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old Euro bulbs About 15 years ago,bought a box of 220v European light bulbs at a flea market:different brands from Poland,Hungary,Germany.Most had same edison base as US bulbs,some had the same double contact bayonet base as SOX lamps.Candlelight glow running on 115v power :)

SOX lamps Noticed US navy ships use SOX lighting for the "weather decks". The SOX lamps i have just have the simple reactor.Since SOX lamp are "real"yellow light,bug attraction is low-quite unlike most LED "bug" lights that are usually badly filterd "white"LED light:tried GE and bugs flocked...

Yep,that is softlights foundation-i found them while looking to see if anybody else had noticed how bad LED lighting is...I reflex-buy any vintage bulbs when i see them-some are probably collectable. Up through early 2000s still original Dutch Philips as far as i know.The two 1982 18w low...

cool! That Philips packaging looks kinda ~ 1986,about when Philips took over Westinghouse bulbs :) After first liking them,i now hate most LEDs and have swapped back to incandescent and even CFLs in some applications...As bad as indoor LEDs often are,I really hate the wanton misuse and...

Never washed with one... ...but have brought 5 home to evaluate and/or junk: first encounter was an early one back about 2002-had the early Italian made vortex drain pump.other 4 have been within last 5 years and all were 1999 vintage with Hanning vortex pumps.on one of these the aluminum...

"Ask the man who owns one" I have one from around 2008-2009 that is in semi-regular use:still going strong-it is the mechanical timer version with the fluted plastic basket.Cheaply made,but has been doing what is supposed to since i got it new,smashed up in shipping accident,for $50 in 2009 :)...

Nifty fifties :) Should be a nice running Packard motor in there and the pot metal pumps had 4-blade main impeller for a little different sound sucking air when drain completed.

they had wash water recirculation/spray-my VMW Bravos does not.Two PM wet rotor pumps underneath,bigger one for recirc.I was finding a lot of these at the dump around 2018-19,would take the BLDC pancake motor off each one i found(to repurpose for other uses) very easy to take off these motors.I...

Subject washer is a... ...model DDW1801MWP- could not tell if this is still offered,but there is one that is close.

GM yellow/amber/orange LED display. shade seems to vary some on those,some getting close to a proper orange,but starting amber at the chip for sure.Certain early 1980s Pontiac radios had red LED display and i have noticed HP logo on these GM Delco displays.Noticed true orange LED diodes about...

yes. that is from about 1979-blue VFD :)

LED colors You missed yellow/amber :) first came red,starting around 1968 for certain aerospace and commercial uses and then consumer products about 1975. pale green LEDs started about 1975 i think,consumer products a couple years later. yellow/amber around mid 1970s orange seems to be rare,but...

Hate to brag up imports... ...but this Danby is a great little dishwasher :)

suspension rods bad. what goes wrong with these rods?

Dishwasher fires I just got done watching videos of dishwashers that had arcing or fire incidents and was suprized to see some well respected brands involved...Looked like these all were caused by "arc fault" short in the door when water got into line powered connections or PC boards...An AFCI...

My 3 marathon SQs,1982 and 2x 1984, have taller agitator shaft with 6-sided conical drive block at top,so subject washer may be more mid-80s.Console style is very similar to my earlier machines.That agitator drive is similar to 1990s design GEs

probably all early 1950s all of that is cool as hell :)

Probably a bad fan motor if it is of the ECM electronic type.

The Neptune...(is a great machine) In my experience at least the Neptune is a great washer-with a couple nits... I bought mine,a'98 3000,in need of repair about 2009:had classic wax motor/blown control board problem.This problem was heat pellet of wax motor getting damp it it's position right...

the Westinghouse and GE motors could be varible on how well or long they ran-besides the bad motor(may have gotten it it;s upper bushing) in the '75 westy,have a '77 MT dryer with one and just motor from a 1980 3-belt: motor from that 3-belt runs really nice.Some square GEs run good,others do...