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Orth., Lon., and S. Fil. It's a record compensator or equalizer with 4 choices. I think they would correspond to L.P. for Columbia records, ORTH for RCA Victor, LON for Decca, and S.FIL. for a shelf filter with a different low frequency response.

Reply #33 Would that be a black and white TV set? I think we had one like that.

reply #6 If you're seeing ads all of a sudden maybe your upgraded membership just ran out. This happened to me recently and it took me 2 days to figure out, ha ha.

all the warnings about not sitting on the roof of the car It's interesting to see the changes in instruction manuals over the years. The ones for my Maytag wringer are little works of art, and every other paragraph isn't a safety warning with big exclamation points. The 1955 manual hints at...

what's wrong with the other two? Nothing except QUEEN is still spelled wrong. It used to say soeed queeen. The dryer was listed as a washer.

Just the other day I took down a hornet nest. I would have left it alone but it was so close to my front door I wanted it gone. I waited til after dark, made a kind of trap out of a plastic water jug, covered myself from head to toe, goggles and all, poured some gasoline in the jug, slipped it...

kitchen cabinets too My kitchen cabinet sink was made by Murray. They had a plant in Scranton, not far from my house. The sink is a single basin but has 2 huge drainboards which I really like.

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Newbie question answered POD is the Picture of the Day. It's a hyperlink at the bottom of each page, or on the main page it's also a hyperlink under the Daily Double hyperlink near the top of the page. We're not ever supposed to post the picture itself into any of the question forums.

Eddie, did you know, in Spanish, Nova means "it doesn't go".

Sorry to hear that about Dollar Tree My Dollar Tree is a very nice store, I hope it stays open and that the only ones they close are in poor condition in the middle of nowhere.

Plain old tube socks have become very hard to find. I prefer them too, and found some at Ollie's Bargain Outlet a while back. If you have an Ollie's nearby you might try there.

Yes I think it might be repairable One day about 22 years ago my small Kenmore microwave went POOF when I hit the start button. I really doubted whether I could repair it, but I opened it up just to have a look, and noticed a broken wire. I reattached the wire and it's been doing fine ever...

Dove for Dishes Just found out this summer, when I went to buy some, that you can't get "Dove for Dishes" anymore. My last bottle lasted such a long time because I used it only for cleaning phonograph records, the vinyl ones not the older shellac discs. I couldn't find anything that looked...

serial number Are there any letters or only 6 numbers?