smoke or use any open fame near used or stored in or near your washer. Do your faucet whie it is open. not add fammabe fuids to your wash Pease... water. These substances give off vapors Have ony a quaified repairman insta, that can create a fire hazard or exposion. repair, or repace parts on washer. Do not aow chidren to operate, pay with, Maintain washer propery. or craw on or inside your washer. Super-. Protect washer from the weather and vise chidren cosey when your washer is keep it where the temperature wi not fa used near them. beow freezing. Before your washer is removed from Insta and eve washer on a foor that service or discarded, remove the id to can support the weight.* prevent accidenta entrapment. Connect washer to the correct 3-prong outet, eectrica suppy, water suppy, and drain.* After starting a cyce, do not reach into the basket uness the Cyce Contro Knob is pushed in and a motion stops. Ground washer propery.* *See the Instaation Instructions. Understanding your responsibiities Store detergent, aundry aids and other Do not use chorine beach and ammonia materias in a coo, dry pace where chidren cannot reach them (in a ocked or acids (such as vinegar or rust remover) in the same wash. Hazardous cabinet if possibe). fumes can form. Read and foow instructions on packages of detergent and aundry aids, * Unpug power suppy cord before attempting to service your washer. especiay warnings and precautions. Do not machine wash fibergass materi Do not wash or dry items that are soied as. Sma partices can stick to the with vegetabe or cooking oi. These fabrics washed in foowing oads and items may contain some oi after aunder- cause skin irritation. ing. Due to the remaining oi, the fabric may smoke or catch fire by itsef. - SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS - 3

4 Knowing Features Your Washer s The parts and features of your washer are iustrated beow. Become famiiar with a parts and features before using your washer. NOTE: The drawings in this book may vary from your washer mode. They are designed to show the different features of a modes covered by this book. Your mode may not incude a features. Load size Temperature seector seector I I I Cyce contro knob Consumer Assistance Center number ( ) Mode and seria Agitator /d-b I Basket - I Tub I \ Other features not shown: Sef-ceaning int fiter Manua cean int fiter (inside agitator)* *Avaiabe on some modes 4

5 Operating Your Washer In This Section Paw Paw Before starting your washer... T5 9eecting a cyce and time... 6 Starting or stopping your washer....5 Using rinse and spin eacting a oad size... 5 Using drain and spin eecfng wash+inse temperaturw....6 mat happens in each cyck....9 Operating your washer propery assures maximum washing efficiency. This section gives you important information to hep you to seect a cyce, time, and temperature for your wash oad. Before starting your washer Add measured detergent. Then pace a sorted oad in the washer before starting. See page 11 for additiona Before you wash information. Starting or stopping your washer Starting your washer: 1. Push in the Cyce Contro Knob and turn it cockwise. Stop when the indicator on the knob s outer ring points to the number in the wash cyce you want. The numbers are minutes of wash time. Make other seections, if necessary. 2. Pu out the Cyce Contro Knob. Refer to pages 6-9 for additiona information to hep you make seections. Stoppng and restarting your washer: To stop the washer at any time, push in the Cyce Contro Knob. To restart the washer, cose the id (if necessary) and pu out the Cyce Contro Knob. Seecting a oad size Position the Load Size Seector at the setting that corresponds to the size oad you want to wash. Seect a oad size based upon the size of the oad and the fabric you are washing. See page 11 for additiona oading information. To change the oad size setting after the washer has started to fi, move the Seector to the desired new setting. NOTE: If your washer has a Consumer Buy Guide, remove it and pace it with your Use and Care Guide. 5

6 Load size tips Items shoud move freey in the washer. Do not overoad the machine or seect a oad size that is too sma for the wash oad. Use a arge oad size setting for best resuts with permanent press cothes. Reduce wash time when using a sma oad size setting. Loads with ony a few sma items need ess wash time. Seecting wash-rinse temperatures Match the water temperature to the type of fabric and sois being washed. The top temperature is the wash water and the bottom temperature is the rinse water. Water temperature tips Use warm water with the Permanent Press and Shot- cyces. Aways use cod rinse water for permanent press fabrics. For heaviy soied permanent press or knit cothes, pre-wash or pre-soak before washing in warm water. See the Water usage guide on page 15 for more information. Seecting a cyce and time Cyces may vary with mode

7 Permanent Press cyce The Permanent Press cyce features a coodown rinse and shorter spins to reduce wrinking. Use 8 minutes of wash time to cean moderatey soied permanent press and some synthetic fabrics. Use 6 minutes of wash time to cean ighty soied permanent press and some synthetics. NOTE: The washer pauses briefy during the wash cyce. This is norma for washer operation. Soak cyce (on some modes) The Soak cyce features brief periods of agitation and soak time to hep remove heavy sois and stains that need pretreatment. Use warm water when soaking aundry (hot water can set stains). See page 12 for stain remova information. Use the amount of detergent or presoak additive recommended by manufacturer. After the Soak cyce ends, add detergent and set a new wash cyce. Short cyce Soak cyce

8 Using rinse and spin When using extra detergent for heaviy soied cothes, or washing specia-care items, you may want an extra rinse and spin. 1. Push Cyce Contro Knob in and turn cockwise to one of the dots on the dia, as iustrated. 2. Pu Cyce Contro Knob out. The washer wi fi to seected oad size, agitate, drain, and spin. Using drain and spin A drain and spin may hep shorten drying times for some heavy fabrics or specia-care items by removing excess water. 1, Push Cyce Contro Knob in and turn cockwise unti indicator points to the bar ocated just before an OFF area on the dia, as iustrated. 2. Pu Cyce Contro Knob out. The washer wi drain and spin. 8

9 What happens in each cyce When the Cyce Contro Knob is set to a number and pued out, the washer fis to the seected oad size with the seected water temperature before agitation and timing start. The washer wi begin agitating immediatey after fiing; agitation can occur with the washer id up or down. After agitation starts, the knob turns cockwise unti it points to OFF and the cyce ends. The washer pauses brefy throughout each cyce. These pauses are norma for washer operation. Reguar and Short cyces Permanent Press cyce Fi to seected oad size Wash seected time Fi to seected oad size Fi to seected oad size Wash seected time Drain-No agitation Spin Fi Rinse Drain-No agitation Spin-Spray rinse IsitJ Spin Brief agitation Drain-No agitation Spin Fi Rinse Drain-No agitation Spin-Spray rinse Spin 9

10 Other Features In This Section Page Using the chorine beach diepeneer Sef-ceaning int fitar Page Manue cean int fiter Your washer may have some of the foowing features. Understanding the use of the features on your machine wi hep you efficienty use your washer. Using the chorine beach dispenser (on some modes) Aways measure chorine beach. Do not guess. Never use more than 1 cup (250 ml) for a fu oad. Use ess with ower water eve settings. Foow manufacturer s directions for safe use. Use a cup with a pouring spout to avoid spiing. 1. Load the washer. 2. Pour measured chorine beach carefuy into dispenser. Do not et beach spash, drip or run down into washer basket. Undiuted beach wi damage any fabric it touches. 3. Start the washer. Beach wi be diuted automaticay during wash part of cyce. NOTE: Do not add a-fabric beach to the dispenser. The dispenser can cog. Sef-ceaning (on some modes) int fiter The int fiter at the bottom of the washer basket ceans itsef. During agitation, wash and rinse water pass over the fiter, separating the int from the water. The int is then spun away from the fiter and out of the system during the spin part of the cyce. If your washer drains into a tub, remove any int coected in the tub or strainer. Manua cean int fiter (on some modes) Cean the fiter at the bottom of the agitator after every oad for the best fitering resuts. To cean: 1. Lift off the agitator barre. 2. Wash or wipe the fiter cean in the bottom of the agitator barre. The fiter is not removabe. 3. Repace agitator barre and snap into pace. 10 Sef&eaning int fiter Basket interior Agitator barre Manua cean int fiter

11 Laundry Tips In This Section Page Bafore you wash Removing stains Watar usage guide Using aundry aids Washing epecia-care items Page Soving Isundaring probems Caring for your washer Saving energy Winterizing your washer This section reviews proper aundering techniques, gives you additiona washing information and discusses soutions to common aundering probems. Before you wash Preparing cothes for washing Empty pockets and turn them inside out. Turn down cuffs and brush away int and dirt. Turn synthetic knits inside out to avoid piing. Cose zippers, snaps and hooks to avoid snagging other items. Remove pins, buckes and other hard objects to avoid scratching the washer interior. Remove unwashabe trim and ornaments. Tie strings and sashes so they wi not tange. Mend tears, oose hems and seams. Treat spots and stains. (See page 12 for pretreatment and stain remova information.) Stained or wet garments shoud be washed prompty for best resuts. Sorting Separate dark from ight coors, coorfast from non-coorfast. Sort by fabric and construction (sturdy cottons, knits, deicate items). Separate heaviy soied items from ighty soied ones even it they woud normay be washed together. Separate int givers (towes, chenie) from int takers (corduroy, synthetics, permanent press). When possibe, turn int givers inside out. Loading Load washer propery. Overoading or packing can: -cause poor ceaning. -increase wrinking. -create excessive int. -wear out items faster (because of piing).. Load by the amount of space items take up, not by their weight.. Drop items into washer oosey. Fi to the top of the basket, but do not pack or wrap items around the agitator. Items shoud move easiy through wash water for best ceaning and wrinke-free resuts. Watch for roover. Items shoud sink and reappear ater. Mix arge and sma items in each oad. Load eveny to maintain washer baance. An offbaance oad can make the machine vibrate during spin. To reduce wrinking, permanent press and synthetic knits shoud have more room to move in the water than heavy items (towes, jeans). 11

12 Loading suggestions For these suggested fu-sized oads, use the highest water eve setting. LARGE CAPACITY WASHERS Heavy Work Cothes Permanent Press Mixed Load Towes 2 pair-pants 3 shirts 3 pair jeans 1 covera Knits 2 sacks 2 bouses 4 shirts 1 doube sheet 1 tabecoth 1 dress 1 bouse 2 sacks 3 shirts 2 piowcases 2 doube or 1 king size sheet 4 piowcases 6 T-shirts 6 pair shorts 2 shirts 2 bouses 6 handkerchiefs 8 bath towes 8 hand towes 10 wash coths 1 bathmat Deicate8 2 camisoes 4 sips 4 panties 4 tops 2 bras 2 dresses 2 nighties SUPER CAPACITY WASHERS Heavy Work Cothes 3 pair pants 3 shirts 4 pair jeans 1 covera 1 overa Knits 3 sacks 3 bouses 6 shirts 4 tops 4 dresses Removing stains Permanent Press 2 doube or 1 king size sheet 1 tabecoth 1 dress 1 bouse 2 sacks 3 shirts 2 piowcases Stained, heaviy soied or greasy items may need to be pre-washed or soaked for best resuts. Soaking heps remove protein-type stains ike bood, mik, or grass. Pre-washing heps oosen soi before washing. Pre-washing or soaking Use warm water for soaking or pre-washing stained aundry. Hot water can set stains. Stain remova rues Most stains are easier to remove when they are fresh. Od or set stains may not come out. Foow package directions for pretreatment products. Before treating any stain, find out What kind of stain it is. 2. What kind of fabric it is and if it is coorfast (check abe). 12 Mixed Loed 3 doube sheets 4 piowcases 8 T-shirts 6 pair shorts 2 shirts 2 bouses 6 handkerchiefs Towes 10 bath towes 10 hand towes 14 wash coths 1 bathmat Deicate8 3 camisoes 1 quited robe 4 sips 4 panties 2 bras 2 nighties 1 baby s dress 3. How od the stain is (washing and drying can set some stains). Start with cod or warm water. Hot water can set some stains. When beach is recommended, use a beach that is safe for the fabric. Diute chorine beach. Test stain removers on an inside seam or hidden corner of the item to see if the coor is removed. Put the stained area face down on a paper towe or white coth. Appy the stain remover to the back of the stain. This can force the stain off the fabric instead of through it. Meat tenderizer or enzyme presoaks hep break down some protein stains so they are easier to remove. Use non-fammabe dry ceaning sovents in a we-ventiated room.

13 Stain remova guide STAIN Acohoic beverage TO REMOVE These stains turn brown with age, so treat immediatey. Sponge or soak fresh stains with cod water. Wash. If stain remains, soak 15 minutes in a soution of ukewarm water, iquid detergent and a few drops of white vinegar. Rinse and rewash. Bood Rinse immediatey or soak in cod water with enzyme presoak for 30 minutes OI onger. Rinse. Rub detergent into any remaining stains. Rinse. If stain remains, put a few drops of 3% hydrogen peroxide on stain for 3-5 minutes. Rinse thoroughy. Wash. Catsup or Sponge immediatey with a non-fammabe dry ceaning sovent or appy a tomato prewash soi and stain remover. Rinse. Wash. If stain remains, appy a iquid products detergent to stain or soak in warm water with an enzyme presoak. Rewash. Chewing Use ice to make gum hard. Scrape off what you can. Sponge with a nongum fammabe dry ceaning sovent. Let dry. Wash. Chocoate or Sponge immediatey with a non-fammabe dry ceaning sovent or appy a coffee prewash soi and stain remover. Rinse. Wash. If stain remains, appy a iquid detergent to stain or soak in warm water with an enzyme presoak. Rewash. Crayon and Scrape off excess with a du knife. Pace fabric between two botters or facia cande wax tissue. Press with warm iron. Remove coor stain with non-fammabe dry ceaning sovent. Hand wash unti stain is gone, then machine aunder in the hottest water safe for fabric. If fu oad is crayon stained, take to ceaners or coin-op dry ceaning machine. Cream, mik Sponge with a non-fammabe dry ceaning sovent, or a prewash soi and stain or ice cream remover. Rinse. Wash. Repeat if necessary. If stain remains, appy a few drops of iquid detergent and a few drops of ammonia. Bot dry and rinse. If stain remains, soak in an enzyme presoak. Wash. Deodorants Lght stain: Treat with iquid detergent or your reguar aundry detergent. Wast and anti- in hottest water safe for fabric. perspirants Heavy stan: Pace face down on towe and treat with a paste of ammonia and a-fabric beach. Let stand for 30 minutes. Wash in hottest water safe for fabric. Fat, grease or oi See Warning on page 3, then remove stains using one of the methods beow. Aways hand wash before machine aundering. Use pretreatment stain remover. Foow abe directions. Wash in hottest water safe for fabric. Use tacum powder to absorb as much grease as possibe. Sponge with a non-fammabe dry ceaning sovent. Rinse. Wash. Treat with iquid detergent or rub a detergent paste on the stain. Wash using hottest water safe for fabric. Fruit stains Fresh stans: Soak immediatey in coo water. Wash. If stain remains, cover area with a paste made of a-fabric beach, a few drops of hot water and a few drops of ammonia. Wait 15 to 30 minutes. Wash. Od stans: Sponge with white vinegar. Rinse. Repeat procedure for fresh stains. Grass or green vegetabes Soak in warm or cod water with an enzyme presoak for at east 30 minutes, or sponge with denatured acoho. Wash in water temperature and beach safe for the fabric. For coored fabrics, check coorfastness before appying acoho. For acetate, sponge with a non-fammabe dry ceaning sovent. If stain remains, beach with 3% hydrogen peroxide. Rinse. Rewash.

14 STAIN Ink or bapoint pen ink TO REMOVE Spray stain with an aeroso hair spray or rubbing acoho. Sponge stain continuousy unti a beeding stops. Let dry. Repeat if necessary. Wash. If stain remains, beach if safe for fabric. (India and other indeibe inks are amost impossibe to remove competey.) Iron or rust Coored or non-coorfast items: Appy emon juice and sat. Pace in the sun to dry. Rinse thoroughy. Repeat if necessary. White or coorfast ttems: Try a rust remover. Test first on inside seam or hem. Some rust removers are not washer safe. Foow package directions. Lipstick Appy non-fammabe dry ceaning sovent or prewash soi and stain remover. Bot with absorbent materia. Repeat if necessary. Rinse. If stain sti remains, rub with iquid detergent. Wash. Meat juice, Scrape off excess with a du knife. Soak in cod or warm water with enzyme egg presoak at east 30 minutes. Treat grease stains with a non-fammabe dry ceaning sovent. Wash. Midew Mustard Paint Perspiration Scorch Soft drinks Wash in hottest water safe for fabric. If stain remains, soak in warm water and an a-fabric beach for 15 to 30 minutes. Rewash. (Od midew stains are amost impossibe to remove. Midew fungus destroys or weakens fabrics.) An aternative to beach is to treat with sat and emon juice and dry in direct sunight. Rinse and rewash. Midew may form if wet or damp aundry remains in your washer for extended periods of time. To prevent midew, prompty dry aundry after washing. Treat immediatey. Scrape off excess mustard. Sponge with a non-fammabe dry ceaning sovent or a prewash soi and stain remover. Rinse. Work iquid detergent and a few drops of vinegar into stain. Rinse. If stain remains, appy 3% hydrogen peroxide. Rinse and wash. Aways hand wash before machine aundering. Water base: Treat stains whie sti wet. These paints cannot be removed after they have dried. Rinse in warm water to fush out paint, sponge with a nonfammabe dry ceaning sovent. Rinse. Wash. 011 base: Scrape off fresh paint. Sponge with a non-fammabe dry ceaning sovent or treat stain with recommended thinner. Whie stain is sti wet with sovent, rub iquid detergent into it. Wash with hottest water safe for fabric. Remove stains before ironing. Perspiration stains may weaken fabric. Wash or sponge stain thoroughy with detergent and warm water. If perspiration has changed the coor of the fabric, use one of the foowing treatments: Fresh stans: Appy ammonia to stain. Rinse. Launder to remove ammonia odor. Od stans: odor. Appy white vinegar to stain. Rinse. Launder to remove vinegar Severe scorch cannot be removed. Wet stain with 3% hydrogen peroxide. Cover with a dry coth and press with an iron as hot as is safe for fabric. Rinse we. Wash. OR Wet with emon juice and spread in the sun to dry. Wash. Sponge immediatey with cod water and acoho. Heat and detergent may set stain. 14

15 Water usage guide Water WASH HOT I 30 F (54 C) or above WARM F (32-44%) COLD F (21-32 C) temperature RINSE USE FOR COMMENTS COLD Sturdy whites and Gives best ceaning for heavy coorfast pastes sois. Diapers Removes ois, perspiration, greasy Heavy sois sois and stains. Work cothes Prevents graying and yeowing. Normay soied permanent Heps remove wrinkes from press and synthetic items permanent press. COLD Light and moderate sois Safe for most fabric finishes. Dark or non-coorfast Less fading and dye beeding. coors Reduces wrinking. Knits and deicate fabrics Nyons, poyesters, acryics, siks, wooens Prewash, soak COLD Rinsing, for a fabrics Saves hot water. Extra sensitive coors Less effective ceaning than hot or (non-coorfast) warm water. Very ighty soied items Use iquid detergent, or dissove Moderatey soied items if powdered detergent in warm water extra detergent is added before adding to cod wash water. Pretreat spots, stains and heavy or greasy sois. Use ongest wash time in cyce seected. To check your hot water temperature with a candy or cooking thermometer: 1. Fi a pan with the hottest water avaiabe from the faucet that wi fi your washer. 2. Pace a candy or cooking thermometer in water to check the temperature. If you do not have a faucet at your wash site, coect water from the faucet cosest to your washer. NOTE: In wash water temperatures coder than 70 F (21 C): Detergents do not dissove we. Sois are difficut to remove. Some fabrics wi retain wear wrinkes and may have increased piing. Water hardness Many poor washing resuts can be traced to wash water hardness. To check your water hardness: City water-ask your city water company. We water-ca your Cooperative Extension Service. Ask for the minera content in grains-per-gaon or parts-per-miion. If your water is 9 or more grains-per-gaon or more than 153 parts-per-miion: Consider instaing a water softener. Use more detergent. Use a packaged water conditioner. Do not use soap. 15

16 Using aundry aids Foow package instructions when using aundry aids. (See Removing Stains on page 12, for more information.) Chorine beach Use beach dispenser if your machine has one. If your washer does not have a beach dispenser: 1. Let the washer fi and begin agitating the oad. 2. Diute measured beach in 1 quart (1L) of water. 3. Pour beach around agitator, not directy on oad. Foow directions on care abes. Do not use chorine beach on woo, sik, spandex, acetates or some fame-retardant fabrics. Measure beach. Do not guess. Never use more than 1 cup (250 ml) for a fu oad. Add beach to wash cyce so it can be removed in the rinse cyce. When soaking with chorine beach, add detergent to soak water. NOTE: Undiuted beach wi damage any fabric it touches. The damage appears as rips, hoes, tears or coor oss and may not show up unti severa washings ater. A-fabric beach Powdered or iquid a-fabric beach may be used on a types of fabrics. Do not use a-fabric beach in the beach dispenser because it may cog. Detergent Using too itte detergent is a common cause of aundry probems. Foow manufacturer s directions. Measure accuratey, especiay when using utra detergents. Package directions are usuay based on: -moderate water hardness (4-6 grains) -ighty soied items -norma mix oads. Use more detergent for: -hard water -cooer wash water -fu oads -heaviy soied items. Do not judge the amount of detergent to use by the amount of suds in the machine. Low sudsing detergents do not create as many suds as norma sudsing detergents. If the recommended amount of norma sudsing detergent creates too many suds, or suds are present in the rinse water, try a ow sudsing detergent. Fabric softeners Add diuted fabric softener ony in the fina rinse. Aways diute fabric softeners with /z to 1 cup (125 to 250 ml) warm water. Undiuted fabric softener can stain fabrics. Fabric softeners shoud not be mixed with other aundry products because greasy stains may form. If stains form, remove by wetting the stain and rubbing with iquid detergent or a bar of soap. Rewash the stained item. Too much fabric softener can make some items (diapers and towes) non-absorbent. If this happens, use ess fabric softener or do not use it every time. Fire or Exposon Hazard Store fammabe sovents or iquids away from your washer. Dry ceaning sovents or fuids shoud not be put directy into your washer. Items treated with sovents shoud be rinsed and air dried before washing in your washer. The fumes from these substances can create a fire hazard or exposion. Persona InJuv Hazard Never use chorine beach with ammonia or acids. Hazardous fumes can form. Keep stain remova products out of the reach of chidren... preferaby in a ocked cabinet. 16

17 Washing specia-care items Most garments and househod texties have care abes with aundering instructions. Aways foow abe directions when they are avaiabe. Genera washing instructions for some specia washabes are incuded in this section. Bankets, washabe Pretreat spots and stains. Seect water temperature, cyce, and time wooens according to the type of banket or wooen being washed. Two rinses may be necessary. If manufacturer recommends machine washing: Eectric bankets, 1. Measure banket or trace outine of garment before washing. wooen bankets, 2. Add mid detergent to washer. Fi and agitate briefy to dissove washabe wooen garments detergent. 3. Stop washer. Load items eveny around agitator. Soak 10 to 15 minutes. 4. Set Cyce Contro Knob to Drain and Spin. Start washer. Spin 1 to 2 minutes. 5. Fi washer for fina rinse. Stop washer. Aow to soak. 6. Set Cyce Contro Knob to Drain and Spin. Start washer. Aow washer to finish cyce. 7. Lay item on fat surface and bock by genty stretching to origina measurement. Wooens tend to shrink more the first time they are washed. This is norma. Curtains, sipcovers Diapers drapes, Wash sma oads. Crowding wi cause wrinking. 1. Shake or vacuum to remove oose dirt. 2. Wash foowing manufacturer s instructions. NOTE: Sun-damaged curtains and draperies wi tear whether hand or machine washed. Repace sipcovers whie sti sighty damp. They wi dry to fit tighty. When using chorine beach for soaking, add detergent to oad. Avoid overuse of fabric softeners. Absorbency wi be reduced. 1. Rinse immediatey. Soak in a soution of ukewarm water and a sma amount of detergent unti you are ready to wash them. You may wish to use beach or a specia soaking product when soaking. 2. Spin excess water from diapers before washing. 3. Wash diapers as you woud wash white cottons and inens. Eastic, spandex Eastic picks up oi from the body. Oi can damage eastic. Wash often to hep reduce the damage. Use warm water and sufficient detergent to remove ois. Fame-retardant cothing Items wi be ceary abeed as fame-retardant. instructions to retain fame retardant quaities. Foow manufacturer s continued on next page 17

18 Fibergass materias Knits Piows, toys Pastic, items Quits, stuffed rubber bedspreads Do not wash fibergass materias in your washer. Gass partices coud stick to the next oad and cause skin irritation. Knits are comfortabe to wear because they stretch. However, this means that knits are more ikey to be stretched and damaged when washed (especiay buky knits). Knits made of synthetic fabrics such as poyester, nyon, and acryic tend to keep their origina shape more than a knit made of cotton or ramie. 1. Cose zippers, fasten hooks and eyes to prevent snagging. 2. Wash sma oads to reduce piing and int. Washing feather piows is not recommended uness they are dryer dried. 1. Add detergent; partiay fi washer with water; agitate unti detergent is dissoved. 2. Pace two piows on opposite sides of the agitator to baance the oad. 3. Aow washer to fi competey and continue through the cyce. 4. Stop the washer occasionay to press air from item(s) being washed. Treat as deicate items. Wash in warm water. Wash sma items in a mesh bag. Do not wash cotton-fied comforters uness they are quited or stitched; tucked cotton batting tends to sip and become umpy. Scatter rugs 1. Shake or vacuum to remove oose dirt. 2. Wash more than one sma rug at a time. If you wash ony one rug, add bath towes to baance the oad. A arger rug shoud be distributed around the agitator to baance the oad. Snowsuits, etc. jackets, 1. Wash ony one or two items at a time. Load eveny around the agitator. 2. Stop the washer occasionay to press air from item(s) being washed. 3. Two rinses may be necessary. 18

19 Soving aundering probems Most aundering probems are easiy soved if you understand the cause. Check the foowing ist for probems you may have and possibe causes. If you need additiona hep, check the Assistance or Service section of this book. PROBLEM Brown, stains yeow CAUSE Chorine staining Iron in water heater or pipes Iron and manganese in water Dye transfer Improper sorting Load not immediatey removed from washer after end of cyce Gray whites, dingy coors Greasy spots ooking Improper sorting. Water temperature too ow Not enough detergent Using soap in very hard water (use detergent if you have hard water) Undiuted fabric softener or fabric softener poured directy on oad Fabric softener in wash water Not enough detergent Lint Improper sorting Paper or tissue in pockets Piing being mistaken for int Overoading Not enough detergent Cogged int fiter Load too wet after spin Shrinking Cod rinses Lid is opened before spinning is competed Fabric type (some knits stretch during manufacturing-aundering returns fabric to origina size) Care abe directions not foowed Snags, rips, hoes Items damaged before washing Misuse of chorine beach Sharp artices not removed from pockets Overoading Fasteners not fastened Stiff, rough fabrics Using soap in very hard water (use detergent if you have hard water) (usuay cottons) Not enough detergent Line drying Twisting, tanging Overoading Improper oading (do not wrap arge items around agitator) Wrinking Overoading Load not immediatey removed from washer after end of cyce Improper rinse temperature Cyce seection is incorrect (based on fabric type) Yeow areas Water temperature too ow (from body ois) Not enough detergent 19

20 Caring for your washer To keep your washer ooking ike new: Wipe up detergent, beach or other spis with a soft, damp coth as they occur. Sharp or heavy objects shoud not be put on or in the washer. Check pockets for bots, nuts, etc. If the washer interior needs ceaning, put 1 cup (250 ml) of chorine beach and 2 cups (500 ml) of detergent in the washer. Run through a compete cyce using hot water. When removing hard water deposits, use ony ceaners abeed as being washer safe. After tinting or dyeing, put chorine beach and detergent in the washer. Run through a compete cyce using hot water to remove excess dye or tint. If staining occurs on foowing oads, repeat the orocess. Saving energy Use hot water ony when washing heavy, greasy sois or whites.. Use cod rinses. Wash fu oads. Use ower water eves when washing sma oads. Avoid rewashing. Use enough detergent; pretreat stains or heavy sois; do not overoad: use the cyces and wash times recommended for the fabric and soi; sort propery. Use your washer during off-peak hoursusuay eary morning and ate evening. (Ask your power company.) Winterizing your washer Insta and store your washer where it wi not To use the washer aaan... freeze. Because-some water stays in the 1. Fush water pipes and hoses. washer, freezing can damage it. If your washer 2. Reconnect water inet hoses. is stored or moved during freezing weather, winterize it. 3. Turn on both water faucets. 1. Shut off both water faucets. Disconnect the 4. Run the washer through a compete cyce drain water inet hoses. with 1 cup (250 ml) of detergent to cean out antifreeze. 2. Put 1 quart (1 L) of R.V.-type antifreeze in the basket. 3. Run washer on a drain and spin setting for about 30 seconds (see page 8) to mix antifreeze and water. 20

21 If You Need Assistance Or Service This section is designed to hep you save the cost of a service ca. Part 1 of this section outines possibe probems, their causes, and actions you can take to sove each probem. Parts 2 and 3 te you what to do if you sti need assistance or service. When caing our Consumer Assistance Center for hep or caing for senrice, pease provide a detaied description of the probem, your appiance s compete mode and seria numbers and the purchase date. (See page 2.) This information wi hep us respond propery to your request. 1. Before caing for assistance... Performance probems often resut from itte things you can find and fix without toos of any kind. Pease check the chart beow for probems you can fix. It coud save you the cost of a service ca. PROBLEM POSSIBLE CAUSE SOLUTION Washer wi Power cord is not pugged into a Firmy pug power cord into a ive circuit not fi ive circuit with proper votage. with proper votage. Check circuit votage at your home s fuse/circuit breaker box. Househod fuse has bown or Repace fuse with a time-deay fuse of circuit breaker has tripped. A time- the correct capacity. Reset circuit deay fuse has not been used. breaker. Both hot and cod water faucets Open both faucets. are not open. Water suppy hoses are kinked. Cyce contro knob is not set or pued out. Straighten hoses. Set cyce contro knob and pu out firmy. Washer does Lid is open. Cose id firmy. not spin Power cord is not pugged into a Firmy pug power cord into a ive circuit ive circuit with proper votage. with proper votage. Check circuit votage at your home s fuse/circuit breaker box. Househod fuse has bown or Repace fuse with a time-deay fuse of circuit breaker has tripped. A time- the correct capacity. Reset circuit deay fuse has not been used. breaker. Washer stops Washer pauses briefy at different Wait a minute to see if washer starts during a cyce times in each cyce. These pauses cyce again. are norma. Power cord is not pugged into a ive circuit with proper votage. Househod fuse has bown or circuit breaker has tripped. A timedeay fuse has not been used. Firmy pug power cord into a ive circuit with proper votage. Check circuit votage at your home s fuse/circuit breaker box. Repace fuse with a time-deay fuse of the correct capacity. Reset circuit breaker. continued on next page 21

22 PROBLEM Washer fis and drains without running Washer drains during wash and rinse cyces, or water siphons out Drain hose is ower than the water eve in the washer. j-lie?y Set cyce contro knob on correct so that it is higher than the water eve in the washer. 2. If you need assistance... Ca Whrpoo Consumer Assistance Center teephone number. Dia free from anywhere In the U.S.: and tak with one of our trained consutants. The consutant can instruct you in how to obtain satisfactory operation from your appiance or, if service is necessary, recommend a quaified service company in your area. If you prefer, write to: Mr. Wiiam Cark Consumer Assistance Representative Whirpoo Corporation 2000 M-63 Benton Harbor, M Pease incude a daytime phone number in your correspondence. 3. If you need service... Whirpoo has a nationwide - /7 network of authorized WY WhirpooSM service ; acn.m.e companies. Whirpoo service technicians are trained to fufi the product warranty and provide after-warranty service, anywhere in the United States. To ocate the authorized Whirpoo service company in your area, ca our Consumer Assistance Center teephone number (see Step 2) or ook in your teephone directory Yeow Pages under: APPLIANCE-HOUSEHOLD- WASHING MACHINES 6 MUOR, SERVICE 6 REPAR DRYERS, SERVICE 6 REPAIR -Sea WhIrpoo Appancss or AJhorzed Whirpoo Sewiar (Emmpet XI2 Service Co.) - See: Whirpoo Appences or Authorized Whirpoo Sevcs (Exampkmz service Co.) 4. If you need FSP@ repacement parts... FSP is a registered trademark of Whirpoo Corporation for quaity parts. Look for this symbo of quaity whenever you need a repacement part for your Estate appiance. FSP repacement parts wi fit right and work right, because they are made to the same exacting specifications used to buid every new Estate appiance. To ocate FSP repacement parts in your area, refer to Step 3 above or ca the Whirpoo Consumer Assistance Center number in Step If you are not satisfied with how the probem was soved... Contact the Major Appiance Consumer Action Pane (MACAP). MACAP is a group of independent consumer experts that voices consumer views at the highest eves of the major appiance industry. Contact MACAP ony when the deaer, authorized servicer and Whirpoo have faied to resove your probem. Major Appiance Consumer Action Pane 20 North Wacker Drive Chicago, IL MACAP wi in turn inform us of your action. Gearcase assemby covered by your warranty 22

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24 Automatic ESTATE= Washer Warranty LENGTH OF WARRANTY WHIRLPOOL WILL PAY FOR FULL ONE-YEAR WARRANTY From Date of Purchase repacement parts and repair abor to correct defects in materias or workmanship. Service must be provided by an authorized WhirpooSM service company. LIMITED FIVE-Y EAR FSP repacement parts for any part of gearcase assemby if defec- WARRANTY tive in materias or workmanship. The gearcase assemby is shown From Date of Purchase in the Assistance or Service section of this book. FSP repacement parts for any top and id rust. LMmED TEN-Y EAR WARRANTY From Date of Purchase WHIRLPOOL WILL NOT PAY FOR FSP repacement of outer tub shoud it crack, or fai to contain water, due to defective materias or workmanship. A. Service cas to: 1. Correct the instaation of your washer. 2. Instruct you how to use your washer. 3. Repace house fuses or correct house wiring or pumbing. B. Repairs when your washer is used in other than norma, singe-famiy househod use. C. Pickup and deivery. Your washer is designed to be repaired in the home. D. Damage to your washer caused by accident, misuse, fire, food, acts of God or use of products not approved by Whirpoo. E. Any abor costs during the imited warranties. F. Repairs to parts or systems caused by unauthorized modifications made to the appiance. s-92 WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUEN- TIAL DAMAGES. Some states do not aow the excusion or imitation of incidenta or consequentia damages, so this imitation or excusion may not appy to you. This warranty gives you specific ega rights, and you may aso have other rights which vary from state to state. Outside the United States, a different warranty may aso appy. For detais, pease contact your authorized Whirpoo distributor or miitary exchange. If you need service, first see the Assistance or Service section of this book. After checking Assistance or Service, additiona hep can be found by caing our Consumer Assistance Center teephone number, , from anywhere in the U.S. PART NO IO&? WhIrpoo Registered TredcmarWSM Service Mark of Whirpoo Corporation Printed in U.S.A.