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Washing machines at Rick's Restorations . . . |
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| Post# 668822 , Reply# 2 3/28/2013 at 01:26 (4,039 days old) by unclejohn (Can) | ||
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...And that one over here, in need of some repair, seems to be waiting anxiously to be rejuvenated. More than often it is expensive, but such art and skill cannot possibly be achieved at a cheap price. 
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| Post# 668823 , Reply# 3 3/28/2013 at 01:44 (4,039 days old) by unclejohn (Can) | ||
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Rick's Restorations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ame... 
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Post# 668832 , Reply# 4 3/28/2013 at 04:02 (4,039 days old) by kb0nes  (Burnsville, MN) |
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Sleeves
Wow, I don't think I had ever seen Rick in a shirt with sleeves like in that first photo. Must be trying to class things up.
His restorations do look good, perhaps a bit too good. They sometimes seem a bit reckless when they do the disassembly, it may be wise if they don't get the one of a kind museum pieces. | ||
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Post# 668843 , Reply# 5 3/28/2013 at 06:57 (4,039 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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History Channel Productions Are all just too much hype, you have to watch an hour of programming to get 15 minutes worth of interesting content, they just keep putting out teasers, repeating, jumping from one item to another, and all the while interrupting 50% of the time with the same commercials over and over again, It makes me want to watch the pledge drive on public television, LOL.
But seriously it can be fun, but I agree Phil I will not be sending the Westinghouse L-1000 pair in for restoration or any other appliance or automobile that is worth anything, from what we can see of the shop in the video it doesn't look to be all that well equipped with decent tools for such a highly touted production, I think the money was spent elsewhere. | ||
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Post# 668862 , Reply# 6 3/28/2013 at 09:17 (4,039 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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when I seen the title of the thread for "Rick"......I first thought it was about our own "RickR", a handsome guy who has done some excellent restores on several machines....my bad
actually, I would rather see a show on our own JohnL restoring machines, the way it should be done..... but these shows are all hype, and made out to be somewhat better or easier than it really is, not to mention they show little knowledge outside of repainting versus rebuilding a washer from the ground up.....it all falls down to ratings, and nothing else.....not to mention commercial overkill....if you can get past all that, it might be worth watching, but more or less, I just change the channel.... | ||
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Post# 668864 , Reply# 7 3/28/2013 at 10:04 (4,039 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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Cute, but... | ||
| Post# 668867 , Reply# 8 3/28/2013 at 11:24 (4,039 days old) by westie2 () | ||
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Nothing beats what has been shown picture wise or videod on this AW.org. I enjoy every one of the restorations that have been posted here. | ||
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Post# 668963 , Reply# 10 3/28/2013 at 21:56 (4,038 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Amen to that  | ||
| Post# 668966 , Reply# 11 3/28/2013 at 22:42 (4,038 days old) by bradross (New Westminster, BC., Canada) | ||
I hear you, Robert!
I admire the lot of you that tackle the project of restoring any type of automatic, with so many more moving parts - solenoids, floats, valves, etc. etc.! My two wringer washer restorations seem rather simple in comparison.
It would be interesting to see him take on a Westinghouse Laundromat or similar. He did an amazing job of restoring a pinball machine (baseball diamond with players.) | ||
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