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I could not do any kind of work without one of these.
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300rag
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No fair. We have to scrounge the internet for pictures, and you just walk around the haus.
Wow a home visit, even I don't remember that far back!
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Take notice of the vintage Radiator valve. It is the last one that is still alive though.
Mute servant: I find them very practical. Just picked up from an estate sale from the owner of an old,long closed construction Business to replace another one I use for years.
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300rag
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I remember them in the mid 60s in Ottawa.
I don't know, maybe we never got sick, but I don't ever remember a house call.
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House calls are still not completely uncommon over here with older Folks.
67newport
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my father bought one of these in 1980 when mr wings was going out if business. still sits in the basement never been used.
68PK21 440.6bbl
Old Man with a Hat
What the hell is Mr Wings?
A Google search of the new Internet turned up so much pollution of the editable variety that I gave up. Is it a Ohio thing?
67newport
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They were based in suburban Cleveland, but had stores mostly in small towns in Ohio and adjacent states. They operated smallish, but full-line discount stores. They were acquired or merged with Fisher's Big Wheel (a similar chain with an overlapping trading area, based in Pennsylvania, I believe) during the 80s.
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67newport
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i reread that a couple times and never caught that
Jon O.
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Washing machines that lasted a good 40 years. I have a harvest gold maytag set that has "Suds saver" and reuses the same wash water. The dryer's heating element is burned out though.
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The good old days of quality appliances- you'd probably be able to get a new dryer element. I recall a YouTube video of a 1925 maytag washer happily working, amazing the two guys who owned it.
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Ive been looking, but it isn't too high priority. I have a clothesline, and now that its winter I dry them on basement pipes, chairs etc. And people say planned obsolescence is not a real thing... This is the only problem either one of them has ever had. You would be lucky to get 10 years out of a new set.
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Heating Element 279838 | Maytag Replacement Parts
Listed at 65 29.
At any rate they're probably the place to inquire about it, must be millions of older Maytag units out there.
Have a nice day.
Listed at 65 29.
At any rate they're probably the place to inquire about it, must be millions of older Maytag units out there.
Have a nice day.
Jon O.
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Not quite, mine is a round tube, thanks for your help! I think that is the site I did find a replacement, I just haven't bought it yet. Mine Is the DE-808 model I think it was made in 1974. They will probably last the rest of my lifetime.
