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Rinse & Hold "I don't use the R&H feature at all. I've found that using it causes the dishes in there to become stinky than just letting them sit in there and the gunk drying on." I always leave the door "cracked" open after using R&H to prevent the odor problem.

KM Roto Flex I went through the entire members photo collection, and believe it or not, there's not one shot of a Roto Flex agitator

temps In my house 68 degrees is whenit starts to feel "chilly' and I turn on the forced air gas furnace. I then set it to 72 degrees with the fan constanly running to even the temps throughout the house and keep air flowing past the thermostat for more accurate cycling.

small appliance parts Sounds like a good investment for an E-Bay selling spree

Quick wash On a machine that still has the "Plate Warm" cycle, one can use that after the 2 Rinse & Hold cycles to cut drying time.

off axis whee, what a ride! (wobble, wobble, wobble) :-)

Central steam heat Con Edison still runs a steam heat business in New York City http://www.coned.com/newsroom/energysystems_steam.asp

sweat "Just as ladies never sweat, but glisten. " I've heard the statement "horses sweat, people perspire"

watts "Isn't the most watts one can draw on a 15 amp circut around 1300 watts?" I think it's 1800 watts Right, Toggleswitch?

not an admirer Time for a divorce! :-)

c-9 sets I was surprised to see c-9 sets at my local hardware store, what with this trend toward "icicle" and "tiny"lights. What's really annoying is now we back to the problem of finding the bad connection since these newer lights are wired in series like the old c-6 lights. Just like...

terms Like I've asked in another thread, range or stove? and saucepan or pot?

brands Every tissue is a "Kleenex" All gelatin is "Jello" and my grandmother was one of those where every refrigerator was a "Frigidaire" On a slightly different note, which seems in more common usage, "range" or "stove".

Old tapes Got our first VCR in 1984, a Hitachi-built RCA VJP-900 2 piece machine. Would record linear stereo. Never got the camera for it, though.

Ancient ranges "Lawrence, I have used open coil surface units and bake and broil units and have not managed to touch a spoon to the live wires in the firebrick bases" I think I would definately use only Pyrex or Corning pots on these type of elements. But even then, what happens when things...

OK So woul these theories apply to the skirtless KM RotoFlex agitator of the 60's?

Drought "Hope we get more rain than snow this winter if this is going to be the case. California went though this a few years ago and started water rationing" Actually, it's jsut the opposite for CA. Most of our water starts out as snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains, so we're always wishing...

Light wash "Like you said when you have company with lots of glasses and such it would be great to have a 15 min. cycle. Would also be great for glassware that you just have sitting around for decoration where all they really need is a light wash. Terry" What I do in situations like that is...

comopact KM I'm running mine as I type this. It's set up "dishwasher" style with the snap coupling on the faucet.

WB cartoons What I realized later was the genius of how the WB cartoons worked on 2 levels, the slapstick violence for the kids and the sexual innuendo for the adults that went completely over the kids heads. Some of the jokes I didn't "get" for years until I was a teen-ager. Likewise the...