April 2005

Hillstomping Update: Mt. Flume and Mt. Sunapee

April 29, 2005 Hillstomping Update

Looking at Mt. Kearsarge from the Ledges on Mt. Sunapee. Church on Mt. Flume More stunning photos from the Mt. Flume hike on 4/15/2005.

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Fisher & Paykel GW608 Slow Filling

April 29, 2005 Washer Repair

Sometimes, the solution to this problem can be something really simple.

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GE Triton XL tripped breaker

April 29, 2005 Dishwasher Repair

GE is getting sloppy with the documentation on its sorry-ass appliances. In this case, it’s a GE Triton XL dishwasher that tripped the circuit breaker (model number GSD6600G00BB). This is one of those abortion-that-lived dishwashers with the over-priced, unreliable electronic control boards. Turns out the problem was that an undocumented surge suppressor in the water [...]

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KitchenAid oven disaster

April 29, 2005 Oven Repair

I have never seen the inside oven lining on a KitchenAid wall oven self-destruct. This happened on a KitchenAid model KEBS207DBL8.

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A Day in the Life of the Samurai

April 26, 2005 Karaoke Lounge

Although the Samurai does virtual service calls all over the world through his award-winning website, Fixitnow.com, and through the world-famous Samurai School of Appliantology, he also does service calls in real life! Many grasshoppers have emailed wondering what a day in the life of the Samurai is like. Presented below is a never-before-seen series of [...]

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Save the Salamanders!

April 25, 2005 Karaoke Lounge

I love amphibians of all flavors, like frogs and salamanders, because they eat evil blood suckers like mosquitoes and black flies. Katie Feldman, of Vermont, started a website, www.SaveTheSalamanders.org that explains their plight and what we can do to help our amphibious friends. And in this related story… Visitors to Hamburg parks are being warned [...]

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Panasonic Inverter Microwaves – Advanced or retrograde?

April 25, 2005 Microwave Ovens

What’s the real scoop behind those Panasonic Inverter Microwave ovens? The Iceman gives us his engineering analysis, check it out.

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Mayday, Mayday! RepairClinic Down!

April 23, 2005 Compooting

Don’t know what’s been going on at RepairClinic but they’ve been down going on two days now. You could not reach their site all day yesterday and, as of this posting, still can’t. So if you can’t get through to buy parts, that’s why.

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Whirlpool Refrigerator Getting Warm

April 22, 2005 Refrigerator Repair

Ice cream mushy? Milk spoiling? Throwing out food? Stop! Come to the Samurai School of Appliantology and chill out.

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Frigidaire FWX445RF Washer – Won’t Drain

April 22, 2005 Washer Repair

Read the exciting saga of one grasshopper’s struggle with washer drainology.

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Maytag Range F1 Error Code

April 22, 2005 Oven Repair

Is it the ERC? Is it the touch pad? Find out.

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Kenmore Refrigerator – bottom of door collapsed?

April 22, 2005 Refrigerator Repair

Heads up on an emerging problem in Kenmore side by side refrigerators.

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Hott Stuff

April 16, 2005 Karaoke Lounge

Keisuke wrote: I love your site. It is, how you say, hott. _______________________________ Message sent from IP: 70.20.207.113

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Mailbag: Initiating the Harvest Cycle on a Modular Icemaker

April 16, 2005 Refrigerator Repair

Frank wrote: Most honorable Samurai, Somewhere on this site was an instruction to jump a Whirlpool new style modular icemaker motor to make it cycle so that you can check the voltage hit at the water inlet valve. Can’t find it now. I suspect the inlet valve, although it is making a noise when I [...]

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Mailbag: Kenmore Dishwasher Not Cleaning Well in the Upper Rack

April 16, 2005 Dishwasher Repair

Mike Gh wrote: I have a 2year old Kenmore dishwasher that seems to be working fine except it does not clean the dishes on the top rack. What could be causing this? Thanks! Mike _______________________________ Message sent from IP: 207.193.126.66 The most common cause for this in any dishwasher is insufficent water fill in the [...]

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