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Thread Number: 10909
I sabataged moms '63 Frigidaire washer(in '67) |
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Post# 198083 , Reply# 1 3/17/2007 at 22:20 (6,248 days old) by toggleswitch  (New York City, NY) |
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TE HE HE HE. I admit I killed an old 50's Kelvinator single door fridge that was in the basement (a hand-me-down from mom's aunt when she bought an Amana side-by side unit in the 70's) so that the parental units would get a frost-free model. They accepted a used one for the basement, but had no intention of buying one :-( ye old nail-in-the-freezer-tube trick, followed by epoxy glue. OK 'fess up! Who else has done naughty and or mischievious acts to get a better appliance? After seven years the statute of limitations has kicked in, and no one can prosecute you! | ||
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Post# 198086 , Reply# 2 3/17/2007 at 22:23 (6,248 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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I helped our 64 Norge Dispensomat have an premature end of life in 1970. I made it do non neutral drains from near tull tub o water. It would trip the motor's overheat switch. I know it helped it die an early death. And that was after it was out for repair (of the house) for about 3 weeks in 1967 or 1968. My mom's first matched set, she wasn't gonna get rid of it that easily. But when it smoke-filled the room in 1970, that was it.
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Post# 198146 , Reply# 5 3/18/2007 at 07:38 (6,248 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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He's as pure as the driven snow.
~crash, bang, it was a fairly quick (but painful) death. Nick: Did you get punished for this, or were you able to untie the load and feign innocence? If it were me, my rump would still have scars from the paddling/spanking/belting. BTW my parents often threatend to send me away to military school. My response "yes, please do". An all-boy boarding school? 'nuff said. *LOL* | ||
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Post# 198147 , Reply# 6 3/18/2007 at 07:39 (6,248 days old) by gadgetgary (Bristol,CT) |
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And I am sure the policy there was.... | ||
| Post# 198152 , Reply# 7 3/18/2007 at 08:13 (6,248 days old) by aquarius1984 (Planet earth) | ||
I always knew in my blood Candy were S***e! LOL
Does sticking a screw driver in a 3 week old washer count? The Candy Domino 4 we had had a special engineer come out to it (me) to fix the control panel by ramming a flat blade in between the control buttons...... is a painful memory and not one I want to go into why I did it but my parents especially my Dad reminds me of it whenever I get something wrong LOL Apperently I was always a rebel...... hmmmm Nick | ||
| Post# 198153 , Reply# 8 3/18/2007 at 08:35 (6,248 days old) by glamwales () | ||
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Guilty too Turned dial 360 the wrong way 3 times , on hoover 1400 in 2003 :( Im just evil heheheheheheheheheheh | ||
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Post# 198155 , Reply# 9 3/18/2007 at 08:40 (6,248 days old) by mattywashboy (Perth, Western Australia) |
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On our Hoover Ecologic 1100 there was a little plastic screen that covered the letters on the timer, it had a little arrow on it. One time i decided to wipe it coz it a bit smudged, it ended up breaking and going down inside the front of the controls. Mum went mad, it was kinda hard to tell which letter it was on so mum had to guess wether it was on E (the only one she used) or D. Dad wasn't impressed either, starting up a whole load of ridicule and looks of disappointment at my strange obsession with the washer. This is coming from a man who collects toy cars, like kids toy cars *sheesh*. Oh well, thats how the hoover spent its last year, screenless lol. Looked kinda naked lol. Oh and i broke my nans hoover washer as well, i kept playing with the timer in mid cycle and eventually it lost the ability to advance on its own so i had to move it along through the cycle. I loved how you clicked once for an 800 spin then you had to click again for it to go up to 1100 lol Moral of story- don't touch ANYTHING God i'm such a little destroyer lol. Matt | ||
| Post# 198178 , Reply# 12 3/18/2007 at 11:16 (6,247 days old) by timon90 (Norway) | ||
Ohh.....
I've been really evil with many machines....maybe too many! Remember one machine really much: It was a Candy Domino4 D4.82x I was going to give some torture. I took off the door, and putted in a stick in the doorlock, so it could run without door. When it had come up to 800rpm, I throwed a ca 20cm stone into the drum! It said just: BANG! And then it was loudless:P The stone had smashed the drum so hard, so it stopped before a second had gone. I did almost the same with a Zanussi ZF810C, but then I used the long stone on the top of the Candy on the pic under here. As you can see, it was'nt much left when I was done with it....:P
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| Post# 198180 , Reply# 13 3/18/2007 at 11:33 (6,247 days old) by spinmon (st. charles mo ) | ||
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timon90...YIIIIKKKKEEESSSS !!!! Bro,you cracked me up with that story AND PIC!!!!Made my 'evil laugh' come out as if I'D thrown the stone!!! | ||
| Post# 198188 , Reply# 14 3/18/2007 at 12:19 (6,247 days old) by timon90 (Norway) | ||
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Hehe
Hehe.... I had some vids from this episode, but cant find them...but I if I find them, I'll share them on Youtube... I've also smashed up a Microwave! Me and a friend putted almost everything in it! It finally gave up when the door was just hanging in one hinge....I'll upload vids of that on youtube, but thats early in the process, så it is not so damaged. Havent vids of it when it was "done":P sorry
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Post# 198196 , Reply# 16 3/18/2007 at 12:57 (6,247 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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You were all much better at washer murder than I was. I tried to shorten the life of our just-won't-die 1960 Kenmore Model 80, but the blasted thing had nine lives. I finally got rid of it in 1984 (or was it '85?) when I bought a new large-capacity winged Surgilator Whirlpool after my Mom passed away. Now I wish I had that 1960 back; It was a cool machine with the toggle (Hi, Togs!) pushbuttons and rapid-advance timer... | ||
| Post# 198229 , Reply# 19 3/18/2007 at 15:30 (6,247 days old) by timon90 (Norway) | ||
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To laundramatt | ||
| Post# 198285 , Reply# 21 3/18/2007 at 17:27 (6,247 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
No Need!
There was never any need for me to sabotage anything I didn't like- I lived with a houseful of appliance-killers extraordinaire. If somebody didn't leave the vacuum cleaner out in the rain after vacuuming the car, then someone tried to stuff a tarp into the washing machine. Or someone dropped a baking dish onto the glass oven door while removing the dish from the oven, or shorted out the toaster poking inside it with a fork, or ... Is it any wonder I'm so anal about care and maintenance today? I've SEEN the dark side, thank you very much! ;-) | ||
| Post# 198299 , Reply# 22 3/18/2007 at 18:38 (6,247 days old) by rolls_rapide (.) | ||
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Danemodsandy Had to laugh at your "appliance killers"... Reminds me of my sister taking a pair of pliers to the toaster, to pull out the toast... she snipped the bloomin' element! | ||
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Post# 198382 , Reply# 24 3/19/2007 at 05:22 (6,247 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Tsk, Tsk, Tsk,
You boy should be ashamed of yourselves! *LOL* Reminds one of something those "Malcom in the Middle" boys would get up to. Major appliances back then were just that and cost dear. Personally am quite surprised one or more of you weren't put into care, which would have been the safest place for you if you had been in our household growing up and "helped" along an appliance to an early grave. *LOL* The thrashing and or dressing down from Mama would have been bad enough, but once Big Daddy got wind of things, you would have been much better off giving your soul to God, as your behind would have belonged to him. *LOL* Launderess *making a note to install a nanny cam in the laundry area in case anyone gets any ideas* | ||
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Post# 198384 , Reply# 25 3/19/2007 at 06:06 (6,247 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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Weren't we supposed to be PRESERVING older machines instead of "sabotaging" them?No I didn't try any of that while younger-just let the machines "Die" on their own.Some didn't belong to us-were part of AFB housing.Was a great way to see and try many machines! | ||
| Post# 198392 , Reply# 26 3/19/2007 at 07:24 (6,247 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
I was so bad too | ||
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Post# 198407 , Reply# 27 3/19/2007 at 10:46 (6,246 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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I didn't sabotage my parents' '68 Wards Signature/Norge 18-pound machine--that noisy POS didn't need help from anybody. God, I so HATED that awful machine. What I did was embarrass my parents into realizing it was time to replace it. In 1975 they were throwing a party one Sunday afternoon and had about 10 people over. The laundry area was right off the family room and patio. All doors and windows were open. I decided to do a load of laundry and let everybody hear the rumbling groan and roar from the shot gears in that transmission, it was deafening, and it wasn't long after that audio assault that my mom and I went to Sears (I finally broke their terribly misguided loyalty to Wards) and picked out a '75 nearly TOL model with "quiet pak" and that machine lasted for over 25 years, compared to less than 8 with the Wards POS. A few months later Mom and I went to Sears again, this time to replace a '65 Wards Signature top freezer refrigerator with single temp adjustment that could never find a happy medium between freezer temp and refrig temp, and it made way too much noise when it ran--so Wards! My mom chose this noisy machine to replace our silent but quite inadequate 1949 Westinghouse and the rest of the family hated the Signature, especially my dad. At Sears we chose a nearly BOL 19 cu. ft. side by side Coldspot with clean back design and that frig is still cranking away quietly in my mom's kitchen 32 years later. Needless to say, for me there was no love lost when Monkey Wards' lame operation finally folded. | ||
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Post# 198428 , Reply# 30 3/19/2007 at 14:40 (6,246 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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I started to think I had never done anything like the above and in writing so I just remembered that I did in fact purposely damage something of my dads. His wooden miter box. I wanted him to get one of those metal table types that hold the saw, so I purposely dropped (slammed) it on the basement concrete floor. Well he knew that wouldn't happen just by dropping it and came at me like an absolute madman and belted the bejeezus out of me. He was so upset that I did it on purpose I can't blame him because he never would have if it had been an accident or I'd wrecked something out of ignorance. How I wanted to destroy that old lawmower of his so we could get a new one, but I knew better.
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