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They are meant to be user-serviceable, with common hand tools. You can take it apart and put it back together.

It's a cage-like drum that rotates on horizontal axis, much like any front-loader. But it's a top loader; the cage has a door that you open to load or unload. The drum is supported like a wheel, both front and back of the washer.

A neighbor told us that this style is seen in Germany, but I'd never seen a setup like this. It's very simple and quite durable.

I don't have any connection to Staber. Just after ten years of in home daycare, 200 miles from anything resembling a city, I was quite thrilled to finally be able to check off the clothes washer as a problem solved.