Solid tub speed queens still in use!
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Let me just add the newb question here but is the tub really solid as in no perforation?
Hey Lorain
You better believe no holes, no perforations, SOLID TUB. And this one is in my Akron basment
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You better believe no holes, no perforations, SOLID TUB. And this one is in my Akron basment
Late Hanukkah present, Speed Queen Solid Tub
I pick it up tomorrow! The seller says it works, the mismatched dryer died and she convinced her husband to buy a matched set. It looks relatively BOL, the color doesn't concern me at all, 2 cycles and one temp knob.
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hippiedoll
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very cool!!!
thanks for sharing!!!
i think it would be cool to go to that town, where this laundromat is, and get a hotel there and take loads of dirty clothes to wash at that laundromat, to get the whole "speed queen" experience.
it would be kinda like a "wash-in" but at a laundromat!!
ha ha ha....
LOL....
;oD
thanks for sharing!!!
i think it would be cool to go to that town, where this laundromat is, and get a hotel there and take loads of dirty clothes to wash at that laundromat, to get the whole "speed queen" experience.
it would be kinda like a "wash-in" but at a laundromat!!
ha ha ha....
LOL....
;oD
Oh hippiedoll is it ever
I mean I never knew what laundry could be like until I got a Speed Queen. Never have my clothes come out so fresh, so clean, so delightfully soft. Coupled with the SQ dryer, it is washing nirvana if you ask me.
I mean I never knew what laundry could be like until I got a Speed Queen. Never have my clothes come out so fresh, so clean, so delightfully soft. Coupled with the SQ dryer, it is washing nirvana if you ask me.
yeah, but you have never experienced Speed Queen Clean until you have used a solid tub, and that over flow rinsing!....
and the sound of those solenoids banging!
checkout a few of these courtesy of our members collections...
and the sound of those solenoids banging!
checkout a few of these courtesy of our members collections...
They're beautiful and look brand new!! Reminds me of the hook 'em horns orange used a lot in the Austin Kwick Wash SQ laundramats when I was in school!!!
So how does it extract the water? Can someone give me the cliff notes on this machine as I have never seen one like it before
there are holes at the top of the tub just under the clothes guard. The spin/centrifical force sends the water up, over, and out the top of the tub to drain the tub and spin dry the clothes. The overflow rinse adds water as it agitates. the water overflows out the tub through those same top of tub holes and flushes out the suds and lint/scum. It does an overflow rinse at the end of the wash cycle and also the majority of the agitated deep rinse is an overflow rinse.
oldskool
Well-known member
Where....
is the laundromat located that still has these in operation as stated on the Facebook thread? Anyone know?
John
is the laundromat located that still has these in operation as stated on the Facebook thread? Anyone know?
John
gmmcnair
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Thanks for posting those. I remember using those solid tub Speed Queens many years ago when I used the Laundromat. They were fantastic machines; clean clothes every time and no lint or residue on anything.
The solid tub SQ washer my parents had when I was growing up did ok but washing for seven people and the smallish tub the SQ washer had was well let's just say I did laundry every day. That said they also relied on the sediment ejector tub to dump sand and sediment out of the tub. If one had a blocked tube like I had, well ya got sediment in the bottom of the tub. These washers were good for washing, extraction though was another story. The top sections of the load were extracted well but the load at the bottom not so much. The first SQ washer lasted 9 years and my parents bought that in 1964. The second SQ washer lasted 6 short years and it died by the transmission cracking in half. What a mess that was green goo and the belt snapped from the pump to the transmission. For the capacity that these machines had, and the water consumption, they were ok . My parents then replaced the SQ washer with a Maytag A510. That washer lasted til 2010. When we got the Maytag I was in love with the capacity, extraction and sand removal. It was a drastic improvement over the SQ washer. The SQ washer I have today I could have used way back then. Capacity is very good and washes well.
Well
I agree with some of that, disagree with some, but that's the story here at AW---hundreds of opinions!
Yes, they have a small tub and I could NOT get by if it was my only washer. A family of 3 or 4 should look at other machines, true. Even blue jeans are an overload. But for tons of sheets, dress pants, towels, shirts, etc, it does a great washing and rinsing. I have found extraction to be very good, just like Maytag/GE/Frigidaire of the era. Mine is a 73 or 74 model.
Sand and grit----yea, not the best. Normal dirt and lint goes away wonderfully, but the sediment can stay behind.
They are usually known for pretty good quality construction, mine is 39 years old, but any brand can put out a lemon now and then.
Water use---None is wasted in any outer tub., There's almost no spray rinsing, instead that water usage goes into overflowing rinses. The results are GREAT. So water use I'd call average.
Like I said, I couldn't get by with a 50's thru late 70's solid tub SQ as my only washer. But for a collector, with other machines for blankets and jackets and jeans, etc, it's wonderful.
Half agree, half disagree, that ain't bad! I like the wide range of experience and opinions here--and we all have differing needs and wants in our collections--
Mark
I agree with some of that, disagree with some, but that's the story here at AW---hundreds of opinions!
Yes, they have a small tub and I could NOT get by if it was my only washer. A family of 3 or 4 should look at other machines, true. Even blue jeans are an overload. But for tons of sheets, dress pants, towels, shirts, etc, it does a great washing and rinsing. I have found extraction to be very good, just like Maytag/GE/Frigidaire of the era. Mine is a 73 or 74 model.
Sand and grit----yea, not the best. Normal dirt and lint goes away wonderfully, but the sediment can stay behind.
They are usually known for pretty good quality construction, mine is 39 years old, but any brand can put out a lemon now and then.
Water use---None is wasted in any outer tub., There's almost no spray rinsing, instead that water usage goes into overflowing rinses. The results are GREAT. So water use I'd call average.
Like I said, I couldn't get by with a 50's thru late 70's solid tub SQ as my only washer. But for a collector, with other machines for blankets and jackets and jeans, etc, it's wonderful.
Half agree, half disagree, that ain't bad! I like the wide range of experience and opinions here--and we all have differing needs and wants in our collections--
Mark
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Hey there. I was looking through the forum to see if anyone had posted these same sort of machines recently as I'm still wondering what "Apple Green" looks like... and surprise, there's the very post I made. They came in white, Harvest Gold, Avocado, (we all know those) and also Sunset Orange (the ones pictured) and Apple Green. Curious.
So yes, this is at City Wide Coin Laundry on the north side of Coral Way, just east of 27th Avenue. It's right next to a Starbucks. Tiny little place and well, the whole thing is straight outa the 1960s. They have these and then there are about a dozen Ametek/Troy machines - the two sizes(?) of Big Boy including the one that seems to always be seen installed flush into a wall that I remember from my childhood, and the Mi-T-Boy. The nameplates on them say they were made 1968.
The dryers are also Speed Queen and appear to be really old ones that got modernized with digital timers, probably in the 80s.
The only more modern things in that laundromat: a row of Continental-Girbau machines (NOT the most recent ones though with the direct drive system and ridiculous high G force spin) and a lot of people with smartphones.
A domino table is also provided out front, because, well, this is Miami.
Hey there. I was looking through the forum to see if anyone had posted these same sort of machines recently as I'm still wondering what "Apple Green" looks like... and surprise, there's the very post I made. They came in white, Harvest Gold, Avocado, (we all know those) and also Sunset Orange (the ones pictured) and Apple Green. Curious.
So yes, this is at City Wide Coin Laundry on the north side of Coral Way, just east of 27th Avenue. It's right next to a Starbucks. Tiny little place and well, the whole thing is straight outa the 1960s. They have these and then there are about a dozen Ametek/Troy machines - the two sizes(?) of Big Boy including the one that seems to always be seen installed flush into a wall that I remember from my childhood, and the Mi-T-Boy. The nameplates on them say they were made 1968.
The dryers are also Speed Queen and appear to be really old ones that got modernized with digital timers, probably in the 80s.
The only more modern things in that laundromat: a row of Continental-Girbau machines (NOT the most recent ones though with the direct drive system and ridiculous high G force spin) and a lot of people with smartphones.
A domino table is also provided out front, because, well, this is Miami.
Love it
Seems like the little laundromat that time forgot. I miss those quaint places and the smell of Bold3, the sloshing of numerous SQ machines, and the massive tumble dryers that dried for a long time on one thin dime.
I also miss the days when detergents were powder and had lots of phosphates in them.
Seems like the little laundromat that time forgot. I miss those quaint places and the smell of Bold3, the sloshing of numerous SQ machines, and the massive tumble dryers that dried for a long time on one thin dime.
I also miss the days when detergents were powder and had lots of phosphates in them.
Sure. I'll do so when I walk over there to satisfy my overpriced coffee craving 
On an unrelated note: this PreSonus board can sometimes pick up distant relay noises from those Ametek machines due to a pretty stunningly weird power line ground loop problem in the neighborhood. The sound you get when one brakes from spin (energizing the wash motor while it's being oversped at a few thousand rpm) is.... fearsome. It's like a devil pig oinking. I suspect the problem is a compound of that the board's input impedance is super high and the janky snake cable we have may be missing a few grounding points! Thankfully the washing machine clicks and devil oinks disappear on any channel that has a microphone connected.
I only figured out what that noise was after watching one of the Mi-T-Boy machines running and noticing its drum reversals had the same cadence.
On an unrelated note: this PreSonus board can sometimes pick up distant relay noises from those Ametek machines due to a pretty stunningly weird power line ground loop problem in the neighborhood. The sound you get when one brakes from spin (energizing the wash motor while it's being oversped at a few thousand rpm) is.... fearsome. It's like a devil pig oinking. I suspect the problem is a compound of that the board's input impedance is super high and the janky snake cable we have may be missing a few grounding points! Thankfully the washing machine clicks and devil oinks disappear on any channel that has a microphone connected.
I only figured out what that noise was after watching one of the Mi-T-Boy machines running and noticing its drum reversals had the same cadence.
