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Hi, What's the R value of that insulation sheet, my guess is that you may need 2 or 3 layers of that insulation sheet. We have usually used a flexible closed cell foam at least 1/2" thick John L.

Nice looking Kenmore electric range Looks to be somewhere in the 80s, probably made by Westinghouse The outlets disappeared because of the danger of chords, touching hot heating elements and causing shorts and shocks, it was a very easy standard to get manufacturers to agree to because it...

Hi Wendy, can you post a picture of the insulation you’ve added above the plastic floor of the refrigerator? I’ve had many customers with the problem of freezing stuff in the crisper drawers at the bottom and we’ve always been able to solve it by adding adequate insulation sheet, there’s just...

Sunbeam, radiant control, toaster My parents got one of these for a wedding gift and we used it for many years, it was repaired once or twice. About 1959 we replaced it with a GE pop-up toaster, which was just superior to the Sunbeam. The main advantage of the GE was it toasted more evenly...

Every once in a while, I find an incandescent bulb still in the house, I noticed that one of my microwave oven still hasn’t incandescent bulb. I quickly changed it out. There’s simply no reason to use 10 times the electricity or something that works no better and actually causes a fire hazard...

Hi Sarah, glad you found the part, GE use virtually the same thermostat in cycle defrost refrigerators into the 80s so they’re not too hard to find. It’s basically a fairly common cycle defrost type thermostat. It’s clamp to the evaporator in the refrigerator section and needs to allow the...

Hi Wendy, there is an aluminum sheet laying directly on the evaporator of your refrigerator, that’s the way it was built and needs to stay The aluminum helps trap the heat from the heater in the middle of the evaporator that defrosts it. It also protects the Styrofoam insulation above the...

95% of gas cooktops and ranges sold in the US today. You can walk right up and turn on all the burners without lighting any of them, there is no safety system other than visual common sense to make sure you actually lit the burner. There are a very few high-end ranges that have automatic...

Meanwhile, back two unimatic washers in the Netherlands. I would agree that it’s likely these machines were made in the US. It would be interesting to know the spin speed and agitate speed of the models made for 240 V sold in the Netherlands, I’m going to bet that it only spun at 970 RPMs and...

Reply number eight chicken farmer from Delaware. You could tell he didn’t know what he was talking about because there’s no such thing as 110 V or 220 V in this country. I’m always amazed how many electricians don’t know their stuff. Yes, you’re charged by watts not by the number of amps...

I’ve seen no problem with the main drive belts from whirlpool for Maytag two belt machines. If the belts are squealing, they’re getting oil on them, you can go ahead and clean the main drive belt. There’s almost never a reason to replace the pump belt on a Maytag washer it would normally...

There are many good, hot air, gas furnaces, you’re generally best with a high-efficiency 90+2 pipe system with ECM fan motor, but it’s really impossible to recommend something because we have no idea where you live if you’re in South Florida get the cheapest thing you can if you’re somewhere...

Whirlpool had a huge plant in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where they assembled and built the Segger designed whirlpool Rotary refrigeration compressors. I believe they also made vacuum cleaners there and they may have made their early dishwashers there before they opened the Findlay Ohio plant for...

I always preferred canister, vacuums over upright vacuums for their superior suction and just general greater utility But I will second the idea of a central vacuum my brother Jeff gave me a brand new Kenmore central vacuum power unit 1984 I installed it and never looked back. I got rid of all...

Hi Sean, how many CFM‘s does that electricfan move? I’m sure you know that it won’t make a darn bit of difference. I only ever saw one clothes dryer that had an input and an exhaust fan and it was the first whirlpool electric dryers, they used identical fan to force air over the heater and...