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Tesco Living in Texas, I have no idea about Tesco powder. Is there a reason that it would have more zeolites than other laundry detergents? I went looking on Wikipedia and was surprised to discover that my cat's litter is likely made from zeolites.

My Newest Clock was installed in my utility room just a month ago. I went from an electronic front loader to the Speed Queen 432. I don't like not having any signal when it finishes; I have a pocket door between that room and the kitchen and I really don't hear it when it stops. So, I bought...

That Body I had an aunt and uncle with a '57 with the four-door hardtop wagon body. Biggest drawback for the '57 and '58 GM lines was that they looked old compared to those beautiful new Mopars. But then, of course, one could watch those Mopars rust away in nothing flat--except for the parts...

Old Programs Though I'd been on computers with DOS since way back in the 80's, I got my first personal laptop at Office Depot in 1993, a Toshiba Satellite, for $1K on sale. It had a dual-scan screen, a 998kb hard drive, I don't remember how much RAM, and a Pentium 166 processor. And it ran...

vacerator The Lowe's contract service down here was, at least then, done by the company that Sears service turned into. One guy who came out did some fiddling with the controls and saw that I had Cheer HE detergent on the shelf in my utility room above the machine. He told me with a...

This Is A Time when Endora could come to the rescue!

Gotta Love Electronics- The Frigidaire Affinity FL that I bought in 2012 waited until its company warranty ran out, then started deleting the final rinse. Had a service contract, guys could never understand why, as it did it on every cycle and at random. Replaced the main board, twice...

I wonder what ol' Fred would think of the machines wearing his name today... And how so many of us wish we could pull one of those washers off the line and take it home today!

That's weird looking and I've never seen one of those before. I'd rather have had a plug-on range hood...

earthling Thank you for this fine posting. As with so many other aspects of life from the distant past, it can be easy to look and laugh in hindsight. There were some very, very smart people working not only on designing these machines, but buying them also. And when so many people in the...

speedqueen I'm more in awe that you have a computer that'll actually function with W98! Ah, how I remember those old 'dll' errors...

Floppy Drives? I've still got an old early-90's copy of Word Perfect 3.1 that was designed for Windows 3.1. It's on floppies. I owned a copy of the Sony Mavica way back when those were cutting-edge back in the 90's. Looking at photos taken on it, with the flat, minimum-pixel images, I can...

wft2800 That's 'cause you're over there, and not here. And today, we've got an overdose of 'sophistication', when what we need is an extra dose of 'quality'.

Jet Cone I always liked that term! I remember mama's Frigidaire back then had that. One of the funniest of those marketing terms for cars was the use of Buick's calling the 1958 Buicks (those hideous things) the "B-58 Buicks", obviously trying to buy into the Cold War mentality. Of course...

SpeedQueen: I noticed on the front of this Dexter that there was a sticker stating not to open the door while the drum was in motion. Did/do these machines not have a positive lock when they start like both of my residential FL's did?

Thanks! I've already saved your YT video to my hard drive. As for that Philco Bendix, it's past stunning. And in that color! I've always had a perverse interest in commercial vs. residential items, whether it's the machines discussed here, or food mixers, or large appliances, etc. I always...

agiflow2 I thought the same thing when I saw it! Probably was suspended from a monofilament thread...that was used a lot back then. Today, of course, they'd just Photoshop it out.

Single vs Double vs Triple Rise One of the best reasons to do more than one rise on yeast breads is that it changes the texture of the finished loaf. The more rises, the smoother and finer the crumb will be. I can remember how people would love the local clover leaf rolls that a local...

Suds Lock What's suds lock?

Another Excellent Wheat Cookbook This is the well-known Wheat Montana cookbook. I can vouch for the high quality of their red and white wheat, have bought from them for many years. I've made this recipe for cinnamon rolls with white whole wheat flour that I ground myself. I know you can get...