{"id":2479,"date":"2014-11-04T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T11:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-11-04\/2479"},"modified":"2014-11-04T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T11:44:11","slug":"how-to-keep-a-japanese-washing-machine-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-11-04\/2479","title":{"rendered":"How To Keep a Japanese Washing Machine Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>For some reason, Japanese washing machines build up <span class='nobr'>a sludge<\/span> of some\nkind, out of sight, on the underside of the drum, and at some point it builds\nup enough that it starts randomly leaving small deposits on your clothes\nlike speckles of mud. This sort of defeats the purpose of washing them.<\/p>\n\n<p><span class='nobr'>\u6d17\u6fef\u6a5f<\/span>\u306e\u6c5a\u308c\u306f\u306a\u304b\u306a\u304b<span class='nobr'>\u6383\u9664<\/span>\u3084\u308a\u306b\u304f\u3044\u3067\u3059\u304c\u3001<a href='http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/gp\/product\/B000FQNNUI\/'>\u3053\u306e<span class='nobr'>\u5546\u54c1<\/span><\/a>\u3067<span class='nobr'>\u7c21\u5358<\/span>\u306b\u30d4\u30ab\u30d4\u30ab\u306b\u306a\u308a\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002400\u5186\u3060\u3051\u3067\u3001\u304b\u306a\u308a\u826f\u3044\u30d0\u30ea\u30e5\u30fc\u3067\u3059\u3002<\/p>\n\n<p>It's particularly maddening because the washer we have has special\ncleaning features meant to avoid this, but they apparently do not work.<\/p>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/s\/bubble-washer-cleaner.png\" width=\"214\" height=\"299\"\nclass=\"img_right raw\"\nid=\"ibubble_washer_cleaner\"\/>\n\n\n<p>I thought that I could take the thing apart myself to clean it, but it\nturns out that to get the drum out you need <span class='nobr'>a special<\/span> tool not available to\nthe general public (a <span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span><a\nhref='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H3BuV9BfV3M'>hammerless flange nut\nturner<\/a><span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span>), so at one point <span class='nobr'>I had<\/span> to have <span class='nobr'>a service<\/span> come in and clean it\n($200!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six months later the speckles were back, and not wanting to make <span class='nobr'>a habit<\/span> of paying $400\/year in maintenance\non the washer, <span class='nobr'>I gave<\/span> <a href='http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/gp\/product\/B000FQNNUI\/'>the $4 cleaner shown at right<\/a> <span class='nobr'>a try.<\/span> <span class='nobr'>It worked<\/span> fantastically.<\/p>\n\n<p>You fill the washer with hot water, pour this stuff in and agitate for <span class='nobr'>a few<\/span> minutes,\nthen let it sit overnight. <span class='nobr'>All the sludge<\/span> ends up floating in the water and it's really gross...\nbut after draining and running <span class='nobr'>a couple<\/span> of non-load loads, our speckles are gone. <span class='nobr'>At least<\/span> for now.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you live in Japan with a Japanese washer, this stuff is recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, Japanese washing machines build up a sludge of some kind, out of sight, on the underside of the drum, and at some point it builds up enough that it starts randomly leaving small deposits on your clothes like speckles of mud. This sort of defeats the purpose of washing them.<\/p> <p>\u6d17\u6fef\u6a5f\u306e\u6c5a\u308c\u306f\u306a\u304b\u306a\u304b\u6383\u9664\u3084\u308a\u306b\u304f\u3044\u3067\u3059\u304c\u3001\u3053\u306e\u5546\u54c1\u3067\u7c21\u5358\u306b\u30d4\u30ab\u30d4\u30ab\u306b\u306a\u308a\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002400\u5186\u3060\u3051\u3067\u3001\u304b\u306a\u308a\u826f\u3044\u30d0\u30ea\u30e5\u30fc\u3067\u3059\u3002<\/p> <p>It's particularly maddening because the washer we have has special cleaning features meant to avoid this, but they apparently do not work.<\/p> <p>I thought that I could take the thing apart myself to clean it, but it turns out that to get the drum out you [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}