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    Kds 18

    That looks more like a Superba than a custom.
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    P&G... What the heck?

    There is a beautiful lavender orchid named Eleanor Roosevelt in bloom at Hillwood. The fragrance is reminiscent of 1950s detergent perfumes--Heavenly.
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    Betty is Back with another Full Cycle Video the '49 ABC-O-Matic

    Frankly, I preferred the Splash Shots from Catalina Studios and Bel Ami in the 80s and early 90s, but your splash box in ingenious, Robert. That warm rinsing sure is thirsty. It would be hell on your power bill with an electric water heater. THANK YOU ROBERT!
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    Betty is Back with another Full Cycle Video the '49 ABC-O-Matic

    Neighbors told me that they did not trust anything Consumer Reports published after buying the top-rated ABC-O-Matic and getting a machine full of birth defects.
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    Betty is Back with another Full Cycle Video the '49 ABC-O-Matic

    Yesterday, I watched the 1935 film Magnificent Obsession, a treacly, over wrought film and BETTY FURNESS plays the doctor's daughter. I never knew she starred in anything except Westinghouse commercials and that fraudulent cookbook that was really written by Julia Keine. Anyway the Westinghouse...
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    Lady Kenmore 800 Soft Heat Gas Dryer Start Up

    Naturally large heavy loads take longer, but the drying temperature is the same unless you have a dryer with a temperature selector that allows the choice of a lower temperature for delicates. I think John has a LK with a temperature selector, but Soft Heat. A bias heater on the thermostat might...
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    Lady Kenmore 800 Soft Heat Gas Dryer Start Up

    No, the drying temperature is determined by the burner control. Mine drys at 160F no matter the load size or fabric weight.
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    Lady Kenmore 800 Soft Heat Gas Dryer Start Up

    . Actually, you could start the dryer empty and watch the flame shrink to very low quickly.
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    KELVINATOR KITCHEN CABINETS - $1000 (Kenosha)

    The kitchen in All About Eve had Kelvinator cabinets and a Kelvinator refrigerator, but the kitchen set was such that they never showed the range, which in 1950, would have been a smart looking Kelvinator, but that was where the cameras were.
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    Are modern refrigerators really worth the upgrade?

    If you were traveling north during the winter and a storm was approaching you, would you say that things were going north?
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    Samsung 240 volt Vented Combo!

    You could have found that number in the spec sheets for the washer, but whatever floats your boat.
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    Anyone use Youngstown Jet Tower as their daily driver?

    We were eating at the counter in the Dobbs House, a diner-type restaurant where I could watch the Hobart turtle back dishwasher. I remarked to daddy that once the dishes were all in the bed of nails rack, whose random loading pattern was so different to that in our GE, the operator rinsed all of...
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    Under-the-tub lint filters

    When phosphates were removed from powder detergents, lint filters started clogging with lint and minerals. People who did not take care of the lint filters began to notice the crusty mess and, possibly the lack of filtering. WP moved the filters under the tub so that they would not be seen, but...
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    Consumer Reports

    Humans they might be, but when people depend on your work, like with medical professionals, you are obligated to shelve biases and provide people who are depending on you the best services that you can. Most of us know the strong bias that the testing organizations had for Maytag, earned from...
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    Consumer Reports

    When the capacity rating wars started, they ran a report where they tested machines with 12 pound loads and had the NOIVE to say that the standard tub Maytag handled a 12 pound load without signs of overcrowding while the Kenmore of the time was overloaded. Did they actually bypass the lid...
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    HOW IN HELL CAN I CLEAN A MAYTAG FILTER OUT?

    Never put any part of a fabric softener dispenser or anything with softener residue in the dishwasher. The chemical reaction between the dishwasher detergent and the softener residue will deposit terrible scum/film on anything and everything in the dishwasher and repeated washing cycles will...
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    HOW IN HELL CAN I CLEAN A MAYTAG FILTER OUT?

    You are on the right path with vinegar, but I use an industrial strength acid detergent cleaner like for toilet bowls. It eats through the mineral & lint deposits fast, but I let it soak in a plastic container outside so that the fumes don't attack things inside.
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    LOVE the center burner on this RCA range!!

    Unlike the gas burners in similar locations under griddles which reduced the size of the flame when the "Burner with a Brain" throttled back the input under the griddle, the heating pattern did not change with the electric element's heat heat output so the heating pattern remained constant...
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    Sears Countdown at T-minus 5 Stores

    There was another shlock house dating from this time called Arlens. Arlens was generally located in slightly lower class areas, like sections of towns that were turning from white to Black. Woolworth's got into the act with Woolco Department stores in the early 60s. These were sad affairs, but...
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