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This was spotted almost a year ago in Elkhart, Indiana I believe on Facebook marketplace and Kenny Goatfarmer rescued it for me. It was kind enough to keep it until Justin Miller picked it up this past Friday. I had never seen a Frigidaire compactor before the flesh it says Frigidaire GM on it...

Helping a friend clean out a house where his late partner was a collector to say the least of anything related to whirlpool or KitchenAid. We found nearly 200 KitchenAid stand mixers dating all the way back to the 20s including nearly 50 brand new in the box mixers going back about 25 years...

I had solar city which soon became Tesla install 42 panels on my home 10 years ago, they are the most difficult company to work with I have ever encountered there have been numerous problems over the years the first one involve squirrels getting underneath the panels and chewing up the roof...

Anybody ever see one of these I remember seeing one for sale in the store back in the early 60s never seen one since picked one up today while helping a friend, clean out an estate of an appliance collector. Uses the same basic grinding design as GE's built-in units around the same time...

I finally got this project done, this is the range that Kenny Goatfarmer from Indiana spotted in Wisconsin a little over two years ago, I had it shipped to Eugene's shop in Cleveland, Ohio and he brought it to me about a year ago along with some other appliances that we traded, that's when he...

We picked this up this afternoon from a collector. I knew, it's a 1962 whirlpool telephone dial dishwasher. It's the top-of-the-line version with the wash arm and the dual detergent dispenser. Paul turquoise dude found one of these a half dozen years ago in turquoise up in Canada, I tried to...

This is three weeks worth of laundry, I sort into the machines or pile in front of the machines came up with seven good size loads, there's enough capacity with the 50 gallon gas water heater that I can start all the machines at the same time on the hottest temperature setting each machine...

On Friday morning this past week someone sent me a message that a lady had bought this machine in Maryland and had it she posted on a Facebook Appliance forum. Two friends here on AW had spotted this and sent her my phone number we were in touch with each other by early afternoon and she bought...

I’m running a huge load of towels in the super capacity whirlpool built dryer outdoors. I love it when the temperature and humidity are just right and you see clouds of steam from the dryer exhaust. It’s about 40°F here this morning was sitting in the hot tub watching the clouds of steam billow...

This is probably one of the first ads ever for an automatic, washing machine, it’s interesting that they advertise it as the successor to the washing machine because the washing machine in this time Was a manual wringer type machine in most cases. You can see the immediate appeal to not having...

Curious, does anybody have this original smaller mini basket that the first filter flow Mini basket machines had? I have never used the original smaller mini basket in one of these machines. It was certainly an interesting and useful feature when it came out. My old bosses wife, Audrey had a...

Today’s picture of the day, can you imagine getting this dressed up at a laundromat, it’s a great picture though. The dry cleaning machines were all based on the 33 inch whirlpool combos that had been discontinued two years earlier they kept them in production through the 60s as dry cleaning...

Westinghouse markets their first top load automatic washer, this machine came out around 1964 or 5 and was sourced from Easy I never saw a matching dryer for it. This easy built automatic was a solid tub washer. Within two years, Westinghouse came out with their own top loading automatic. It...

I’m guessing this was top-of-the-line. It’s a DE 712 completely electronic controlled Maytag dryer, this would’ve replaced the DE808 dryer. A customer of ours has had this since new. It’s had many repairs and she finally got tired of the fact that it just never shut off reliably or completely...

This machine unfortunately had a serious failure. It was in really good shape so we stole the top and wiring harness and bleach, dispenser reservoir and motor.

1955 Hamilton washer made by Norge, I love the enthusiasm in add copy where they say worst day freedom is yours forever with these Hamilton companion pieces when in fact, you would be lucky if this washer lasted a decade without lots of repairs. This may be one of the first times that accompany...

I helped my uncle install this Sears cold spot air conditioner sometime in 1971, we took out a basement window in the house in Chevy Chase, Maryland and installed it to cool remodeled basement area, it was made in mid 1969. I remember when we went to Sears to order it, the salesman said they’re...

Top-of-the-line GE V12 washer. This was one of the best looking GE washers of the 60s. We have the top-of-the-line version from a year or two later, where it actually had the four speed clutch the machine actually had four separate agitation speeds , However, they only gave you two speed...

Broken spider on a six-year-old GE 24 inch top load stack,, cold water, cheap detergent, and never any bleach. And the aluminum spider is not bolded to a stainless steel drum so much for the theory of electrolytic corrosion We replaced the tub assembly, hopefully they’ll get some more life out...

Interesting how even back in the 50s people were very concerned about saving energy just as they are today. I suppose we could put an energy star sticker on this machine. Just as then energy efficiency sells new appliances, the great majority of US consumers want energy star appliances as the...