Staber washer/dryer. anyone?

[historyman]

Does anyone have, use, or ever use the Staber top loading horizontal axis washing machines? I'm curious to see anyone's experiences with them. They're made in Ohio and seem interesting.

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[whirlcool]

It just seems that not long ago we had a Staber thread going....

Most people seem to be very happy with their Stabers.

 

[sudsman]

Staber Problems

see my post on 7916 about the problems we had with the Stabers Sudsman

 

[historyman]

Guess I should have looked first.....

I just searched and found the postings of others in the past. Sorry for the repeat.......

 

[tomturbomatic]

I don't understand how people who like to do laundry and be part of the experience by watching could decide to purchase a machine that totally blocks from sight everything that is happening. That is why I hated the Maytag AMP models with the mercury switches in the lid. I am not criticizing. To each his own.

 

[foraloysius]

Tom,

LOL, I don't know why I love H-axis toploaders, but they are really something special to me. And the fact you can't see the action is a minus, but I accept it as being part of the design. Ofcourse the Staber is a total different machine as the European toploaders. Smaller than the frontloaders and still capable of doing a load of the same size.

Louis

 

[chestermikeuk]

Interesting Debate!!!

Hi Tom

I found myself laughing and agreeing with your words and then "Reality Check" who has the MaytAsko with a door!!!

I love interacting with the wash and more often than not will drop the door and "Watch"...but, the MaytagAsko without the drop down door seems totally alien to me etc...

Louis

I`m with you on the HTL`s, love the Philips and the smaller AEG`s , that rock about and move whilst washing n spinning. Its like they have a mind of their own simply, doing their job, and you can keep a check on the sounds n movements...

Mike

 

[askomiele]

The only thing I don't like is you can't see what's going on inside the drum. But than it won't be a HTL but a HFL

 

[whirlcool]

And since I always like to check for a "clean" rinse cycle, it would be hard for me to get used to not seeing what was going on inside too.

 

[vivalalavatrice]

Why not?

Hi everyone!

As I came back from holidays...here I am to talk about washers with you again!

Why not? That was my question! I think that in ANY TL you can control the washing/rinsing action just opening the lid!

You CANNOT do that instead in a FL, becasue alghout now they may use less water than the older models, and some are slant-front (Whirlpool Duet or Hotpoint Acqualtis)... you'd risk the same to cause overflowing of hot water down on your floor...imagine if it there were the carpet/moquettes in your laundry?!?

The "thin" difference among the TL washers we are talking about is that while in a VTL as a common AmericanTL you have your laundy clear visible under the lid and the water level (and color!) is visible too, in the HTL everything is closed in to the rotating drum...

Then, you can control the water level by "ear", simply listen to the sound of the rotating drum... and I heard people speaking very bad about the high noise of the Staber washers. Either the "color of water" is visible in the same way... the drum get sudsy even on the top...

At the end, if you want just to see your clothes... well the drum is not locked forever!

I myself do like that... Just open the lid to control suds and water color... just (in truth very rarely) if I want to control the clothes I open the drum... The lid switch of my washer is unlocked during wash cycle and it locks starting rinses. I think it's a logic system: you wouldn't add anything during rinse cycle and as water level increase and there are some spins, that's for users' safety too.

That's all what I suppose about HTL...I've got one and I'm very satisfied!

Good BYE
Diomede