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I saw that Haier stuff too... curious choice for a high-end setup. But maybe I'm just behind the times -- I don't even know what "edible gold" is!

I guess it works kind of like an electric toilet...

Weather doesn't work this way, unfortunately I wish they could send some of that to Alabama and Georgia. As dry as the inside of a Norge Village dryer after an hour on high.

Was the Admiral design the one with the tray that flipped over? My wife's old fridge had that. It was great when it worked, but it didn't work very often. We have hard water, and the slightest bit of leftover mineral in the try kept the cubes from falling out, and then of course it overflowed on...

Water? That is so 20th-century!

I wuz worng I'll be darned, the washer console really is supposed to be that way! Still looks odd to me, though. If it was turned the other way, the washer and dryer consoles would be a better visual match. Yeah, like I have a right to complain...

I have, for no good reason, spent quite a bit of time hacking the Whirlpool ice maker. Several years ago, the motor quit in the one in our (now 8-year-old) Kenmore. It was cheaper to buy a whole new ice maker than it was to buy the motor, so I bought a new one and popped it in. But, you know, I...

Energy costs and weather Passatdoc, thanks for the interesting data. As a contrast to that, the cost ratio for electricity vs. gas in northern Alabama is close to even. Last winter, our first winter in our new house with about 4200 sq. ft. of space heated with heat pumps, our electric bills...

Kind of odd how the console on the washer looks like it's on backwards; that brushed metal strip in the front of the console kind of looks like it is supposed to be on the back, if you compare it to the dryer console. It also looks like it creates a ledge that impedes your hand when you reach...

I've never seen anything quite like the console on that Kenmore... What vintage would that be? I'm guessing mid-'60s.

Wow, those look like they are in really good shape! Is there a story that goes with them? And, have you had a chance to look over the mechanicals yet?

A couple of questions about that Hotpoint washer: * What is that box attached to the underside of the lid? Sort of looks like it might be a powdered detergent dispenser. * Possibly related: What's up with that funky agi cap? Since that "S" shape in the top clearly isn't a Hotpoint logo, I...

mielabor: Yes, the standard residential service in America consists of two 120-volt legs, 180 degrees apart, and a neutral. You wire from a hot leg to neutral to get 120V, and across the two hot legs to get 240V. True three-phase wiring is common in commercial buildings and industrial machinery...

Wow, Spank, that is some story. Many decades ago, we used to have a Norge Village here. The dryers ran hotter than Hades. They had a big chrome temperature lever across the panel at the top. You dried towels on Medium, cotton shirts on Med/Low, and most other things on Low. You didn't put...

I seem to recall that that panel style, with the big paddle switches for temperature selection and so forth, was late 1970s.

Dryer fire statistics I did some searches through the National Fire Protection Association's Web site (nfpa.org) and pulled down some reports. The most complete data is kind of old (it goes through 1998), but I'm guessing that the yearly averages haven't changed a lot since then. Depending on...

If that. Copper theft is becoming a serious problem everywhere. One of the reasons why is that there are a lot of unscrupulous recyclers that will accept copper from obviously suspicious sources. Police around here have been letting the metal recyclers know that they're keeping an eye on who...

Spin spray in a FL? You're just talking about a spray rinse? I've seen it. Now, I don't associate with FL's much (might ruin my reputation :-), but I recall seeing this an a laundromat FL at a place where I used to do my wash in college, early '80s. I'm pretty sure they were White Westinghouse...

Filter clogging My DW used to use Bounce in nearly every load because our MOL Whirlpool washer didn't have a FS dispenser. After a couple of years, I started noticing that the dryer lint filter was getting hard to clean -- the lint didn't peel off neatly, but rather left a thin layer on the...

rinso: In the Central time zone, I think Concentration came on at 9:00 AM, so yes it was sometimes snooze-inducing. I remember how *quiet* the show always was -- there were no music cues or any such except between games, and the audience was always dead silent during a game. I remember being...