Damn, everybody, I sure appreciate all the prompt and thoughtful
responses.
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Originally Posted by Nords
If the smell comes out of the hot-water faucets around the house then it's a problem with the water heater-- maybe the anode rod.
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Not only does it not come out of the other hot-water faucets, I just
performed an experiment (so obvious I should have thought of it
before), and I can now say it's ONLY from running COLD water into
the machine. And no, the house's other cold faucets don't stink.
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If the smell comes out of all the house's water faucets then it's sulfur in the water, but I'm not sure how that would get into the water if you haven't already been living with it.
If there are dark spots or stains on the clothes coming out of the washer, then you have an oil leak that the bacteria think is yummy.
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Not a sulfury smell. Kinda a dead animal smell. No stains on clothes.
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Yeah, I have a thought. Ye gods, man, stop wasting your valuable troubleshooting time and buy yourself a Kenmore EnergyStar washing machine. You'll save enough electricity in the first few years to pay back the cost of replacing that Maytag monster. A front-loader will also spin the clothes hard enough to save a lot of dryer electricity/gas, too.
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Not a bad idea.
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When I was living in Mount Pleasant nearly 25 years ago, I'd leave every three months for a three-month submarine patrol. I'd drink clean water for those patrols since submarines distill water onboard and make pretty much the closest thing to pure water. After the patrol, for the first few days that I'd be back to my condo, the municipal water would smell/taste horribly of sulfur. After that I'd get used to it and stop noticing the difference... until after the next patrol.
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I've heard drinking distilled water is a really bad idea. It leaches
minerals out of your body.
As far as the other ideas ...
I'll check the hoses and inlet screens, but I doubt they're the problem.
Poundkey's idea about a "lint filter mounted on the outside of the tub"
sounds promising. But what do you mean by "lifting the top and looking
down" ?
Thanks folks ! I'm gonna start bringing all my problems here ...
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