I think that Bill's tightwad neighbour will find that she is saving nothing,
and, indeed, her
resetting of the thermostat may be counterproductive.
When the house is empty, so hot water is not being drawn off, the cylinder, if
properly insulated,
will lose, relatively, little heat, so the thermos
I am not sure if this Panasonic model is still being produced but after I
read the following post, I purchased it, and I can say, that it is the most
blind friendly non-talking microwave I have ever owned. It doesn't have the
so often found touch pad panel, rather a raised button pannel that is ea
It's not going to do well for knives. Something much less expensive and very
effective for sharpening a knife is a bench top belt sander. They are anywhere
from 40 to 100 dollars and the length of the belt keeps heat build up at a
minimum and the belt won't become rounded off like a grinding w
Dale,
In your opinion, Could something like the ws-3000 be used to sharpen knives?
TNX
Larry
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From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Dale Leavens
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 3:30 PM
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [B
I have one and I love it. It works very easily for sharpening chisels with a
precise angle setting guide. You slide the chisel flat side down up a sort of
shoot and the bevel edge comes in contact with the spinning underside of the
disk. It will set 20, 25, 30 and 35 degree angles. You can grind
No,
The warranty has not expired, but the company is giving us a difficult time
refunding money because it was bought online and we don't have an actual
receipt for the product!
I bought an Emerson, in answer to whoever asked, because I needed something
right now, and I wasn't going to purchas
Some months ago there was a discussion about how well a blind person can use
the Wood Sharp to sharpen chissles and plane blade. I can't remember the
conclusion. Would someone please refresh my memory or maybe add more to the
discussion? I am considering the purchase of the model WS3000.
Thank
I guess ultimately, like most things, it comes down to how much we value the
time it takes to save some money. I know a real tight wad woman who changes
the thermostat on her hot water heater every day when she leaves for work. I
guess you might be able to measure savings on something like hot
Scott,
I totally support this topic. I just had someone look at our washer
and dryer and there are no lights or displays that are lit when it
isn't in use. I do know that if the dryer door isn't closed, the
light inside will stay on.
My question is that if someone who is sighted leaves the drye
I had and still have an emerson, now for 22, yep twenty-two years. I
thought it was 12 years. But in fact I got it in the new kitchen of my
first place on my own.
That was 1985-1988, before I bought where I am now.
What I did with that unit was to *scratch the plastic over the grid behind
the pl
You know this has me thinking. My wife sure wont' go for unplugging
the microwave, but then getting at the plug is a problem considering
it's an over the range model. However, I gather the washer and dryer
although not running will also consume some electricity. I wonder how
much and how ea
I believe the VIP has a high voltage model, certainly they do have one to
operate heat pumps.
You would need quite a few, one for each electric heater.
- Original Message -
From: Donnie Parrett
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:10 PM
Subj
Did you ask the store where you bought it if they would get the
overlays for you? You also might try calling the Emerson customer
support to see if they have them.
At 01:26 AM 10/24/2008, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Thanks for all of your suggestions.
>I do plan to also contact Wal-Mart, to inform t
Hi,
I was reading one of those energy saving tips thing the other day.
On fridges what I saw was that you should keep your fridge at 36 to 38 and
your freezer at 0 to 5.
- Original Message -
From: "Lee A. Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Blind Handyman"
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008
Howdy. I have had a couple of home energy audits done over the years and
I am told there are three big enemies in this house. the first and
biggest is my sump pumps because the off / on of the pumps runs the
bill up. another one I knew about was our big not sure if it is 23 or
24 cubic inc
grinning about your daughter moving out Bob. our neighbors son
moved out and they are saving big time as their son was twice a day
in the shower, then the hairdryer and burning the lights half the
night. I like that idea of putting things on power strips. but
question. our microwave di
Hi all,
When my daughter moved off to college this year, my water bill and gas bill
went down significantly. She takes more showers per day and stays in the
shower longer than anyone I know. My son suffers from no such problem. His
views on personal hygiene are quite different, and I do mean
This is one of the things we do in this house. Unplug the items we aren't
using. And it does save on the electric bill, plus we installed the CF bulbs,
which have reduced the electric bill greatly. Now we are trying out a 20,000
ventless gas heater I installed a couple weeks ago, to supplement
I had a discussion this mourning about power usage of items in stand-by
mode. There was mention of this on this list before about the power used by
appliances when in the off mode. Regardless of what it could be; microwave
oven, computer or TV, most use power when off especially if we lik
Donnie the voice activated thermostats can be used with any heating
system. The problem you come up with is they usually all are low voltage(24
volt or lower), electric heat usually uses a line break voltage (240 volt)
thermostat.
All that is needed to use them together is a relay i
I can't immediately see why the transformer would be in danger
but I don't know enough about how various systems work.
Hopefully someone here knows more.
Tom fowle
am I mistaken or did not Claudia say the warranty had expired? I
know of another Hamilton talking microwave which has been in service
for maybe 3 years with no problems. Lee
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at
11:56:33PM
-0400, Spiro wrote:
> this is why the non-transferable waranty idea send me nucl
I hope you make out good with Hamilton beach and walmart , however
what they are talking about after that length of time is standard
policy. Might I suggest for any future purchases of any size. that
you create files. like one for kitchen appliances. one day it will
come in handy . Not sure w
HI Tom,
I finally got in touch with the Honeywell thermostat support group. What a
waste of time. After about 20 minutes trying to get him to understand what
and why I wanted the two controls he placed me on hold for another 10
minutes. He finally told me to contact a heating contractor because
Before you give up on the Hamilton Beach, check to make sure the problem isn't
a blown fuse in the microwave itself. To access the fuse you will probably
have to remove the side of the microwave where the electric cord enters.
Follow the electric cord and you should find the fuse. Make sure t
Hi Claudia,
There are so many ways to
deal with a touch screen on the microwave. Loc dots are nice and some
folks put them on in the form of the pattern of five on dice. You ten
have
a less cluttered screen that way. Rita
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Claudia wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for all of y
Hi All,
Thanks for all of your suggestions.
I do plan to also contact Wal-Mart, to inform them of this issue with
Hamilton Beach!
I had to go out and purchase another microwave last night; I bought an
Emerson, and it has a touch screen, but they all do.
I didn't see one that was even remotely a
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