For years now at this website, I have warned grasshoppers about GE Appliances. I warn my local service call customers, too. But, people keep buying GE because they sell ‘em cheap at Home Despot or because builders get ‘em at rock-bottom prices. Even GE’s supposedly higher-end appliances suck out loud. Oh, [...]

Need help replacing a broken belt on your ASKO (oh NO!) dryer? Got the wisdom and gentle words of encouragement you need ratcheer.

I made my bi-annual pilgrimage to the Bonds last week. The Bonds are three mountains, Bond Cliff, Mt. Bond, and West Bond, smack in the middle of the Pemigewasset Wilderness Area; the jewels of the Pemi. All three are on the NH 4,000 footer list so you always see peak baggers making the [...]

It was a gray and rainy Saturday when the call came in: Frigidaire front-loading washer (stack unit) on the second floor of the house had leaked, enough so that the ceiling beneath the laundry unit was water stained. Samurai International Headquarters went to Defcon 2.

I guzzled the remaining beer in my sumo-sized 64-ounce beer [...]

Did you put too much detergent in your dishwasher (or, more likely, the wrong kind ) and now your dishwasher has become a Wonka Wash? Several of the esteemed Master Appliantologists at the Samurai School of Appliantology reveal their secret foam-busting techniques.

If your Kenmore oven is having problems with the door lock, this may be the solution.

A most splendiferous day for a spring hike in the Sandwich Range of New Hampster’s White Mountains yesterday. The sky was speckled with those cotton ball clouds and casting moving shadows on the rolling landscape creating an aquatic wonderland. While I love a clear blue sky for its crystalline purity, the watery, undersea [...]

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Certain models of Whirlpool microwave ovens have a problem with their thermal fuse that causes them to overheat. Whirlpool has a service bulletin out on this problem. Details here.

So, this guy’s icemaker broke. His solution? Why, buy a whole new refrigerator!

Here’s a sorry story: a five-year old GE washer and the transmission is fried. And, naturally, it’s just out of warranty. Yep, a common story with GE. As much as we keep warning people about GE, folks keep buying GE crap, “‘cuz they sell ‘em at Home Despot, an’ all.” [...]

This has gotta be the most freaky dryer outlet problems I’ve ever seen! This woman is damn lucky her whole house didn’t burn down.

Today is Easter (Pascha) for Orthodox Christians. Millions of Orthodox Christians all over the world are greeting each other with the traditional greeting, “Christ is risen!” And the traditional response, “Indeed He is risen!” In their own language, of course.
For example, in Japanese, the Samurai’s pseudo-native tongue, the greeting is, “Harisutosu hukkatsu!” [...]