I would empty the tank, how would you know how much Sta-bil to add to a half tank of gas?
I was expecting âOh, now I understand.â Instead you come up with this. I should have known better.
What type of sources do you accept as proof? Maybe not you, but some of the others here might say that an image is doctored and refuse to believe anything they donât already agree with.
There is nothing to understand. You associate Volts with torque rather than RPM. I compared Volts to RPM and that would imply that Amps are torque. So you prefer to compare Volts to torque and Amps to RPM. I donât see how it makes any difference and it seems you just want to argue.
Pictures and tech industry insiders willing to give their names and admit to this supposed practice
Or at least an article in a reputable trade publication
As I recall, my particular bottle of Sta-bil had a metered top area. You squeeze the bottle until it dispenses a pre-measured amount into that upper container, then add to the fuel tank on the yard machine.
I donât know about a concrete block- seems like a stretch. I havenât seen or heard of that but fake parts have been going on for quite some time.
Like the white box auto parts, if you buy the absolute cheapest version of a power supply, itâs not unheard of finding fake inductors, chokes and transformers in places like the PFC or other mitigations (EMC) normally found in a fully functional and compliant power supply.
One area that it seems to happen most is the PFC choke. Why? Because it is an expensive choke and itâs hard to discern if it has an active PFC in practice so they can get away without it. The power supply just consumes more power than it should. Perhaps the original supply that was tested to regulatory compliance had the actual choke. Then they cut corners and the part âlooksâ like the real deal but if you cut it open, itâs just a loop of wire underneath.
There are literally dozens of Reddit, Facebook, other social media or chat group examples with pictures that show the fake part cut open. Lots of educated, electrical minded people discussing what they found.
During Covid, this was a huge issue because manufacturers were desperate for parts and turned to brokers or less then reputable sources just to keep the lights on. Some did it knowingly Iâm sure while others may have been dupedâŠ
I can tell you for a fact that GE washing machines used a concrete block counterweight, back in the late '80s-early '90s.
I had narrowed-down my choices for a new machine to Whirlpool and GE, and I had the salesman open the back panel of both, so that I could take a look. When I saw the concrete block in the GE machine, that solidified my decision to buy a Whirlpool machine. That machine lasted for 14 years, so I guess that I chose correctly.
You guys did a MUCH better job explaining it than @TheWonderful90s did
Those were firm examples, versus âI heard that . . .â
Or, that other chestnut, âMany people sayâŠâ
So a discussion forum or a reviewerâs site your youtube channel of taking apart a Chinese power supply to find a concrete block in it isnât enough for you? And weâre supposed to believe what you write despite you being totally anonymous?
weâre ALL totally anonymous, as you well know
And as the years elapse, itâs clear who is speaking from professional and/or hard-core diy experience, imo
âa reviewerâs siteâ could mean anything. I could post a video as a âreviewerâ with a block, would you believe it? Iâm afraid you would.
Weâre all anonymous here. In over a dozen years on this forum I have had personal conversations with maybe 10 people here and met one in-person.
Itâs not about anonymity, itâs about credibility. If someone posts a thread about why cats make great train conductors and supports that statement with a poorly edited video with no credible sources, Iâm not going to believe a word of it.
Yet Iâm not sure an appliance store clerk would remove the backs of a couple washing m machines so I could have a look. Then whats to see, the motor, gears, belts? Hard to tell the quality from that.
Anchors and correspondents on Fox have been known to employ that phrase, or âSome people sayâ when they are trying to push an agenda.
Yeah, a concrete block as a counterweight- thatâs one option :
But, using a concrete block to offset working circuitry seems a bit extreme even for the most bold counterfeiting attempt. You can feign ignorance with a fake part. A brick would be hard to ignore or explain away.
My first thought was they used a ceramic like substance to encapsulate their fake part. Itâs not uncommon to encapsulate PFC chokes to prevent them from âsingingâ during use. They can vibrate and make noise just due to the amount of power and frequency of the pulses. Sometimes mfrs encapsulate them to prevent this noise from disturbing the user. A benefit of getting older- you canât hear it anymore 
Imagine asking to do that todayâŠdeer in the headlight lookâŠ
My parents had a washing machine that lasted at least 30 years. My first purchase on my own, I wanted something as reliable and bought a Maytag. The washing machine belched out the entire contents of the transmission in the first few usesâŠI had to fight them to get it fixed but after that it lasted a long time before I left it with the house when it was soldâŠbut so much for first impressions!
He was a personal friend/colleague of mine. Like almost everyone in the education field, he had to work a second job, and his second job was as an appliance salesman. Most salespeople would probably not do what he did, but it was fortunate for me that he worked in that capacity as his second job.
Thatâs a profound fact about a field that has the potential to change the trajectory of minds and livelihoods - that jobs in education (not just in the classroom) pay so little that secod forms of employment are sought to supplement incomes.
One would think that jobs in education should pay more, given the impact that education has on young minds.
The Maytag washer and dryer that we bought in January 1997 are both still being used (knock on wood), the washer had the timer go out about 15 years ago, had a guy work on it and said the motor went out, I disagreed and was correct, long story short I have a spare motor for it⊠I replaced the mixing valve back around 2002, so far so good⊠The dryer squirrel cage has broken a couple of times and I replaced all the rollers/slide thingys once in 2018âŠ
Parents really old washer and dryer died some years ago, dad bought a matched set (of course) and the washer died a few years later, now it is not a matched set⊠lol
Even more off topic since it seems this tread has ran itâs corse, we just replaced a Microwave and the 1st time we used it after it was done we couldnât get the door open, who reads the directions on a microwave?? Found an unlock button, stupid thing has a freaking lock on the door that has to be unlocked after every use⊠ugggggggg⊠I thought the lock on the washing machine was irritating⊠lol
That locking feature can be disabled on most newer microwaves. The instrutions should be in the manual.