Comments for My Grandma Was Green http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com Examining the past in order to learn to live more sustainably and simply in the present. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:11:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Did Your Grandma Use A Handkerchief? by john http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/2008/09/02/did-your-grandma-use-a-handkerchief/#comment-842 john Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:32:24 +0000 http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/?p=144#comment-842 I would never go out without a white cotton hankerchief up my sleeve & my girl friend always a hankerchief up her sleeve never eve tisses I would never go out without a white cotton hankerchief up my sleeve & my girl friend always a hankerchief up her sleeve

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]]> Comment on What Would Grandma Use to Get The Job Done? by Wyomom http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/2008/07/08/what-would-grandma-use-to-get-the-job-done/#comment-562 Wyomom Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:09:04 +0000 http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/?p=64#comment-562 April, Our electrician friend says that the "time-delay fuse" on the small appliances is called a "Thermal Safety Cutout" and should not be taken out or jumpered over because it is a saftey feature of the appliance. According to him, you should be able to get a replacement one from a small appliance repair shop if you take the old one with you so you get the right one. Then it gets soldered in. Just make sure you don't get things too hot while you are soldering, or it will blow the fuse again. Things like hair dryers are usually cheaper to replace than to pay someone else to repair it, but if you can do it yourself, then it won't cost much, and you will have the experience to do it yourself the next time something like that breaks. April, Our electrician friend says that the “time-delay fuse” on the small appliances is called a “Thermal Safety Cutout” and should not be taken out or jumpered over because it is a saftey feature of the appliance. According to him, you should be able to get a replacement one from a small appliance repair shop if you take the old one with you so you get the right one. Then it gets soldered in. Just make sure you don’t get things too hot while you are soldering, or it will blow the fuse again.
Things like hair dryers are usually cheaper to replace than to pay someone else to repair it, but if you can do it yourself, then it won’t cost much, and you will have the experience to do it yourself the next time something like that breaks.

]]> Comment on What Would Grandma Use to Get The Job Done? by Wyomom http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/2008/07/08/what-would-grandma-use-to-get-the-job-done/#comment-555 Wyomom Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:32:30 +0000 http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/?p=64#comment-555 April, I came up with some more ideas for how Grandma would do things. She would buy quality leather shoes that she could replace the soles and heels on when they wore out, rather than have to keep buying new shoes constantly. Another item that you can find on eBay rather than going to an antique store, is a flop-down door toaster. They are really neat and take only about 1 1/2 minutes to make 2 pieces of toast. You do have to watch the toast, but it gives the kids something to do while you are making breakfast. For appliances, especially the old ones that are being kept going long past their prime, there is a website -- www.appliance-parts-warehouse.com where you can find replacement parts. If they don't have the exact model that you do, a lot of times you can find similar models that have the same parts in them. A lot of small appliances (hair dryers, space heaters, etc.) have a time-delay fuse in them that goes out after a period of time. It looks like a little silver tube with a black pointy end on one side with wires coming out each end. If you can take it out or jumper a wire over it, that should fix the problem. (Find someone who knows how to do electrical repairs to help you with it.) We have repaired a number of small appliances that have had that problem, and that was all that was wrong with them. April, I came up with some more ideas for how Grandma would do things. She would buy quality leather shoes that she could replace the soles and heels on when they wore out, rather than have to keep buying new shoes constantly.

Another item that you can find on eBay rather than going to an antique store, is a flop-down door toaster. They are really neat and take only about 1 1/2 minutes to make 2 pieces of toast. You do have to watch the toast, but it gives the kids something to do while you are making breakfast.

For appliances, especially the old ones that are being kept going long past their prime, there is a website — http://www.appliance-parts-warehouse.com where you can find replacement parts. If they don’t have the exact model that you do, a lot of times you can find similar models that have the same parts in them.

A lot of small appliances (hair dryers, space heaters, etc.) have a time-delay fuse in them that goes out after a period of time. It looks like a little silver tube with a black pointy end on one side with wires coming out each end. If you can take it out or jumper a wire over it, that should fix the problem. (Find someone who knows how to do electrical repairs to help you with it.) We have repaired a number of small appliances that have had that problem, and that was all that was wrong with them.

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