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... seems with certain new cars you can pay to unlock features built into the car you bought-extra horsepower, special interior lighting, and other doo-dads... several decades past are the days of checking off options such as radial tires,fm radio,v8 engine,automatic transmission,etc. :)

just got this: 27" stack set-have tried yet, seller stated dryer works good, washer does not work. Washer does turn nice and looks to be classic "small door" design. Clean,low miles :) GLEH1642DSI . any comments before I dig into this for a fix ? 12/05 build,so almost imperial :)

...Those wooden cabinet German radios, other European ,Japanese... :) The German ones seemed to first come our way about 1952 and always proper transformer power supply-sometimes tube rectification,sometimes flat-pack selenium bridge rectifier. Selector switches like to fall apart and spill tiny...

...Canadian made also -thread for "foreign"radios coming later :) Guy at work has recently gotten interested in old tube radios-especially 1930s era.He bought a mid-1930s GE in working order that someone recapped and checked the tubes: in under picks of the recapped chassis,looked like all the...

I thought bose had degraded to a "BPC" brand some time ago... but this notion could be wrong? Last i knew, McIntosh was still at least assembled in USA and premium stuff worthy of analog source.I almost bought a McIntosh receiver about 1992 at a stereo store table sale: noticed the transformer...

white and blue fastback,289 2v 4 spd. Teenager evaluating first car choices :) Car ran pretty decent with that distinctive small block Ford sound with the little skip in the exhaust note.Base v8 with 2 barrel and power robbing rigid fan, no ball of fire but stickshift and only about 3000 lbs...

AC current motor driven mechanical clocks. I have gathered a decent collection of these over the years,a few are from the '30s and need a spin to start the synchronous motor. Lots of different motor designs and brands before the '90s. Telechron started in the '30s and went to about 1993. I...

Anybody know which countries/companies still make tubes? 30 years ago(when I had a lot of active tube gear) I had sources selling new tubes from Russia,Yugoslavia,czech republic,China and NOS '80s military production GE,Tung-sol,Sylvania. Radio Shack could get tubes also-seemed a mix of...

Since we are nicely warmed up on vintage stereo equipment might as well discuss these too: Some of these could be quite high quality and amps over 100w :) Earlier ones,pre~1965,only the phono was stereo. These consoles were common into the late '70s and the newest one i have encountered Was a...

those "all in ones" that featured AM/FM,phono,and often a tape player or two and seperate speakers. Earliest ones noticed were from about 1969,latest from around 1984 as "BPC"-black plastic crap era was getting underway...lots of cheapo to mid -grade offerings usually from Japan,sometimes US...

Just noticed i have had a little GE FL in use for a decade after buying it as a leaker along with it;s matching condenser dryer-a molded rubber hose was installed wrong and rubbed a hole.working fine ever since. Washer has direct drive BLDC motor and fast spin.Condenser dryer sits on top of...

Got a WTW4950XW2,I think it is a 2012-cord and knobs were missing,but looks low usage with no belt dust on pulleys or fan and turns real nice. This is a washplate machine and might be a keeper if an easy fix-next few days might splice a cord on and see what happens...

GE A/Cs from first home units till the end of "real" GEs: Porta cools were made up to about 1991,do not know about bigger window units,I have a bigger window GE made around oct.1985 and that is the latest big home unit I have seen-classic spine fin with visable fan.Oldest GE I have is from 1958...

Just picked up a GE HiFi-phono,amfm,12"woofer,about 5w amp-pretty decent condition,person i got it from said they tried it and it started smoking-do not know if this has across the line noise capacitor that might have been cooking off :) early 1950 date codes noticed. 2nd-admiral TV,pretty brown...

a WDT720PADB2 . found in lumberyard dumpster: skids were bent up and interior had a greasy film,so no repair evaluation.The wash pump was a dinky 55w directional PM wet rotor and it was shot-bushings badly worn.Might keep the control board since it is probably good.

wiring boxes and conduit handy to install electrics in outdoor buildings,porches,basements ETC. Good US made quality,using this stuff to install electrics in a shipping container and also used this in a porch.

Got one of these last year and delighted with it: got a used one made in 2008,and installed 120v lights and exhaust fan and about to install 12v electrical.these things are very rugged and stormproof.Building a small workshop in one end while the rest will house my antique 1917 Dodge. I got the...

...since discussion of lighted clocks has came up,will add these to the discussion :) -Electroluminescent panel lighting of analog electric clocks,two eras of these: -first was about 1959-72,usually pale blue color and usually clock radios.The one exception I have found to the blue color was a...

...pinsetters,ball returns :) Used to get motors from these in the shop for repair: one alley brought in Century brand motors made in 1958,another 1964 vintage GE motors,a third alley had early 1960s British machines and also same era Japanese-the Japanese had Toshiba motors of 1950s design,but...

found a salt cap inside my little 18" Danby-wondering if anyone has a favorite DW salt or if softener salt is good to use?