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That's a pretty stout little compressor, to operate on only a couple of ounces of oil! I hope there wasn't any bearing damage. Another great video, David.

I’m thinking this is a Fedders-built model. The later Chrysler-built models seem to have had the pentastar and a “Chrysler Corporation” label on the front.

It’s like the old joke about the pet store that had a puppy in the window priced at $1,000,000. A customer says “You must not sell many puppies.” The owner replied: “I only have to sell ONE.”

It occurs to me that one thing you might try is adding some STPP to soften the water, if you're in a hard water area. This usually causes an increase in sudsing, and it might improve cleaning power, too. Alternatively, you could look for a box of vintage detergent on Ebay, although they're...

Vinegar pie What are the “yelks” of eggs? Is this just a jokey misspelling of yolk?

Thank you for doing this work, David. Instead of doing a lot of handwringing, you've used a real engineering approach to show that there are workable replacements for banned refrigerants that will keep these machines going into their second century! Doing some googling, I notice that one site...

Thanks, Robert. From the washer brochure, I can see the model we had was a W-2G2. It must have been purchased sometime around the fall of 1969, as we moved into a new house at Christmas 1968 and had an old Westy slantfront for a time. It kept breaking down (in addition to leaking and walking...

I figured a Jam Handy film would turn into a Chevrolet commercial! Neat to see the ultramodern streamlined home and all the appliances. But did electric kettles really eject their cords like that? Seems dangerous, especially when plugged into a range outlet like this one.

The owner's manual of my 2015 GE fridge actually has some language about how cleaning the coils isn't necessary. I don't remember the exact wording. I expect it won't last long enough to be an issue.

Wonder why they dated it as a 1936 when the condenser seems to be labeled 37?

As I understand it, range clocks were made either by GE/Telechron or by a company called International Register. I don’t know which would be in a Westinghouse stove. If the clock parts indicate it is a Telechron, I would search this forum for posts advising how to revive them. In the...

Some other low-sudsing detergents were AD from Colgate-Palmolive, Spin, Vim (tablets) from Lever Bros., and Salvo tablets from P&G. The tests from consumer magazines I remember seeing usually ranked the low-sudsing detergents behind the top-rated high-sudsers, like Tide. Maybe someone will...

Funnily enough, Consumer Reports found that air distribution wasn’t any better with the air sweep feature turned on than with it off (they considered it good either way.) I don’t know if that’s true or if it’s just one of their wacky, inexplicable conclusions. I remember quite a few people had...

Great commercial, Joe. Although the poster must have heard “Argos” for ”Arkla!”

Reply #80 "She'll want to thank you three times a day." Pretty racy stuff for 1960.

Look at the porcelain enamel still gleaming! It’s a beaut. These early belt-driven fridges really have personality. It almost sounds like a sewing machine in the video...maybe it doesn’t in person. I wonder how many cycles that set of points is good for? I guess they wouldn’t need to be...

Crosley and Bendix were both owned by the Aviation Corporation (Avco). Wikipedia says they were combined in 1951. Apparently this was just an effort to give separate dealers a full line to sell. There’s probably no difference between this and a Shelvador. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avco

You could have just checked this forum, since there were posts ad nauseam about it at the time. I stopped worrying about when I found that powder Tide With Bleach works just as well, for me. YMMV, and all that.

Opera works well for me with Windows7. It does give me a little pause that the Norwegian founder sold out to a Chinese tycoon, however. I am not doing anything financial-related with it as a result, but for general browsing it’s fine. Not an expert on Firefox, Ralph, but when I use it I...

Notice the toilet paper that matches the “desert turquoise,” er, “closet.” We have so much choice in consumer goods today, but you can get toilet paper in any color you want as long as it’s white.