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Hi, Bob! Unfortunately, I don't think KA has online manuals for machines KD-19 and older. Bastards. And here's something else sinister! I was going through old parts diagrams, and the "cheapening" of the KDI-21 and KDC-21 machines I sort of ranted about in another thread (the 700W heating...

Angus--your Conn. number...all those nines! Yikes! When got my first apartment, I was going to be all cool and retro and have only a rotary phone. Then my best friend moved out to LA and got a number that, with the exception of the 1-31, was all 8s, 9s, and 0s. I got a half broken touchtone...

Todd--I am insanely jealous of your collection. I have a KDS-17, KDS-17A, and a KDS-18. Also a KUDS22 and KUDC23 on more-or-less permanant loan to friends. I would love to find a KDS-15 and a KDS-16. My grandmother had a KDI-15, my mom's cousin had a KDS-16 and as a kid we had a KDD-67 front...

Our cord was always stretched to the floor--mom could JUST reach the kitchen sink whith it at max stretch. Eventually the cord would get static-y, and you'd call the phone co. and a REPAIRPERSON would COME TO THE HOUSE PROMPTLY and replace the cord at NO CHARGE. I remember when I was 7 or so...

Ours was a yellow rotary wall phone. Mom and dad still have the same number which mom was issued when she got her bachelorette pad in 1966. My dad's fax line was originally his parents' phone number going back to the 1940s. Sort of cool that we can hang on to these kinds of things when so many...

Goatfarmer--I think it was always Gus Petropoulos who came to the house. I remember someone from Petropoulos showing my dad how to clear the drain valve on our KitchenAid dw so we wouldn't have to call if it happened again. wmlask--Petropoulos appliance parts is terrific, isn't it? They are so...

My parents bought a pair of Lane Action recliners at the Waukegan Polk Bros. somewhere in the late 70s/early 80s. They got a free Random House encyclopedia with their purchase, which I still consult on occasion. The Waukegan store was in the Waukegan Shopping Plaza. I think it's now a dollar...

I've noticed this with onion skins...they just sort of paste themselves to the chamber walls, out of reach of the hammers. You don't even know they're there until a few days later when the stench is overwhelming and you have to reach in and pull out half-rotten onion skin. Grinding them down...

veg--Why am I absolutely not surprised? I heart Leroy Anderson. When I think of all the summer municipal band concerts...The Typewriter...The Belle of the Ball...Trumpeter's Lullaby (if we had a decent trumpeter)...The Syncopated Clock...SERENATA. I'm going to have a wistful afternoon now. T.

I have had Lay Lady Lay going through my head every since I got up this morning. I don't know why, and I'm really NOT enjoying it.

It should be a fine machine, good cleaning, very quiet, VERY efficient for a US machine. Glenn is correct, it's a blue-green fluorescent display. There were two Superba models in this series (series 24), one with the more typical display of sequential LEDs (KUDS24) and one with the vacuum...

Brent, your KDS-18 is from approx. 1976-1979 and was the first KitchenAid model with a washarm below the upper rack. Unfortunately, they made that washarm rather small, and it doesn't wash things in the corners of the rack very well--if at all. They rectified this on the KDS-19 with a full-size...

Bobby, I noticed that Viking seems to have ISE disposers now. However, they still have the Wham-Jam/Jaminator buttons and fixed cutters on the flywheels. I wonder if they are still essentially the KA design but they've switched to the ISE-style mounting (possibly for cost cutting) or maybe...

Versatronic clutch I think it was discussed much earlier, but now I can't remember. Does this machine still have a functioning Versatronic clutch or has it been changed to a 2 or 1 speed? I can't remember back to when my grandma had hers--does the control panel light come on when the machine...

Jpresley76--the Habitat for Humanity ReStore on Forest Park between Grand and Vandeventer often has interesting older machines at extremely reasonable prices. http://www.habitatstl.org/restore/

Jason, that is too cool. How much of the planning are you getting to do? Some years ago, some friends of mine built a garage with an apartment above. Their intent was that I would rent it from them, so basically they said, "The upstairs is 24'x26', the door is here, tell us where you want walls...

Glenn, glad to hear things seem to be going well. My father spent two weeks in ICU last summer and it is not a fun place to stay or visit. My first reaction was, this must be what hell is like, but the entire ICU staff was so wonderful--angels, truly, that I realized it couldn't be hell. But it...

Spiral-- So sorry to hear about your loss. Nothing can prepare us for the moment when we find out our parents aren't indestructible. Remember that your family and friends love you. Tom

Wow! This is wild--I've only seen this on the back of my mom's Sunbeam mixer manual, and really, since it wasn't shown to-scale with the other items, I guess I always thought it was a hairclipper with an adjusting knob on the front or something. I used to wonder why they showed it in the same...

My sister and brother-in-law had one of those BOL WPs--in a house on a golf course that was advertised as "luxury", mind you. It did a fine job if you didn't ask too much of it. We joked about it's Hit-or-Miss (TM) wash action and SewerGrate (TM) filtration. Hers was the "top" of the...