everythingold
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Solid tub Speed Queen
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It spins.
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with dispenser
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panel
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Solid Tub SQ has LONG been one of my dream machines. Congrats! We (or me) would also enjoy pics of the inner works, god knows the water level and pump system, etc, are very different configurations than all the perf tubs we are used to seeing.
Congratulations!
Solid Tub SQ has LONG been one of my dream machines. Congrats! We (or me) would also enjoy pics of the inner works, god knows the water level and pump system, etc, are very different configurations than all the perf tubs we are used to seeing.
Congratulations!
Oh Wow! You've found a gurgler! I love how the motor starts as soon as you start the machine and then there is a LOUD BANG when it starts to agitate. I was living in an apartment house with turquoise Speed Queens in the laundry room when Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke came out and there were parts of the song when the horns stop and it's just the beat of the keyboard, drums and guitar that made me think of the rhythm of the SQ when the water valve closed near the end of the long, loud flotation rinse and suddenly all you heard were the sounds of the motor, some water slopping over the side of the tub, the pump and that transmission clunking back and forth. That was short-lived until the next LOUD BANG to shift it into spin.
I hope you enjoy this and that nothing needs to be done to it, but if so, I hope you have the special angled tools needed to work on it without cutting your knuckles to shreds.
I hope you enjoy this and that nothing needs to be done to it, but if so, I hope you have the special angled tools needed to work on it without cutting your knuckles to shreds.
Thats a unique machine.....my first one ever had that control panel, but still timed fill....this should be a reversing motor version....odd to see the fiber board back panel, that has to be a first...
keep us posted on your progress....
keep us posted on your progress....
Nice find! This is a reversing motor SQ, so no banging here. The motor will start once the fill has completed, and it will also pause and reverse the motor for spin, similar to a Maytag.
Enjoy!!
Ben
Enjoy!!
Ben
Too new for funny noises. Thanks, Ben.
everythingold
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Yah I was pretty excited when I found it. I will let you know more tomorrow
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mrb627
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Coolness!
I have only had exposure to one of these reversing motor models once in my life. A very lucky find, indeed!
Malcolm
I have only had exposure to one of these reversing motor models once in my life. A very lucky find, indeed!
Malcolm
Does this machine lack a tub brake like the solenoid machines? The lids stayed locked well into the rinse fill because the tub was coasting to a stop.
This model has a tub brake. It was introduced when the reversing motor models were first produced.
Congrats on a great find! Is this a large capacity model? I can't tell from the pics.
Congrats on a great find! Is this a large capacity model? I can't tell from the pics.
The washer rules of luck have turned in your favor.
Everythingold, Now that is a washing machine. Best of Luck with it! I always appreciated the defunct "Otasco" hardware stores for selling honestly branded things like SQ laundry and Philco color TV's. If your city or town had one of these hardware stores in the past. There could be another one out there somewhere. You have one of the better ones. I see your SQ has the separate water level control alr2903
Everythingold, Now that is a washing machine. Best of Luck with it! I always appreciated the defunct "Otasco" hardware stores for selling honestly branded things like SQ laundry and Philco color TV's. If your city or town had one of these hardware stores in the past. There could be another one out there somewhere. You have one of the better ones. I see your SQ has the separate water level control alr2903
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Amazing...these machines were so plentiful here that it seems strange someone would feel they are sort of a rareity. I think there may still be a few of these around in Oklahoma people are using.
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I can't get it to agitate, it does not have a timed fill. Bad or clogged pressure switch? Matbe just needs to be reset.
It does not brake when it stops spinning. Here is a short video:
http://s1187.photobucket.com/user/Master_Dettam/media/VIDEO0022.mp4.html
Quick pic of the underneath.
It does not brake when it stops spinning. Here is a short video:
http://s1187.photobucket.com/user/Master_Dettam/media/VIDEO0022.mp4.html
Quick pic of the underneath.
it doesn't have the sort of brake that you may be thinking of, its more of a pad below the fluid drive I believe, that sort of puts a drag on it to slow it down....I have to recheck on mine.......most of these did not have a lid lock....
also that chamber that collects the water for the pressure switch maybe all mucked up and need cleaned out as well...check waterways going to it as well, is water flowing into it as it should?....
mine was a 1978 model....and had a porcelain solid tub...and mega heavy
also that chamber that collects the water for the pressure switch maybe all mucked up and need cleaned out as well...check waterways going to it as well, is water flowing into it as it should?....
mine was a 1978 model....and had a porcelain solid tub...and mega heavy
