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Thread Number: 45965
Does Speed Queen make any washers for Sears Kenmore? |
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Post# 671996 , Reply# 1 4/11/2013 at 14:50 (4,026 days old) by whirlykenmore78  (Prior Lake MN (GMT-0500 CDT.)) |
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Unfortunately No.
There are not even many Whirlpool built machines left in the KM lineup. Sadly most now are made by LG and Samsung. They share little more than a name with the high performace, durable Kenmores made by Whirlpool in the past. A SQ built line could bring some credibility back to the KM name though.
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Post# 672008 , Reply# 2 4/11/2013 at 16:01 (4,026 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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| Post# 672055 , Reply# 4 4/11/2013 at 18:41 (4,026 days old) by roger (Pennsylvania) | ||
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WK78, that is too bad. They always used to have one very basic, but very solid model. I guess Kenmore is now Kenless ;) | ||
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Post# 672059 , Reply# 5 4/11/2013 at 19:17 (4,026 days old) by Pulsator (Saint Joseph, MI) |
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 Alliance topload washers and matching dryers are also sold under Continental Girbau's "Econ-O-Wash" line. I have this washer in the coin-op version. It was about $600 less than what Speed Queen wanted for the exact same machine. I'd like to get the Speed Queen Quantum control panel for my machine though... Maybe someday! CLICK HERE TO GO TO Pulsator's LINK | ||
| Post# 672169 , Reply# 8 4/12/2013 at 09:31 (4,025 days old) by golittlesport (California) | ||
Funny | ||
| Post# 672204 , Reply# 9 4/12/2013 at 12:38 (4,025 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas) | ||
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And Frigidaire/Electrolux also made a few models for Kenmore too. I don't know if they still do. They had a version of the FriGEmore machines. | ||
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Post# 672232 , Reply# 10 4/12/2013 at 14:40 (4,025 days old) by Pulsator (Saint Joseph, MI) |
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Econ-O-Wash longevity
Think about it, worst case scenario (4 loads a day for 5 years), that's 7,300 loads of laundry. Doing 7 loads a week at home it'll still last 20 years.
It does have the grey water rinse as an option, but it's not required. It's set up so that the user can make that choice. It has Regular, Permanent Press, and Delicate with the grey water rinse, and it has the same three cycles again with a full deep rinse like an old machine. | ||
| Post# 672278 , Reply# 11 4/12/2013 at 17:07 (4,025 days old) by roger (Pennsylvania) | ||
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What is a grey water rinse? ...A week ago I would never have guessed I would be spending so much time on a washing machine forum :) | ||
| Post# 672328 , Reply# 12 4/12/2013 at 20:36 (4,025 days old) by golittlesport (California) | ||
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OK | ||
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Post# 672417 , Reply# 15 4/13/2013 at 09:17 (4,024 days old) by Pulsator (Saint Joseph, MI) |
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Roger, the grey water rinse in Speed Queen topload washers is quite icky and I'm glad they seem to be doing away with it! Basically, the machine would fill up for the wash, agitate, drain away half of the water, fill back up and agitate again. (The second agitation was the rinse.) So the rinse water was half fresh water and half dirty wash water.
Golittlesport, sorry if I sounded a bit short, I just really love my machine. | ||
| Post# 672423 , Reply# 16 4/13/2013 at 09:46 (4,024 days old) by Huebschman (Quebec, CA) | ||
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Eurodesign To Roger. Well Roger, did the same thing you did about 3.5 years ago too and walked right across the street to Corbeil... Looks like we're living in the same city. Will go take a look at Eurodesign's serial number this weekend... | ||
| Post# 672439 , Reply# 17 4/13/2013 at 11:53 (4,024 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas) | ||
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Grey Water Rinsing That just wouldn't work for us especially with my detergent sensitivity. How long has this been going on with Speed Queen? Is this on all SQ toploaders? | ||
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Post# 672639 , Reply# 19 4/13/2013 at 23:51 (4,024 days old) by Pulsator (Saint Joseph, MI) |
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| Post# 672978 , Reply# 20 4/15/2013 at 17:13 (4,022 days old) by roger (Pennsylvania) | ||
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Pulsator: Thanks for the information, it's good to know. Whirlcool: I just double-checked mine, a 3.5 year old Huebsch (the name Speed Queen uses in Canada) and it does NOT have a grey water rinse...quite relieved actually! | ||
| Post# 674370 , Reply# 21 4/21/2013 at 10:44 (4,016 days old) by huebschman (Quebec, CA) | ||
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Euro Design Yep, Still in production. Serial number starts with 12. Warm rince available (not the same energy restrictions here in CA). Bet it also fill all the way up. Damn... forgot to check the price! Sorry, will get back to you... CLICK HERE TO GO TO huebschman's LINK | ||
| Post# 674373 , Reply# 22 4/21/2013 at 10:45 (4,016 days old) by huebschman (Quebec, CA) | ||
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Euro Design Link does not work... 2nd try. CLICK HERE TO GO TO huebschman's LINK | ||
| Post# 674376 , Reply# 23 4/21/2013 at 10:50 (4,016 days old) by huebschman (Quebec, CA) | ||
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Euro Design Sorry. Still not working. Not using the "URL link to share" box this time: www.tanguay.ca/fr/subcat/... | ||
| Post# 674551 , Reply# 25 4/21/2013 at 22:24 (4,016 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
Little Greys
How far we've come .....-er, regressed.
In the heyday of automatics, the grey rinse was the first of 2, sometimes 3 rinses. In fact, depending on brand and water level, often 2/3's or more of the wash water was drained away. No one in their most generous moment ever called even this deeper draining a rinse. It was a cool-down, followed, in some Whirlpool family machines, by a second cool-down, then a spin, spray rinses, and finally a full deep rinse, AND THEN even more spray rinses. When I first heard of the grey (aka, alien ;'D ) rinses I thought it was an exaggeration. Are you sure it doesn't drain all of the water away and simply not spin? So much for wishful hyperbole. The new GE's drain for over six minutes, and proceed to rinse without spinning and rinse in less than half a tub full of water, unless you flip a switch. Then you get a full spin a a full rinse fill. Are there washers out there that actually only allow a grey rinse, period, with no option out? | ||
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Post# 674574 , Reply# 26 4/22/2013 at 00:58 (4,016 days old) by rapunzel (Sydney) |
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