re: Speed Queen washers

I'm thinking in terms of his "past top load washers" being anything bought in the last 10-15 years, most being HE with no agitators. You are speaking of washers made before the "high efficiency" low water usage craze. The SQ's motor is more powerful and the spin cycle technology is better than all but the top of the line washers you are speaking of. It is nearly impossible to unbalance a load to the point of the machine throwing an error code.

If his old washers had no agitator, then his wife, like the majority of those users probably just loaded the entire drum full of clothes instead of placing them in a circle around the outside like you would with an agitator. The machines "hold" the same amount of clothing loaded correctly. The SQ will outwash nearly any other washer on the market. No one, outside of some old boomers, are going to out and buy some old 20 year old POS washer off of FB or a weekly want ad...