Recent content by Alan in Durham

How could I not buy something called "Vista-Tilt" ?

Your fault for having a modern furnace. On mine there was a bypass you could switch on, manually light the gas, turn it down about halfway so it doesn't burn the heat exchanger, take out the filter so the warm air rose and the cold air fell, and there you had it. Your only thermostat was the...

Once up North the power was down for a week in cold weather. I didn't know that gas furnaces had special settings to keep the house warm on an emergency basis. I'm so embarrassed, I'm supposed to be such a handyman.

Actually I just this minute did just exactly that. It only has to last until I'm dead, and I'm pretty far up the road.

I think that there's only one house in the neighborhood that has a gas tank and has the truck come in.

I don't even really know what "grill" means. Is that the things with lids that are lined up like used cars at Home Depot? Do they work on windy days? Do they work in the garage on rainy days? Do they last forever like the Sunbeam almost did? It seems like a dreadful thing to have to own but...

I did see a few stainless steel ones, but about a third of them apparently broke within a very short time -- much shorter than the 50 years the Sunbeam lasted. It appears that the most expensive ones come from the same factories as the cheap ones. I don't think that this is very encouraging...

Thanks, it might, but deep-fried home fries are kind of not what I'm looking for. Not to mention that they burn people's houses down when used by clumsy people like me.

Ooh, I forgot to state explicitly.... I fry all my frying outdoors. I really really don't like smelling up the house with that stuff, and fans are not an adequate answer to my delicate sensitivities. :wink: So whatever I use, I have to plug it in somewhere.

Hello. Nice to meet you. My beloved midcentury Sunbeam CONTROLLED HEAT electric frypan hath the dust bitten. The centerpoint of my whole week is the eggs and homefried potatoes I make on Sundays, so this is serious stuff. Especially since there seems to be no reasonable replacement available...