Product review (1 stars): Unfortunately, this appears to be junk.
Well, I tried to make sure the washing machine I purchased would do one thing well: not break and create a major hassle.  I read up on all types of machines looking for durability above all else.  The Speed Queen seemed to offer this from what other people had written.

However, the machine was broken from day one.  It has yet to work and we've had it for about a month.  We have had three service calls and it still does not work.  We have to go to the laundromat as a result--and when we are there we are, you guessed it, using Speed Queen machines and the irony doesn't help, either.  We have wasted three half days waiting on the repairman.  The repairman is stuck working with an ineffective and problematic repair system that cannot deliver the correct part.  He is actually a pretty nice guy who seems to know what he is doing.  I don't want him to look like the bad guy in all this.

I prefer to buy American whenever it makes sense.  But, I'm afraid in this case with this manufacturer, it doesn't make sense.  Look elsewhere.

OK, it's been about half a year since the machine showed up.  After another service call it worked.  The selection dial which sets the type of wash was bad so that was why it did not work when it first showed up.  After that was replaced it did indeed work.  For the first couple months and occasionally now it let's us know it is working by filling the room with that unique smell that we all know as "burning electrical component smell".  You all may know it by a different name but we've all smelled it at some time.  We were so desperate to have this thing work that we solved the problem by: keeping a fire extinguisher (rated for electrical fire use) nearby; leaving the door open to the outside and running the vent fan while using it and for some time after it had stopped to vent the room; feeling confident that the design and manufacturing team had done their level best to prevent a fire from killing us.  How does it do cleaning the clothes?  Pretty well, actually.  Of course, the first few big jobs it had consisted of removing the smell of burning electrical components from all the laundry that had been in the room when it was first used.  Somehow, that has the sound of a government make work project--one guy digs the ditch, the other guy fills it in, two guys supervise, and several administrators complete detailed project assessment forms.  So, this has been an OK machine as far as washing goes but has been exemplary in stimulating the economy and we all know how important that is in today's economy.  How?  Well, some guys designed it, some people built it, the repairman (he really was a good guy, no kidding) got to make several service calls, the help center at Speed Queen kept busy, and my wife and I got to take a total of two whole days off work thus ensuring that our undone work was distributed to others who might have been unemployed if this unique opportunity had not occurred.  Now that's stimulus.  So, as a washing machine, still one star, but as a backdoor economic stimulus, five plus stars with platinum oak leaf cluster surround.