All lies.

Companies like GE know words are motivators, not delineators of truth.

However there is no need to explain it out. You're second video says it all "pro channel" "100 unit multi family project" and "property management customers". They aren't selling to actual end use humans, they're selling to businessmen looking to stick the cheapest possible prop in a space just so the leasing entity can claim their property has said prop. I've despised the practice and always will. Renting is a scam. Cookie cutters are a manufactured fantasy image. GE is simply the one to fill that demand of the scam which the public has fallen for.  

For those who know the truth, yes, it is both painful and maddening. The one good thing about these videos is they make me appreciate my Speed Queen even more. Never take anything for granted is the best thing experience has taught me.

My guess,  if you take the undersized parts being pushed past their design limits, would technically qualify as America's hardest working contraption. So maybe it could be true in that sense. Of course that is not what GE wants the buyers to take away from that slogan.

They are identical except for a few minor cosmetic differences. It has been that way since the 70s. Perhaps the 80s if you count those porcelain Hotpoints but even then there were porcelain tub dishwashers with the GE label up until the early 90s. 

Only way to return would be if everyone who had a modern GE appliance refused to use while demanding a reimbursement from the builder, landlord, housing authority  or property management. If everyone were like me this would have already taken place 25 years ago.

GE took what money they could from the reputation they built, left everyone on the side, then let Haier take what was left.  

Jerome, thank you! The US constitution has been nullified for some time! The last semblance of freedom was in the early 2000s when you could walk into the Sears and buy true BOLs, true TOLs, classic no none sense top loads, plasticicky washers, DDs, all metal washers, realistic HE top loads, front loads, foreign, domestic and everything in between. There was choice, there was variety, there was diversity. The customer could choose whatever suited them best. Today, none at all.

Its not just the stagnation of innovation, but also de-evolving back in time with the complete evisceration of pragmatic utility, commonsensical engineering, level headed design, result based performance, function, practicality, acceptable job execution, and longevity. The discontinuation of perfected timeless classics for long failed 65 year old designs that were never even intended for modern adaptation.

All makes and models Whirlpool, LG, Samsung, Frigidaire, ect are based on cookie cutter analytics. All based on the same superannuated antediluvian designs, just frosted in different flavors.  

I feel your pain Jerome, it hurts when you as a dignified customer is coerced into being garbage a can.  This is why I no longer take anything for granted. You don't know what you have until its gone. I liken to to it being in a 75*F low-medium humidity room. You don't think about air, climate, heating or cooling until the temperatures deviates to either extreme. Only then do you realize what has truly gone missing.    

You may have the ability to buy a Speed Queen classic, however energy regulations have taken away descent water level control. Users must either gamble with under-filling on auto fill, or over filling on all but the largest loads when "deep fill" is selected. Not to mention energy regs have expanded the use of electronics. I 100% agree with you Jerome. 

You don't even know the pertinent facts being discussed.

Capitalist corporations can NOT "build (or source) and sell what products THEY see fit"

There are clear penalties for doing otherwise.

https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-04/GSL_EnforcementPolicy_4_25_22.pdf

I can NOT "create your own gosh darn appliance company"

Doing otherwise leads to legal action. If I vehemently refused I'd end up on the news, forced to pay penalties, lose my business license, file for bankruptcy and possibly if I became defiant enough end up in prison.  

So no, there is no free market. What you have is the government over-reach only justified subverting both the intent and meaning of the constitution...

Government believes in there own rules so much they often exempt themselves from them.

When the US was created and in the years going forward, many people thought the experiment wasn't anything serious.

When in reality freedom, dignity, and human rights created the wealthiest, most prosperous and most powerful nation on earth. 

The 9th amendment, 13th amendment, 14th amendment, 15 amendment, and 19th amendment assured these rights extended to everyone.

Yet in the last 60 years people have been demanding the very rights which gave them life be abolished. 

No credibility required. The proof is all around you.

You're living in wealth, health, freedom, happiness, technology, information, comfort, knowledge, safety, security, ownership, dignity and rights that have never been remotely imagined, written about or promised in the existence of humanity. Not even described in any religious text. 

Today it is all merely being taken for granted.

Modern energy regulations stifle freedom and its subsequent innovation. 

No other country is based on the US Constitution.

constitutioncenter.org/media/fil...

The issue is not the Constitution itself. Rather how some view its validity or applicability.

I used two model Ts in the late 90s through the early 2000s. An unbalanced load would cause the tub assemble to violent bang into the cabinet until one day it cracked the outer tub and dented the cabinet in.

Over the years countless blogs have shown the same on just the Model T. Google search being awful in the last 5 years won't show me the top 10 best examples from the last 15. 

Repair techs will tell you the countless number of times the tub straps break from regular use causing and the tub to knock into the cabinet during the spin cycle. You leave this pertinent fact out.

That is not taking into account all the other suspension such as this:

www.reddit.com/r/applianc...

And of course the tub banging didn't end with the model T. Modern GEs with electronics are still doing it:

www.reddit.com/r/Applianc...

Its silly to think the hanging suspension of the Filter Flos would behave differently from the hanging suspension of model Ts.

Whirlpool did make changes to their center posts, seals, stem heights, some for better some for worse. I don't know what they did in the mid 80s, but machines from that time period seem to have a lot of basket drive failures.

If you ask me the one design which truly got better each year (design wise) besides the direct drives were the two belt Raytheons. I can't think of any major or minor regressions- they were nearly perfected by the time they were discontinued. 

What advantage did the shortened center posts offer?

Jerome, tell me why!

Two belt Speed queens were the second best if not best top load design ever. 

Education doesn't make you a little kid, much the opposite, asking intelligent questions would be the sign of a mature adult. 

Engineering comes in specialties. Electrical engineering isn't the same specialty as mechanical engineering, hence why I don't have the same level of mechanical knowledge.

And you knew that already, just your zeal using an opportunity to call me a little kid aka pot calling the kettle black.    

Sean, you did not know Model Ts and modern Whirlpool washers had snubbers, and when I posted pictures of them, you then misidentified them as car suspension components.

Perhaps, just perhaps me and Jerome know more than he is given credit for. That is not to invalidate your knowledge Sean, or your experience. However there is definitely this energy of assuming me and Jerome know less than we're talking about.   

And yes Jerome does inadvertently pick up older threads when a topic could better be suited to the continuity of a few single threads. However I feel it better we ask Jerome to voice his facts and opinions in pertinent threads rather than going around trying to prove he or those around him don't know what we're talking about or painted as having some type of hidden objective.

This thread I think is a great place for Jerome to voice his concerns.