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Rapid Washer
YourTube ^ | 7/22/11 | Kartographer

Posted on 07/22/2011 8:44:55 PM PDT by Kartographer

I just ran across this handy little device and wanted to share with my fellow Preppers:

This washer uses a technique of pushing and pulling the water through the clothes, without excess friction (which also reduces the wear on your clothes). This washer uses minimal water and because of the agitation motion, less soap. Use in a bucket, sink or tub. It also rinses your clothes using fresh water. A great item to have with your emergency and outdoor supplies.

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To: Kartographer

In Eastern bloc they had more advanced and compact devices using ultrasonic impulses to generate cavitation using about the same idea.
You can carry such a washing mashine in your pocket but it needs electric power to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Bl-7S7ZTU
Still popular in Ukraine.


21 posted on 07/22/2011 9:28:21 PM PDT by cunning_fish
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To: Kartographer

it would make an excellent butter churn too!


22 posted on 07/22/2011 9:29:55 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: bboop
Um, couldn’t you just use a toilet plunger? haha. Looks the same.

Yes, yes you can. I used a plunger for years to wash all our laundry.
It always gets the laundry cleaner, too. Because you keep plunging until it is clean. No time limit as a washing machine has.

23 posted on 07/22/2011 9:34:45 PM PDT by carenot (We'd rather hold on to the myth than fight for the reality)
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To: Kartographer

Talk about simple.

Thanks for the post.


24 posted on 07/22/2011 9:37:31 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: cunning_fish
Here
25 posted on 07/22/2011 9:54:33 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: familyop
But further, there are more ways than one to agitate laundry. Think about it. I know that we can come up with something better

Have you tried the Obama "soap and rain" method of agitation? Seal your clothes, some soap, several gallons of cold rainwater, a certain community organizer and two live badgers into a 55 gallon drum. Roll it all down the rockiest hill you can find. Rinse and repeat.

26 posted on 07/22/2011 9:59:33 PM PDT by piasa
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To: unkus

I suppose it is better than a flat rock, but you have to remember, Algore doesn’t want us to use soap. Phospates pollute the water supply, y’know. It’s not like HE’D have to smell us.


27 posted on 07/22/2011 10:00:46 PM PDT by jonascord (The Drug War Rapes the Constitution.)
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To: jonascord

LOL You’re right. I’d bet Algore doesn’t smell so good himself....and he probably uses the most expensive soap available.


28 posted on 07/22/2011 10:04:46 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: cunning_fish

I LOVE that Retona idea. I could use it for when I’m traveling for more than a week. Do you know how I could get my hands on one?


29 posted on 07/22/2011 11:21:11 PM PDT by winner3000 (ss)
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To: Kartographer

I’ve wanted one of those for a long time.


30 posted on 07/23/2011 12:04:09 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: winner3000

I think you have to go to Ukraine or Bulgaria to get it. You can order online as well, but risking to get disfunctional fake.
Best ones are older Russian-made 20 watt or more devices but they aren’t too much comfortable to stay near and still not near as effective as conventional washers.
Lower powerful or Chinese ones are about as useful as any tv-sale crap.


31 posted on 07/23/2011 12:06:41 AM PDT by cunning_fish
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To: familyop

I’ve washed clothes by hand many ways and over periods of time. It’s not the washing that’s so hard, it’s the wringing out. One of the best ways I’ve used is putting them in the bathtub and walking and stamping on them, got them very clean.

Used washboards, they work pretty well but are hard on the clothes and the hands.

It’s the wringing. Getting a wringer that can be attached to something is imperative. Lehmans has a set up with two square wash tubs, zinc or galvanized steel, on a little frame thing I think, and spigots at the bottom of the tubs which is a nice touch, and a wringer that can be fitted to a tub.

I’d like that set up, along with a Rapid Washer.


32 posted on 07/23/2011 12:08:19 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: familyop

I should have added - hub wants to make a washing machine run by foot - attached to a staionary bike, he got two or three old stationary exercise bikes to work with. So far he hasn’t done it yet, though. For a squeezer he has the drum from a laundrymat washing machine - steel with all those holes in it. His idea is to make a sort of flat plate that fits right inside the drum and a lever to push down on the clothes, and just press the water out of them.

All theory, so far.


33 posted on 07/23/2011 12:11:01 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Kartographer

Looks like a fine product based on a sound concept.

Also, Most Boring Video on Youtube!


34 posted on 07/23/2011 12:21:03 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: Kartographer

I can’t say for certain, but it seems that back in Grandma’s day, these were common, and made of sheetmetal (Tinned? Galvanized?) or copper and and sized to (fittingly) fit a washtub.

Not long after, the gas powered agitator washing machines became common.


35 posted on 07/23/2011 12:28:31 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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To: rawcatslyentist

self ping


36 posted on 07/23/2011 2:01:59 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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To: Kartographer

Ping.


37 posted on 07/23/2011 4:13:33 AM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
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To: Kartographer

bookmark


38 posted on 07/23/2011 5:11:27 AM PDT by Holen1 (Chesapeake Bay seasoning. "I put that **** on everything.")
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To: Kartographer

And exactly what makes this silly little thing better than an old-fashioned washboard? They’re still around, you know.


39 posted on 07/23/2011 5:44:25 AM PDT by jespasinthru (Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.)
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To: jespasinthru

For one thing it isn’t hard on your clothes as a wash board. A washboard you are rubbing your clothes against metal to clean them this ‘silly thing’ you are forcing the water through your clothes to clean them. Think about that.


40 posted on 07/23/2011 5:53:26 AM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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