Recent content by cfz2882

as a kid,thought Whirlpool was on it's way down when they started "welded" plastic pump covers about 1978 instead of the earlier clip on ones...:) About the same time,WP went with all Emerson motors vs GE/Emerson mix.

pump style presuming that was a PM "wet rotor"pump on that 2004?

Junk LGs I have a little Goldstar mini fridge from 1982,still works good :) Those linear conpressors of~a decade ago(?) were a big problem-valve plate breaks up and LG was evasive on repairs...The bad,100% fail rate,linear compressors were replaced with standard rotary motor recip compressors...

earliest consumer LED clock... ...seems to have been a Texas Instruments bedside alarm clock released in the latter part of 1974-red display of course,and made in USA :)

shipping hardware left installed i have gotten a couple washers where the machine was run a while with tub secured: one was a 1977 24"BD,the other a modern front loader,possibly a Korean import, that had bolts screwed into plastic outer tub.

bad bearings on recent VMW washers. Presuming the bearings are failing from water contamination? Even cheapo Chinese bearings should last many years in a washer.

VMW problem areas for me I don't repair washers as a business-just sometimes repair machines worthy of salvage -Failed main seal/ruined bearings-several of these. -bad PC boards:on a '10 Bravos,visably bad capacitors were noticed-replaced these and machine fixed-this is a...

GE tranny / and also pump in original post If you mean "model T" GE, those have oil in the transmission. -Original post VMW:different pump location-i have only seen the vertical pumps-is this a recirculation pump or a later design change?

It's from the gearcase There is oil in the gearcase,motor is just a little grease in the ball bearings

install glare bomb LEDs in the pursuit of energy efficiency. I was at Walmart the other day and noticed all the LED parking lot lights were blaring away in broad daylight :) I Love to see this-Leds dimming themselves out uselessly on in daytime!

neon more common that was the more common method-i have a GE of about the same vintage as the one you mentioned and had to change out that little neon bulb as old one was dim and flickering-this was a little chrome and black clock radio with AM/FM :)

...since discussion of lighted clocks has came up,will add these to the discussion :) -Electroluminescent panel lighting of analog electric clocks,two eras of these: -first was about 1959-72,usually pale blue color and usually clock radios.The one exception I have found to the blue color was a...

I have a Sankyo too-earlier model than the one in reply 12,i think it is from around 1972 and not lighted.runs good,not in regular use. I have a Sony flip clock radio from 1975,unusual clock lighting-orangish numerals glow green when lighted by a tiny cold cathode UV blacklight(that still lights...

Tri-mode Philips In a guest bathroom vanity,I have 3 Philips bulbs that can switch color temp by quickly flicking the light switch:one mode is low intensity warm color "nite lite"

drum clocks in cars too... ...especially big GM boats of the early 1980s-the motor was reliable on these clocks,but after 20 or more years of operation the teeth on the drums would wear and the numbers would often not quite line up.