I am just getting started.I needed a refridgerator a couple of years ago.i looked for one everywhere. i found in this little store in North East Portland.A guy had completely gone though this old Sears Coldspot.It is a newer(but still older from the 60s)freezer top , and it jumped out at me. It is beautiful with a new defrost timer and compressor, it will work for years to come. I found on e-bay my Hobart KitchenAid from a man in Wilsonville, Or.He had used it a handful of times;then covered it with a sheet and forgot about it for about 20 years or so. It worked perfect,I use it daily. I also bought a new Miele Touchtronic washer and Dryer and payed cash for them. I took a second job fir six months to pay for them.They are beautiful I also have a 1977 Amana radar range.I had some freinds over the other day, and they asked me where I bought my microwave.i said," that is not a micowave, it is a Radar Range!!" ever so politely. I found a new stand for it.This one is actually heavier than the Radar Range, unlike the previous one. I love old, appliances;and the new ones that I have. I was always told that it is never unwise to wait and get the best that you can get.You will never regret it.
2004 W 1213 Miele honey comb washer
2004 T1403 Miele Dryer
1981 KDS KitchenAid Superba Dishwasher
1998 Ghetto Phabulous Hotpoint Dishwasher
1970 Harvest Gold Hotpoint Drop in Range
1989 Kemore Freezer top Fridge in Bisque
1967 Sears Coldspot White Freezer top Refrigerator
1975 Radar Range-an electronic wonder
2006 KitchenAin Mixer in meranque
Bamix M-133
1950-something White westinghouse countertop oven-White
Duatit toaster in stainless steel
Waring blender in Black
2006 KitchenAid Food Processor, Made in France
1971 Filter Queen Vacuum
2005 Miele Dog and cat, just fabulous
What are your dream machines yet to be found?
-Well, to be quite honest, I am very new at all of this. For the longest time, I though that I was the only person that liked these things.Then I saw someone on HGTV with a basement full of washers and dryers. I was sure that that moment that he was my soulmate or a best friend waiting to happen. I would like to build a colection from what I have.I have had my eye on a Fridigidaire washer and dryer,preferably from the fifties.My first washer was a 1968 Roler matic in decorator avacado green.It met its demise when it sucked a sock into the pump and now it is washing clothes for the angels and probibly Elvis and James Dean I hope!!:) Maybe a early 60s set of Fridgdaire like my Grandma had. The Whitewestinghouse laudrymat set. That looks very apealing, I would jump at the chance to have a set.
What are your earliest and favorite appliance memories?
-My mother had a 1964 Kenmore washer and dryer, her first new set. After 8 years, diapers, and my father, the Sears guy told my mother that it was in need of some serious overhauling. She bought an old Unimatic Fridgidaire set from a garage sale in 1973 for get this, 10(ten dollars).What a buy.The dryer from the Fridgidaire was not working right, so it was paired with the Dryer from the Kenmore set that had a sprung door that mom proped closed with a broom handle. This washer we had a broken lid. it would not keep running. so my mom would go back and bang it a few times to get it going.Being me, I saw that and thoght that it was a good trick. my little hands could not yet turn the knob, but I could bang a lid to get it going. I would go back there all of the time and bang the lid. Even if there were no clothes in it. i was in the laundry room a few times a day. Finally my mother and father recieved the income tax return with the promise of buying a new 1973 Sunrise yellow Maytag set for 390 dollars cash from Stark street appliance.They were installed,but I in my infinate 2year old wisdom, I knoew that there was a problem When I banged the lid, the machine did not start.Mo mom said that i needed to start it with the knob. I cryed!!! oh my!!! I also ewmwmbwe my Grandma having an old White early 60is Fridgidaire washer, dryer, and a 1957 fridge. My Grandma worked in a place where they sold appliances.guess that it runs in the family. I also was at Sears at the mall from the day that they opened in 1977, I was 6 and looking at the Lady Kenmore with the Solid State controls and drooling. The sales lady Willie was nice enough to show me how to work the machine.She showed me how to make the machine go Beep, Beep , boop. The Beep would light up the keypad that I touched. If a wrong selection was made, it would boop(not Betty Boop) just boop and waited for me to make another choice. by the time Willie and I were done, I was an expert at this Lady Kenmore.I also sold a washer one time for one of the Salesmen at Sears.He was busy, but at 10 years old, I knew all of the models well. i sold this lady my favorate model at the time. It was a midle of the road model with five water levels and auto matic water teps, if you were to choose it.My salesmen friend was very happy to say the least.
What is the history of appliances you have owned?
-1968 Fridgidire vcdo green washer and dryer,when I had my first college apt, I bougt a Green Maytag porta-washer.It was great!!I got tired of green and bought my first new washer and Dryer ever a 1999 Maytag Neptune 4000 washer, and a 3000 dryer.When the washer finaly was not holding up to well, the maytag guy went over them with a fine tooth comb, and I sold them and bought a1998 Frigidaire front loader, used in white, with a 1994 Maytag dryer, and used those until I gave them away to friends and bought my new Miele Tochtronic washer and dryer. This washer actually has a heating element inside of it. I only have the cold water hooked up to it. On Sanitize it sounds like a coffee pot.It gets really hot (190 F) the set are puged into a converter box that is pluged into the dryer outlet.they are both 15 amps a piece(most american dryers are 30 amps and 5600 to 7500 wats), where these together are 2600 wats. The special drum, the Honeycomb drum, is fantastic.I get clothes really clean, and it is relaible. I aso have my 1981 Kitchen Aid Superba portable,right along with my Sears cold spot in white.
Have you ever worked on, repaired and/or restored any major appliances?
-i would like to learn. I have repaired an old Kenmore Dryer when I was 16, and cut my hand badly. i had never been into one of those. I also took apart my Neptune Dryer to Vacuum out the lent.It is a pain, but I managed to get it back together and working.This would not be out of my reach, i just need to learn.
