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POD 5-6-13 NORGE gas laundry
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Post# 677599   5/6/2013 at 06:09 (3,998 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Do the cabinets next to the washer look like General Electric kitchen cabinets?




Post# 677606 , Reply# 1   5/6/2013 at 07:05 (3,998 days old) by polkanut (Wausau, WI )        

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Just above the pic of the water heater it says that the cabinets are by Republic Steel Kitchens.


Post# 677626 , Reply# 2   5/6/2013 at 08:48 (3,998 days old) by golittlesport (California)        

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Looking at the Norge dispensomat washer, it just struck me how the dispensomat angled out from the control panel. For a number of years Norge washer lids opened back, but not all the way. They would open about 3/4 way up and then hold there, suspended in mid air. My aunt had a 63 Norge in her kitchen (BOL, not a dispensomat) that was like that. I always wondered why they designed the lid that way. Now I'm thinking maybe it was to accommodate the shape of the control panel dispensomat on their TOL models.

Post# 677638 , Reply# 3   5/6/2013 at 09:53 (3,998 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Thanks. Sorry, I missed that. They do look nice and sorta like GE cabinets.

I think I remember an appliance salesman at Rich's telling me that Norge lids were aluminum and had spring tension


Post# 677997 , Reply# 4   5/7/2013 at 17:39 (3,996 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)        
Cabinets

I may be wrong, but I think GE steel cabinets were made by Republic Steel.

Post# 678100 , Reply# 5   5/8/2013 at 05:52 (3,996 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Hey, that might explain the similarity of the hardware. Thanks. I wonder if those are roller shades covering the shelves. With no dangling pull to hold, you almost have to have a reach that extends to the height of the shade mounting to make full use of the shelves and I guess that if the little grip ever slipped out of the user's hands, the shade would fly up and do the flappity flap flap as it wrapped around itself. Then the user would have to get out the step stool to pull it back down unless the response was "to hell with it." On the other hand, those might be expensive tambour-type shades moving in a track which would probably be too fancy for a laundry.


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