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I have three Westinghouse roasters in the ”designer” colors in my test kitchen :-)

Thanks! I'm glad to know it's fixable. :-) John, I have two avocado Presto Electric Pressure cookers (one branded as Sears), two of those yellow electric skillets like the one in the picture, and two larger avocado electric skillets with that same pattern on the lid. I used to have the...

Hi There, I have a Presto Control Master with timer. (somewhat rare and visually spectacular, if one is into that sort of thing) Recently the thermostatic control dial has become very hard to move. Is there a way to clean the innards, or does that just happen when these controls start to fail?

I worked as a temp at Betty Crocker back in the late 80's. I put together one of them new-fangled Excel spreadsheets that showed instant mashed potato sales. They did best in the south and on military bases. Two things stick out for me: 1) The lobby had paintings of all the versions of Betty...

Picture? Why, of course.....

Ok, dumb question - how do you get the panel off ? :-)

Hello everybody, I found a Hobart era KitchenAid KDC-59 portable dishwasher (in Avocado!) hooked it up to test it, and it promptly leaked all over the floor. Any ideas what may be going on?

Grandfather clock The clock is a traditional wind up clock from Germany. Its Art Deco styling puts it in the 20’s or 30’s (which, as everyone knows, was not a good time for Germany). We found it in a junk store in Tacoma. The only thing it needed was a new piece of glass over the pendulums...

It works! So it turns out it was a problem with the wiring block (duh on my part) . Someone bypassed the heater, but it’s happily humming (and heating) away now. The only thing I’m not crazy about is that it doesn’t have a neutral, but I’ll figure that out later. After I dust off the heater...

Ok, here’s some pictures. I can’t figure out if this this was originally 110 or 220

I think I'm going to be out there this weekend or early next week. I'll take some pictures and post them then. Thanks!

Hi There, This is definitely an oddity, but I'm hoping someone out there might have some advice. We have a Sears fake fireplace from the 1960's. It's super cute, made to look like a stone fireplace in a suburban home of that era. It has a built-in fake log, with the spinning disk to make it...

That's exactly what I did, and I'm sure glad, because I found the top bleach dispenser disconnected. The inside was pretty clean, except for a some filmy white stuff. Unfortunately, I changed the lamp and it still didn't work. The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away......

I once had a package go to Hawaii from New York before it finally came to me in Seattle. But I have to say, despite the recent troubles with the USPS I’ve generally had good luck with them. Just last week I bought two items on eBay - a toaster (Michigan) and an old phone (Massachusetts) and...

Washer tub light Btw, the companion washer has a tub bulb, but I can’t figure out how to change it. Is it a screw in bulb, or one of those push in and twist bulbs. Also, is the lens still available? Thanks!

Thanks Everybody! Ben, I will take a look at that. I spent some time with it yesterday, mostly vacuuming it out (the person I got it from didn’t know it had a lint trap), and I think I saw that mechanism you are talking about. It shuts itself off on the regular and air fluff cycles. It is a...

Thanks for the advice! It is a bit funky, but I think I figured it out. Love the little “ding” at the end of the drying cycle. :-) And yep, it doesn’t stop tumbling when you open the door. I’ll be back out there next weekend and take a closer look. Maybe the switch is stuck?

Hello everybody, I picked up this great set of Maytags last weekend, and hooked them up today. The washer runs like a champ, but the dryer has some issues: it turns on and heats up, but the only way I can get it to turn off is by unplugging it. Even if I open the door, like other Maytag dryers...

In thirty years of living in Seattle, I can count the number of outages on one hand. The Inauguration Day windstorm of 1992, the Hanukkah Eve windstorm of 2006, and one weird microstorm that hit our neighborhood with lighting and took out about twenty transformers. Other parts of town are more...

A burnt out timer motor it is! :-)