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I think it was in 2000 when we had a severe drought. I had some young trees that I watered with rinse water from the top loaders I was using then. I drained the machines into a 30 gallon container with a submersible pump with a male hose adapter on the outlet and I sent the water outside through...

"Switch Top Disposal" is an interesting term for a batch feed disposer. Early Hotpoint disposers were called "Waste Exit," I think I remember. You could run the portable disposal in the garden with the garden hose and put the stuff back in the soil.

Great find Robert. We ran across Blackstone coin op washers in a Miami laundry in 1957 or 58. I could not see as much of the operation as I wanted because my parents were sitting close to the machines reading the Sunday Miami Herald. This looks to be a newer design, by about 10 years, than the...

A friend's Sub Zero starts sounding a chime if the door is left open too long.

The styling matches my W1986 and W1918 washers.

Kevin, good to see a post from you. Wasn't that something to see the floating bar of Ivory in the tub which meant there was no searching for a bar of soap underwater because the bar of soap had to be replaced in the soap dish before the tub was drained?

But they got the water use down which got them a "good boy" and a pat on the head from the federal regulators.

Modern dishwashers and modern dishwasher detergents instruct users not to rinse dishes before loading so maybe your washing dishes by hand before loading is why modern dishwashers are not cleaning your dishes well. You are not giving them enough soil to trigger the turbidity sensors so they...

One thing you should note is the size of the burner heads. There was a miserable period where cheap gas ranges used these very low BTU burners that would take FORf*******EVER to boil a pot of water and a long time to return the water to a boil after adding pasta. There is no 12,000 BTU burner on...

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...

Thanks.

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.