Solid tub Speed Queen

[everythingold]

My first.

 

[everythingold]

It spins.

 

[everythingold]

with dispenser

 

[everythingold]

panel

 

[everythingold]

back. and a date.

 

[akronman]

Wow

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!

 

[tomturbomatic]

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.

 

[yogitunes]

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....

 

[swestoyz]

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

 

[washman]

Marvelous

Can you get some vids of it in operation?

 

[tomturbomatic]

Too new for funny noises. Thanks, Ben.

 

[everythingold]

Yah I was pretty excited when I found it. I will let you know more tomorrow
: )

 

[mrb627]

Coolness!

I have only had exposure to one of these reversing motor models once in my life. A very lucky find, indeed!

Malcolm

 

[tomturbomatic]

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.

 

[bigalsf]

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.

 

[alr2903]

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

 

[brucelucenta]

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.

 

[everythingold]

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.

 

[yogitunes]

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

 

[everythingold]

Thanks, I was wondering what that chamber was. I will look at it. I also got the knobs from a speed Queen set that are similar, but not a solid tub. Did SQ make solid tubs and perforated ones at the same time?

 

[everythingold]

I don't think it leaks either.

 

[washman]

That famous Arc-Cuate transmission

looks gorgeous.

 

[yogitunes]

your model and the one I had was running near the end of the 70's....right about when Raytheon took over and went to perforated tubs, they kept part of the control panel design for a while....

heres an early 80's design....the lid opens towards the back....but the control panel tilt and end caps are the same as yours....

 

[mrb627]

Spin Bearings

Sounds as if they are in perfect working order! Yeah!

Malcolm

 

[combo52]

Cool Solid Tub SQ

Congratulations Matt on your great find. It looks like one of the later SQ solid tub machines. If it has a lid lock it does not have much of a brake, just a little friction pad under the fluid drive clutch that Martin mentioned. If it is one of the later larger capacity machines without a lid lock it has a REAL BRAKE assembly mounted above the main spin drive pulley. SQ did not make these very long and diffidently had some serious problems with this design.

 

All that said, you and I are lucky enough to both know the same friend in Cleveland that probably knows this machine better than anyone I have ever met, give Bob a call.

 

[bigalsf]

Does your lid lock?

Hi, if my memory serves me correctly if your lid does not have a lock than it should definitely have a tub brake. You mentioned that it did not agitate. Did the motor try to turn? At the beginning of your video there is a hum which sounded a bit like a stuck motor?

If that is the case than the clutch may be stuck in the spin position, overcoming the brake spring and allowing the motor to turn in spin, but lock up when trying to agitate. Just a thought.

Great machine! They are built like tanks. I really wish I could find one here in the mountain states area. Hope you enjoy it. If you post the model # I'll be glad to check if I have the service literature and scan it to,you.

 

[everythingold]

No lid lock, just a switch.

 

[everythingold]

It is a reversing motor. It agitates when the belt is manually turned, so I am assuming that the pressure switch or something else is preventing it from going into agitation.

 

[yogitunes]

have you tried by-passing the pressure switch.....or using a hose and blowing into it to trigger agitation?

are there sections of the timer where the pressure switch is not used that would agitate no matter what....like during the one-minute increment during overflo rinse....

worth a shot....

 

[everythingold]

I have not done that yet, I am busy busy busy. But I will shortly!