Refrigerators -- The butter conditioner.
One extinct feature you would revive?
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filter-flo technology
for better lint removal.
for better lint removal.
Bring back the filter-flo
lint pan, potscrubber, whirlpool power clean and clean touch laundry pairs.
lint pan, potscrubber, whirlpool power clean and clean touch laundry pairs.
broiler pans!
ultrawash
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Catalyst, variable water levels, and electromechanical controls.
Mine would be Sud-Savers
pierreandreply4
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true wash rinse temp for washers including hot wash warm rinse warm wash warm rinse
fan-of-fans
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For refrigerators, wanted to mention the reach in beverage door/shelf that some older TOL side by sides (and possibly some top freezers) used to have. I think GE Profile Arctica was the last to have it.
This has somewhat been replaced by door-in-door setup though, where you push a button on the door and a separate, but large door opens, revealing the door racks shelves inside. Doesn't have the same function as a surface for filling cups or glasses though.
This has somewhat been replaced by door-in-door setup though, where you push a button on the door and a separate, but large door opens, revealing the door racks shelves inside. Doesn't have the same function as a surface for filling cups or glasses though.
pierreandreply4
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even if i already posted
how i miss washers with matching dryers like these wish they where still made of brough back they need to think of those that do not need fancy gadgets or electronics they where also simple washers unlike todays models where everything is electronics
how i miss washers with matching dryers like these wish they where still made of brough back they need to think of those that do not need fancy gadgets or electronics they where also simple washers unlike todays models where everything is electronics
fan-of-fans
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I really like the look of those newer Maytags with the center dial, really retro. I've never seen that set with the (gold?) trim on the panel and dials and that trim at the bottom of the cabinet. Are those Centennials? They sure look good!
repairguy
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Yes this was the beginning of the centennial line for maytag. These particular models were one year only and were designated 100 year anniversary. I believe they were 2007 if I remember correctly. The centennial designation started with these whirlpool built direct drives and continued into the VMW machines.
pierreandreply4
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repairguy
even do chance are slim and do not went to get into a debate with this i think a member here should start a change.org petition to bring back old school washers into production like speed queen did with the tc5 model in there line but thats just my own toughs speaking
even do chance are slim and do not went to get into a debate with this i think a member here should start a change.org petition to bring back old school washers into production like speed queen did with the tc5 model in there line but thats just my own toughs speaking
repairguy
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We can wish all we want but the days of the traditional top loader are behind us never to return again. I have enough to last me and my extended family for the rest of my life. Lol!
The days of the traditional TL may be gone forever, but why can’t they once again build a traditional FL, with electro-mechanical timer and analog dial controls for water temp and water level?
The Westinghouse FL’s used much less water than a TL, but still enough to actually clean and rinse thoroughly, without all the temperamental spin problems of the new electronic, computer board TL’s now sold.
I’d buy a machine like the old time Westinghouse or the Frigidaire FL’s from the late 90’s and early 2000’s, these were great machines.
Eddie
The Westinghouse FL’s used much less water than a TL, but still enough to actually clean and rinse thoroughly, without all the temperamental spin problems of the new electronic, computer board TL’s now sold.
I’d buy a machine like the old time Westinghouse or the Frigidaire FL’s from the late 90’s and early 2000’s, these were great machines.
Eddie
repairguy
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Eddie it’s a cost thing. They can mass produce the circuit boards overseas and make them perform exactly how the engineers want them to. It’s always about the dollar.
I’m not a front loader person but I do agree that those years of the Frigidaire front loader were pretty good. There’s one that I keep going for a customer and it’s quick and effective for sure. That mechanical timer is awesome. If folks had better washing habits I believe there would still be a lot of these around because they were definitely popular in their time.
I’m not a front loader person but I do agree that those years of the Frigidaire front loader were pretty good. There’s one that I keep going for a customer and it’s quick and effective for sure. That mechanical timer is awesome. If folks had better washing habits I believe there would still be a lot of these around because they were definitely popular in their time.
The only way to make appliances like they did back in the 50’s and 60’s but without charging a arm and a leg for them is to have fully automated stamping presses for various components like GM had in the film from 1959 called Up From Clay A Car Is Born.
It’s not necessarily the cost of materials but more so the labor it takes to put those all porcelain appliances together on a assembly line.
It’s not necessarily the cost of materials but more so the labor it takes to put those all porcelain appliances together on a assembly line.
dnastrau
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Headlight dimmer on the floor with a manual transmission
For reply #17...
The dimmer switch on older manual transmission American cars was still on the floor, to the left of the clutch pedal. If you needed to dim the lights and depress the clutch, you likely had to do one at a time.
My dad's 1982 Ford F100 pickup was the last manual transmission vehicle that I have driven that also had a floor mounted dimmer switch.
Andrew S.
For reply #17...
The dimmer switch on older manual transmission American cars was still on the floor, to the left of the clutch pedal. If you needed to dim the lights and depress the clutch, you likely had to do one at a time.
My dad's 1982 Ford F100 pickup was the last manual transmission vehicle that I have driven that also had a floor mounted dimmer switch.
Andrew S.
Re: reply #35
Yes, I remember driving a stick with the dimmer switch on the left, thats how I learned to drive. Sometimes you needed to do both clutch and dim the lights at the same time, but that was seldom. I still prefer having the dimmer on the floor, probably because thats the way I learned to drive. All the cars were that way in ‘66.
Eddie
Yes, I remember driving a stick with the dimmer switch on the left, thats how I learned to drive. Sometimes you needed to do both clutch and dim the lights at the same time, but that was seldom. I still prefer having the dimmer on the floor, probably because thats the way I learned to drive. All the cars were that way in ‘66.
Eddie
Clutch and dimming ... The headlights dimmer switch wasn't held down continuously to dim the lights, unless perhaps ones older than my time required it? Press-release = bright, press-release = dim. Dimmer switch first, then do what's necessary with the clutch.
Re: Reply#37
Exactly Glenn, you explained it much better than I did. It’s been almost 40 years now since I drove a car with the dimmer switch on the floorboard, didn’t think of the exact sequence for clutching and dimming at almost the same time, all I know is that it was never a problem. And I drove on mountain roads where I frequently had to be shifting and dimming due to oncoming cars and changes in the steepness of the grade. Easy peasy.
Eddie
Exactly Glenn, you explained it much better than I did. It’s been almost 40 years now since I drove a car with the dimmer switch on the floorboard, didn’t think of the exact sequence for clutching and dimming at almost the same time, all I know is that it was never a problem. And I drove on mountain roads where I frequently had to be shifting and dimming due to oncoming cars and changes in the steepness of the grade. Easy peasy.
Eddie
