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Apparently Ollie's is having a laundry products sale/buyout----presumably P&G as they seem well plugged into their supply chain. Was there a few weeks ago and found some Dreft Pure (scent-free Dreft....from ingredients equal to Gain--triple enzyme) for $2.99 a bottle.

Quite likely as Detergents, Inc (which was the original name of the developer of All---absorbed by Monsanto) was in Dayton, OH just down the road from Mansfield (HQ of Westinghouse Appliances). My grandfather worked for them in Dayton for a time in the 1946-1948 timeframe (they lived down in...

Looks vaguely American Kitchens/D&M. Cabinets are Geneva. Faucet is American Standard, I think (definitely neither Moen nor Delta)

And the top is a lovely huge slab of laminated maple, nicely braced on the underside and the handle is a nice towel rack. I nabbed the one from my grandmothers build-in of hers (back in 1970!) and have designs to use it in the kitchen when and if I remodel.

TYVM for the ideas. A gallon of ammonia is quite cheap in the US (we like our cheap aqueous solutions, dontcha know...Chlorine bleach as well). The really strong stuff (25% as mentioned above) is actually used (or was used) to develop blueprints. I inherited a partially used gallon of that...

yes, Corelle fits beautifully in my 10 y.o. Bosch...side plates/saucers seem impossibly closely racked (literally only about 5/8 of an inch between tines) but Corelle fits perfectly and comes out clean. Dinner plates--about 1 inch between tines--ditto.

Very timely...I have some well-loved Schiek weightlifting gloves which are starting to get just a bit stinky as well as some Vibram Five-Fingers which I use at the gym. Tried a spot clean on the Five Fingers with some 3% hydrogen peroxide---foamed up and let them dry after blotting. Will...

yeah, with the filtering system not a bad machine. Even Consumer Reports didn't hate them. Great bottom rack.

Funny you bring that up--I was noticing that there was warm air under my DD washing machine when a cycle was complete---a little bit of a warm draft (noticeable in contrast to the cool concrete floor.

Been perfectly happy with the cheapy Ascenta (plastic bottom) Bosch we got about 10 years ago. The pump is slightly more audible than it seems it used to be, could be on it's way out, but then again the KA Superba side by side refrigerator clunks when the compressor shuts off and has done it...

We've got a very small (14 sqft) 40 year old Kenmore (WP built) refrigerator/freezer in a condo we own. It was provided at the time the condo was built (as was the stove which is also in place). Looks like the fan was replaced about 20 years ago, but am noticing that the defrost timer is...

The plastic-tub Permatuf (Louisville) design was so successful and so inexpensive to manufacture that it really did take over the market. GE could crank out the tubs (once they had the tooling and molds in place--up front cost...little more to them than a plastic swimming pool) for a minimal...

I think these were GM made, doubtless in Dayton.

Believe the last use of the porcelain tubs was for the portable/convertibles. Probably could get away with the telescoping anti-tip leg (rather than needing a ballast weight which PermaTuf would have required). Think these were produced through the 1990s (and also were offered in Canada....they...

Not to be pedantic, but there were Roper dishwashers in the 70s (mfg by D&M) in order to fit out low-end built-in kitchens (apartments/mobile homes/etc).

That's tempting!

They did an update of this (again, replacement market) labeled "Spacemaker" (which was GE's trademark for the undercabinet appliances etc) with slanted stacked burner controls and an electronic oven control. You're better off with this one...

Been glancing through Archive.org and found this magazine with some interesting appliance ads for Brazil 1960. https://archive.org/details/CurveloNotciasN.15-1962/curvelo_noticias_n_015_12_1962_high/page/n27/mode/1up

I'd estimate slightly earlier--'61-68 (as they lost the ability to market as RCA WP in about the 1968 time frame. Cool stuff--need to get out to Croswell to see it :)

The water is just so much more hard in hard water areas particularly in the UK (which aren't just rural/well water areas---was amazed at how bad the water was during a stay in Luton, England). Often amusing in the US to see pallets of water softener salt at rural gas stations and areas where...