Hi, and about wringer washer

Does anyone know of a repair service for a Speed Queen? I just bought a wringer washer. I'd been hankering for the past 15 years and kicking myself in the tush for leaving mine in Michigan. I bought it new in the early 80's from Montgomery Wards. My DD hadn't seen one until I bought this one. I was out on the back porch doing some towels. She came out and pushed me aside and took over. She said Mom, I didn't know this was so mush fun! She's 16 and I've adicted a new generation to an old way of life.

The problem with this one is. It's either the dasher or the cap at the top is stripped. The cap pops off and the dasher floats up. Any ideas on how to fix this?

PS. I do have a new fangled front loader set. I hate those darn things. What I do is wash my clothes in the wringer and throw them in the front loader to rince and spin on express cycle.

Check this out:

http://www.lehmans.com/shopping/prod...iProductID=613

MaryNY

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725.00 ON BACKORDER! See how popular they still are. I think the major machine companies are missing out. I know I would like to buy one new. 725.00 plus $150 for freight. Man, thats a lot of major sucking up to get one that expensive.

Nope, don't need any more laws. Just need people to use common sense. I would love to have one, but cannot find one around these parts. I hate my automatic washer, they use way too much water. Use with a drought if people would try to use less water maybe we could have water a few years more.

I found one at a yard sale for 30 dollars and I love it.

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Forget Lehmans! I’ll let this mint condition Maytag go for only $275 plus freight. This sweetheart is spotless, works like a charm, and has had very, very little use. Includes the original owners manual, too!

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Cabin, that is a beautiful thing to behold. If I didn't already have two........
I just love my wringer washer that belonged to my Grama. I also have another with a green speckled enamel ware tub, but the cord needs to be replaced.
Here's how I use it. I had it set up along with my double rinse tubs down the basement along side of my regular modern washer. I started by washing the least dirtiest load in the regular washer. I chaneled the wash water from that load into my wringer. Then into the rinse tubs. If the garment had buttons or hooks, I just wrung them out by hand. I used the regular washers' rinse/spin cycle. Then hung out on the line or on lines strung in the basement or my drying racks to dry. I just kept changing the cleaner water for the wash water, even re-using the rinse water from the spin cycle. I timed my loads and one time I did 12 loads in 3 hours, saving both soap and water. That's 15 minutes per load. I don't care to use the wringer part, for one thing it's old and cracked, but for towels and sheets it works well enough. I have used it without the modern washer and like it just as well. Since we have moved, I have it outside on a sunny porch. I have my rain barrels set up at the corner of this little building and have used this water before. The softer the water, the less soap one has to use.
I have used that plunger type tool to do laundry just in the rinse tubs and a scrub board for stains. Either way, the laundry was cleaned and dried.
This is one home keeping skill I enjoy. The sound of the washer (either one) is a comfort sound for me. Don't ask me why for I won't be able to tell you, I just know that it is.
Hope you find the one that's right for you and you enjoy using this item from the past.

Speaking of water waste,anyone remember the washers,full automatics with the water saver function? It drained into the washroom sink,then you reused the wash water,it would suck it back up for the next load?
My Aunt had one in the 60's.

Trogdor,err...I mean BooBoo

Cabin Fever, That is one beautiful looking machine - how old is it? Are the covering pieces made of plastic or are they cast or pressed metal? It's almost worth having just for its appearance.

MightyBooBoo, I remember those washers - we once had a twin-tub Hoover with that feature.

Our first washing machine was a 'Pope' brand, with a power wringer that would spring open if the load was too thick. Dad said to feed the clothes in carefully with your left hand, so that if you were careless enough to get your fingers caught, you could belt the release mechanism with your right hand before they got crushed. LOL. We never had to try it out because after hearing that we were so very very careful!

Before we got the machine, Dad would boil up the washing in the big 'copper' (boiler), hand wash it, sometimes having to use a washboard, then put it through the hand operated mangle. When washing whites such as sheets and shirts, he'd put a 'Blue-bag' in the water and let them soak for a while before wringing and hanging them out to dry. (Anybody remember Blue-bags?) In those days, there was a guy with a horse and cart going around the town yelling out, and selling, "clothes props.....clothes pegs", usually on a Monday. The other days he'd be collecting beer bottles.

After buying the washing machine, Dad kept the copper for cooking the very-large-in-those-days crayfish that you guys call lobsters. He'd be able to fit two large or three medium crays in it. Looking in our fish shops these days, what we call lobster now would have been called shrimp, and what we call shrimp now would have been regarded as krill back then.

Oh yeh,... 'fridges weren't all that common then either, and there was another bloke selling large ice blocks for the cool-boxes people had in their kitchens.
Unsliced freshly baked bread, and full cream milk, which the 'milko' stirred up so that you'd get your fair share of the cream then ladled into your quart billy-can from his big milk cans, was also delivered by horse and cart.

Then we got washers, and 'fridges, and bottled milk, and sliced bread...great steps forward, and television...an even greater leap backwards (sigh).

Sorry if it's all a bit long-winded, but the sight of Cabin Fever's machine just brought back all those memories.

Shin