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Embraco comps are good I see them on light commercial equipment pretty frequently. I've got one on my Whirlpool French door. I am betting that the eventual demise of that fridge will be with the control board and not the compressor. Whirlpool fridges are decent, but I still want a big ol'...

I'm very picky when it comes to certain kinds of applian Like I need to have stainless steel kitchen appliances, a front loading washer with steam, no in-door ice or water on my fridge, a high-CFM range hood, an NSF certified sani cycle on my dishwasher, a direct-air vacuum cleaner, etc., but...

I hate LED The LED bulbs for light fixtures are OK, but for things like street lamps and especially headlights on cars, they're horrible. Even though I can't stand the effect of really bright white spots where the LED poles are (and dark areas in between) instead of the softer, more even...

Come to think of it... I have a B&D Classic iron and have had it for about seven years (it was definitely my first iron). I think that it is built pretty well and works great, though I only use it occasionally as 99% of the time my clothes are fine as-is out of the dryer and most of the apparel...

Sanitaire commercial vacuums - While the Eureka F&G upright hasn't been produced for a few years, it still lives on as the Sanitaire heavy duty commercial upright. KitchenAid stand mixers - still has the same basic design as the old Hobart-made machines. Whirlpool top-filter dryer - Has been...

I wish there were ovens on the market today that vented to a chimney (or, rather, outside). I'd buy one! I think that the best oven would be so effective at aroma/odor control that a burglar could break in to your home, roast a turkey or something and you'd never know it until you saw the timer...

I forgot to add that yes, most appliances typically have surge protection built in but not in the way you'd think (protection of the machine's components). It's more of a fire prevention thing since a fire is bound to start if tens of even hundreds of thousands of amps pass through the tiny...

I have my Kenmore (LG) front loader plugged into a surge protector. At $20 for a decent surge protector, it's cheap insurance but you have to remember to replace them every 2-3 years, they do NOT last forever and do wear out from having to sustain spikes after so long. I simply use the kind that...

Growing up, my parents had a ca. 1997 KitchenAid electric range. Before that, I think it was a Kenmore electric range (WCI/Frigidaire?) from the late 1980s. Dishwasher was a GE Potscrubber original to the house (late '80s) and the refrigerator was an Amana bottom freezer ca. 1997. I think the...

Yes I am! I had to join when I scored these. As far as "starting out" as a collector, I think that what I have now will be it. My wife doesn't have the same appreciation as I do when it comes to appliances. I don't want to push her limits :-) but I'm thinking that I'm going to be in a huge...

Found both at Goodwill. Just happened to walk in for no particular reason, just wanted to look around. Wasn't even looking for a vacuum as I am quite content with my Sanitaire SC886 but at $20 for the Kirby (with ALL attachments INCLUDING the shampoo system and Suds-O-Gun!) and $15 for the...

That's a hard thing to do Seems like most of them are produced by Galanz Guangdong, which rusts out so easily and have a tendency to burn out real fast. Back when I was single and out of college I had a Kenmore and then an Oster; both were made by Galanz and both were horrible. When I...

I'm a millennial and I actively avoid any "eco" or "pure" cleaning products.

Who would DARE throw such a fine machine away like that? These are NOT $49 Walmart specials! I think of Kirby as an heirloom appliance, something that stands the test of time and gets passed on from generation to generation, and if it does break, it gets fixed. Society is so wasteful!

Grew tired of my Hoover SpinScrub 50 with its flimsiness and its propensity to go through brush turbines, so I purchased a Rug Doctor X3 with the hose attachment. It is evidently the same rugged machine that they rent out. The only difference from what I can tell is that the rentals are red and...

I like those soft vanilla/sugar cookies with the frosting on top. I'm not much of a baker so I usually cheat and buy them at the bakery of a grocery store. My grandma, however, made them homemade and they were better. Unfortunately, she passed when I was in college and I never found the recipe.

I have made it a policy to never buy any dishwasher or laundry detergent pacs. I've heard that it is bad news for the pump of the machine. It's also usually cheaper just to buy the powder or liquid (I use powder Cascade). I'd love to get my hands on institutional-grade detergent just to see if I...

I ran into a somewhat similar situation at Target one day. An elderly couple was looking at vacuums while I was nearby buying carpet cleaner solution (which I normally get from Walmart, but my wife had a coupon that made it half of Walmart's price). I overheard them remarking to themselves that...

My wife works on Thanksgiving (she's a cardiac CCU RN). I should be off but I am on my on call rotation, so if somebody has no heat at home or a store loses a refrig unit then I am one of the first to be called, so Thanksgiving this year will be short and sweet. As for the meal, my wife and I...

The looks wouldn't concern me as much as what it must smell like. Most old stoves I've seen at auctions or wherever smelled like rancid grease, even the ones that looked clean. I'm sure appliance techs can confirm that the grease works its way into every little seam or cavity on the backsplash...