Product review (4 stars): best back up emergency appliance you can have
this is a perfect washer for a small apartment like I once had, or an ":emergency" washer for when you are waiting, as I am now to get my washer repaired.  I am waiting for a part on my automatic, and let me tell you, this little washer is the best back up emergency washer I have ever used.  I don't go to laundromats, i used to do my clothes by hand in the bathroom sink and suffer rashes from touching detergent, but I was bought this little washer, and I never had to do that again.  Realize, that it is NOT an automatic, nor is there a pump and it can be a pain in the rear to empty into buckets and fill with buckets, but it sure beats hand washing.  I currently use my panda daily, today i got the part for the waher and it was the wrong one, so i will probably use this every day in the back yard with a garden hose.  This is a very very antique kind of washer that washes things very very differently.  You use the same washwater for the entire laundry, just adding a dose of soap for each new load.  It does use very little water.  you can rinse it whie it spins if you want, or in the washtub, whichever you prefer.  it's no harder to use than a wringer washer, and it cleans very very well too, as you can agitate a load for 4 hours if that's what you choose to do.  Washing powder works much better than liquids in this, i use cheer.  But if you expect a washer that washes rinses and spins all by itself don't buy this washer.  When used correctly, they can be the best washers actually, but it's an eyesore to be flooding the backyard.  I will say this:  If this little washer broke, i'd definitely buy another one.  it's so light i can lift it with two fingers yet it pulverizes the hell out of dirt like the old washers did with washing powder,  It's very powerful, but it is shoddily made.  already i've broken a knob so i have to use a butterknife to make it spin, and I've broken the right side where i could run water where it spins.  They need a revisor to do the manual, whoever did it did not have good command of the english language.  They don't even mention putting in water on the right side, which is a spray and very effective rinse.  Mine broke, but the washer and spinner still works, as i'm using it daily for my laundry.  i start with whites and i agitate them a good hour in a half cup of cheer because i can only use cold water with the hose and i'm in maine and the cold water is very cold here.  DO THE TOWELS LAST or you will have lint all over your clothes.  oh yes, the lint trap broke after three uses.  As much as  i love my emergency washer, it is very shoddily made, so face it, it's not really for washing your clothes every day unless you have no alternative.  I have to give it four stars i think the fact that i can agitate for as long as i want warrants that, but i would not buy this unless the only alternative was the bathroom sink and your hands or a laundromat where they wash dirty diapers.  Shoddily made as it is, I will buy another one when it breaks.  Funny how some things are made so badly but we'd buy them again they deliver so much convienience.  Right now I'd be using the bathroom sink, honest to god if i didn't have this for back up.  I will NOT use bed bug infested laundromats where diapers and whatever else is washed at.  gross, and you don't know what diseases they had either.  For years handwashing did not bother me one bit, i did it every day, washed everything in the sink and hung it up inside, but i'd started to get hives from the soap powder being constantly on my hands, so i will not speak badly of this machine, just don't expect anything fancy at all