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Since the wash tower does not have to get erect to wash, this design does well with big things like the roaster at our neighbors the day after Thanksgiving. I just popped it in the lower rack and let 'er rip. Then I did the cover by itself in the same place. Both got clean. Their kitchen was...

Beautimous! as we used to say down south. What's the shiny thing on the floor next to the cabinet?

Launderess, One thing differentiating the Four Star model of Kenmore washing machines is visible at the right hand corner of the picture you posted: it's the manual clean filter instead of the self cleaning filter on the Lady Kenmore. When the tape kit on our 58 Lady lost traction, Sears came...

Launderess, the kerosene refrigerator worked on the adsorption refrigeration principle like the Servel gas refrigerators. The refrigeration system was complicated, but as Servel advertised, it had no moving parts. In Mary Martin's book, My Heart Belongs, she includes a chapter about her life in...

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It's interesting that the top of the line products were Four Star. In 1957 the washer under the Lady Kenmore was the Four Star Cycla Fabric. This was interesting and sad to read. You could tell that the economy was not all that great. Lots of people did not have electricity. People outside of...

Yes, but American housewives were wed to vertical axis agitator washers and until the 50s, high sudsing washing products did not perform well in tumbler machines so Bendix and Westinghouse were a very small minority in the automatic washer field; so much so that CU and CR stopped even testing...

What kind of birds?

Smart man to have a back up washer.

Well, it has taken almost 70 years for tumble action washing to emerge as the most efficient way to do laundry although I am not so sure about the gentleness of the current HE tumble action washers that do seem rough on fabrics because of using so little water that fabrics rub against each other...

We have an earlier model, probably from the early 50s, that has the dials on the front, but the same long door. It uses an adjustable thermostatic auto dry similar to some old Westinghouse dryers and has a perforated drum.

Somat is available on Amazon, but the caps cost a dollar a load.

Some years ago, I remember a member in the north discovering that the reason his mini split system was performing poorly was because the air filter was allowing too much dust to get past it and clog up the fins. I noticed this with new window units so I always augment the thin flat "filter" with...

Go ahead and drop him an email. His address is [email protected] and see what he says. He was extremely helpful and kind in our dealings.

One way of getting around the one after rinse situation with these machines is to augment the one quart purge after the main wash. I would fill a one gallon bowl with scalding water which I would add to the machine after the one quart fill for the purge was complete. I would then open the door...

Thank you, Steve for the link with the name. SFH074. I have written it on a 3X5 card and put it inside the machine with the installation instructions from Bud. You belong in the Hero category with Bud and Robert and others.

Funny how similar those racks are to the GE top loading dishwasher of the day.

A member named Bud in Atlanta was making these several years ago. He saved my WO65-2 by making the new Pulsator. I sent the old one to him because he needs the metal mounting plate for the new one. Maybe someone knows or remembers his profile name. We need a classification as HEROES of members...

Thanks, Steve. I first saw those machines as coin ops at a Florida motel in 1962.