Recent content by arbilab

I'll watch DTESS any time it's on.  I think what makes it work so well is the degree to which it is understated, particularly for the genre.

When Westinghouse was about chin deep in brown water they built tract housing in Florida.  Wasn't a megalomaniacal CEO's idea though, they paid consultants to come up with it.  [rolleyes]   The only legacy corporation I can think of that does better now than it did before is Pepsi.  Always #2...

What I don't get is washers with smoked windows.  Can't see diddly.  What's the point?  Rather like fat-free half and half.

Last several years, complaints have been registered [largely online] about Planter's dry roast peanuts.  Longtime buyers saying flavor is wrong, rancid, lower-grade [smaller] nuts.   Coincides with Planters being bought out by Kraft, the WCI of packaged foods.  Their 'French onion dip'...

Westinghouse used a gearbox semi-sporadically among models.  We had both.  The spin side of the gearbox quit after much use and was replaced.  Not long after, the machine was replaced by a newer one with 3 belts, intermediate tumble idler, and spin sheave directly on the motor shaft.  Again...

After the twinny spinny I hang towels over the showercurtain rod.   By the time everything else is done they are dry enough to use (if a bit clammy).  The dryer finishes everything off in 15min.  Except socks, which get to lay out till the next afternoon then put away.   In Hawaii, never had a...

Hyp-mo-tizing!

That one is ahead of the game, it still has all 4 operating knobs.  Usually the cables get stiff, the user forces them and the knobs break.   It's next to top of line.  Top had two motor speeds, if they still made that model by that time.  Murray wasn't really in the laundry business, more...

Our 1953 'ranch' had round ones but the 57 were flat/rectang.

You'll throw sugar cubes at me.  I use microwaved bottle water, a spoon, and Nestle Taster's Choice.  If it's any consolation, it's relatively expensive.    I've tried everything short of roasting my own, could never get consistent results much less satisfactory.  The only coffee I could...

It doesn't "wiggle" so much as, sashay.   It's the 'gearshift' that switches between agitate and neutral, at the same time switching the pump from recirc to drain.  Then if the lid is closed, switches the tub brake off and the spin clutch on.   Belt Whirlpools without a working wigwag are...

Who made it not who built it?  First, what's the distinction?   Too late for Baxter Stove Co, too early for WCI.  Too largescale for Dominion.   I'm stumped.  Ohio State Reformatory?

<blockquote> Westinghouse movers for airports, I cannot come up with the name </blockquote> Would that be Schindler?

<blockquote> My Mr Slim has stopped cooling well after abt. 8 yrs </blockquote> I'd bet on RoHS brazing at the evaporator.  Used to take closer to 30yrs for that to fail. <blockquote> 25,000 BTU... 11A of 230v current </blockquote> 2.53kW doesn't sound that bad for that big.  @15c/kWh, an...

Hmmm.  With our 'cold' water being 80F almost half the year, the lowest the recirc air dewpoint could get would be..... more than that.   You don't suppose the salesman would tell you that, do you?