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Switched Neutrals In our house nearly all the switched outlets and ceiling fixtures were done by switching the neutral, not the hot. Wow.

Two/Three Stage Grind 'Evolution' Insinkerator refers to their multiple grind machines as 'two' and 'three' stage grind. We have used their two-stage grind (current iteration: 78757K-ISE) since 2017 and have been completely satisfied with it. It eats shrimp shells and banana peels and...

Melvin, I'll try the pump. You're first on the list if it fails. Modern Hygiene really likes this machine...or I would have never, ever, restored the time motor on an avocado anything.

Ben, It's the right one, I grabbed it. Thanks!

Melvin, If Paul doesn't have a pump, I'd be cool with that. I am really not crazy about throwing away vintage anything, much less a Speed Queen. Though, we're in Wyoming, you're in Texas...we'd have to be creative!

Paul, you rock Here's the plate on it. I'll try to get a close up of the pump, tomorrow.

Maat & Ralph, thanks! I'll take whatever pics one my have. One positive benefit from all this screwing and tightening - the sound quality has improved a lot.

With everyone's help here - and thank you! - I got the belts for the Speed Queen. The pump died. I knew it was going which is why I didn't want to touch it, but really? It died just as I was spinning to make sure there was as little water as possible.... Sheesh. So, given that the pumps are...

Depending on the water level The center filter in the non-Whirltag Maytags worked quite well at highest water levels and with cleaning after every use. Nothing approached the Filter-Flo ring. The bed-of-nails Whirlpool design caught VW Microbusses on a good day. Our Thumper (and she's PANK!)...

Lawrence, I've thought of that. Trouble is, in this neck of the woods, at the time these were popular, just about everyone had a party line and that is the primary reason they were disconnected. That and it's getting hard to find rotary dial phones from the 1967-68 era which didn't get tossed...

It would take a state to have the resources To tackle your work, Samantha! All the best and thank you for everything you do for us!

I did take it apart Which is how I found the wires to be so well shielded and tucked away...just, every schematic I can find is so poorly scanned, I can't read it. Would appreciate some help, a clear photo of a working wiring block would do it. It's so hard to find real PANK! and we were so...

Cool! I love the vintage Kirby vacuums! They really clean well and they look great. We're fortunate enough to have several. As to posting here instead of on The Collector's Site Which Must Not Be Named, I believe Samantha modified that ruling quite a while back because some of us are less than...

I found this at a thrift shop for next to nothing. Even the line cord is PANK! It dials out, it receives calls. Speech and listening quality are OK. But - somebody disconnected the ringer (wires are carefully tucked away) and I have no idea where they go to turn it back on. Any ideas? Thanks!

I don't know, exactly But I am curious, too!