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| Post# 457638 8/17/2010 at 23:22 (4,993 days old) by eddy1210 (Burnaby BC Canada) | ||
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| Post# 457639 , Reply# 1 8/17/2010 at 23:27 (4,993 days old) by eddy1210 (Burnaby BC Canada) | ||
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Ancient SQ secret | ||
| Post# 457643 , Reply# 2 8/17/2010 at 23:32 (4,993 days old) by eddy1210 (Burnaby BC Canada) | ||
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for Bob | ||
| Post# 457653 , Reply# 3 8/18/2010 at 00:17 (4,993 days old) by wigwag (San Diego) | ||
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interesting Is that a canadian speed queen? | ||
Post# 457655 , Reply# 4 8/18/2010 at 00:23 (4,992 days old) by Pulsator  (Saint Joseph, MI) |
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| Post# 457716 , Reply# 6 8/18/2010 at 08:55 (4,992 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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| Post# 457746 , Reply# 7 8/18/2010 at 11:45 (4,992 days old) by eddy1210 (Burnaby BC Canada) | ||
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It's a reversing motor
You're right Peter. And Tom this one has a metering chamber at the back, separate from the outer tub. Unlike your Frigidaire, this model can keep the pump on during the agitation to do an overflow as the water in the chamber is isolated. At the pause before spin, a solenoid comes on that raises the plug and empties the chamber out into the drain tub. The other very cool feature is the bleach pump which has it's own little motor and injects the bleach via a fill at the 4 minute mark of the Normal cycle.
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Post# 457766 , Reply# 8 8/18/2010 at 14:13 (4,992 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Very nice, Eddy! I love that panel style - so very 70's. I wonder if this Simplicity had any connection to the vacuum cleaner company? Were there any other appliances with the Simplicity name on them there?
The very first Speed Queen solid tub washer I found was one of their last solid-tub but TOL. It had this metered fill system, I loved how during the emptying of the meter-tank, you could hear the water tinkle into the outer tub before it started to spin. The bleach-pump on mine was completely corroded away and had to be put out of it's misery when I found the machine. | ||
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Post# 457797 , Reply# 9 8/18/2010 at 15:40 (4,992 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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Post# 457806 , Reply# 10 8/18/2010 at 16:13 (4,992 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia) |
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Nice find Eddy | ||
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Post# 457808 , Reply# 11 8/18/2010 at 16:20 (4,992 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 457817 , Reply# 12 8/18/2010 at 17:13 (4,992 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 457835 , Reply# 13 8/18/2010 at 18:59 (4,992 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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For Bob
Eddy thanks for your thoughtfulness and is greatly appreciated. You always do that for me!!
Such a fine, feature-laden sexy machine. Wasn't there another variable water level solid-tub SQ machine in the late 1950s--don't you have one in your collection? On this machine, is there a cycle button description chart on the underside of the lid? This post was last edited 08/18/2010 at 23:45 | ||
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Post# 457846 , Reply# 15 8/18/2010 at 19:39 (4,992 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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| Post# 457880 , Reply# 16 8/18/2010 at 23:22 (4,992 days old) by eddy1210 (Burnaby BC Canada) | ||
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Toggles, ding ding!
Steve is right, the regular soap gets a warm rinse, the regular detergent gets a hot wash cold rinse. Here are the instructions on the lid, the bottom part which I omitted is in French.
Greg, I've noticed Simplicity dishwashers, vacuums and I even saw a sewing machine once. Dishwashers were D&R. Never saw a fridge or stove though. Thankfully the bleach dispenser on mine works, but man is it loud. 
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| Post# 457881 , Reply# 17 8/18/2010 at 23:23 (4,992 days old) by eddy1210 (Burnaby BC Canada) | ||
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Oh, one more for you Bob | ||
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Post# 457883 , Reply# 18 8/18/2010 at 23:40 (4,992 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Thank you very much Eddy. I do have a question. Was this considered the TOL for this Simplicity product line? If it was, I'm a little disappointed in the fact it only had brisk/fast and gentle/slow speed combinations, not a brisk/slow or gentle/fast set of speed combinations too. TOL SQs had the 4-speed combinations.
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Post# 457884 , Reply# 19 8/18/2010 at 23:44 (4,992 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Another question--with the selectable on or off bleach option, did that mean one could put more tha a single wash load worth of bleach in the resevoir and select whether you want bleach or not for that particular load or was it still a case-by-case (load-by-load basis) and one added the bleach and turned on the option for just that single load?
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| Post# 457885 , Reply# 20 8/18/2010 at 23:54 (4,992 days old) by alr2903 (TN) | ||
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Eddy1210, do find solid tubs are more plentiful in Canada? It's pretty tough to find one in these parts. Thanks for the cool pics of that SQ cousin. Is there any mention of McGraw Edison on your Simplicity? alr2903 | ||
| Post# 457894 , Reply# 22 8/19/2010 at 00:37 (4,991 days old) by eddy1210 (Burnaby BC Canada) | ||
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TOL Simplicity
Hi Bob, this was TOL Simplicity. That being said, I have never come across a Simplicity washer with a S/S tub. SQ drew the line, that was theirs only. Simplicity liked to use the push buttons as opposed to SQ's knobs, and sometimes like you noted, it doesn't give full flexibility. The bleach dispenser holds about a cup and a half of bleach and it only dispenses it during the regular cycle IF you push the Bleach button. If Bleach is Off, it remains in the reservoir but the water flush (replenishment) at the 4 minute mark still happens. So in other words, if you select bleach, everything in the bleach tube gets pumped into that one load.
alr2903, I wouldn't say the solid tubs are more plentiful here, but I've been lucky because Speed Queen (and of course Simplicity) were very popular brands in the 70's and 80's and many have survived even up to now. I found this one just browsing Craigslist. You will also find many Simplicity wringer washers here too, and this was their own design. On the nameplate, no mention of McGraw Edison, just Simplicity Products, Hespeler Ontario Canada. | ||
| Post# 457900 , Reply# 23 8/19/2010 at 01:12 (4,991 days old) by alr2903 (TN) | ||
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Thanks Eddy1210, You have some very nice washers. arthur | ||
| Post# 458670 , Reply# 24 8/23/2010 at 09:51 (4,987 days old) by bendix99 () | ||
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simplisity is just another name for speed queen.you can tell because the agitator is the same as a speed queen | ||
| Post# 458827 , Reply# 26 8/24/2010 at 00:11 (4,987 days old) by eddy1210 (Burnaby BC Canada) | ||
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SQ
Hi Mike, nice to hear that story, wonder why you had so many problems with your SQ pump leaking like that? They are normally very reliable. I hardly ever have one leak, and some of my pumps are original to the machine! Did you have hard water? My machine actually came with 2 fabric softener dispensers, the owners had lost the original one and ordered a replacement. Then a week later they found the lost one. So they gave me the one NIB too.
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| Post# 458913 , Reply# 27 8/24/2010 at 14:04 (4,986 days old) by bradross (New Westminster, BC., Canada) | ||
Simplicity / Speed Queen factory location in Canada | ||
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Post# 1110697 , Reply# 30 3/9/2021 at 12:30 (1,136 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Interesting that a warm or cold rinse is labeled Regular/Detergent (cold rinse) and Regular Soap (warm rinse.) I don't recall seeing it put that way on US machines. Ours always say Hot/Warm or Hot/Cold.
Extra points for the timed bleach dispenser as well! Gives the detergent time to do its job before adding chlorine to the wash water. Cool machine! | ||
| Post# 1110700 , Reply# 31 3/9/2021 at 12:49 (1,136 days old) by bradross (New Westminster, BC., Canada) | ||
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Soap vs. Detergent in Canada...
@Frigilux I'm guessing the labels are like that perhaps because real soap flakes were used in Canada longer than the U.S. I remember my grandmother on the farm (and therefore, with a septic system) preferred to use soap flakes in her wringer washer, right up until the mid 1970s. She had some notion that detergent in the septic was not a good thing.
The brand she always used was "Maple Leaf" soap flakes, made by the Canada Packers corporation - a meat packing company! I'm guessing that fat from the meat processing was used to make the soap.
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Post# 1110719 , Reply# 32 3/9/2021 at 15:05 (1,136 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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| Post# 1110759 , Reply# 33 3/9/2021 at 18:36 (1,136 days old) by eddy1210 (Burnaby BC Canada) | ||
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