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Important Things You Need to Know About Buying Appliance Parts Online!

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Fixitnow.com offers a complete line of appliance parts for all brands and models through our parts partner, RepairClinic. We could have partnered with any number of other appliance parts retailers on the web, but we chose RepairClinic. You won’t find a more complete selection of appliance parts, better customer service, or a [...]

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Visualize Your Appliance Repair Experience

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Appliance Breakdown Diagrams
Grok on these mind-expanding, interactive breakdown diagrams of various appliances so you can see how they’re put together. An indispensible troubleshooting and repair aid!

Air Conditioning
Dehumidifiers
Dishwashers
Disposals
Dryers

Gas Whirlpool Style, Lint Filter on Top
Gas Whirlpool Style, Lint Filter in Door
Gas Maytag Style
Gas GE Style
Electric Whirlpool Style, Lint Filter on Top
Electric Whirlpool Style, Lint Filter in Door
Electric [...]

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Help for Determining the Age of Common Appliance Brands

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

First thang you’ll need to do is get the serial number off the model number tag. Armed with this key information, proceed to the appropriate section below:
For Whirlpool, Kitchenaid, Roper, Estate, Maytag, and Magic Chef appliances, use the Appliance Age Finder to find out how old it is.
For GE appliances, use the table below:
(click [...]

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What Brand of Kitchen and Laundry Appliances Would the Samurai Buy?

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

John wrote:

I need to buy all new kitchen and laundry appliances. Which brand would you stick with (Samsung, LG, Whirlpool, Maytag). I am looking for a frenchdoor and all appliances should match…Stainless too.
Thanks,
John

Let us open our Appliantology hymnals to the Second Law of the Prophecy wherein it is written, “All appliances break.” With this [...]

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Is That Gas Shutoff Valve On or Off?

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

All gas appliances have (or are supposed to have) a manual shutoff valve in the gas supply line near the appliance so the gas can be shut off to just that appliance without having to shutoff the gas to entire house. But how do you know whether the valve is on or off? [...]

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Applianetics: Beyond the Appliantology 3000 Microchip Implant

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

The science of applianetics– the merger of humans with appliances– has expanded exponentially since announcing the Appliantology 3000 microchip implant four years ago. At long last, the dream of a comfortable and complete merger of man and appliance has been realized. Ladies and gentlemen, boyz and gurlz, and all genders in between, behold [...]

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Cash for Appliances

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Emboldened by the stunning success of their Cash for Clunkers program at screwing lower income folks, the geniuses at the Feral Gubmint have a new program: Cash for Appliances. They’re plugging it in just in time for October, which got designated by someone as National Kitchen & Bath Month.
Just as the [...]

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Electrical Symbols on Wiring and Schematic Diagrams

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Appliances are what we in the bidness call “electro-mechanical devices.” Oh yeah, mmm hmm, we professionals can throw around all kinda two-dollah words like that– that’s why we makes the big money!
Anyway, “electro-mechanical” just means that they have both electrical and mechanical components, any of which can fail and require troubleshooting and repair. So, on [...]

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Contaminated Drywall Driving People Outta Their Houses

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Seems a bunch of houses were built using contaminated drywall during the 2004-2005 housing boom. Confucius say, “I’ll give you one guess where this drywall was made.” Yes, my fellow Ameedicans, China has sent us yet another poison product. This time, it’s drywall, sheetrock, gypsum board, whatever you want to call that [...]

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Who Made My Kenmore? Use the …

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Who Made My Kenmore? Use the Magical Kenmore Model Number Decoder to Find Out! http://applianceguru.com/forum9/3351.html

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Small Appliance Repair Manual….

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Small Appliance Repair Manual. Covers 13 different small appliances: http://fixitnow.com/sbrvrs/smallappliance.htm

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Gluing Copper Water Pipes Together: A Photo Odyssey

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

(You can click the photos for a larger view with annotations. Or not. Whatever.)

Lo! The battle doth beckon!

It’s kinda like porno. Not that I’d know anything about that. Por-who?

I have to cut that cap off so I can make the connection with the hand shut off valve using [...]

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Find Appliance Repair Info FAST With the Supah Samurai Search!

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

WARNING: The Department of Defense has classified the Supah Samurai Search (SSS) an appliance repair weapon of mass construction. This search engine is considered to be the nuclear bomb of DIY appliance repair. Use of the SSS may result in your appliance not being broken any more.
The scope [...]

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Appliance Repair Tweets for Week Ending 2009-05-02

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Ahh, the golden age of appliances. *sigh* http://twitgoo.com/1l77
… and the double-deckin-bad Samurai rock show tour bus. Call now to reserve your tickets: 603-526-7129. http://twitgoo.com/1l61
The supah-bad Samurai fixit van. Look for it around your neighborhood. http://twitgoo.com/1l5x
Rough day at the Samurai office. TGIF! http://twitgoo.com/1j80
The pic you’ve been waiting for… the trick to removing [...]

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Appliantology Newsletter, April 2009

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Just when it looked like my rehab was going so well, I had a relapse and produced the most important newsletter in history! Thank you for not asking which history this newsletter is important to but, if you must know, it’s the history of Applianchia, a remote, mountainous region in Lower Slabovia famous for [...]

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