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Thanks for the replies, guys...I thought "take the fan with you" might be the answer. What I did was rub off an impression of the screw with a pencil onto a Post-It note. I compared the bits at the store with the impression and determined it was most likely a 5/32", but possibly a 3/16". At...

I recently acquired a 1950s-era Fresh'nd-Aire table fan (yes, one of those great classics with a two-blade airplane-style propeller and a very unsafe grille by today's strict standards). The motor needs a good disassembly and cleaning as the bearings are all gunked up and the prop won't spin...

So does the badge on the front of the rental truck stand for "Giant Maytag Collection"? Or "Got Maytags Comin'"? :-)

Yep...Frigidaire was a product of GM until 1979-80. Since Adam Opel is GM's German subsidiary and the comparable fridge here would have been badged "Product of General Motors USA", the emblem on the German eBay offering makes sense.

In the UK: Brown is Live Blue is Neutral Green with Yellow stripe is Earth ("Ground" in the US).

It's not a real Frigidaire, it's a "Fraudgidaire." I espied one of these machines at a garage sale several years ago thinking it was one of the coveted window-lid 1-18s; I nearly crapped my pants when I discovered it had a standard oscillating agitator, not the pulsator in the real GM thing. Not...

8-track cartridge + 16mm film = La Belle Commpak! The thought of a combination as strange as that got me Googling, and I hit pay dirt (link below). Also, the RCA and Viewlex "1600" 16mm projectors were the only projectors with a removable automatic threading guide. (RCA introduced the "1600"...

One thing about the Eiki NTs, Deeptub, is that on the early (circa 1979-81) models you had to flip the rewind lever down and then turn the motor on, just like the RTs. Around 1982 Eiki added a microswitch that turned on the motor whenever the rewind lever was flipped down, which put an end to...

Deeptub, do you recall if the Eiki 16mm projectors in which the film fluttered through its path were turquoise blue in color? If so, they may have been the older RT series. On the NT series (black case), the claw and shoe retracted during threading and the film (usually) passed through without...

Mimeos and Dittos and 16mm, oh my! While you can do a lot more with a Mac and a laser printer these days, nothing beat that certain je ne sais quoi of handouts fresh from a spirit duplicator, not to mention the fun of making Ditto masters. (I'm wondering whether masters and fluid are still...

FWIW, from the 1950s to the '70s, Ford Motor Co. in the USA used the "Super Duty" name on their largest-capacity truck tractors (think eighteen-wheelers); now that name appies to any truck from an F-250 pickup on up.

I would love to see an exploded diagram of the Versatronic clutch. The GE two-speed clutch was a strange beast to begin with, but it sounds like nothing compared to the carbon brushed and silicon-rectified sci-fi Versatronic. :-) (Don't get me wrong...I've always been a fan of the Filter-Flo...

Great set, but I'm wondering why the washer has the "Super V14" Activator while the control panel identifies the machine as a "Heavy Duty 16". Was the washer's agitator replaced at some point, or were some 16-lb machines designed around 14-lb agitators?

I vaguely recall "tawny gold". Was that harvest gold by another name?

Xenon arc? Judging from the whiteness and brightness of the lights shown in the picture and the "do not attempt to replace the bulbs" admonishment in the user's manual, I wonder if those lights use miniaturized xenon arc lamps like those in luxury car headlights (and baby cousins to the lamps...

There should be a narrow access plate secured by one screw on the back of the unit, in the upper-right corner (at least that's where it is on my RR-700). Unplug the oven, remove the screw and the plate, and there's the bulb. Good luck!

Thanks, Jerry, for the information! Looks like BOL models to me.

Since I'm the seller of said timer, please let me 'splain... I bought this timer taking a wild chance that it might work in my circa-1974 model W3T-22 Gold Crown 1-18, but it did not match (fewer circuits and one less notch in the stop cam). Since the basic construction of this timer is similar...

I've created a monster... Wow...I never expected that much of a reaction to the Victor post. With PowerPoint and DVDs now the norm, today's students will never have the same fond (?) memories of audio-visual equipment in general as those raised in the 16mm era. Kenmore1978: As an LAUSD student...

Also, Victor Talking Machine/RCA Victor was in no way related to Victor Animatograph Corporation, later Kalart-Victor Corporation, now-defunct makers of well-built 16mm sound movie projectors and other audio-visual equipment.