Stop appliance genocide

[DavGoodlin]

I recall a Pre-whirlpool RCA AC window unit when I rented in 84, never quite got my BR below 80, just not muggy. The compressor starting dropped the line voltage at the other end of the 1940s house

The room had corner-wrapping casement window, I had aluminum foil all over it on inside. A brick house in TX, this place was a hot box with a silly old gas wall waffle-looking job for heat, never used it, just smelled the pilot

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

I recall a Pre-whirlpool RCA AC window unit when I rented in 84, never quite got my BR below 80, just not muggy. The compressor starting dropped the line voltage at the other end of the 1940s house

The room had corner-wrapping casement window, I had aluminum foil all over it on inside. A brick house in TX, this place was a hot box with a silly old gas wall waffle-looking job for heat, never used it, just smelled the pilot

I think at some point RCA ACs were made by Fedders before Whirlpool.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

Yes, big refrigerators from the '60-'80's do eat a lot of energy, but otherwise, old refrigerators are not so greedy as they portrait them

Nope they arent.. They know the gullible people will buy the lies and give up tiher GOOD STUFF for crap!!!

[Telecolor 3007]

The big one "ate" 1,500 - 2,000 k.W.h./year.

[ARC Tech-109]

I go out of my way for the vintage appliances. Not the post-war or mid-century moderns but from the 70's thru the early 80's when things were made in the USA with pride. AC units are a 1987 vintage Whirlpool 18,500 240V sleeve and a 1971 Signature 6500 made by Harrison running a Techumseh AJ series piston compressor. Neither are a model of energy efficiency but as I see it they're both more efficient in the long run as they don't need to run the compressor 100% of the time unlike the last Denali 10,000 that couldn't keep up.
My freezer is a 1986 vintage WARDS made by Samsung and it's about the size of a larger dorm refrigerator, running R12 it maintains an interior temp of -15F, dehumidifier is a late 60's vintage Whirlpool and my gas range is a Magic Chef from the 1980's I traded a "modern" Whirlpool for and my toaster is a 60's vintage Toastmaster I paid a whole dollar for at a garage sale some decades back. Newest window fan is a mid-70's Eskimo with square corners, metal guards and blade, oldest is an Emerson made pedestal from the 1940's. I have a Whirlpool stacked washer/gas dryer combo from the late 80's as well that uses the 1st generation direct drive, they call it the "Thin-Twin" but has full size tubs.
Personally I don't like modern anything. Yuppie styling with uninspiring white plastics and cheap electronics that masquerade as "energy efficient. Being a child of the 70's & 80's I honestly feel uncomfortable with the modern world as it's very unfamiliar to me and sometimes this becomes very stressful. Not afraid to admit I'm on "the spectrum" and keeping the familiar old around for me is almost a necessity. In my world that's the way it is and I will keep living in the past not because I want to but because I have to.

[Dude111]

A good reply to read my friend

[Captain Video]

Important thread!!!

[zeno]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz21ZF9eQOk

[Telecolor 3007]

Ha, I wante to put that one. But you arleady post it.
The problem is that today you have cheap(er) machines and expensive machines, allmost nothing in between.
This is mostly like A.I., but it's true? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqyeZ5EfXGk