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<blockquote> the trademark mid-'50s GM creak </blockquote> Recent Fords copied that in their front suspension.   GM's hardtops also had a problem (feature?) with door sag, where you have to pull the handle twice to open the door.  It's seen in the movie My Cousin Vinny when the girlfriend...

John, are those two dissimilar metals?  Say, one aluminum and one stainless?  Plus the possibility of some leakage current from the heater?  I mean, that cast part is et plum through! 

It could be the house rather than the washer.  I seem to remember something like that in my OKC house.  If the inside of the machine smelled like sewage I think that would be detectable with it not running.  But you only smell it when it drains.  Besides, your MIL seems to be doing everything...

JMO as they say: MM, I believe your suspicion of the timer is well placed.  They are not supposed to sound like bacon frying.   Motors are weird.  When they are stalled they draw roughly twice the current they are rated to operate at.  Hots 'em up in a hurry, at which point (6 seconds you...

Thanks John.  So this machine did NOT need the main board replaced every 18 months?  That would be interesting, considering after 40yrs time to get it right, it tends more to get <span style="text-decoration: underline;">worse</span>.

A washer without knobs?  How futurizmick!   What year was this?  BD or DD?  How did it go over in the marketplace?  And in the repair shop?   Thanks.

I used to try to explain but now I just don't bother.... Just noting there are no absolutes and anything is possible, this clunky thru-wall PTAC DOES cool faster if the setting is >5* below ambient.  It kicks both evap and cond fans up a notch above 'energy saving'.  There may also be 2-stage...

Nothing linkable to AW, but coincidentally did get a storm of 13 spams just early this week, which is about 11 times more than the previous 6yrs.  [I grumble loudly about Charter cable but their internet runs a tight spam filter.]  The source was spoofed to Microsoft.  All were disguised with...

Best I can tell, the 9-7 POD Kenmores dated 'until Jan 76' use the exact same knobs and panel color scheme.

Thanks Melvin.  I was a ways off.  The landlord said in 1990 they were 'almost new'.  Guess for appliances back then 9yrs light use was 'not very old'.  10yrs later the dryer timer was going bad and I had to replace a gas valve coil, that's about par.

1990 rent house came with these Kenmores.  This panel design.  What was the year sold, pls?  Thinking ~1986?

What?  No wifi?  Fuggeddabbouttit.

I <span style="text-decoration: underline;">LIKE</span> my fabric softener rinsed away.  B-u-u-a-a-h!

For those approaching Medicare age:   You will see a great many ads for 800-number Medicare registration/benefit businesses.  DO NOT CALL THEM.  #1, they are intentionally misleading as to potential benefits for which relatively few qualify.  They make it sound like all you have to do is call...

At least one municipality in Colorado, disposers are mandatory in new construction.  As I heard, their thinking was that it kept organics out of the landfill where they attract pests.

The official city water department quality report for Euless TX (where DFW airport is) listed total dissolved solids as one part per THOUSAND.   I don't know what it is here in west Ft Worth, different source and different processing, but this is all surface water from lakes/reservoirs and...

Seems I hear a lot of things Culligan/service does that shouldn't happen to a top name brand.  Guess they spend all that money on commercials.   That sticky feeling is essentially wax.  Congratulations, you're a candle.

I've heard, Home Depot is kicking Lowe's ass That's malfortunate, if widespread.  I've been in both and Lowes had clearly better service.  First, there ARE employees and second, they know something.  Whereas Homeless Depoh, not so much either.   Of course that's just the stores I have access to.

Actually DO see transient latency typing in the textbox.  Might get as far as 3 characters behind then update and fill in.  Most of that last line didn't do it but the period after 'in' did, maybe 300msec.   I don't recall this being a standard artifact of AW but also can't say when it...

House I was renting, a guy did that to the old Lennox.  Put way too much.  Outlet air temp barely below inlet.  Called him back, he let too much out.  It cooled 'OK' then but not for long as the compr'r was getting way too hot.  Within days it quit altogether and had to be replaced.   Landlord...