Hi,

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Ten years ago I saw the restrainer legs for wild washing machines... imagine a rubber cake, about 20cm in diameter at the bottom, with a hemispherical pit on top, about 12cm in diameter. Take four of these and seat your machine in it. If it manages to jump out of those, you'd really have to chain it to the floor. Or check whether all the springs which should hold the drum are really there.
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Guess that would do it. Our old machine is what I believe is called a 'top-loader' - a design now almost completely replaced here by the 'front-loader'. My interest in domestic machinery is, at best, minimal but it occurs to me that, based on my limited exposure to such devices in their natural habitat, the 'top-loader' is still prelevant in the U.S ?

Regards,
Viv