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Ah yes, the GE model LK. I think collectors have found one or two of them. The problem wasn't SO2 refrigerant, the problem was that they were made inexpensively and tended to rust out. I think Travis saw one and said it wasn't built as heavily as a CK monitor top. So, take rust problems and add...

Sorry for the ambiguity. I'll be looking for a 4C, almost all of my consumer durables are vintage and my vintage friends only know about Sunbeams so a Kitchenaid would be more unusual and interesting.

Oh I only have 8... a Singer 301, National Exp BT, three Ankers, and Adler 187, a White Rotary, and a cute Challenge VS. Maybe it's time for more!

Ok, so it's a Kitchenaid version of a Sunbeam Mixmaster (only with a badass brushed chrome handle.) What would be dealbreakers when hunting for a new one?

Hey guys, My grandmother had a Kitchenaid 4C mixer which my father gave away to someone... and now I'm looking for one. I'm curious to know what is and what is not fixable on them, and if anyone has found a way to adapt a bread hook to them. Thanks!

When you have a question about 1950s mixers and know that the guys here know more than Google does on the topic.

No, but I did type in "Wringer washer transmission oil" and got a lot of hits about later Maytags and their oil leaks and one reference to using 40W motor oil. The machine lives 90 miles away, and I'll photograph it the next time I'm visiting. Previous searches for anything Easy-specific haven't...

Hey guys, I'm helping friends restore a 1920s Easy model E wringer washer for daily use, and what oil should we use in the agitator transmission? This machine not documented anything like Maytag, and we want to mess it up. Thanks!

Hey guys, a friend just bought a copper tub Easy wringer washer and intends to use it as the household washing machine. Does anyone have advice or recommendations as to detergents or wash times? So far I've not found an owner's manual, nor have the vintage laundry books on archive.org been of...

I've heard different things about closets over the years. 1. I've heard more than once that tax assessors counted closets as rooms, and that deterred many people from having them. (Of course this wasn't a concern for people with a certain amount of money or with favorable taxes.) 2. The...

Hey guys, I'm helping a friend settle an estate sale in Pasadena CA, and they have two antique fridges: a 1935ish Kelvinator belt drive and a 1938ish Coldspot. Both are untested, I can email bad cell phone pics I took if anyone is interested. I live an hour away in Huntington Beach and can...

They're a Japanese machine of their period. They don't have the clout of a vintage Pfaff, Necchi, Elna... or even Kenmore, but they're competent. And I am biased toward a machine without plastic parts. Do you intend to do a lot of sewing?

That Ruud is a thing of beauty. Enjoy it!

And they even admit that the energy hogs are the 1950s and newer machines...

I just got back from this estate sale at 1325 W. Adams, Los Angeles. They still have all the big appliances, a couple vintage toasters, about 4 1920s-1930s Hoovers, and a lot of other stuff. Hope some local collectors find things they can use...

Majestic Records was a postwar company, and I think a descendent of Grigsby-Grunow-Hines which became Majestic Radio and Television Corp which became Grunow before folding in 1937. But in the mid-1920s they made a very popular B battery eliminator which you see in the pictures. 1920s battery...

Often they don't even need timing! I've refurbished about 4 machines so far, and I think the worst I've had were a couple stuck needlebars. Really I don't know of any crappy sewing machines from the "all metal" era. If your machine's been sitting for years, you'll be amazed at how well it will...

What I would do to have a cylinder of SO2...

Wait wait, Grunow Carrene was _methylene_ chloride. The possible Cocoanut Grove refrigerant was _methyl_ chloride. There's a chemical difference but I need to ask my chemical engineer buddy what it is.

I don't think Freon was invented to replace Sulfur Dioxide, I think it was invented to replace Methyl Chloride. (Well I know of no Sulfur Dioxide deaths, I do know of several Methyl Chloride deaths in the 1920s from leaky compressors.) I think everyone had phased out of Sulfur Dioxide by...