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On all the wash cycles other than Sani Cycle, the machine stops for one timer increment after the 3rd rinse fill (which is a short, approx 1 gallon fill). This segment would be the heating period of the sani cycle, and in fact the element does energize during this segment (you can hear the water...

The owner's manual is no problem--it's in the case with the attachments. I remember seeing the rebuild agreement in a desk drawer about 18 years ago--before my parents moved. Heaven knows where it is now, if it didn't get pitched. Next time I'm at my p's, I'll check the more obscure places--just...

Eek, well there's the rub. I'm sure that that bit of paperwork is long lost. And the Kirby agent that sold it disappeared at about the same time. Ah well.

$49.50 Is that really the cost of a rebuild? My parent's still have (and use) the Heritage they got in 1981 or so. After 25 years, theirs is beginning to look, well, 25 years old. We knew that the service was available, but not that it was so reasonable. IF that is indeed the price, I think...

My grandmother had that exact dryer. It was fun to just push the button in and have it snap back out with a DING! when the clothes were dry. And usually the clothes were all dried perfectly. Machines today should be so simple. Oh I'm sounding crochety. T.

It works ok for me, because I tend to be scatterbrained and if I wanted 2nd Rinse for one load, I would probably then have 2nd rinse for every washload for a year before I realized that was still selected. The preset settings are for the most part what I use anyway, so I seldom have to change...

Sorry for the delay. I didn't get to the laundry as quickly as I thought. No, the HE2 does not remember the settings you change, apart from cycle signal on/off. Also, I note that the HE2 was a CR Best Buy in this month's Consumer Reports. T.

tgodel--I honestly haven't paid attention. I'm washing a load tonight and will report back. T.

HE2 temps The HE2 we bought, which seems to be the only model Sears sells at present, has no heater. The cycles DO have preselected temperatures, but can be manually overridden, as can the preselected spin speeds. It also has auto temp control, which is very nice given that our cold water is...

P.S., the washer's model plate says "Made in Mexico", the dryer's "guts" seem to be ordinary "front-lint-filter" WP/KM. I did a load yesterday that consisted of 4 pairs jeans, 3 cotton sweaters, 2 towels, and 1 sweatshirt. That seemed to be a max load--washer tumber filled but not packed. All...

We got an HE2 pair over the weekend. We went to the Sears outlet to look at the Electrolux-made 3.5 cu ft machines and, while the price was right, they just seemed a little chintzy. We were going to walk around the mall and think about it when we saw the HE2 pair in the display window. They were...

56%, "a happy and well-adjusted homo guy" Somehow this this middle-of-the-road rating does NOTHING for me. Hmph. Although yesterday I DID bake an orange chiffon cake AND fix a resonance flap on the diesel. Hmm...

jasonl: WE had a Hoffman in our grade school! I thought we were the only ones. Nobody I've met since has ever heard of such a thing. We also had two strange machines that I think were called System 8 or System 80 or something. I think thats what they were called, although that name sounds more...

When America needs a better idea, ______ puts it on wheels. When ___ ___ _________ talks, people listen. I'm not much of a capitalist, but I distinctly remember getting a chill up my spine when a commercial would show a new dishwasher or CAT scanner or lightbulb or whatever and then the full...

We had bouncy Newcomb record players in our schools--all of them were faux woodgrain with baby poo yellow speaker grilles. I was completely fascinated by them, but in retrospect I can't figure out why. We also had 3M/Wollensak cassette players that seemed quite overengineered for their task...

zzzzz, you're right--I remember now, the rewind lever. Of course, it would always be left in the rewind position, so one would have to flip it back before one could load. That must be why I remembered it as an auto threading lever. We did have one older turquoise Eiki in jr. high--EIKI SOUND the...

We had B&H autoloads and even one Graflex projector in grade school. As time went by they were replaced by Eiki NTs with automatic threading which was quite persnickety--if I remember correctly, you had to square the end of the film with the cutter, flip two levers, turn the control to forward...

A WP/KM direct-drive fill flume, which makes a waterfall under normal water pressure, makes a lovely fan shape at high pressure. I have to say, this is the coolest damn project! T.

SASS! But yes, in St. Olaf it was called that... :) T.

I always thought it was interesting that the center-dial Maytags never tooted their own vertubenfluben. "Maytag" was all you got, unless you had a BOL machine that said "Automatic" where the speed control buttons would be. It seems like every modern machine has all its features (regardless of...