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Front loaders suck donkey dick.

I swore to everything almighty that I would never work on that SOB again, and then the drum bearing went out. I was holding firm to operation 'buy cheap' when something - a dream, perhaps - led me to believe I could get a new stainless basket and outer drum assembly for free. After outwilling (I think I just made that word up) every jackass in the outsourced Whirlpool call center, I finally succeeded. And, icing on the cake - the dumb asses ended up sending me most of the replacement parts twice.

The joke, of course, was on me. After the better part of 2 weeks, during which all laundry had to be processed at the in-laws', I had the parts necessary to perform the repair. Around 1 AM I had everything buttoned back up and the washer back in it's hole in the laundry room. Within 3 minutes of running the first test cycle the MF started leaking. The outer drum assembly consists of two parts joined together with a gasket and a dozen or so metal clips. While they sent me two new assemblies, they only included one new gasket. Figuring I'd have to do all this again in the future, I opted to reuse my original gasket...it looked ok. It wasn't. I tore it all the way back down to the bare frame, drug the drum assembly back outside to replace the gasket, and ran the first successful test cycle a couple hours later.

NEVER AGAIN.
 
pmccraney said:
Second, it insists on beeping incessantly when it is finished (half-way) performing its job. So, if you run the dishes right before bed, someone ends up having to crawl out of bed to open the door to make the damn thing quit beeping (can't program that to silent).
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Holy s***, that's good to know. That would drive me bat s*** crazy.

That's a deal killer for me right out of the gate, so I had to google it. This is what google had to say:

Instructions

1 Find the “Cancel Reset” button on the control panel. Push the button and hold it down.
2 Find the “On/Off” button on the control panel. Push the button and hold it down.
3 Wait for the light by the “Cancel Reset” button to light up and for a beeping noise to signal.
4 Release both buttons.
5 Push the “Cancel Reset” until it does not make a beeping noise. You can also adjust the volume level of the beeping by selecting one of the lower or higher beeps.
6 Push the “On/Off” button one time to save the setting.

I'll buy you a beer if you'll test this out.
 
We have had a set of front load Electrolux washer/dryer since early 2009, about 6 years, and have had only one issue. Thermostat went out in the dryer. But that was it...no issues at all and they are crazy quiet. I'm hoping to get at least 10-12 years out of them.

I second Nolen on the GE Monogram. It's really great stuff, and every bit as good as the Viking...just without the pimp factor. That's what we put in the kitchen of the house we built, and it's still going strong. My parents just put in a bunch of GE Café stuff (fridge, dishwasher, oven) and have been real happy with it. It looks to be well made. They went with Monogram for the range though.
 
We had some GE Profile stuff in another house and really liked it. Not as blingy as the Monogram line, but worked perfect.
 
It would be an insult to call this an "appliance", but it has a cord, there's some tech, and there's a classified involved, so it's going in here.

I came across this espresso machine on eBay. It had a market value Buy-It-Now, but also had the Make-An-Offer feature enabled.

My homie, spressomon, runs one of these while traveling, so I knew it was up to the task.

I made a ridiculously low offer, which was countered at a substantial discount off the listed price.

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It was advertised as partially working. The symptoms listed indicated that it full operating potential, but just needed a tuneup.

I counteroffered the counteroffer, with a slightly higher yet still ridiculously low offer, which got accepted. I figured I still had room to spend a few bucks on parts, fix it up, play with it, and then flip it for a profit.

Now, I have a pro-grade machine already, but spressomon warned me that I may take a liking to this one. My new plan was to fix it up, and then have a Battle Royale - a cage match, loser-leave-town, fight to the death over countertop rights. The slain machine will be tossed to the wolves of the open market, it's future decided by the highest bidder.

Here is the machine, a 1970's SAMA Export, now in my hands, already a fallen warrior but about to be put in the fight of its life.

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As advertised, the machine was water-tight, heats up, and makes steam. But water does not pass through the group (where the magic happens). The seller supposedly did some research and said that it only needed the piston seals replaced. The seller neglected to mention that it was missing a few parts critical to its operation.

I was pretty sure that the sellers diagnosis was B.S., so I tore it down for an in depth inspection. While it probably didn't hurt to put new seals in, the problem was scale buildup inside the machine. The tube from which the group draws water was plugged solid with calcification. As was the passageway inside the group. There was a golfball sized crack rock looking chunk of the stuff in the bottom of the boiler.

I didn't like the crinkle paint on the base of the machine. It was showing its age, and it's texture did not lend itself to cleaning. So, I stripped it and ran it through East Coast Custom's paint booth. Then I cured it in the Kamado Joe. It was rough cast aluminum so I laid down some hammertone candy paint...

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Here she is, cleaned up and waiting on a few of the missing parts.

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Meanwhile, my other machine is starting to get nervous. It is a 1985 Pasquini Livietta, still made today (by a different name). New ones cost $3500-4000. These machines are like LandCruisers - new ones are big bucks, but you can get an older one at a reasonable price and rebuild it as long as parts are available. The Livietta is trying to distract me with some of the best product it's put out since I got it. She's not going down without a fight...

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This evening I finally got her back together and working. I gotta say, she's lookin' sexy as hell...

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you are way to smart and have way to much time on your hands. I grabbed a k cup of Starbucks this morning put it in the All Plastic, Made in Chenxing, China by Chensing Chensen himself. 3 minutes later I am drinking a cup of Starbucks. WTF...
 
K Cups equal those crappy cigarillos with the plastic tip.

Espresso equals those fine ass cigars you guys always have in those thumb pictures.

This is the Big Green Egg of caffeine delivery.
 
Funny as hell. I don't dispute that caffeine in its most refined and delicious form ranks up there with the 2 main food groups: tobacco and alcohol. But, that little tea cup, though...
 
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One of the best things I have ever had. Cam, What do you use for your cream/milk/froth? The stuff in europe pales in comparison
to here in the US but I am not sure why.
 
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