Laundry: Washer deposits lint on athletic clothing

[Brian556]

My washin' machine deposits lint on my athletic clothing every time I do the laundry. Is there somewhere inside the washer that the lint could be hiding that I need to clean out?

[Duke87]

Your pockets?

If not that, then maybe the drain holes. This is an odd problem, usually lint accumulation is a drier thing.

[J N Winkler]

There may also be a lint filter in the washer that needs to be cleared out.  If your washer has one, it will probably be in the center post inside the washtub.

[Alps]

Eat more, get fat, no more athletic clothing

[US81]

Is it a front-loader? Look for a drain under the front panel. Lint can catch there, sometimes water backs up as well, so have a shop-vac or at least towels handy.

[SteveG1988]

Try running it with just bleach through a heavy duty cycle, that should flush out the system entirely, extra rinse will help

[hm insulators]

I prefer to drive to a public laundromat rather than use the one here at my apartment complex (the driers here are the tiniest damn things--lay a Campbell's soup can on its side to get an idea), but recently I learned from another tenant that one of our washers was getting black grease from a gasket all over the clothes!

[SteveG1988]

I prefer to drive to a public laundromat rather than use the one here at my apartment complex (the driers here are the tiniest damn things--lay a Campbell's soup can on its side to get an idea), but recently I learned from another tenant that one of our washers was getting black grease from a gasket all over the clothes!

Does it actively turn the water black, or is ti more like streaking on the clothes?