House Fire Preventation Reminder
- lowfog01
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- Posts: 3889
- Joined: Sat. Dec. 20, 2008 8:33 am
- Location: Springfield, VA
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Mark II & Mark I
- Coal Size/Type: nut/pea
Well I guess I'm screwed! I'm in the process of switching out my Maytag household appliances as they need it to Whirlpools. I only have the cook top and oven to go. The cook top is 20 plus years old and needs to be replaced but the oven like everything else is under 8 years and a piece of junk. I made the decision to switch because the repair guy told me that that is the Whirlpool is what he sees less of on his calls. I guess you just can't win. (sigh) Lisa
- jpete
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- Posts: 10829
- Joined: Thu. Nov. 22, 2007 9:52 am
- Location: Warwick, RI
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harman Mk II
- Coal Size/Type: Stove, Nut, Pea
- Other Heating: Dino juice
I should post a picture. I junked a dryer my in laws gave me because it "stopped working" one day.
I found two quarters WELDED together attached to something in there. Temperature sensor or something. Good thing there wasn't a lot of lint because it would have been a fire for sure.
I use dryer lint to make "fire starters" so when I go hunting, I'll have them, just in case...
I found two quarters WELDED together attached to something in there. Temperature sensor or something. Good thing there wasn't a lot of lint because it would have been a fire for sure.
I use dryer lint to make "fire starters" so when I go hunting, I'll have them, just in case...
- SMITTY
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- Posts: 12496
- Joined: Sun. Dec. 11, 2005 12:43 pm
- Location: West-Central Mass
- Stoker Coal Boiler: EFM 520 Highboy
- Coal Size/Type: Rice / Blaschak anthracite
- Other Heating: Oil fired Burnham boiler
Yeah nowadays it seems unless you spend 4 figures on a washer it's doomed to fail in just a couple years. Just another way we're all being bumped to the lower class, bit by bit.lowfog01 wrote:..... I guess you just can't win. (sigh) Lisa
- Hambden Bob
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- Posts: 8531
- Joined: Mon. Jan. 04, 2010 10:54 am
- Location: Hambden Twp. Geauga County,Ohio
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Harman 1998 Magnum Stoker
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Blower Model Coal Chubby 1982-Serial#0097
- Coal Size/Type: Rice-A-Roni ! / Nut
- Other Heating: Pro-Pain Forced Air
Yep,the days of bullet-proof new appliances are over for the U.S.