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I've got plenty of Torx drivers, even security Torx. I ordered the base and the gaskets and they are on the way. I hope that it doesn't happen again. There's no reason why it should. Like I said, this Sanitaire is living a pampered life. It is looked after as if it was an heirloom Kirby. I even...

Why don't they want their patrons to use powdered deterg I've heard from several sources that powdered detergent is better for a front loading machine as most liquid detergents tend to cause a build up which create odors over time. I don't know about the spiders on these, but what about the...

I was changing a belt in my Sanitaire the other day and discovered a vertical crack on the right side of the base right where the inner "wall" of the brushroll chamber meets the outer edge of the base. The crack looks as if it starts just under the edge of the chrome hood and stops about 80% of...

Looks like a 1950s/1960s Williamson. I haven't seen one in the flesh as an HVAC tech (all I usually see are units from the past 25 years), but I do remember seeing a forced air furnace with a large footprint like those units, and it was a Williamson. Similar color of blue. It was an oil burner...

My neighborhood is quiet, thank God... It's your typical suburban cul-de-sac. A few families with obedient kids, some retirees, and a couple young couples like my wife and I. There is a train about a mile away but I never hear it all that often. We live near a freeway. There's a bit of trees...

I was not aware that cast iron was washable. I've heard all along that it wasn't, especially from my grandma. I remember when I was about eight or nine years old and I helping my grandma with kitchen cleanup and I loaded my grandma's big cast iron pan into her dishwasher. My grandma never got...

Apologies in advance to fans of cast iron cookware - it is my understanding that there are fervent believers out there. No offense and I will not take offense if you call me a crazy germaphobe, lol. I went to a fundraiser raffle/dinner with my wife last night at the hospital where she works as...

My grade school had a Garland range, a pair of Blodgett stacked convection ovens, a Hobart passthrough dishwasher, two McCall fridges with the digital Kol-Gard temp readout and two Koch freezers. This was in the early 2000s. I think that everything but the pair of Koch refrigerators was bought...

Cool beans! I think it's only been a Staber washer that I've seen with an H-axis in the top loading configuration. I would have never expected the tumble dryers to be built in a similar configuration! I've just started flipping through this and can't wait when I have the time to read this page...

A while back I bought an immersion blender to make milkshakes, coffee shakes and smoothies without dirtying up my Oster blender. I was crestfallen when I discovered that it made more noise (and mess) than action. I'd like to get my hands on one of those DQ Blizzard machines. I remember when our...

You are so knowledgeable Laundress... You remind me of my junior high Home Ec teacher, Mrs. Pickett. She taught us all sorts of cool things that I still remember today. I think it might be your profile picture too. It kind of looks like her.

NSF is no longer "National Sanitation Foundation" ...nor do they just set standards for or certify foodservice equipment or plumbing pipes. They have expanded their testing, research and certification to other industries and their products. The acronym no longer stands for anything because they...

My favorites: -Comet (or its generic equivalent) for my stainless kitchen sink and the porcelain pedestal sinks in our house -Simple Green for the microwave and oven. Generic oven cleaner for the occasional spill. -A few drops of Dawn and a tablespoon or two of bleach in 5 gal. pail of hot...

I heard about early mechanical washers being made of wood, but I just assumed those were domestic wringer-type washers made out of somebody's barn with a wooden barrel and a spare gas two-stroke engine or electric motor. I never knew that there were H-axis industrial washers with wood drums...

I think that machine you posted there used the metal wire/wood dowel racks I was talking about earlier. I just don't know how wood would hold up in such an extreme environment. Moisture, heat, chemicals, and then there's the issue of bacteria and fungi since after all, wood is an organic...

Here's a closeup of the CD-3 Pretty cool, huh?

Tsk-tsk on me... Yesterday, I made a promise to upload a picture of the old Colt Autosan dishwashers featured in a catalog ca. 1925 and I completely forgot about the obligation I had made. I apologize. Well, I remembered and found the picture of the catalog page featuring Colt Autosan...

What kind of Colt Autosan and about how old? Anything with Colt Autosan stamped on it must've been really old. If I remember correctly, Vulcan-Hart acquired their foidservice division in the late 50's, early 60's. From what I understand, Colt's foodservice division consisted of dishwashers and...

I even offered to show the kid manager what he had to do until they fixed the root cause (eliminate a nesting place in the condensing unit with a proper shroud/enclosure). He claimed that he was busy and that he'd figure it out when he had time. Before I left, I just said that I came here...

An old Hobart KitchenAid Seriously, I don't know why coffee shops, diners, etc. couldn't use these back when they were sold instead of true commercial undercounter tank machines. They clean well and they last. The only caveats of using one today is that you will not get the "less than five...