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Haven't turned on the heat here yet. Usually pretty warm year round with the occasional week or two cold snap. Probably turn on the forced air electric furnace November first and keep the house at 66 and 60 at night. Hope to eventually get a heat pump. As far as bench grinders I bought a Sears...

Water bill My water bill is why I finally retired my 90 Whirlpool DD washer, that and the trans was getting noisy. Very happy so far with my Kenmore 28102 but if my combined water sewer bill was closer to something reasonable I'd probably still be using and fixing the DD. I use a lot less...

Well the extra 50 watts probably makes a big difference and it probably is a better design probably distributes the energy better. Ours was pretty early but it never failed to work. The Emerson failed once but it was just a cracked solder joint on the main board that killed the magnetron from...

We a old Sharp for a while and it worked fine, but like said very low wattage. I think ours was 650 as well and it was slow and could hardly pop pocorn. Even back then in the late 80s early 90s it was pretty weak but that was the kind of ovens I found at garage sales cheap. I replaced it with a...

Hey, at least you know how and what to replace and where and what to buy. Most folks would be livid and spending a bunch of money to pay someone to fix it.

I fixed every machine we owned till I decided it was time to upgrade, even if it was just a better used machine. First ones I bought were a BOL Hot point set when I moved out. Got almost 10 years out of the washer till it ate it's transmission, the dryer lasted another year and I paid 200 for...

Our old rental we were in for 22 years was 864sf 2br 1 bath. He tried to sell it to me after I offered to buy it for 150k which was about 50k more then it was worth in 2012. He found a sucker to pay 141 after he did a quick rehab. He sold the other two identical houses with much smaller yards...

I bought my 28102 Kenmore because it had good reviews, was made by Whirlpool, and is direct drive and appears to be easy to repair, it also saves me a lot on my water bill and is quiet. I had a early 90s direct drive whirlpool before and it worked great and parts were cheap and easy to replace...

We've used all kinds of 4.5 grinders at work and I have a craftsman I probably bought 15 years ago in a bench grinder. It has worked fine but lately I use one of the leftover DeWalt hand grinders from work as it's easier to quickly touch up the blade on the mower rather then yanking it and it...

Well, not drilling a hole is good to know but it did continue to work every summer for a few years but won't fit in the windows here so is in storage till someone needs it or I sell it. Was only a 5000 BTU unit but seemed to cool about as good as the Haier 8k I bought later in the small living...

My car lost a seal in the compressor for the air and you could smell the oil/freon leaking out. The low side had massive pressure before everything leaked away and of course now I have no cold air and nothing kicks on if you switch to air. It did still blow cold till it was almost empty. Haven't...

We have a couple ceiling fans here and the portable 8k BTU air conditioner mom loaned/gave us. My house is a manufactured home originally built in 96 to good sense home specs which means it has very good insulation values and it got new windows and siding and everything else before we got it. It...

We are using that kitchen table here right now. Ours is even the same color but no original chairs. We got it back about 89 when I moved out to the cheap rental and we needed cheap furniture for the stuff I didn't have. My mom loved junk shops and garage sales and found old cool stuff for me...

security DVR I just bought a 4 camera non HD security DVR a couple of years ago, upgraded to a hybrid SD/HD DVR last year and today finally got 4 1080p cameras that work with it for 140 bucks shipped. I already have a few cables run and they work fine with the new cameras. Not a alarm, home...

The first dishwasher I remember us having was a "portable" that was just a normal late 70s whirlpool with wheels and a faucet adapter hose thing that clamped on. It was loud but always worked and most dishes were clean. It was basically the built in model adapted to roll. My rental had a very...

I set my 50" Sony HDTV to full pixel so it shows EVERYTHING the HD widescreen has coming in. The SD channels lately I set same and let it sit in the middle as it's smaller so the reduced resolution looks better then big and all fuzzy. Some sets actually have pretty good stretch modes so play...

The local shop I mostly deal with for parts only sells parts and used rebuilt machines. They of course are more expensive than Amazon or eBay but tend to know and have most common parts in stock so if I need it now I research the part and go there first. My last direct drive improved pump...

Use a Philips Norelco and tried a foil shaver way back when. For me the foil shaver caused bad razor burn, the Norelco never do. I have had a beard forever but still have to shave my neck and trim up ever so often. The ones Costco sells tend to have a extra set of blades which buys you another...

Well we have the 28102 Like Joeypete used to have and we think it still cleans and works fine today. Sister has done our comforters in it and reports it does fine in the sheets mode, and actually works and they fit better then our old 90 DD large capacity whirlpool we had since about 92. That...

Used to buy stuff from and worked at Radio Shack part time. We quickly figured out who was building their gear for them and some of it was great stuff made by Pioneer and others. Depends on who makes it for them and what prices they go on sale for. Retail price doesn't count and I'm sure...