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Speed Queen model#:AD13
I think it is a 1971 model.
Here is the overflow rinse in progress.
Speed Queen model#:AD13
I think it is a 1971 model.
Here is the overflow rinse in progress.
Speed Queen?
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Patrick -- not to break from the thread topic, but what does the switch/button do at the top of the console? Suds return?
Ben
Ben
Love those Solid tub
SQ'S!! Never played with a reversing motor, I think I'd miss the solenoids for sure.
SQ'S!! Never played with a reversing motor, I think I'd miss the solenoids for sure.
Ben-
Yes, it's a suds saver switch.
Yes, it's a suds saver switch.
firedome
Well-known member
"My machine is not for sale"
Everything is for sale, it's just a matter of determining the price!
Everything is for sale, it's just a matter of determining the price!
Yes Roger-
I just know how people have a habit of not reading the posts and looking at the pictures only. Then when they get to the bottom they think I'm the seller since I posted the pictures. Crazy, huh?
You are right though, there is always a dollar amount for most everything!
Patrick
I just know how people have a habit of not reading the posts and looking at the pictures only. Then when they get to the bottom they think I'm the seller since I posted the pictures. Crazy, huh?
You are right though, there is always a dollar amount for most everything!
Patrick
SQ Solid Tub Washers
Residential models all went to a reversing motor by 1971 or slightly earlier, all SQ TLers have had reversing motors ever since.
Residential models all went to a reversing motor by 1971 or slightly earlier, all SQ TLers have had reversing motors ever since.
Could you take a close up photo of the controls on the control panel if it's not asking too much?
Thanks!
Love the padded dash... I've always had a soft spot in my heart for these machines, having spent so much time around the commercial versions of these machines at the local laundromat.
I would love to see and hear of these in person...
Thanks!
Love the padded dash... I've always had a soft spot in my heart for these machines, having spent so much time around the commercial versions of these machines at the local laundromat.
I would love to see and hear of these in person...
the real thing
This is the original photo I took of it.
This is the original photo I took of it.
My experience is only with the solenoid SQs so I would like to ask if when you start this machine, does the motor come on so it immediately starts the gurgling and snorting noises? If the motor does start at the beginning of the fill, is there the distinctive crashing noise of a giant solenoid slamming when the agitation begins?
My main experience with SQs was laundromat machines and they just always seemed like crude pieces of heavy equipment. The only SQ I saw in residential service belonged to a customer on my first paper route who had a pair of them in her kitchen. They were so old that they had the big medallion like a belly button on the front of the cabinet. Her husband worked for a furniture company and when they decided to get a washer & dryer, that's what the place sold so that's what they bought. It's hard to imagine having that noise in the kitchen, but I guess she did not do laundry at mealtimes.
My main experience with SQs was laundromat machines and they just always seemed like crude pieces of heavy equipment. The only SQ I saw in residential service belonged to a customer on my first paper route who had a pair of them in her kitchen. They were so old that they had the big medallion like a belly button on the front of the cabinet. Her husband worked for a furniture company and when they decided to get a washer & dryer, that's what the place sold so that's what they bought. It's hard to imagine having that noise in the kitchen, but I guess she did not do laundry at mealtimes.
in a non-solenoid machine...it used a reversing motor to control wash and spin....the motor did not run while filling, instead of solenoids to engage, they used a helix unit on the agitation pulley to engage the agitator, when reversed the linkage released the agitator, and then spin began, still a fluid drive, but remained neutral during washing direction, when the motor reversed, this caused the fluid drive to engage, and ramp up to full speed.....the only drawback is it had to pause between reversing, where the solenoids shifted into gears from one to the next without stopping.......
and odd enough, it pumped out water during wash and spin, no matter what direction the motor was going...
and odd enough, it pumped out water during wash and spin, no matter what direction the motor was going...
mickeyd
Well-known member
Patrick or Eddy
I see from the line-up and the switch setting that you're not using the suds-return, but would you be so kind as to tell how Speed Queen does it with a solid tub? Does the water enter the outer tub first, or is it channeled right up from the pump to a spigot over the inner tub? Thank you.
That is one Beautiful Washing Machine, with a nice leather head rest as you curl up for a nice washer nap.
I see from the line-up and the switch setting that you're not using the suds-return, but would you be so kind as to tell how Speed Queen does it with a solid tub? Does the water enter the outer tub first, or is it channeled right up from the pump to a spigot over the inner tub? Thank you.
That is one Beautiful Washing Machine, with a nice leather head rest as you curl up for a nice washer nap.
Questions
Tom,
Martin gives an accurate description of how it works. When you turn it on you get a quiet aerated timed fill. The motor comes on when the timer advances into wash with no loud bang. There is a brief overflow at the end of the wash cycle, then the timer pauses the machine before it goes into spin. The rinse cycle uses the overflow feature but only in the last portion (like 1 or 2 minutes) before it pauses to final spin. I prefer the Frigidaire solid tubs overflow rinses as they overflow through the entire rinse cycle and seem to remove all suds more effectively.
Mike,
You know the suds return hose is not hooked up to the machine so I can't tell you exactly how it flows back into the tub. Just assuming from the positions of the switch that when you push the switch to save, it pumps the water out of the long necked suds return hose into the special laundry tub for saving and then when you push it to return, it sucks it back through and pumps it back into the tub. The dispose setting for the switch pumps all water out through the shorter neck hose into the open drain side of the laundry sink. This is my theory but I will have to find a return hose with the long neck to test it out. I know the suds pump runs when you activate it by switch.
Patrick
Tom,
Martin gives an accurate description of how it works. When you turn it on you get a quiet aerated timed fill. The motor comes on when the timer advances into wash with no loud bang. There is a brief overflow at the end of the wash cycle, then the timer pauses the machine before it goes into spin. The rinse cycle uses the overflow feature but only in the last portion (like 1 or 2 minutes) before it pauses to final spin. I prefer the Frigidaire solid tubs overflow rinses as they overflow through the entire rinse cycle and seem to remove all suds more effectively.
Mike,
You know the suds return hose is not hooked up to the machine so I can't tell you exactly how it flows back into the tub. Just assuming from the positions of the switch that when you push the switch to save, it pumps the water out of the long necked suds return hose into the special laundry tub for saving and then when you push it to return, it sucks it back through and pumps it back into the tub. The dispose setting for the switch pumps all water out through the shorter neck hose into the open drain side of the laundry sink. This is my theory but I will have to find a return hose with the long neck to test it out. I know the suds pump runs when you activate it by switch.
Patrick
vintagekenmore
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the author deleted the post. Go figure!!
Bud-
Here is a close up of the controls for you!
Here is a close up of the controls for you!
SQ Suds-Saver
Mike like all Solid Tub washers with this feature a separate pump [ almost always electric ] pumped the returning suds water directly back into the wash tub.
The reversing motor SQs were cheaper to build but not nearly as durable.
Mike like all Solid Tub washers with this feature a separate pump [ almost always electric ] pumped the returning suds water directly back into the wash tub.
The reversing motor SQs were cheaper to build but not nearly as durable.
Thank you, Martin & Pat. What a disappointment that the overflow is shortened. Actually, the old SQs would float the suds off the top of the wash water before spinning because the overflow period was so long and unlike the Frigidaire, the water currents did not prevent the suds from going overboard; they just floated away. To me, a Speed Queen without the solenoid bangs would be like a day without sunshine. I wonder what would happen if you tried to keep that little finned spheroid part of the fluid drive from turning: would it break the machine or break your hand?
I love how SQ changed a few words around.....
PermPress was known as Durable Press
for some models, Normal wash action was called "BRISK"
most time fill models had an EXFill on the Normal cycle, but not on the other cycles.....
and have only seen one with 3 cycles, Normal, Durable Press, and Soak(not part of the Normal cycle, but its own section).....
Thanks for the close up.....
PermPress was known as Durable Press
for some models, Normal wash action was called "BRISK"
most time fill models had an EXFill on the Normal cycle, but not on the other cycles.....
and have only seen one with 3 cycles, Normal, Durable Press, and Soak(not part of the Normal cycle, but its own section).....
Thanks for the close up.....
mickeyd
Well-known member
Hello Pat & John
Sounds a lot like the Frigidaire. So if you were to lift up the rim skirt, there would be another inlet. And the return operates in conjunction with the fill portion of the wash cycle, 4 minutes, with a smaller, slower pump and no agitation. Always wondered, glad to know. Thank you.
Sounds a lot like the Frigidaire. So if you were to lift up the rim skirt, there would be another inlet. And the return operates in conjunction with the fill portion of the wash cycle, 4 minutes, with a smaller, slower pump and no agitation. Always wondered, glad to know. Thank you.
