The beauty shop taht i work at here in town just got a new washer to replace the dead and i amean dead, i could not even fix it LK michael baugt a new speed queen and i put a load of towels in and started it, watched it and it swished away at 68 agitation strokes a min, just like my WP imperial 70 does so when every one cleard out i checked the bad boy out and shure enouge it is belt driven YAY i am glad that SQ did not change to the new tinker toy kind.