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Archive for the 'General Appliance Wisdom' Category

How to Get Help in the World-Famous Samurai Appliance Repair Forum

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

From: hottip
Subject: When you were offline (via LivePerson)
I want to post a problem with my GE GSS25LGMB CC. Da Refrig side freezes da fud and da Moose Drool. Where do I start. I Have big sledgehammer and chainsaw tools. ready to order da parts now. While sunning wife in tropics, water filter froze and [...]

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Appliance War Story: Urban Appliance Repair

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Even in the best of circumstances, it can be a battle doing appliance repair. But in the inner cities of modern Ameedica, like Deetroit, it’s an all out war zone. Check out this appliance repair war story from my brother-at-arms in the The Craft, Da Detroit Kaveman:

I listened to one of your podcasts [...]

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Appliantology Newsletter, Summer 2007

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Konnichiwa, my friends. It’s been a long, cold winter and now half the summer is gone but, at long last, the wait is over: the Summer 2007 issue of our award-winning newsletter, Appliantology, is out. Lots of good appliance tips in this issue so hurry and download it today before it gets all [...]

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Samurai Appliance Repair Apprenticeships

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Everyday, my inbox is jammed with thousands of emails from hopeful souls all over the world pleading and begging for an apprenticeship opportunity with the Samurai. The reason is obvious: a successful apprenticeship with the Fermented Grand Master of Appliantology and the world’s one and only 33rd-degree black belt in Fixite Do is [...]

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Appliance Deconstruction Techniques Illustrated

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Appliance deconstruction is a technique sometimes used in the ancient martial art of Fixite Do. Since deconstruction is terminal for the appliance, it is only used as a last resort.
An Apprentice Appliantologist at the repair forums posted a nice demonstration of appliance deconstruction using the Impact Technique. One thing to notice [...]

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Adventures of a New Appliance Technician

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Appliance Tech, Grizzly, a new brother-at-arms in the ancient martial art of Fixite Do, shared some of his more vivid experiences and observations of his first few months of practicing the craft of Appliantology.

Interesting (well, not really) observations I’ve made in the larval stage of my appliantology career. Five months may not be long enough [...]

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Love Means Never Having to Say Goodbye… to Your Appliances

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

It’s the ultimate First World problem: how to stay in touch with your appliances even if you’re away from home. Well, Pilgrim, you git down on yer knees and thank the Lord Fixus because now you can do just that! Daf right, Nappy– Whirlpool, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Panasonic and Procter & Gamble [...]

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Thermador and Other High-End Brands are Less Reliable than Mid-Range Appliances

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

For years, I’ve been saying that many of the high-end brands are overpriced junk. Finally, Consumer Reports has caught on to this (or Thermador and Viking are no longer able to pay their bribes to Consumer Reports), and is reporting this sad but very real truth. Moral of the story: You don’t [...]

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Meet the Appliantology Masters

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Need help with an appliance problem? The Samurai Appliance Repair Forum is where you’ll get it. And not just from other appliance repair virgins like yourself. Nay, nay, young Grasshopper, perish the thought! At the Samurai Appliance Repair Forum, you’ll get expert, personalized help from real-life Master Appliantologists. Come, meet [...]

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Where Have All the Tradesmen Gone?

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

When was the last time you tried to hire a skilled and competent tradesman? Seems you either can’t get anyone to call you back or the ones that you can reach you wished you hadn’t. Why is that, Capt. Ron? As usual, the Samurai has the answer. Open your skull and [...]

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Staber Washer Fan Mail

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Thank you Thank you. We love our Staber washer. We’ll be getting a dryer as soon as ours breks. Thank you for the direction. I’ve tried to wear it out and now I understand why there are no used Stabers for sale out there. I wish I’d known about them when I was 20…I WAS [...]

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Mega-trends in Appliance Repair

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

I can’t remember the last time the major news media deigned to spill a little ink on us humble, hardworking (but damn good-looking) appliance repair guys. But the Washington Times recently ran an article about interesting trends in the appliance repair trade. And it wasn’t in the Obituary section, either! One of [...]

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Magic Serial Number Decoder for GE Appliances

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

If you are one of the millions of victims who own GE appliances, then at some point you may need to know when they were manufactured. Fun fact to know and tell: the year of manufacture is not the same as the model year of the model number. GE does it this [...]

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Broken Information Appliance

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

Just want to access the forum … link keeps trying to open Netscape, I use IE, so can’t seem to get kernected … Jeff
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The above message was sent when you were offline, via your Timpani site.
Message sent from IP: 68.43.28.244

Ahh, Grasshoppah, the problem you describe pertains to the default browser settings in your PC. [...]

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Appliantology Newsletter, Winter 2006

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

At long last, the wait is over: the Winter 2006 issue of our newsletter, Appliantology, has hit the streets, face-first and screaming! You can download the newsletter from the following link:
http://fixitnow.com/documents/appliantology-winter-2006.pdf
In this issue:

The Samurai visits RepairClinic… and likes what he sees!
Changes in the repair forum to serve you mo’ bettah.
Talk to the Samurai in [...]

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