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Does this actually use a card reader of some sort? That's what that thing at the bottom of the first shot of the electrics looks like. I assume the cards are printed circuit boards with edge contacts? I've never seen or heard of a machine like this.

Cantankerous parents/grandparents hoover1060, your mom sounds just like my maternal grandmother. She wouldn't have any of those "new fangled contraptions" in the house. (She wouldn't have air conditioning either, which made the un-insulated house a miserable experience in the summer in central...

Silver salts, like copper salts, have mild anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties. However, I've never heard that the pure metal does. If metallic silver was really a strong chemical agent, it wouldn't be used in jewelry. Silver, like stainless steel, does have the property that bacteria...

Geoff, that's quite a story! Thanks!

I gotta ask... what were the circumstances of this still being NIB? You say it sat in someone's basement?

I'm trying to find out what year or model the Kenmore washer that my mom had might have been. Here's what I remember about it: * Typical top opening with the straight-edge at the back * Infinite water level (that was one part my dad had to work on a lot!) * Chromed front on the lint filter *...

Well, they can push all they want, but in the U.S. at least, the market is pushing back pretty forcefully. Whenever I walk into a big box place around here, the top loaders far outnumber the front loaders. If the government continues to push the issue, I think there's going to be another...

You mean Britian really did have a Lady Kenmore???

Ya gotta love those lit logos. What do the orange pilot lights signify? Interesting how the builder put in those bathtub-style valves for the washer shutoffs. What do the hoses actually attach to?

They had rinse aid back then? Wouldn't have guessed. When I was a child, in the early '60s, hardly anyone we knew had a dishwasher. Is that black thing in the front left corner of the lower rack a silverware basket?

Newbie! Let me take this thread as an opprotunity to jump in and introduce myself, and make a couple of comments. I've been fascinated by machines of all sorts since I was a very young boy, in the early 1960s (you do the math...). I've always thought of automatic washers and dryers, along with...