Recent content by drh4683

After several years of searching, I found a nice clean low use avocado dishwasher for my kitchen. It's a 1975 GE, model GSD281-02. It is replacing an early 2000's Maytag unit that was in place at the time I bought my house. My house has the original kitchen cabinets from 1964 when the house...

Thank you for the kind words, Bob! I always appreciate your comments and knowledge! I just completed some further refining of my profile collection status, adding in the dates I acquired my appliances. Most of the machines I no longer own are in the care of a very good collector friend of...

Thanks everyone. I'm usually always Johnny-on-the-spot when I find these things as I know all too well how it is when you don't act fast enough to get things out of the house ASAP. Unfortunately I just didn't have the ability to make it happen as fast this time. I also collect vintage TV's...

I found a nice matched pair 1978 Maytag washer and dryer in Harvest Gold at an estate sale last weekend.  They were in the basement of a 1920's bungalow in Berwyn (just outside of Chicago). They look to be lower hour machines, no rust and very well cared for.  The washer is a GA208 (date code...

Thanks John. I'll also send a message to Justin to see if he knows too before I mess something up. It seems like it's really clipped on pretty well, so still a bit apprehensive to be pushing/prying too hard until I know for sure how it works.

I have a recently acquired '67 GE model TCF-19DCB refrigerator that I installed in my kitchen. I know this is a basic question, but is there a trick to removing the white plastic lens/shield to gain access to the light bulb? Usually you can feel carefully to determine how things like this clip...

I came across this nice pair of clean low hour 1974 Lady Kenmores in Coppertone at an estate sale a couple weeks ago. I wasn't expecting to find these, nor were they initially offered for sale when I spotted them. They were in a very nice all original upscale home built in 1958 in River...

I recently purchased some avocado appliance touch-up paints off the web, which are the correct porcelain enamel. There were three different types available that I could find. There is Sheffield number 1672 (dark avocado) and 1671 (light avocado), and Whirlpool 72109 "New Avocado". I put all...

Problem solved I bought one of the more common 1-RPM Kingston timer motors off eBay to take apart and see how it compared to my 1/3 RPM unit. I figured the gear trains should be very similar for the sake of reducing production costs and that ended up being the case. Both gear trains are...

Thanks for the screen shot with part numbers, Ben! I will take note of that for future reference. Regarding Mikes timer motor, that is indeed the wrong one for my application. I failed to see his was marked as a 2/3R motor, so thanks for pointing that out. I was looking at the axle...

Mike kindly sold me this spare timer motor. Thanks again, Mike! I'm learning a bit more about these Kingston timers. Apparently mine is a 1/3 RPM unit, which explains the 5th gear. The 4-gear timers I've seen on eBay are all 1 RPM. The metal cases are stamped to designate the output...

That's exactly it! Are you interested in selling it? Thanks!

Back in January, 2014, I purchased and installed one of those brass armature drive gears for a Kingston model 60 timer motor from Dave Harnish for use in my 1973 Frigidaire dryer (WIA3T), as it suffered from the usual broken plastic drive gear at the time. My 1-18 set has been serving me well...

Hey Ben, Finding NOS appliances has always been a dream of mine! What a goldmine there! Thanks for sharing the pics. Maybe lightening will strike twice. I can only hope!

I've been on the hunt for a GE Americana, preferably in Avocado, but Coppertone and Harvest Gold is ok too. 1969-1980 models. Been searching for quite a number of years such as Facebook Marketplace with no luck. Anyone have one they'd like to sell? I'm willing to do a roadtrip from Chicago.