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Default Consumer electronics "war stories"


Ed Huntress writes:

A Steampunk washing machine! But you need a "Casey Jones Engineer"
certificate to run it. d8-)


There were wringer washers that ran on small gasoline engines. In the
70s, an old guy near me said he remembered (gesturing toward the road
he lived on) when they came up along there installing power poles,
hooking up houses, in the 1930s. Right behind them came a salesman
selling electric wringer washers.

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Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada