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Just finished putting together the turkey soup, one of the fun parts is always putting all the bones down the Hobart national disposer, took three minutes and 4 gallons of water to grind them all up sent them off to waste treatment where they’ll be turned into fertilizer. Hi Matt and Philly, we...

Best dishwasher detergent Unless you have a water softener or perfectly soft water, you should always use the pods in dishwashers today, the liquids or powders alone will just not do the job. I would also always use two shots of detergent. If you’re doing really dirty loads, for us, I use a...

1995 top-of-the-line electronic Kenmore washer and dryer These were great machines, as far as your questions you should either do nothing or take it all apart and see what needs replacing. As an active tech who is still working, who is literally worked on thousands of these direct drive...

As mentioned in Heinrich’s response, make sure there’s enough water in the machine, most likely the main pump motor has died if it’s not circulating water, even if the diverter were bad, it would likely be circulating water in the upper or the lower arm. The clogging in the ends of the wash arm...

Belts on Maytag HOH dryers The belt tension was deliberately very loose on the motor belt. It reduced stress on the blower bearing and the motor bearings, the best test, of course is to plug the machine in and see if it turns turning it by hand may not be a fair test. When Maytag first came...

Hi Ken, Glenn already answered most of the question, but KitchenAid was always whirlpools top of the line front load washer. They all had a heater, they were all German built. They were discontinued when whirlpool bought Maytag. KitchenAid front load washers were never made in the cheaper...

It’s not the quality of the bearings Hi whirlpool 862, you are doing way too much speculation and making up stuff you need to cite your sources The motor bearings in these machines are running 10 to 20,000 RPMs and they never fail. It’s all about water seals that causes bearing failures and...

Conventional wisdom is not always wisdom I would imagine the reasons they’re reducing the spin speed have more to do about vibration issues, possible washer, self-destructing from washing waterproof bedding that can become suddenly unbalanced during the high spin cycles. Also, there are...

Whirlpool drum belt Pt#s, 3 rib 337019 or the HD 4 rib # is 337555, the 555 was superseded the 3 rib belt but if you can find the 555 it does not squeal as much with very heavy loads. Around 1969 WP switched to the thinner mini poly-bee belts that all makers use to this day which grip better...

I’m sure I have all that information somewhere, but it may be a little hard to put my finger on it, there wasn’t a lot of difference between the KDS 15 and 16 models, or even the 17 for that matter. My favorite of the three was the KDS 16, it was fun watching KitchenAid take a great machine...

And the dishwashers full of clean dishes , forgot to do that before shots as usual very impressive. I think I might’ve removed one knife and one spoon that has a speck of food on them because they were so overloaded.

Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving. This has always been one of my favorite holidays to get together with people for a nice meal. I always try to reach out and find people who don’t have anything to do for Thanksgiving, I called up one of my neighbors whose father had died this past...

Water leak at one of the three tub bolts on a dependable Care Maytag washer First thing to check see if the bolt is just loose try turning it gently. If it seems loose you can probably fix the leak just by tightening it. You can’t tighten it by just turning it on the outside however, I have a...

The imperial is beautiful, along with the beautiful fall foliage

Wow, you’re way over analyzing this very little change. I’m sure the slightly reduced spin speeds are because there have been top load whirlpool machines that flew apart as well as Samsung and LG and others have had trouble with self-destructing washers when unusual Loads of wash that would go...

Dryer belt for 1964 through 69 Frigidaire clothes dryers As Steve mentioned they all use the same belt the only exception where the condenser non-vent models, they still use the double V belt speed reduction in the back of the machine they actually had three belts. There was one to drive the...

A Maytag Atlantis top load washer Was just a re-styled Norge washer, it definitely had a little better performance than the Maytag dependable care machines that’s for sure. It held more turned over the load over better did not redeposit as much lint and sand in the laundry as it pumped the...

Hotpoint 1956 or seven full-size range Thanks for posting. We had a blue one that was just like that. It’s not a one of a kind that’s for sure. It’s a beautiful range. It shared most of the technical components with GE as hot point was a division of GE when this was made I do believe this is...

Incandescent oven lightbulbs Indeed, this will be the last place they ever tried to put an LED or some other type of light since the incandescent lightbulb is only helping heat. the oven anyway ovens are generally heated with resistance electric unless it’s gas. John L