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  • Washing machine update

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    Wash" cycle with HE detergent to clean the drum and prepare the dispenser. Water Connection: Ensure the hot water inlet hose is connected to the hot supply and the cold to the cold. Reversed hoses can lead to warm rinse water and wrinkles. Water Supply: Make sure both hot and cold water faucets are fully turned on for proper fill. 2. Detergent and Additives HE Detergent: Only use HE or High-Efficiency detergent and measure it correctly. Excessive detergent or using non-HE detergent can cause excessive suds, poor cleaning, and very wet loads or error codes. Detergent Dosage: Follow the manufacturer's dosage based on soil level and load size. Use less detergent for very soft water. Fabric Softener: Measure carefully, dilute it, and add it only to the rinse cycle to avoid staining. Using too much on smaller loads can cause discoloration. Liquid Chlorine Bleach: Measure accurately and follow manufacturer's directions. Undiluted bleach will damage fabric. 3. Cycle and Settings Temperature: Select the warmest water safe for your fabric, checking garment care labels. Warm/hot water may be cooler than in previous washers. Soil Level (Wash Time): Select a suitable setting for your load. Use "Extra Heavy Soil Level" or "Extra Power" for heavily soiled items, and "Light Soil Level" for lighter soil to reduce tangling and wrinkling. Spin Speed: Faster speeds shorten drying time but may increase wrinkling. Slower speeds reduce wrinkling but leave loads damper. 4. Loading and Sorting Load Size: Do not overload. Items must move freely. Load items in loose, even heaps around the washplate. Sorting: Separate dark items from lights and whites to prevent dye transfer and a dingy appearance. 5. Maintenance Clean Washer Cycle: If clothes are not coming clean or the water level seems low, run a "Clean Washer cycle" approximately once per month. This re-calibrates the control to factory-set water levels and helps remove detergent/softener build-up. Use the recommended affresh Washer cleaner. If you are still having concerns, please reach out to us directly through any of these options: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmanaBrand/ Live Chat: https://www.amana.com/resources/contact-us.html (Tuesday - Friday, 8 AM - 6 PM ET) Customer Service USA: 1-866-616-2664 (Monday - Friday, 8 AM - 6 PM ET) When reaching out on Social Media (Facebook or Instagram), please reference the case number #25100304. We’re looking forward to hearing from you. Marie Q I have a better idea, Marie Q. Stop promoting disposable clothes washers and these stupid instructions about how to make an appliance function because it isn't capable of washing clothes for 3 years and a day wouldn't be needed. The best part is don't overload. No, definitely don't overload because government regulations limit the machine's fill level to tub 1/3 full.
  • Anyone want to take bets about the date the lights will go out at WTF A?

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  • November Primaries

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    It seems like yesterday.
  • Harry takes his act home...where...

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    They got evicted by the billionaire owner from his Cotswold estate after Meghan posted pictures of the estate on the Internet allowing the world to know the location and to identify the owner who leads a private life among having uninvited guests staying there, being rude to staff, the usual. Apparently, the owner did it because he thought he was doing his friend William a favor, so it was a con from the start. Surprise. He'll never be forgiven for betraying the agreement he personally made with the Queen "Sandrgham Summit" imo. He'll never be forgiven for slandering his family for something they didn't do "the Oprah interview". She? I don't have all day. She's a creature from Hell imo.
  • Sweet story for the day

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    Sweet story. Cute kitty!
  • Laughter is the best medicine

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    Link to video Some great quips in the one. I won't spoil it.
  • Weird weather

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    I couldn't image living in the upper MW climate. The weather seems like it would be brutal. Weather here is mild, maybe a little warmer than I expected. That could change in only another week. We're getting 10- 12 constant winds. The humidity is low. Late fall is great weather here. Hurricane season done. I'd like to say 2nd consecutive year in FL with no hurricanes but one did hit the panhandle. We got lucky again.
  • PharmaBro at the airport this morning?

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    Well, you have now. Lol.
  • Health concern

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    Thanks, Mark!
  • The lost 1961 documentary about Chicago

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    Me too
  • I’m guessing this is a risk Canadians are willing to take

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    WTF? BTW, it sucks when it's the middle of the night and you have G but no T. Ask me how I know.
  • Cruise fail

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    Living on a cruise ship is great if your idea of fun is getting infected with a serious disease and effectively quarantined or alternatively if your idea of fun is falling into the ocean and being left for dead.
  • Gas clothes dryer

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    The Bermuda Triangle phenomenon continues...last Friday the car wouldn't start. I thought I had noticed beginning a month or so ago that the battery didn't have as much "oomph" when I started the car, but shrugged it off. It was installed last December. I jumped it with the little portable jumper (those things are cool) and took it over to the mechanic. He checked it out and said it was fine, and that we need to take it out for longer drives occasionally to charge it up. He charged the battery, but didn't charge us. These independent guys are the best. And this morning, our vintage Melitta electric drip coffee maker that we got from Gevalia in 1990 (remember those deals?) gave up the ghost. You can still buy these units NIB on ebay. People must have gotten tons of them and stashed them away. Thing is, they last forever so they sat unused in someone's basement and now they are getting rid of them. The weird thing is that earlier this week I commented to Mr wtg that the Melitta electric was pretty amazing, but that I was going to keep one of the three Chemex pots that we have, just in case the Melitta crapped out. Prescient, I am.
  • 60 Minutes

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    Real investigative journalists FTW. Btw- interesting fact- you need no educational credentials to be a journalist. You don't need any to be an architect either. As it should be. But yes, come on, CBS is circling the drain. It was bought by a Zionist billionaire on behalf of the interests of the state of Israel. That's just a fact. How can it produce remotely objective journalism now? It can't. It's been one problem after another with CBS. I say CBS because it's "CBS" but it has nothing to do with the CBS we remember.
  • Thick as thieves

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    Good lord. And those are just sound bites. Their whole belief system is wacko.
  • This got me thinking

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  • God didn't give any people any particular land

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    Link to video
  • Meanwhile, in Liverpool

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    Interesting. I've never even been to Liverpool.
  • iPhone PSA

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    Maybe Apple and Android both suck. The problem is it doesn't end. There's always one more new thing you have to do to try to protect your privacy (and many people don't find this stuff easy to do in the first place). I was just thinking should I care that the police can watch you and everyone else in your home through the wall from 100 yards away with a piece of equipment that shows holographic images in real time by connecting to your router that is basically video taping you as you move through your WIFI signal waves? There's apparently a way you can stop this too. Who has time for all this? And like I said these situations never stop. I decided yes. It's worth caring about it only because it's creepy. But I'm not going to be able to stop a router from doing this even assuming it can be done. I decided I won't have WIFI. I want to replace my Moto Edge 2024. The screen is small. The battery is dying. I need something close to 7". I want OLED not AMOLED. I'm open to Apple (although much less after reading this), I'm interested in Magic OS. I don't what to buy. I'm not living without a "smart" phone. I'll probably just buy what I want in early '07, not worry about the $ (I haven't owned a flagship phone and that will change), and not worry all that much about privacy, because at the end of the day, there is none.
  • Feeling old yet?

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    I remember my sister and her friend getting up really early to watch Diana’s wedding.