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I did not realize that Whirlpool/Kenmore was still using that style of dryer drum that late. I thought they switched to the stationary-back style of drum in the early '60s. When was it?

Toggle: Yes, gas can be expensive in the South for some reason. Natural gas varies a whole lot depending on where the service comes from, though. Up until a few years ago, we lived in a suburb of Huntsville named Madison, an incorporated town which had its own gas board, and it is notorious for...

Heat pumps here. The new house has six-inch-deep exterior walls insulated to R30, and low-E glass everywhere, which helps a lot.

Did those V/W/X/A series agi's leave any room in the tub for clothes???

I know; I keep waiting for them to come up with that 30,000 RPM spin. At the end of the cycle, the clothes are completely dry, but you have to pull them back through the tub perforations.

Getting you whites whiter and your brights brighter in space "It seems like they could use the vacuum of space to pull the water out of the clothes except I think most of it has to be recycled." Right. Unlike the Shuttle, ISS doesn't make its own water. In fact, it's the opposite: it has a...

I remember my great-aunt doing exactly these maintenance steps with her Maytag, as Turbo describes them. Also, wasn't there some kind of strainer under the agi to keep lint out of the drain? I seem to recall that.

Wow! That is one heck of a deal. A lot more than we paid for our set, I can tell you that much... Is the washer the 9360 (the one with the see-through lid)?

So in any human endeavour, if you dig long enough, you will eventually find the bottom-feeders. It's apparent that White's business plan under Reddig was to buy up competitors, gut them, and then trade on their good name until word got around. (BTW, I suspect that's a strategy that would be a...

My great-aunt had a gas stove similar to that. It was a huge six-burner-plus-griddle monstrosity (actually provisioned for eight burners, but only six were installed). Each cluster of four burners shared one pilot, with flash tubes going to each burner. As young children, we were taught never to...

I was going to post in the "dream appliance" thread that my ideal dryer would be one that could be set up to exhaust in the summer, and use a condensor with a heat pump in the winter to put the heat back in the house.

Have the same problem with our dishwasher; the builder didn't put the WH where I told him to, so we have a long line purge we have to do before starting it. Even so, because the cycle is slow, the water in the lines cools off between fills. I've toyed with the idea of plumbing one of those...

I thought that maybe the GE Harmony was so named because it was, as I understand it, a joint project between GE and LG. Back in the '70s Toyota was infamous for picking car model names whose English spellings all started with 'C'. There was the Corolla, Corona, Celia, Cherry...

Bypassing that proportional switch must be what my dad did to get our Model 80 to run after it malfunctioned. (I recall it was broken down several times; I don't know if it was expensive to fix, or if Dad just got tired of messing with it). I say this because, as I recall, it ran whenever the...

Those Simpson tubs look like the inside of a rocket nozzle.

What's interesting to me is, that's almost exactly how the dispenser on the GE Harmony works! Good ideas never die; they just go on vacation for a while.

Oh yeah, you'd need one each of every color...

Aldspinboy, my mom had the Model 80 shown in Gansky's instruction manual scans. As a devoted reader of appliance manuals since I was a small child, as I recall, it used an exhaust temp sensor, and it cut off the dryer when the temp reached a value determined by the white knob inside the console...

UV light in the cabinet I can remember when barbers and hairdressers all had those glass-front cabinets with the UV lights in them and the big red cross emblem on the front. They were supposed to put their scissors and combs in them. I see them turn up now and then in antique stores. Now that I...

I'm jealous. I just want you to know that.