“We make Whirlpool, Kenmore, Estate, Roper, Inglis(Canadian brand only I think), Maytag, Admiral, Amana, used to make KitchenAid and Magic Chef brand dryers, but I think those have been discontinued. We also build the stacked units, known as thin twin, there as well and some coin operated units.”
Talk about shelf-space…!!
We’re in the process of expanding our warehouse. Supposedly it’ll be able to house nearly 1,000,000 units after it’s done. From what I hear, we’re gonna be the supplier for the entire east coast from that warehouse.
My line works 2 shifts a day and if we hit rate each day on both shifts, we’ll have made 23k units in a week. I believe they’ve said that we make some 4,000,000+ units a year plant-wide
Question, my 2009 chev hhr died while pulling up to a stop sign.I checked all the obvious-it turns over,ran perfect up to that point .It will not start or even try to. It has fuel pressure so, I feel it is ignition related, I checked all the fuses and relays,ran codes and nothing abnormal on the scanner either. I looked at the connections at the gas pedal(damn fly by wire!),also the tps and the crank trigger sensor.Any ideas or experiencce with this would be deeply appreciated!
blatv2, You Need To Find The “Ask a Question” Red Box Up Top And Click On It. Put This Question There And You Will Create A New Discussion And Get Better Results.
Thank you for pointing blatv2 in the right direction, CSA!
My credentials may seem skimpy to some. With the exception of two weeks after a 30-minute lesson in driving standard on a prairie on the edge of Cheyenne, I’ve always driven automatic. I needed more coaching on standard, I was told after returning from a few hours on I-25 at 65 in 3rd. It counts that I made it back to my summer fling in Cheyenne, doesn’t it? Beside, it was a rental. To round up my qualifications to browse this thread, I won an enormously huge trucklet which I’m a’fixin’ to sell very soon. I’m a champion at hailing yellow cabs. There ya have it.
P.S. I do find the mechanics interesting as long as it isn’t too technical. As I child and to this day, I’ve been fascinated by tools and such. A relative owned a large hardware store in our Brooklyn neighborhood and, whenever my father went there to get something and stop to talk, I’d tag along to sift my hands through the barrels of nails and screws. It was that long ago – barrels and bins. I still love hardware stores and the like even if so much is pre-packaged and hanging on pegboards.
OK4450, that’s hysterical! I’ve played 6-strings and 12-strings, I’ve even seen a 7 string (some famous rocker, I forget who, plays a 7 string), but I never played a 3-string.
So, what do you tune the strings to to at-one-time get the three notes in each of the major chords? E, B, and G?
The only reason I veered off into that area is that part of my credentials is being a non-stop tinkerer and music (especially blues) is one area that gets my adrenaline through the roof.
As to tuning, the strings are the D, G, and B from a normal set with the D tuned down a step. Since it’s slide only, tuning is a bit free form so to speak.
(If you want to see an extreme example of this check out Seasick Steve on youtube and his 3 string Trance Wonder. He uses the low E, D, and G in the wrong positions. The guy is brilliant in my opinion. He was even a guest on the BBC show Top Gear and had a 3 string made out of a couple of Morris Minor hubcaps with a Humbucker pickup installed.)
The 3 string CBGs (cigar box guitars) are quite common with Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top and Johnny Depp (yep, the Pirates guy) also being CBG owners.
My sister (drummer for the most part) even has a store bought 1 string, which is basically a string on a board and is called a Diddly-Bow.
Wanna see my wall shaking homebuilt amp? 
Cool. I learn something new every day.
I remember when Radio Shack used to sell kits for these thing (amps) as well as radios, TVs, etc. It used to be a big deal to build your own.
The Diddly-Bow, does it have a metal washtub on the bottom?
Hafler use to sell Amp kits?? Not sure they still do.
You can still get amp kits (mainly for tubes). My main amp is a 300B tube amp that I built from a kit. A whopping 20 watts per channel.
Heathkit was the big kit-maker, friend had a 25" console color TV the dad made, all from individual (solid state) components, no ICs back in '72!
I’ve heard a few Heathkit amps…and speakers…
One line of their speakers was actually very high-end speakers from Altec Lansing…
Oh, this bring back memories. FM transmitter kit, digital clock, radio, cassette player, light effects, police interception radio; the list goes on.
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Been working on cars since I saw my Dad doing it. Hasn’t helped much with saving money and time. I have more unfinished projects than completed.
The reason I veered off into the guitar thing is basically because things like that are a big part of my credentials. As some of you may know, I’ve been a mechanic for a long time and have attended more schools and have more certificates and whatnot than I can even start to remember.
However, I consider the bulk of my knowledge to be gotten from hands-on experience and a number of non-automotive related night schools that I’ve attended on my own and which I’ve used to provide general principles for many repairs.
Some of those would be several electronic schools, a sheet metal and wrought iron class, woodworking class, a home electrical course, short welding course, and a few other odds ones here and there. Do I want to work on TVs, build wrought iron fences or kitchen cabinets, etc? Not for a nano-second. I only wanted to learn principles and how to use the tools. Picking vocational things up has always been pretty easy for me and I don’t mean that in an arrogant way at all. I’ve never lopped a finger off yet.
I also bought a small mill and a small lathe about 15 years ago and have taught myself how to machine metal although I will never consider myself anything other than an amateur in this field. This particular facet has gotten me through a lot of automotive mechanical jams.
There’s something about coming up with workarounds, improvising, or deviating from the norm that I find utterly fascinating and on several occasions I’ve gotten so wrapped up in something that I abruptly find myself still leaning over the lathe at 2 in the morning after losing total track of time.
Back to the music world, the big brown amp in the background is BoomZilla, a homemade combination of electronic tinkering, woodwork, and metal work.
First car was a 62 Ford Galaxy. Not mechanically inclined really, but I learned I could change the oil myself, save some dough. Next I learned I could change the spark plugs, points, and condenser myself. Next I told my gf I wanted a timing light for my birthday, so I could set the timing. Worked, I got my timing light! Now I could do most of the scheduled maintenance. All was well until I purchased a 1978 VW Rabbit! That car was fun to drive I admit, but a handy-man’s nightmare! Pretty much anything that could go wrong would go wrong. And not just simple stuff. Fuel pump relays would burn out, damaging not just the relay itself, but the circuit box the relay plugged into! The fuel injection metering system would get stuck! Brakes!
Anyway, for this car to be affordable, I figured I had to learn how to do more than just routine maintenance. So I took a car repair night-school-course at a local high school. They had all the tools and the lifts and the gadgets like welding equipment you ever needed, but more importantly, they had two instructors who actually had done it all before. This kind of hands-on help is invaluable. The course was 6 separate 3 hour sessions. I took it three times! So I got quite a few hours under my belt in an actual car repair shop atmosphere. And that’s where I got most of my car repair experience.
The late 70s Rabbits would provide a mechanical education for sure with electrical faults and CIS fuel injection problems.
The fuse blocks burning up in the fuel pump connections was a very common problem and usually solved by making a pigtail and bypassing the fuse block entirely.
Ever heard the one about the faulty radio antenna grommets on these cars? During a heavy rain it was possible for water to run down the antenna cable, past the grommet, and into the aforementioned fuse block. This could short out the starter motor wiring.
If the car was a manual transmission and left in gear without the park brake being set the car would take off on its own while being powered by the starter motor. Eventually the battery would give up, the starter motor would fry, or the car would hit something (utility pole, tree, another car, etc) and stop.
I’ve seen several tow-ins with bashed up front bumpers and fenders due to this and in one case the car owner had called the cops about her Rabbit being stolen.
The cops found the car a block away against a utility pole with a dead battery and burnt up starter motor.
I’m not an auto tech. I’m mechanically inclined and have worked on my own cars doing light repairs (brakes, spark plugs, batteries, tune-ups) for over 30 years. In the last decade, they have been more difficult to fix due to the increasing complexity and the extreme expense to the backyard mechanic of tools for computer diagnosis, lifts, etc. The shop manuals have led me to believe that I could purge brake fluid on an antilock system by manually pumping the brake pedal. I think that is no longer true since I have managed to destroy two hydraulic accumulators and one very expensive antilock mechanism (fortunately under lifetime warranty.) Pressure or vacuum brake fluid purge and replacement is the only option, in my opinion. So I have experience options but I’m not a qualified tech for autos, just personal (not auto) computers.
OK4450, you sound like a man with whom I could enjoy a beer.
In addition to car repair stuff, I also design and build custom furniture…including a Queen Anne Highboy of my own design with Cabriole legs.
Oh, yeah, and I rewired my own house (to code), replumbed the house, and reconfigured the heating system. I bought the textbooks for and worked on my own oil burner, but I’ve now converted to gas and I won’t touch the gas burner. One has to know one’s limits.
I also went through avionics school in the Air Force and troubleshot and repaired B-52 and KC135 aircraft…and an occasional odd navigation system.
The engineering thing, well, what can I say. I were one.
I too have always found “vocational things” pretty easy. They just seem to innately make sense.
I get bored and dream up dumb new projects, just to see if I can figure them out. Lately I’ve been discontented with my instrument cluster’s visability under certain lighting conditions. It ain’t great. So I pulled it out and put flourescent dots at the major increment markers. It helps, but not enough, so I’m going to pull it back out and install LED lights around the periphery of the gages. I have all the parts on my passenger seat as we speak.
Stuff like linguistics and human behavior…now THOSE are beyond me! Who can make sense of that stuff? Not I!