In alt.home.repair on Fri, 09 Sep 2005 01:44:26 GMT "Edwin Pawlowski"
posted:


"meirman" wrote in message

So I tried the original clip, which is 26 years old and dirty. Yet,
when I pushed the plastic socket passed the edge of the holes in the
clip, the clip went "boing", and clipped firmly. Better after 26
years than the foreign one is new.

But 26 years ago, most everything on appliances fit better and was higher
quality. The people in China make what they are asked and specified to
make.

That could be the reason. If so, why weren't they asked to make the
metal springy, considering that it is a clip.

Is there some place I could have bought a receptacle with a better
quality clip. The supply store I mentioned? Ordering straight from
Kenmore? Are these the same clips that are used on new stoves now?

Meirman
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