Speed Queen Wringer

[harold]

<FONT COLOR= RED>Here is a Speed Queen Wringer Washer for $500.00 on ebay!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Speed-Queen-Ant...egoryZ12QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[polkanut]

While it does look very pristine, I think that $500 is more than a little out of line. At most, I would offer for $100, and I even feel that that is reaching a bit far.

 

[cleanteamofny]

$75.00 is a good starting bid, but I would pay up to $150.00 just because of the red agitator.

 

[laundromat]

fake

This model is not tghat old.Maybe 70's or 80's.It has the newer logo after the early 70's.The red agitator was put on off another machine.

 

[gansky1]

Way too much!

It does look nice - it's not the TOL model that would have had a SS tub, wash-timer and fancier trims. The red accents, agitator and logo put it about mid to late 60's according to my literature.

 

[liberator1509]

Memories...

That machine is very similar to the Speed Queen wringer washing machine my maternal Grandmother had back in Ireland. I guess she got it in the late 50s or early 60s, and my memories of it are from the mid 70s when I was very little! Her SQ had a metal agitator (with some sort of red-rubber top that marked the underside of the lid), and a different logo, but was otherwise identical to that machine...I wonder how big an export trade SQ had back then? I've never seen another wringer SQ in Ireland other than that one, only commerical automatics. Perhaps someone else has come across one, either in Ireland or the UK.

 

[laundromat]

the agitators from the era this wringer is were not red bakalite like this one,they were grey nickle or white plastic.

 

[gansky1]

Found it - early 70's 1972-75

Model FW3092 (w/pump) The agitator in this machine is red polypropylene - not bakelite and it's original to this machine.

 

[laundromat]

thanks Gansky.What year is it?I'm sure it must be from late 70's early 80's not the 50's or 60's.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I don't think he will have to worry a whole lot about arranging shipping.

We have a customer who would only use a SQ wringer washer. When her last one was giving out, the machines were not available here. She managed to locate one in a hardware store in Philadelphia in the late 80s or early 90s. Once John saw it, he said that it was not a genuine SQ, but something made maybe under license for SQ in another country.