The Queens Get a Throne

[hoover1060]

well leaky or not...

They are beautiful machines! Looking forward to seeing them in Sept!

 

[jetcone]

Ohh repair class yes yes

That would be fun.

 

[roto204]

Repair class!!

Yay!! Are you taking early fall-semester registrations now? ;-)

After seeing Ross' Speed Queen, I can understand about the centerpost and under-the-agitator area. His too had collected a lot of sediment and coins over the years...in fact, I think we picked through the "buried treasure" and determined that we had an assortment of change and subway tokens, since the machine had originated from New York City. Neat!

I'm sorry to hear that it's leaking, though. Urgh.

 

[xyz]

Gans, I on a daily basis work on washers and dryers and yes I am pretty learned on SQ's. But I would like to ask a question...On this washer, what type of pump does it have? Does it have four ports on it? I a while back had fits finding a used pump for a customer for a SQ repair. This machine had the fake woodgrain on the console. I have messed with a few of these in the past and truly think they are a work of art with the way they are built. I did on one occasion have to go to Autozone to match up a pump belt which worked out just fine. My local SQ dealer died and left town on a rail and I can't get too much attention out of the other dealers here since they love other product lines. So I shop SQ parts at my local recycling yard (junkyard) they call me everytime they have a nice machine come through their scrap scale. I hate it when they call and want me there in the next 20 minutes to pick one up or it will be crushed and I can't make it there till the next day. Can't win em' all.

 

[gansky1]

xyz - this has a two-port pump. I've been saving SQ parts for a long time, my 1954 set came from a SQ dealer in Rockford, IL and he loaded me up with plenty of parts and I've found some at a local dealer (now gone) and ebay, etc. Since there were millions of these machines in commercial use, I've had good luck finding things like centerpost kits, solenoids (for the older domestic washers) seals, etc.

 

[mayken4now]

Gawjus Greg! They look very nice in their new home.

Steve

 

[harold]

What is the model number for that Speed Queen?

Hello, Will you please tell me the complete model number for that Speed Queen Washer Please? Thank you so much, I do wish I can find a Speed Queen washer like that one..

 

[partscounterman]

I LOVE THOSE GREEN QUEENS!!!

Greg- I have to let you know that those 'Queens are now my desktop picture. I will use this image to help my brain concentrate on metaphysically teletransporting these to a locations quite a bit further west. And south. (Am SO tired of the Hettie. Familiarity breeds contempt.)

My family was of the Maytag religion, but I told the older neighborhood kids to build me a Speed Queen because they ran with the lid up.
They got right on it...

I love too that this set is so MOL! It is so like every SQ I remember from way back. I loved how our neighbors SQ had the normal speed marked as "BRISK". When we first lived at Mesa Verde, there were still 3 coin-op solid tub Queens living in the Morefield Campground laundry. They were fantastic washers and I was sad they were gone by the time we returned in 2000-replaced by shredpools.

 

[exploder3211]

i saw a basic one near a dumpster recently.. sadly it was very rusty and didnt have my camera

 

[gansky1]

I remember being around a few when I was a kid - my aunt had a TOL pair from about 1972-73 with the lighted woodgrain panels and lots of chrome knobs & buttons. I thought they were some of the grandest looking machines I'd ever seen. My whole state, and the neighboring state were overwhelmingly of the Maytag religion so the SQ machines were a treat to see.

The washer model number is DA6710.

More on the continuing restoration saga in another thread.