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Fiestaware Red. (Don't use the uranium paint, though!)

White tab! Yellow tab! (Or did the Swinger not use the Type 108 film? I don't remember now!)

Perils of common venting When I was in high school, we had an ancient chemistry lab that had two fume hoods tied to a common duct. We had signs all over the place telling everyone that anytime you used a fume hood, you needed to turn both of them on. If you didn't, the one that was on would...

That's the effect of that hi-definition Wisk.

Isn't the console light a manual start, like a desk lamp? You just hold the button down for a few seconds until it lights.

I figured someone needed to be told about this, and for no apparent reason I thought of you guys: http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2008/05/roland-sh-101-pink_03.html

So that pelican would have been a Blackstone? Trivia: The familiar "Meet the Flintstones" theme is not the original theme song. In the first season (when it was on in prime time) they used a song called "Rise and Shine". The ending was also a different animation; it still involves the cat...

Tried to post this yesterday, and there was some kind of Javascript problem... 25 Hz like DC? Er, sort of, but not that much. I believe the main motivation behind 25 Hz was that, back in the early days, it was hard to build high-RPM motors that wouldn't self-destruct. A four-pole synchronous...

Interesting threads about wiring practice and historical anomalies in other parts of the world. FYI, 25 Hz power was readily available in Birmingham, Alabama as recently as 1980. The steel mills there used gobs of it, and it was made available to other commercial installations. I've heard of...

Launderess: "In the early 2000's Maytag purchased Amana from Goodman" So does this mean Amana is part of Whirlpool now? Or did it get spun off in the Maytag buyout?

Experience with DD I had a 1991 model that lasted for 16 years. The only repair I ever did on it was to replace the ratchet inside the agitator that drives the "corkscrew". When I got rid of it, it was still working but spinning was kind of slow, and at the beginning of a spin it made a noise...

What's interesting to me is that cursive font they used on the button legends. I don't think I've seen that on any of the other 'Tag pics I've seen here.

I recall my mom's early-'60s Kenmore having a cold wash / warm rinse setting. What would that have been good for?

It works. If you selected a color cycle (as opposed to a fabric cycle) on the washer, the dryer will ask what fabric is to be dried. If you selected a fabric cycle on the washer, all the dryer settings are automatic. We've learned that with some things, particularly heavy cottons like...

Here ya go guys. Not sure what year it is, but it looks to be in fairly good shape. http://huntsville.craigslist.org/hsh/621062081.html

That is very cool! A lot of amateur telescopes are made from those concrete form tubes.

Everything old is new again! I recall some machines from the early '60s that had these bulk dispensers. I don't think it turned out to be that much of a selling point. As Frigilux points out, some people like to use different detergents for different loads, or more/less depending on what kind...

Self-cleaning lint filter I wonder how the self-cleaning lint filter referred to in the ad worked. It's definitely not the later one that was full of marbles; those were't visible to the user. And of course the regular waterfall filters were not self-cleaning. I know this for a fact because one...

Brant, good point. And let me add: it is my understanding that if you have reason to suspect that a check is no good, then if you deposit it that technically constitutes fraud even if you have no criminal intent. caprice may have a point about a "spy" actually. I frequent a music recording...

Everybody put on your blindfolds!