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Hello Applianceville and welcome to Discuss-O-Mat! I hope everyone enjoys our new posting system, I made it as similar as I could to our old system, but with some new, more powerful features. Using the new system should be very simple. First if you haven’t logged-in yet, please make sure you do that right away from the Discuss-O-Mat Control Page. Automatic Log-in will keep you logged in for seven whole days, automatically of course! If you wish to post a message, select a forum in which you wish to post in and once you’re in the forum, click on “Create New Thread”. From this point everything will look similar to the old forum. If you have read through a thread and would like to add your reply, simply scroll to the bottom of the thread you are currently in and input text boxes are awaiting your response. Again this is very similar to the old system.

Please use and enjoy our new system. Don’t get too hung up over which forum to post what subject matter at this point, it’s all very new and things will fall into place over time. In the yellow Super Forum (which replaces our old Sandbox) I have created a new thread call The Bug Report. I have completely rewritten our new system's programming code from scratch and I promise you there are going to be bugs. Hopefully none of the bugs will be severe enough to stop us in our tracks, but I suspect we will find a lot of little things that need fixing. If you find something that looks funny and you think it could be a bug please report it in The Bug Report thread, again it’s located in the Super Forum.
 
One Last Thing

I forgot to mention that member login names and profiles were brought into the new system. You do not need to re-sign up if you have logged in within the last six months to Applianceville.
 
New format looks like a good thing to me! Say, what about the K-Aid Steve 1-18 found this morning! It looked like brand new! I just brought him my late 70's Imperial to part out and we thought it weighed a lot, but nothing compared to the one Steve found today! They really built 'em back then.
 
Mini-Agitub

And here's a mini-Agitub, found in an Electro-Mite tabletop washer on eBay. Interesting because these types of machines usually have a top-mounted motor with a 3-vane agitator (meaning you can't watch the action); so this is a first. I wonder how well this works...

9-4-2004-19-31-47--westytoploader.jpg
 
Yes, Im going to bid at the last minute or so; it looks like a really neat machine, plus the first of its kind I've seen. Here's the link below.

The tub kind of resembles a large spaghetti pot, and when it's running it appears that the whole outer tub moves, handles and all! Very interesting...

The other versions of these (by Kenmore, Nesco, etc) are just the opposite; they have the motor on top and no Agitub, but the downside is that you can't watch the action, which is why I haven't had any interest in those.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=3837349865&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT
 
DISCUSS-O-MAT...WOW!

Rober<br
This new discuss-o-mat is great! Even though I do not post very often, I do read much of what is posted here. I love being able to scroll down through the responses without having to click on them. As an ex-computer programmer, my hat's off to you on a great piece of code!(or should I say, many great pieces of code!) Great job and congratulations to you<br
Dennis
 
Robert this is fantastic!

Robert
Thanks so much for all of your hard work! It looks so great!
This is going to be so much fun
Brent
 
Greg,<br
Watch the Aberdeen Videos and you will hear Robert saying "And mine was cracked...but thank God I got that new one..." ;-)
 
OOps

It appears the link isn't working<br
Go to Oldewash.com, then "Washerbase", then scroll down the brand index until you reach "Electro-Mite." Click on that for more details; quite an interesting little machine, and yes, the whole outer tub oscillates!
 
That would be more convenient than checking through each forum to see if it had a new post. Right now I'm just looking at the number of replies...
 
Last Replied By and Date

Hi Louis and Glenn<br
I was thinking the same thing last night too about having the last replied by name and time show up in the index. I also need to get the link to turn back to blue when a post is updated. I have an idea on how to do all of those things and I will work on that over the next day or two.
 
Wow!

Robert, I am most impressed. I read the old discussion section once in a while, but this new format is easier to read and more pleasant. Thank you. I have been enjoying this site as a lurker for about a year now, and I thought it was time to get more active<br<br
I have enjoyed seeing everyone's collection pictures
 
this is wonderful

this new system is just the neatest thing since sliced bread and its so easy to use love it thanks
 
New Format

Robert,<br
I just logged in for the first time in two days. This will take some getting used to, but I think it will work. You've obviously put a lot of thought into this - thanks! I like the three different discussion areas. Though I'm an avid fan of vintage machines and have vivid memories of them and how they operated, I don't have the square footage (or knowledge) to remodel and keep them. This new format will allow enthusiasts to post to the appropriate sections as topics come to mind. I do think there are parallels between the old and the new, and you've provided a good forum for everyone here<br
Pete
 
Roberrt!! Robert!!! Robert!!!! I can't express from the bottom of my heart how positive I think of the new format and the dilligent hours of coding you have put in. I'm am humbled. Bob
 
Great Club

Robert
Thank you so much for a realy great new club. I was not logged on yesturday. So I have some getting used to. Please let me know if I can do anything to contribute
Peter
 
Unbelievable!

Robert<br
Although this is my first post, I've followed, with great interest, the humble beginnings of the original "Applianceville" in Yahoo to the present "ClassicAppliances". I must say that I'm just blown away at the amount of effort(mental and financial) and time you contribute to make this a world-class site. And it just keeps getting better<br
I, for one, would consider it an honour to contribute financially for the ongoing maintainence and preservation of my favorite place on the net.<br
Just let me know "how much" and "where"<br
Mark
 
Bad Bug

The big code change I had put in this morning to allow the links in the index page to turn from purple back to blue when a reply had been added turned out to be disastrous. We lost two posts in the Imperial Forum and I apologize to whoever created and replied to them. I set the code back to the way it was this morning before I uploaded those changes from an emergency backup.<br
I will keep working on the development side and do more testing to try and get the purple to blue link code to work again, this time without disastrous results<br
I appreciate everyone's support and patience in this time of transition
 

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