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SQ Washer In Queens, NY
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Post# 671871   4/10/2013 at 19:56 (4,004 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        

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Post# 671928 , Reply# 1   4/11/2013 at 08:04 (4,004 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Looks like it's in good shape from the pictures, I've seen these era washers with sheets of paint peeling off the top and lid!

Post# 671929 , Reply# 2   4/11/2013 at 08:05 (4,004 days old) by mtn1584 (USA)        

Funny how the SQ cabinet has not changed after all these years.
Mike


Post# 671959 , Reply# 3   4/11/2013 at 10:51 (4,003 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Is that gray area peeling paint or the remains of a label?

Post# 671981 , Reply# 4   4/11/2013 at 13:03 (4,003 days old) by stevet (West Melbourne, FL)        
CAVEAT EMPTOR!

Let the buyer beware!

If anyone is interested in this machine, unless you are a local, you need to know that many areas of Howard Beach were under water during Hurricane Sandy. If this machine was on the ground floor or in a basement there, and was anywhere near Jamaica Bay, it may have been flooded and it has been cleaned up. Make sure you check it carefully.
My couisins lost everything in their basement when it filled with 8 feet of water. Lost 2 cars as well. So did their neighbors on the same block.


Post# 672021 , Reply# 5   4/11/2013 at 17:00 (4,003 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Dayum. I am sorry to hear that.

Post# 672072 , Reply# 6   4/11/2013 at 20:42 (4,003 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
Early SQ Electronic Washer

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You will indeed be lucky if this washer even works properly, SQ had no idea what they were doing with electronic controls when built these washers and dryers and to make matters worse SQ washers were not that great during the 80s- most of the 90s, they were noisey and had too many center seal and pump problems, still an interesting machine to the ultimate SQ collector.


Post# 672443 , Reply# 7   4/13/2013 at 12:09 (4,001 days old) by mtn1584 (USA)        
I was thinking the same thing........................

Howard Beach was hit hard by hurricane Sandy. When I first looked at this thread, I did not put two and two together until now! Buyer Beware, I wouldn't buy any used appliances from this area, or any shore area of NYC or Jersey, as they got hit really hard, and I'm sorry you just don't know!
Mike


Post# 672475 , Reply# 8   4/13/2013 at 14:42 (4,001 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        
Flooding In Howard Beach

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Yes, there was some flooding in that part of NYC after TS Sandy, and it is entirely possible this machine could have been exposed. But then again so could any number of appliances sitting in basements anywhere in this country. You really wouldn't know until a close inspection was done, would you?

As for "CAVEAT EMPTOR", well that applies to any purchase of a used item from automobiles to appliances and all in between. Again one really doesn't know what one is getting until a close inspection and testing is carried out. Since the item is being offered on CL with local pick-up only one would assume a prudent potential buyer would examine the item closely or otherwise look for any possible damage including that from water.

Finally as can be seen from the photographs in the following link not every home in Howard Beach was submerged to the rafters, nor even to the ground (first) floor. Depending upon where this machine was kept (kitchen in a multi-family building, laundry area of a decently elevated house, etc...) it is quite possible nothing happened to it at all.


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