Some higher end models have a cast iron weights instead.
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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fun fact: Clothes washers actually do have concrete weights in them to help damper spin oscillations:
Source: The Secret Life of Machines
VonReposti@feddit.dk 19 hours ago
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Some cheaper models have two little people from New Jersey in them.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
WHOAO…HEYAH.
VonReposti@feddit.dk 16 hours ago
What a rip off.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yeah, you gotta keep stuffing lasagna and deli meats in your washing machine or else it’ll start to wobble.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Modern ranges/stoves do this also, and some of them even have the concrete blocks bolted to the outside where you can see them. Albeit on the back.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
My dishwasher does as well, it’s a model on wheels and for the first couple of weeks it left flakes of concrete everywhere when I moved it.
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Why don’t they just have a basin that fills with water? Would be much easier for moving.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Those who don’t know; have never moved.
papalonian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I moved recently and had some small filing cabinets that needed to be moved downstairs (and subsequently back upstairs). I was amazed at how heavy the near-empty, cheap sheet metal cabinets were, until I saw the giant paver stones bolted to the inside back wall to give them support when the drawers are open.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I guarantee the salespeople said the weight meant they were built well
TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As someone who moves filing cabinets a fair bit for my job, this is actually super common, I see it all the time