I am lucky! I grew up using junk wringers. My step father was a junk dealer. This one is a super nice one I bought off of a lady's family 25 years ago when they put her in a nursing home. I had never seen one this nice and I still use it occasionally. Much easier to do in my basement with running water and a double tub laundry sink than it was when we were carrying all the water in and out!

I made my first flannel rag baby quilt last week. I wish I had listened to my friend, when she told me to take it to a laundrymat.... well, to make a long story short, it washed ok, but it broke my dryer. I've never seen so much lint in my life. My husband took the dryer apart and we are waiting on parts to arrive. I hope he can repair it. The quilt is cute and fluffy but still has lots of lint on it, so it will have to be washed again AT THE LAUNDRYMAT. In the meantime, it's raining here in FL from storm "Beryl" and dirty clothes are piling up.

I never, not ever, give a flannel quilt without washing it several times at the laundromat. If I have the time (rarely) I wash it a third time. I even put a note with the gift and tell that it might be wise to wash in a laundromat at lease once more and besides I use Warm and Natural and that large quilt is heavy when washed. I do have flannel ones that I wash in my machine, top loading gentle cycle and there is still some lint after 10 years. Hubby loved the flannel in winter and these are not rag ones.

I have a new front loader and there is no lint trap in the washing machine. I washed a rag quilt and the pump was so clogged it required a service call.

So be aware, some dimbulb thought making washing machines without accessible and servicable-by-homeowner washing machines was a good idea.

If I had known, I would NEVER have bought a machine like this. With a big family and dogs, I have had to routinely clear the accessible lint traps in all my other washing machines.

I warned the laundromat owner when I arrived with my rag quilt for washing. Yup, it linted up everything. The washer needed cleaning out after I used it and it clogged the lint filter on the dryer even though he cleaned it before I used the dryer. It cost me extra money to run the quilt through the dryer extra time as the clogged filter didn't allow it to fully dry the first time. Some laundromats are refusing to let people wash a rag quilt.

I put my rag quilt in the dryer before washing for 10 minutes or so. It reduces some of the lint. Wash twice, in cold water, then back to dryer. I check the dryer about every 20 minutes to get any lint that has accumulated.

Okay, okay, so now I have to go check to see if I have a lint trap on my new washer...obviously, I never checked on my old one either - LOL

Me too! Nothing on my machine says lint trap. The manual doesn't show one either.

The last rag quilt I made I washed in my washer. I did clean the dryer lint trap several times during drying it.