of the locking pins 40 and the pins 40 then fall downwardly under the influence of gravity to disengage from the apertures in the plates to prevent the pins 40 from falling into the bottom of the cabinet and rolling around or from becoming engaged in other portions of the mechanism there is provided below each pin 40 a cup 78 which has an open top end 80 to abut against the bottom surface 44 of the base plate 26 a tab 82 projects outwardly from the side of the cup 78 and extends through and is captured in an aperture 84 in the base plate 26 the cup 78 is thus removably retained adjacent to the base plate 26 and will hold the pin 40 after it has been released if there is ever a need to reship the washer and to provide a shipping restraint the pins 40 will be available for reuse the tab 82 can be disengaged from the base plate 26 to provided access to the pins 40 and then the cup 78 can be reattached to the base plate 26 for reuse thus there is disclosed a removable shipping restraint system which interlocks cooperating horizontally slidable suspension members in an automatic washer the vertically extending locking pin 40 is gravity biased to fall from its.