Everet's Laundry newsletter January 2024

Everet's Laundry Newsletter January 2024 Happy New Year!

Tidbits from the Washtub Since the beginning of December I've had lots of owners ask me if other people are slow. Rest assured you are not alone. Lots of owners have been talking about business being down in December and January. Don't forget Christmas and New Years were on Sundays and that will drop business down on those weekends, plus the usual cold, and the big snow storms have been on weekends so far this year. Add it all up and your business could be a little off this past month or two.   Don't forget that in this business you can't get too high with the highs and too low with the lows. You have to look at the middle. If you are following the four rules of running a successful laundromat (if you don't know them look them up on my blog) your business will be just fine!  Thanks for checking out the articles! Everet A Heck of A Nice Guy 262-505-3975 ekamikawa@washlaundry.com Featured Articles this Month   LG Small Chassis washer first impressions: LG-1st-impressions   Little Known Pump Error little-known-pump-error   How to Clear F21 Error Clearing-Maytag-f21-error

Art of Dirtiness

While stripping parts off an old large chassis washer so it could be scrapped, I noticed all the neat patterns and colors from the rust, soap, bleach, and whatever fungus was on these parts.
I used to be a professional photographer (photojournalist). but not too much on the art side.
So here is my attempt at art pictures of these patterns just for fun. Sometimes it is fun to see the beauty in areas you don't expect, whatever you define as "beauty." 
Ev
A Heck of A Nice Guy

Funny ways to get refunds

 

Huebsch & Maytag Fit Neptune Bases

Metal basses. Necessary to raise the height of doors off the ground to make it ergonomically easier for your customers, cleaners, and you to reach inside the machine.
They make the small washer appear bigger to the customer leading to more turns and revenue.
Bases also provide stability for machines and keep them from "walking out of position" because of vibration. For years the Maytag MAH21 "Neptune" and its previous versions were the dominate player in that space for laundry rooms and laundromats. Those machines are now 20-30 years old. There are plenty of them still out there, but parts are not available so fixing them is getting harder. You decide to bite the bullet and replace them with something. Do you have to replace the bases. In most cases yes, however there are a few where you might not have to. Lets put a few to the test: 

A Maytag MHN30 or MHN33, the replacements for the MAH21 do fit...sort of.

There are several companies that made several versions of bases for the MAH21.

Some of them have round cups where the feet of the machines sit to keep the machine from moving off the base. Some of these feet cups are square and some are rectangular. Some bases don't have any feet cups at all. Any of the above versions might have a small lip around the corners and edges of the base to help keep the machine on the base.

With MHN30 and MHN33 washers on MAH21 bases with the round feet cups, the feet on one side will fit fine...

...but the other side will not quite make it. The foot will sit on the edge of the cup. This can also happen with the square feet cups. Usually the rectangle cups are not a problem. This problem can be solved by taking a Dremel or grinder and cutting off the side wall of the circle or square until the foot rests inside the cup.

The MHN30 and MHN33 sit a little forward on the base but it works fine.

If your MAH21s were right up against your bulkhead the extra room behind the MHN30 and MHN33 should be a benefit for hoses to fit without having to unbolt and remount the base further away from the bulkhead.

The newer Maytags are the same width as the MAH21s.

How about a different make and model? Lets try a Huebsch
(note the same machine is also labeled a Speed Queen, Primus, Ipso)

Seems to fit width and depth!

Washer feet even sit perfectly inside the circle feet cups!

Please note that if your MAH21s were directly next to the bulkhead, your Alliance machine (under the names listed above) will fit,
but there might not be room for hoses. 

If you have a couple of inches behind the machine to the bulkhead, or can remove a panel from the inside of your panel to make more room then there is no need to get new bases.

We all like saving money! If you are needing to replace small chassis machines and have to move or replace the bases, it might behoove you for future equipment purchases to not have the new machines directly up against the bulkhead. Give an extra  inch or two. In five years when you replace that small chassis washer those couple of inches might save you some money having to replace a base or allowing you to choose another brand without having to replace a base too.

Ev
A Heck of A Nice Guy