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[daveamkrayoguy]

Maybe we should have an Appliance Stalking Thread:  I saw something even more interesting, and that was a built-in Caloric gas wall-oven, in white, and I could not make out the cooktop on the counter on the left, next to it...  It was a far distance away in a kitchen in the back of a house seen through the open front door--and right across the street from my daughter's elementary school....!

 

A rare ocasión that my wife and I had to go there and park in the school's parking lot around the back of it to see her in a play, and this was in the daytime an hour in the morning after school had started...  We were walking around the school to get to the front entrance we could still enter through, to go to the media center/library where the play was held... Too bad the owner wasn't around for me to complement the sight of that oven & comment on it, nor gain any additional info on the cooktop beside it, or whatever additional similarly-vintage appliances that house may have had...

 

Do the appliances seen in my high school's big home economics class, I had never had taken, but seen through the big open window in the hallway count?

 

 

 

-- Dave

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[daveamkrayoguy]

DaveAMKrayoGuy's WONDER YEARS: 1972-1973 --

My cousin backed me away from a gas range in her house I was touching the knobs to--literally thinking I was going to turn the stove on (we were very young--and this was what must have been the short time that she, my aunt & uncle lived in Michigan--Ypsilanti, to be exact, before moving to Maine), and well,--Hot Damn!--maybe I was...

 

You push your toy lawnmower (while dad is pushing his real lawnmower--which was actually a REEL lawnmower--no electrically-powered motor, or gas engine) over a hole in the ground just for a swarm of bees to fly out & stick right on you (Dad, as well) then have to go to the hospital and have a few nightmares of them flying out of a dryer vent sticking out of the side of a house frequently walked by...

 

Days before that incident, that dryer vent was more pleasant to look at, hear the dryer running & blowing its hot exhaust through it and somehow hearing America's "A Horse With No Name" play...  (And a year later, walking by the gas station on these cement banks on the way back from 7-11 with my Slurpee, long after the bee-attack, and afterwhich it had been forgotten, it was Steely Dan playing "Reeling In The Years"...)

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

A s a child, you loved the "Tut-tut-tut-tut-tut-tut" sound the turnsignal on a car makes... The lever for it goes Down for Left, Up for Right and learned how Middle cuts it off...

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . guilt finally gets the better of you and you confess that the Southwestern Bolognese Sauce on the fusilli you took to the pot luck is really 3 cans of chili (no beans) from ALDI.

 

[vacerator]

Some turn signals

still click. It depends where the flasher is mounted. They used to be in the fuse block below the dash.
Ford used only one flasher for turn signal and hazard flashers, while GM used two.
Todays Impala for example, has it mounted middle behind the dash, quietly insulated. It can barley be heard. I think that's why the hazard flasher switch is either left of the radio, or on top of the steering column.
As for the position of the signal lever, that is variable to the country you are driving in.
Homologated right hand drive vehicles have the lever facing the door, so the down position is for a right turn.

 

[foraloysius]

Lever facing the door

Actually most of the time in right hand drive car, the lever is towards the middle of the car. There was an exception for quite a long time for cars made in countries where they drive on the right.

http://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/trivia-about-driving-left/

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Well, this was when I was riding my sister's big wheel, and the person with me (a neighbor-gal who acted as one of our babysitters) told me "middle cuts it off" but in my youthful mind, insisted Middle was Left, Up was Right, and Down would be Off...

 

I made an Oyster & Milkshake stand in the sandbox, just for her to tell me "Milkshakes are Fattening & I hate Oysters!", and for me to tell her that my food was Kosher just to tell me that Oysters cannot be, unless they're imitation, so I made them imitation (with Salmon, then, inside fake plastic shells; wouldn't matter, everything was mud and sand...)

 

She told me of her first job at the local Burger Chef, where the floor where the fryer was, was slippery from the grease and the walk-in refrigerator/freezer floor was slippery from its operating conditions (and I asked about the lights in the kitchen & in the walk-in appliance: Florescent and Standard (not Soft White) Incandescent...)--Oooh, boy, was I a piece o' work! --Where WAS Automaticwasher.org BACK THEN????!!!!

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

[vacerator]

Louis, yes

that was when the left hand drive steering column was just switched to the right side of the car. That is not homologation.
It means that all instruments, lighting, registration plate mounting, etc. is designed into the vehicle for both export applications to be prototypically opposite.
Ford Galaxies sold in Australia or NZ that were from Canada even had the master brake cylinder still on the left side of the car. A steel bar was added from the brake pedal to the vacuum booster under the hood in front of the fire wall. Those may have even been CKD (complete knockdown) vehicles and assembled by Ford Australia in Cambelfield Victoria.
Canadian full size Pontiacs shipped to Australia and New Zealand only had the Chevrolet dash and instrument panel.
I live in the former motor city and I know cars. Even the former DAF variomatic.

 

[foraloysius]

So which cars on the market nowadays are homologated then?

 

[vacerator]

All US assembled and Canadian

vehicles for export are for sure. That was part of the world class quality ISO 9000
plan from the early 90's.
I read the article you posted, so I'd have to check say a Jeep Grand Cherokee right hand drive to see where the turn signal stalk is.

 

[foraloysius]

The early 90's are almost 25 years ago. I was asking about modern cars. It looks like things have changed since then.

 

[vacerator]

things have not changed that much

It appears the turn signal stalk is indeed on the inside facing side of the vehicles, so they are still only switching them to the right hand side.
However, this means the ignition lock is on the outside facing the door for right hand drive. Grand Cherokees now have push button start, but are still built on the same platform as back in the 90's.
The sheet metal and interiors have undergone several changes over the years, but it is essentially the same vehicle it was when Chrysler acquired Jeep from AMC.
Only the Hurricane inline 6 cylinder is gone.
The Fiat designed new junior Cherokee replaced the Liberty, which was marketed as a junior Cherokee in Europe.
No doubt we will see more changes, like with GM, and it's smaller platform Acadia, now sharing it's platform with the Equinox and Terrain suv's, saving raw material and weight from the heavier Traverse, and Enclave. It loses it's third row of seating for seven.

 

[foraloysius]

I asked you which cars are homologated, perhaps I should refrase that question. lol

Do you have any idea of what percentage of the cars are homologated, have the lever facing the door? I noticed most European cars are not homologated, have the lever on facing the middle.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I remember this like it was YESTERDAY!

Mom was spending eternity at the clothing store, Li'l Sis was sleeping' in the stroller, so what was my young self, walking on my tired feet, supposed to do?

Hide under the clothing racks! (The ROUND ones were the best!) 

 

And THIS (Yes, it had just come out!) was playing:

 

 

-- Dave

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2n167F0eBc

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Years ago, I drew a cut-away picture of a house interior with all the furniture, and especially the appliances, while listening the radio, and right when I got to drawing the water heater and its surrounding area, this song came on & fit that part in the drawing perfectly:

 

 

-- Dave

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxNEiZhpinY

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

More radio days:

Doing my homework to what was once a favorite radio station's "underground program" before it joined the modern-day trend of making a format of playing the same stuff over and over again...

 

I recognized the group's name from the one hit they'd had a few years before this one, "Hold Your Head Up", which I sung out (yelled out!) to the radio...

 

Oh, yes, SEVEN-WHOLE-MINUTES of this was draggy, but I needed something to help me get through my studies, besides, that summer after High School, I was collecting their records, one-by-one, save for the Rod & Russ solos (well, Russ, I'd in later years, picked up on, but only the first three--or maybe dismissed the last two... --A photo shows him in the third record scratching his head wondering if that sort of thing recorded in Los Angeles with that area's musicians and producer Keith Olsen would really work, just for its follow-up BARNET DOGS (should have kept it longer) to show him back in England with a look of rebound in his more comfortable retreat...  INTO THE FIRE (did I even buy this one?) I guess, was where he had better come up with something interesting soon--I could easily put a few of my Party Bulbs in the basement light sockets (though I only have a couple side by side--this one gal I'd hung out with, a few years ago, had a whole ceiling with about twenty of 'em in hers) & my wife to shoot some shots of me, posing like Mr. Ballard, if I had my old Fender axe & some good threads that look cool, getting raggedy & not how raggedy my stale duds, I wear nowadays, are looking...

(Yeh, another thing that'd make me a member...)
 

 

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http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=CafnLd8ZL_s

 

[chachp]

Forgive me if this has been said...

 

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<span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">You know you're a member of AW.ORG when you are reaching into the cupboard to grab a dish and the criteria you use to choose one depends more on what fits best in the current load of dishes in your vintage dishwasher and less about the food you will be eating.</span>

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

You know what? That happens to me all the time, and tell my wife and kid to even look in the dishwasher to see what will fit, as it gravitates towards getting too full to put 'just anything' in, and I don't want stuff laying all over the counter--especially in an area where it can mixed up, and or contaminate or be contaminated with/by what's coming out when it's done...

-- Dave

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you discover a new use for the rental lock on an ALDI shopping cart.

 

[chachp]

What is this rental lock?

Joe,

Do you have to rent the grocery carts like you rent carts at the airport or something? I've never seen this at a grocery store.