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Croney

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6. I have a couple. I use them once in a while for scrubbing the knees of

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 01:05 PM

Nov 2020

kids' baseball pants, and I've tried making one a frottoir but it didn't sound very good. Wrong metal, no talent.

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Only One Factory in North America Still Makes Washboards, and They Are Flying Off of Shelves [View all] left-of-center2012 Nov 2020 OP

Interesting Sherman A1 Nov 2020 #1

Or Zydeco music Beachnutt Nov 2020 #2

I have one and a wash tub jpak Nov 2020 #3

I had one for years for clothes that I hand washed PatSeg Nov 2020 #4

I remember one of my great aunts had one of these made of glass instead of metal. Arkansas Granny Nov 2020 #5

I have a couple. I use them once in a while for scrubbing the knees of Croney Nov 2020 #6

My first one had a heavy, rippled glass marybourg Nov 2020 #7

"then they got more cheaply made and the scrubbing surface was galvanized" left-of-center2012 Nov 2020 #14

Update: The better, glass, ones were no longer available, marybourg Nov 2020 #16

Your point ? left-of-center2012 Nov 2020 #20

So I updated my statement in accord with your correction marybourg Nov 2020 #21

How do they make them fly? underpants Nov 2020 #8

Give them BumRushDaShow Nov 2020 #9

What in the world is a prepper stash? hvn_nbr_2 Nov 2020 #10

I've seen the kinds of people who self-identify as preppers. Aristus Nov 2020 #12

I took that to mean using the washboard to prep the clothes for the electric washer icwlmuscyia Nov 2020 #23

I have the Zinc King model onethatcares Nov 2020 #11

At the beginning of the pandemic when it was at it's first peak... Spazito Nov 2020 #13

I'm surprised they didn't mention.. luvs2sing Nov 2020 #15

Lehman's catalog. jeffreyi Nov 2020 #17

How about one of these Arthur_Frain Nov 2020 #18

Sometimes washing by hand is STILL the best way FakeNoose Nov 2020 #19

I want the fancy one that also wrings out the water nt intrepidity Nov 2020 #22

Here you go: Portable Stacked Washer and Dryer Combo Mini Manual Washing Machine csziggy Nov 2020 #24

I was thinking more like this: intrepidity Nov 2020 #25

Ah! A washboard with a mangle! csziggy Nov 2020 #27

Well thank you for that new vocabulary word! intrepidity Nov 2020 #29

I will definitely mangle you if you get a hand caught in it! csziggy Nov 2020 #30

Fortunately, if the right hand knows what the left is doing intrepidity Nov 2020 #31

The tub washing machine I had had an electric mangle csziggy Nov 2020 #32

Whoa! Those indeed are dangerous! intrepidity Nov 2020 #33

Yeah, hand cranked would take three people csziggy Nov 2020 #34

For me? Pressure washer! intrepidity Nov 2020 #36

Stephen king wrote a short story called "the mangler" bedazzled Nov 2020 #35

It would have been before Stephen King csziggy Nov 2020 #37

It does sound veddy British! bedazzled Nov 2020 #39

In Mexico I use a lavadero. A lavadero is a usually shallow, Roisin Ni Fiachra Nov 2020 #26

I should get one. Washer in my apt complex keeps breaking down... Wounded Bear Nov 2020 #28

I bet a lot of them are ordered to display on a wall rather than to actually use. nt Quixote1818 Nov 2020 #38

You can buy electric ones for your band on Etsy for $148.00. n/t zackymilly Nov 2020 #40