New Speed Queen Models Coming Soon!

[appnut]

Hopefully I will be able to live long enough to see that last a generation end

 

[phillymatt53]

Pierre, I love the video you posted. If everyone was like me every new and used appliance store would look like that. Rows and rows of Heavy Duty EM top load washers.

I'd buy one of those machines if ever my faithful A482 got to the point of beyond repairing.
I liked the one with the variable load size water level.
(And, of course, you know I'd perform my "warm rinse" modification on it lol!!)
THAT is how they should make a damned washing machine!

 

[launderess]

Hopefully I will be able to live long enough to see that last a generation end

Happily for now there are still quite a lot of older used top loading washers with central beaters, many in good to great condition to be found. Online sites such as CL, H-Bid and other places do a brisk business in used top loaders.

Long as spares can be found for these appliances they will have a market. Happily in many stances spares can be found, but that's starting to be come difficult.

Top loading washing machines with central beaters came to dominate USA laundry market because models of old were often quite basic machines. Certainly by 1960's, 1970's or so when many of the exotic variations died out (GM pulsator and such) market was left with often robust but often mechanically simple washers. Yes, there were quibbles regarding performance and such, but overall those units could be kept going for years with some repairs.

 

[DADoES]

just found this video this is what i call a true washer

I noticed that the machine at 2:23 has a serial date of December 2023 (if I'm interpreting it correctly). The narrator says 1) SQs last for "25 or more years with very little maintenance," and that her business "goes through every single machine ... and fully refurbish them and put new parts on them." What new parts are needed on a 2yo SQ?

The machine at 3:17 has serial December 2015, but she says "it's a little bit of a newer model than the other one."

 

[Chetlaham]

I noticed that the machine at 2:23 has a serial date of December 2023 (if I'm interpreting it correctly). The narrator says 1) SQs last for "25 or more years with very little maintenance," and that her business "goes through every single machine ... and fully refurbish them and put new parts on them." What new parts are needed on a 2yo SQ?

The machine at 3:17 has serial December 2015, but she says "it's a little bit of a newer model than the other one."

Judging by how beat up and jabbed in the machine lid is at 2:49 these units may have come out of a very heavy use commercial or hard use on premises environment. It is possible that a new part like a knob, belt, switch, pump, timer, front panel, bleach dispenser, fabric softener dispenser or agitator were needed here and there.

Though it is just a guess as I don't know anything about the history of the machines featured in the video.

You are correct that the machine at 3:17 is from 2015 however minus the normal eco cycle the spacing on the load size selector knob it looks nearly identical to an AWN432 so I could see why see would mistaken it for a model that has been out since at least 2010.

 

[Chetlaham]

I'd buy one of those machines if ever my faithful A482 got to the point of beyond repairing.
I liked the one with the variable load size water level.
(And, of course, you know I'd perform my "warm rinse" modification on it lol!!)
THAT is how they should make a damned washing machine!

In a perfect world you would be able to buy one of these, brand new, built nearly identical to your dependable care.

Also no need for a warm rinse modification, Heavy Duty and Normal provide a warm rinse.

 

[Chetlaham]

Don't have a dog in this hunt, only top loading washer owns with central beater is vintage Maytag WW.

That being said people should give SQ credit where due if for nothing else their attempts to keep a dying niche appliance alive.

Top loading washing machines with central beaters died out in rest of world for some very good reasons. Outside of USA and perhaps few other places they are difficult to find.

It has been known since early part of prior century that h-axis washers deliver a better result with less wear on fabrics than top loading with central beaters. This is largely behind why early commercial/industrial "steam laundries" out of the gate went with h-axis washers.

Suppose energy regulations for laundry appliances are a debatable point, but never the less they exist and as such days of top loading washers with central beaters are clearly numbered. One suspects in another generation or so top loading washers with central beaters will have largely vanished from North American market.

Launderess, you are 100% correct. However I feel US front loaders lack two ingredients for success in the United States: Enzyme detergents that work in stages and onboard heaters activated in each cycle.

These two have made front loads a success elsewhere and make just as much sense in the United States if front load technology is to compete with vintage top load washers.

 

[launderess]

Judging by how beat up and jabbed in the machine lid is at 2:49 these units may have come out of a very heavy use commercial or hard use on premises environment. It is possible that a new part like a knob, belt, switch, pump, timer, front panel, bleach dispenser, fabric softener dispenser or agitator were needed here and there.

Though it is just a guess as I don't know anything about the history of the machines featured in the video.

You are correct that the machine at 3:17 is from 2015 however minus the normal eco cycle the spacing on the load size selector knob it looks nearly identical to an AWN432 so I could see why see would mistaken it for a model that has been out since at least 2010.

Newport News, Virginia and surrounding area has lots of US military/defence bases and also housing. There is also shipbuilding, coal and railroads. In short no small amount of multi-family or whatever housing which would have on premises laundry facilties.

Alliance Laundry is a huge contract supplier to US military both in States and abroad of laundry equipment. In keeping with how freely US government departments/agencies spend US ratepayer's money it is not unheard of for appliances barely a few years old to be packed up and sold as *surplus*, this often for pennies on dollar. Even NIB machines that never were used or installed are offloaded in same manner.

Enterprising persons have long known about and work the military surplus auctions or other sales. Massive job lots of all sorts can be had for very little money, which in turn can be marked up and sold on for profit.

Will bet the egg money those SQ appliances came from military housing or whatever. Appliance dealer is selling units for about $500, even they paid $200 per machine (including fetching and other costs) they still will make out fine.