That’s not a bad idea! On mine, at least, it was loose enough that I don’t recall it being a problem.
Speed Queens always struck me as a big, repairable, industrial washer - glad to know that they are, in fact, exactly that. However, don’t they have an absolutely tiny drum for the machine size?
Yeah, but… I mean, look, now you have a perfectly socially accepted reason to buy a New Washer! Ending is better than mending, the more stitches, the less riches, and all that. “Oh, dear, my otherwise perfectly good car needs a new transmission, that’ll be $2000, better spend $50,000 over the next 8 years instead!”
I’d be willing to bet they also have schematics and troubleshooting available, if you’re the original purchaser. Old PCs came with that sort of stuff too.
Years ago, I helped do some upgrades for a laundromat main PC. It was something like a 386, and they were a bit worried about a hard drive failure - so we used some sort of standalone RAID adapter that let you hang two drives on an ancient ISA bus and replicate them. It was not a high tech environment, but it had been working fine for a decade+, and is probably still soldiering on today.