h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Can someone Please invent a washing machine THAT squeezes the water out of the clothes etc after washing

It's called a mangle...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangle_(machine)

Used to have one on our old twin tub machine....


And that water wheel would be perfect for powering it, instead of granny.

http://i.pinimg.com/originals/56/60/74/566074c76534315621aff023e3524486.jpg

[BB]

BB and I are much the same age and I too remember a mangle over the twin tub. I think you had to lift it upwards into place. We had some large wooden handled tongs to reach into the drum and pull out the clothes, and there was a very distintive smell of warm clean washing mixed with a rubbery smell from the round disc you placed on top of the drum, or maybe the rubber seal of the lid?

Anyway Prof, when the cycle has washed and spun and then finishes, do another spin cycle if your machine has a separate programme just for that. You'd be suprised at how much difference it makes.

Hey, good advice!

I've seen washtubs with mangles - my great-aunt had one down in Mississippi. But I'm really old, like the Prof.

I to! Remember mangles our "outhouse" had the "long sink" set up in it - mangle "long gone" before our family moved there..