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I ran a couple of errands in and around Fort Lee & Englewood yesterday. First time doing so during business hours in at least a month. Fort Lee is the NJ side of the George Washington Bridge. I can walk from my building across the bridge to the subway in less than a half hour. Anyway...

Some of the coin machines allow (or used to) you to avoid the fee by choosing a receipt that's only good at the store the machine is in as well choosing as a gift card. I've seen an occasional mention of the coin 'shortage'. They all said the same thing. The 'shortage' is from people not...

#8 According to a girl I knew in college, cadaver kicking is MUCH scarier while you're transporting a body and the kick randomly hits something hard (like a side panel) and makes a loud noise and sounds rather like a person trying to get out. She was amazed she kept control of the car until she...

I'd look where the arm connects to the gearbox and anywhere else you have metal sliding along/on/past metal. My grandparents had a fan like that with a rattle I couldn't pinpoint by ear. I slid the corner of a piece of paper into joint I could. I located the one(s) rattling. Silly, but it...

I checked the link. Yeah, I'm almost tempted to ask, but not tempted enough to actually log in.

Vinegar in the fabric softener compartment helps my towels stay fluffy...

I had an Equator 3600e (IIRC) from 2001. Aside from having to remove the fan housing and clean it out, it performed brilliantly. HOWEVER, I am literally the only person I know who had an Equator and never had any problems. Wait, no. I think Combo52 has encountered one or two satisfied customers...

Unless there's some kind of change with compressor operation, they seem to be more marketing gimmicks than anything else. I recall mention in another thread a few years back that the fan consumes a very small portion of an a/c unit's total electrical usage. Given that when the fan turns off...

That poor lady's fate sounds like an opening scene from 6 Feet Under.

My place is small enough that my one-pipe American Standard air handlers provide enough circulation. Dehumidifiers handle the humidity........ Anyway, I saw this and have to say I'm impressed with how the text makes it into something it's not... without actually lying. So is this breaking...

Agreed. Pseudo-Science Alert! There's a surface appearance of information but very little that can actually pin down. It paints a picture that's out a bit out of focus. That random sentence about Iceland. What's up with that? There's an overabundance of conditional words like, might...

Agreed. At least to know the general concept of 'more heat --> more action', ESPECIALLY when dealing with oil-based stains. But why would laundry be exempted from the Dilbertization of America? I want to print out thousands of these forms to hand out every day...

Thank you all for the info. That certainly makes things a lot clearer. Cold water "clean": It's been explained to me that one can compensate adequately for the lower temperatures chemically. I.e. Detergents, etc. designed for cold water use. However, I seem to remember reading somewhere...

Got it. Thanks.

"Kinda confusing." AMEN! Am I missing something here? - 40-60 vs 40/60 Is there an actual difference between the two nomenclatures? - 40C vs 60C That's a rather large temperature difference. Couldn't 60C shorten the life of garments designed for 40? Conversely couldn't 60c remove stains...

Re: #14 That was my kneejerk response as well and I was trying to think how to word it. Kids have much more structured lives than we did growing up. There's much less opportunity to explore "What happens if..." IMO, the developmental need/urge is still there so what we're seeing is that...

I wish you many happy years with it! I'd seen them, watched people use them, and couldn't for the life of me figure out the attraction. The a year or two ago I was at Martin's and (for whatever reason) he had one on some sort of platform that raised its height by about 18". I could use it...

Ah! That makes sense. Thank you so much. Jim

Yeah, there're two different things things here. The Sears units I referred to functioned differently when set to 'Lo Cool/Hi Dehumid' It would physically wring more water and remove less heat than when set to 'regular' a/c. As far as humidistats attached to regular air conditioners, as seems...

Wasn't there a tan/aqua/gold fad in the early 70's? I seem to remember one of the neighbors had a dinner set with that color theme. I didn't like it then as a kid. But that might be why this color combination was made. Just idle thoughts.....