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Last Sears in Kansas closing in March The last Sears in Kansas will close in Wichita in March. The mall itself is doing very well, so that's not the problem. Hard to believe when the mall was built, the Sears part wasn't there, and was added on a few years later. I could see it coming for...

SOS.. SOS Used them to clean the white wall tires on my parents car as a kid back when white walls existed, ha. Don't cook much anymore, and what I do cook with is nonstick coated, so have no need for them now. But I would still buy that brand if I did.

I've always hated the orange color that HPS lights put out. They changed them out for LEDs in my factory area, and now it looks more modern even though nothing else was changed. BUT LED color rendition can be any color. You have the warm white, daylight and cool white colors available to...

Question... When did Alliance take over from Raytheon? This is mentioned quite frequently, but I never see an exact date on this. I had one of these machines I purchased in 2000 from Wards when they were going out of business. This was one of the biggest POS's I've ever owned. Seal went out at...

Never Clean ?? GE's 'Never Clean' condenser operates by pulling air from the back of the fridge and exhausting it out the front. I guess they figure air at the back might be a bit cleaner than the front with dog hairs and the like being dropped right in front of the fridge. Anyway its a spiral...

Frigidaire In 1975 I bought a 3 door SXS Ward avocado refrigerator that was definitely made by Frigidaire, as they were the only one making that design. That was only the reason I accepted buying a Wards refrigerator, was that it was made by Frigidaire. I think the compressor actually had a...

Credit cards I think Sears got so large due to being one of the first to offer a revolving credit card, in the days before Visa and MasterCard existed. I know my parents bought a lot of stuff from Sears due to that. Now the Sears here at a mall location has the feeling of an ongoing liquidation...

Central air requirements... A very crude rule of thumb is 1 ton of AC for every 500 sf. Of course this can change based on construction of the home, but its still is a good place to start. So at 1500 sf, you definitely could have used a 3 ton. I had a new home built in 1983, 1600 sf and the...

yuk, yellowing plastic... I once had a 6 cf GE fridge I kept at work that was white, and then picked up another that was black. Sold the white one while it still looked good, as I knew the handle that went across the top would eventually turn yellow. The black still looks great today. A small...

No issues with hydrowave... I have a 2007 WPRE8100 hydrowave with no issues at all. My family and one friend have them as well with only one issue. My son's washer had the mode shifter fail. He tends to overload his machine no matter how many times I've told him not to, so may be operator...

Amazing prices I'm always blown away by the home price disparity between the Midwest and the coastal cities. Yes we have 1.3 million dollar homes here, but they don't look like that. A home like that in this area wouldn't bring more than $275,000 tops...

NeverClean GE's never clean coil theory stems from the fact the air flow used to be drawn in at the front and pass over the coil underneath, and exhaust out the back. Now it's drawn in at the back, and exhausts out the front. This would reduce the amount of dirt and animal hair pulled in and...

Metermiser Fridgidaire refrigerators had the Metermiser compressors that were bulletproof. If a Fridgidaire quit cooling it was usually because of an evaporator leak. My friend would pull out the smallest HP compressor and use them as a cheap mans vacuum pump, with their rotary design.

Norge fridge My parents had a bottom freezer 1963 Norge refrigerator. The freezer door lowered like a drawbridge gate, and you pulled out the basket onto the door. The most unusual feature on it, was it defrosted using reverse hot gas bypass, instead of heating coils. To my knowledge, I can't...

And replace the run capacitors Have him replace the run capacitors in both units. My Ruud unit (same as Rheem) had the capacitor go out at the 13 year mark, on a record 111 degree day. It was a combo capacitor, and the fan part went bad, causing the fan to run out of phase, and go out on...

Polarized plug That's what I was thinking Matt. As a child I had a mid 50's RCA Victor portable record player. The turntable, tone arm, and deck were all metal. When we played it in our unfinished basement, if we touched the metal, and had our bare feet on the concrete floor, we got quite a...

"It's heavy" That what I thought when I first saw the pictures. "Who put that thing in the basement?" Gunna be a killer getting it back up the stairs.

GE Smart dispenser I had one in the house I moved out of. I didn't like the smart dispense, and quit using it. I always felt it gobbled up too much detergent. I turned off the reminder light to refill it, and just went back to using pods in the door flap dispenser. Just tossing a pod in the...

Autos in appliances My grandparents had a Philco-Ford freezer on top refrigerator back in the 60's

GE side x side I must admit I was surprised to see all the favorable comments on side x sides. I've had GE SXS since 1983. Three of them, the 1983 is still in service at my sons house, and a 2000, and 2012, for a stainless change. All had ice maker tubs, and not the worthless 40 cube storage in...