May be true in general but as far as our experience the front loader LG cleaned our clothes better than the model of top loader Speed Queen we purchased. My folks have an old Maytag top loader like you and that does a good job.
I didn’t even realize SQ made consumer garbage - the only ones I’ve seen are the commercial laundromat models. You know, front loaders that will do 30 towels at once, get them bright white, and spin dry at relativistic speed without walking out the door and down the street.
We have a Bosch Vario perfect Serie 8 front loader. We must have had it about four years. It's on at least twice a day. Washes perfectly. I think a lot depends on what washing soap/detergent you use. My wife uses these "eggs" with little balls in them. Different eggs for different loads (not my department) they are very economical. All I do is empty it for it and put the washing in the tumble dryer. I like it as it has a light inside which goes on when you open the door. Less chance of leaving a sock in there.
I have been happy with our LG front load washer we bought fifteen years ago. The direct drive means no transmission. No problems so far.
Also we are a family of five so everyday is laundry day usually.
Also we are a family of five so everyday is laundry day usually.
Easy fix for that one, you just ask the customer to watch the screen as you slowly turn the control to get the picture slowly drifting down out of lock.
Now 'luv, you tell me which is the best picture and I'll put the pins back in to fix it in place.
Don't get me started, it used to be the day job in another life. You often learnt that not to alter things was best, particularly if the customer was happy with it as it was. Pink snow, green sky...
Got locked in a house once, got thrown out by a Priest another time. Half a picture was a door left close on a console... its all true 😀 Then there were the ones that put paper down for you to walk on so you didn't tread on the carpet.
Cruising around with the keys to a new company estate car had a lot going for it as a twenty year old, happy days.
The point I was making was that some customers thought that the frame hold control when you turned it acted like a screw that pressed against the picture to stop it rolling.
gotcha
Garbage?
SQ's consumer machines are hardly that.
They're basically the same "guts" as commercial units.
Don't forget Huebsch...
I want one of these!! No room for it but hey!
https://huebsch.com/products/light-commercial-laundry/commercial-stack-washer-dryers/
If I move to my dad's house one day and I can bolt it to the floor!!!
https://huebsch.com/products/on-premises-laundry/cabinet-washer-extractors/
I want one of these!! No room for it but hey!
https://huebsch.com/products/light-commercial-laundry/commercial-stack-washer-dryers/
If I move to my dad's house one day and I can bolt it to the floor!!!
https://huebsch.com/products/on-premises-laundry/cabinet-washer-extractors/
Our old whirlpool literally fell apart (rusted out from salt air) after 5 years……it was pre-owned and $75 so no big deal……..replaced it with a Maytag commercial/residential hybrid (basically a heavy duty residential) https://www.maytag.com/washers-and-...de-residential-agitator-washer.mvwp575gw.html
looked at the speed queens but they seem to be having issues also here lately.
It was difficult trying to buy a decent washing machine because most all feature the High Efficiency crap that doesn’t get your clothes clean……Maytag and speed queen were the only options that would actually fill the drum without having to mess with it!
And in diy fashion I tried to fix the whirlpool a couple times but the last time there was nothing left to fix!
edit; forgot to mention it’s supposedly made in Ohio, USA.
looked at the speed queens but they seem to be having issues also here lately.
It was difficult trying to buy a decent washing machine because most all feature the High Efficiency crap that doesn’t get your clothes clean……Maytag and speed queen were the only options that would actually fill the drum without having to mess with it!
And in diy fashion I tried to fix the whirlpool a couple times but the last time there was nothing left to fix!
edit; forgot to mention it’s supposedly made in Ohio, USA.
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As a young working lad back in the 1970's, I bought mom a new washer for her birthday.
The old GE "Filterflo" automatic that dad got her in 1963 crapped out.
The one I got her was a White-Westinghouse deluxe model, cost me about $325, plus a $2 birthday card.
I had it delivered and installed when no one was home, and had the old GE taken away.
That evening, at dinner, we all gave mom birthday cards, and my cocky old man asked how come I didn't have a card to give to mom.
I told him it was in the basement on the washing machine.
Mom got up from the table and went to get it....... and let out a shriek you could hear for a block!
She was so happy that day.
That machine lasted for years, and even for years after she died (1984).
The old GE "Filterflo" automatic that dad got her in 1963 crapped out.
The one I got her was a White-Westinghouse deluxe model, cost me about $325, plus a $2 birthday card.
I had it delivered and installed when no one was home, and had the old GE taken away.
That evening, at dinner, we all gave mom birthday cards, and my cocky old man asked how come I didn't have a card to give to mom.
I told him it was in the basement on the washing machine.
Mom got up from the table and went to get it....... and let out a shriek you could hear for a block!
She was so happy that day.
That machine lasted for years, and even for years after she died (1984).
The long diode was the focus rectifier. Usually brown in color like a 2 inch resistor. Inside was a stack of selenium or later silicon diode wafers. When they die your picture goes out of focus. Sometimes it's just a little blurry, sometimes there are just colored blobs moving about on the screen. Inside the HV box there could have been one or two tubes. the small one is the HV rectifier, good for about 27,000 volts at about 1 milliamp. In a mid 60's color TV the 3A3 was the most common one. The larger tube is the HV regulator. Its long skinny plate eats 27,000 volts and, yes turns some of that into X-rays. They do turn brown with age. The 6BK4 is the most common, but many variants appeared in the quest to reduce X-ray emission.
I left the consumer repair world in 1972 for greener pastures and never looked back. I got the previously mentioned 25 inch RCA XL100 solid state set in 1984, fixed it and used it well into the early 2000's when the CRT got its neck severed guillotine style accidentally.
We got a Kenmore washer and dryer set when we bought the kitchen appliances. They are made by LG. The whole HE front loader thing was all about saving water and energy. That's all nice in theory, but I can't understand how it saves you anything when I have to wash some of my clothes twice, and even three times to get them clean, here in the land of mud, and more mud.
Yep, that was it - long and brown, just as depicted in the photo (thanks for sharing) and described. I'd forgot the synptom; it was out of focus. After replacing the picture tube, all that work, still out of focus. So my father bought a new picture tube for nothing... 3A3 looks quite similar to what I remember. 27K - that's some potential. Enough for Xray emissions;
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/09/when-televisions-were-radioactive/570916/
"The response to the concern was swift. By late July of 1967, television-industry representatives were brought before a congressional committee, which eventually proposed a federal radiation-regulation bill (which became the 1968 Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act). Further testing was conducted by the National Center for Radiological Health (NCRH) and the Public Health Service into early 1968. The surgeon general eventually issued a statement, saying that testing showed that this low level of radiation posed only a small risk to any one set-owner’s health as long as he or she was watching a set in “normal viewing” conditions. That was understood to be maintaining “at least a six-foot viewing distance from the front of the screen and [avoiding] prolonged exposure at the sides, rear, or underneath a set.”"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/09/when-televisions-were-radioactive/570916/
"The response to the concern was swift. By late July of 1967, television-industry representatives were brought before a congressional committee, which eventually proposed a federal radiation-regulation bill (which became the 1968 Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act). Further testing was conducted by the National Center for Radiological Health (NCRH) and the Public Health Service into early 1968. The surgeon general eventually issued a statement, saying that testing showed that this low level of radiation posed only a small risk to any one set-owner’s health as long as he or she was watching a set in “normal viewing” conditions. That was understood to be maintaining “at least a six-foot viewing distance from the front of the screen and [avoiding] prolonged exposure at the sides, rear, or underneath a set.”"
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Sorry, cant resist ; https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-DISCUSS-O-MAT.cgi
At least it's in context with some of the discussion here 😉 You get to talk politics and religion - but only if you donate.
At least it's in context with some of the discussion here 😉 You get to talk politics and religion - but only if you donate.
I can not! I've fixed a few of the commercial units. Solid build for sure, but the electronics seemed over-complicated. Mechanically strong like ox - electrically dubious.
Here's one that might give some of you a chuckle.
I never repaired TVs for a job; just some minor stuff on my own sets when needed. So I only had a rudimentary knowledge of the various safety precautions like discharging the HV under the CRT anode cap, etc. But I did work a local electronics parts wholesaler for a couple of years in the late '70s, and we sold our share of replacement picture tubes (mostly Sylvania as I recall). We usually had to return the cores to be refurbished, with the exception of some very old types (remember the round ones?) which were no longer accepted for credit. These we simply put in the Dumpster, but for safety's sake it was recommended to snap off the socket locator to break the glass nipple underneath and "let the air in" before giving them the heave-ho. For some reason this job became mine.
I really had no idea how hazardous this operation was or wasn't, so I erred on the side of caution. I'd take the condemned out to the loading dock, then crouch behind a 4x4 sheet of plywood held vertical with one hand, while reaching around it with a pair of Channellocks to give that nipple its deadly tweak!
I was always impressed by how long it took for the air to stop whooshing into that tube through the relatively small nipple-ectomy. As I recall, I could smoke at least part of a cigarette while I waited.
So you old(er) farts, tell me: Was I just being silly with the whole duck-and-cover thing? (Pretty sure I know the answer, heh.) 😛
I never repaired TVs for a job; just some minor stuff on my own sets when needed. So I only had a rudimentary knowledge of the various safety precautions like discharging the HV under the CRT anode cap, etc. But I did work a local electronics parts wholesaler for a couple of years in the late '70s, and we sold our share of replacement picture tubes (mostly Sylvania as I recall). We usually had to return the cores to be refurbished, with the exception of some very old types (remember the round ones?) which were no longer accepted for credit. These we simply put in the Dumpster, but for safety's sake it was recommended to snap off the socket locator to break the glass nipple underneath and "let the air in" before giving them the heave-ho. For some reason this job became mine.
I really had no idea how hazardous this operation was or wasn't, so I erred on the side of caution. I'd take the condemned out to the loading dock, then crouch behind a 4x4 sheet of plywood held vertical with one hand, while reaching around it with a pair of Channellocks to give that nipple its deadly tweak!
I was always impressed by how long it took for the air to stop whooshing into that tube through the relatively small nipple-ectomy. As I recall, I could smoke at least part of a cigarette while I waited.
So you old(er) farts, tell me: Was I just being silly with the whole duck-and-cover thing? (Pretty sure I know the answer, heh.) 😛
It's always smart to play things safe, but of all the picture tubes I've "deflated" over the years, I never got that goofy with using boards as shields.
I'd throw a padded moving blanket over the tube and whack it once with a hammer...... done......next!