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I have a couple early 1980s SQ Marathons: an '82 with porcelain tub and an '84 with stainless tub-noisy and a little crude,but effective :) nowhere near the fit and finish quality of an older DC Maytag,but those are a high standard in that regard.

I think plasma TVs were sold from about 2002-15,for a while they were the only flat screen with a fast response.I remember reading about experimental plasma TVs in Popular Science about 1986. I recently added a 55" Sanyo plasma from ~2011 to the TV fleet-have not tested it out yet.

I have never seen one in person,but there were some big early '80s boom boxes that could play a 12" record vertically.

that is a large,complex boom box-8" woofers? D-cell batts? 1983? :) I have around 6 boomboxes: 2 good size ones, A Sharp from around 1980 and a Magnavox from '85. a small one worth noting is a Russian one made in 1995-all Russian parts. My biggest music machine is an AMI jukebox from 1976,loaded...

Seek and scan radio was a cool feature in the '79 Park Avenue For cars affected by this features subcription phenomenon, think of buying a smartphone and then buying apps to set up the device to your liking...features are built into the car-just extra cost subscription to unlock them...

... seems with certain new cars you can pay to unlock features built into the car you bought-extra horsepower, special interior lighting, and other doo-dads... several decades past are the days of checking off options such as radial tires,fm radio,v8 engine,automatic transmission,etc. :)

just got this: 27" stack set-have tried yet, seller stated dryer works good, washer does not work. Washer does turn nice and looks to be classic "small door" design. Clean,low miles :) GLEH1642DSI . any comments before I dig into this for a fix ? 12/05 build,so almost imperial :)

I used to find these jap twin tubs at the dump in 1982-83 and they were a prize find for a kid. Rubber hoses under the skirt cracking was a major problem-somehow hoses would react to plastic fittings they were clamped to and get brittle there. Machines by Matsushita,Sanyo,Hitachi,Brother were...

i used to think Frigidaire was the worse-cheap little brushed dc motor and about 100% fail rate door switch,but i do not know if they wash ok.In all the bad FD dishwashers i have junked,the PMDC motor was in decent working order though. PM "wet rotor"dishwasher pump motors seen to only last...

my mom still uses a Marvin twin window fan i bought her in 2001-it was the only US made fan besides Vornado I could find at the time.The Marvin has two~8" stamped metal fan blades and the whole fan is turned in the window for intake or exhaust.

The saggy jeans thing finally faded away in my area a couple years ago after having started about 1992...

I told him no suprize that rectifier tube got hotter than the other tubes-it was a #80,quite substantial rectifier for the size of radio.

Guy at work got his '30s GE radio and has not gone well so far: radio hums loudly from speaker,does not play,and he thought the transformer was burnt out because some black tar had oozed out around the leads(i advized this is normal to find) he said one tube got very hot right away-the...

GE filter flo washers agitate instead of spin when helix spring clutch is broken-similar cause with this Maytag- those in the know with Maytags could advise where this helix spring is on a Maytag

very nice and does look '30s :)

...Those wooden cabinet German radios, other European ,Japanese... :) The German ones seemed to first come our way about 1952 and always proper transformer power supply-sometimes tube rectification,sometimes flat-pack selenium bridge rectifier. Selector switches like to fall apart and spill tiny...

#11,indeed a good AA5 can pull in distant stations quite well :) Have not put my more recent find AA5s or 4 tube Meteor to proper DX tests. I have a Philco HIFI phono similar to the one Matt posted awaiting repair: made in 1954 and decent size amp.

neither does my 1980 GE top freezer ( i have replaced both fans about 15 years ago-when they got noisy). Years ago had a family reunion and ran a couple spare fridges in the yard in direct sunlight : one a 2013 model the other an old 1977 WCI Kelvinator-the Kelvinator with about 1/4 hp...

I have one like top right and like the clock radio middle shelf,and one similar if not same as big radio middle shelf :series string AMFM Japanese from about 1963

...Canadian made also -thread for "foreign"radios coming later :) Guy at work has recently gotten interested in old tube radios-especially 1930s era.He bought a mid-1930s GE in working order that someone recapped and checked the tubes: in under picks of the recapped chassis,looked like all the...