I'm also a fan, Bruce.  Used to live in a warehouse apartment across the street from the local Frigidaire/Maytag dealership.  One of the gems I dragged home from the junk pile outside by the alley was a Frigidaire 1-18.  It worked perfectly, although the front right foot had been broken off.  A block of wood took care of that.  This was in the mid-1990s.  Turns out the washer had belonged to my doctor and his wife!

Anyway, it was my first and only real Frigidaire and it was pretty awesome.  Loud, though, man.  The very nature of a warehouse apartment is that it's a giant, wide-open space so sound travels everywhere.  

But I digress.  It was a fun machine to play with and I was impressed with the capacity, even though the highest water level didn't go to the top of the tub. But if one loaded it per instructions there was enough water to effectively roll over the load, even though it didn't look like there would be when agitation started.  Loved the circle-fill spray. The wide tub meant the G-force during spins extracted more water than expected, as well. 

Had it for about a year (as a second washer to my daily-driver front-loader) then sent it on to a new home.  Idiot!

for what it's worth, that the belt was better able to cope with the high inertial moment of such large loads (more water) than the rollers, alone.