- DO NOT BUY a Staber Washing Machine - What they won't tell you - 7 Updates
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| gerry.allwine@gmail.com: Mar 02 10:14AM -0800 There is a reason Stabers are not sold in stores. When a unit such as the circuit board, pump, drive motor dies a new unit costs as much as a brand new ordinary top loader washer. They are never found in coin laundries. Reason: anything that is dropped between the basket (rotating part) an the drum is a mess to get out. If it will float you fill the drum up with a hose to float the object to where it can be reached. If the thing won't float you have to turn the machine over far enough to cause the object to fall to where you can reach it with a mechanic's long reach grabber or magnet (if the object is iron or steel). DO NOT buy a Staber. We scrapped the one that was newest for a defective circuit board - close to $300 for a replacement. If you have one, be very careful not to drop anything between the basket and drum! If you leave the top up to keep the machine from stinking, always leave the basket doors open to keep anything from falling into the gap. |
| gerry.allwine@gmail.com: Mar 02 10:18AM -0800 The plastic top is El Cheapo vacuum formed plastic that is very easily damaged especially the corners where it is thinnest. It also turns yellow in a few years. |
| gerry.allwine@gmail.com: Mar 02 10:21AM -0800 Non-colorfast dyes. Lots of fabric from India bleeds even in cold water. Do a cycle with only bleeding colors and a cup of table salt. It sets the colors. Not perfectly but much better. |
| gerry.allwine@gmail.com: Mar 02 10:25AM -0800 Stores won't carry Staber because they don't want unhappy customers bringing them back or demanding that the store pick them up. The Staber's controls are crude like something from the 1950s. |
| gerry.allwine@gmail.com: Mar 02 11:39AM -0800 Don't put powdered detergent in the dispenser. Put it in the tub. No more than two ounces of LOW SUDSing at that. Suds don't wash clothes. They are a holdover from the days of actual soap like Ivory Snow® which sudsed unavoidably. People think that suds are necessary. A sudsing agent is added to synthetic detergents for marketing purposes. |
| gerry.allwine@gmail.com: Mar 02 11:51AM -0800 We just had the newer Staber washer hauled off for junk. Blown circuit board. I'm trying to get an object out of the space between the basket and the drum of the older one. It's upside down right now. Shaking it hasn't gotten the object out. |
| gerry.allwine@gmail.com: Mar 02 11:54AM -0800 Stabers are not sold by stores. For good reason. Stores don't like unhappy customers or having to take the machine back. |
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