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I came home from the 9 a.m. service scheming to whip up a special surprise brunch for Sandy. The surprise was on me when a fridge handle snapped off in my hand. I’ve been much better about getting to aerobics classes at the YMCA… yet I still don’t think it was my fault.
Sir Elton John would like to shut down the Web for five years, he tells us. Yet within fifteen minutes I had identified that a door handle is not an uncommon point of failure for Kenmore Elite appliances; located a spare part and a parts diagram; and received solid advice about replacing the handle (since I am trying hard to avoid paying Sears to replace a handle on a six-year-old fridge). Ten more minutes, and I had recorded my gripe on a bulletin board, uploaded a picture to Flickr… and written this entry.
It’s really ok with me if Sir Elton stays offline for the next five years. Me? I’m all about teh Interwebs.
Posted on this day, other years:
- Say hi to Sparkle, my Civic Hybrid - 2008
- He Saw a Man About a Horse? - 2004
- Download Your Support for Kerry - 2004
I think this is your chance for some serious retro-geekery. Replace the handle with a floor puller and you’ll always be ready in case you put in a raised floor server room. If the other one breaks, you can swap the floor puller back and forth to open either door.
http://www.firsttechcorp.com/product.php?id=2
But was brunch successful? We wait with baited breath 🙂
Happy Sunday!
Walt, I love that idea. We had so far been very impressed about living in a house where all the appliances matched — the first time for me since childhood — and I dreaded the thought of pulling handles off the dishwasher and oven (particularly the oven… opening THAT without handles sounds a little scary). Floor pullers on all of the appliances would give the kitchen that very of-the-moment “tech” look — and yet, would be so practical.
Abigail, brunch was delish! I used mostly-egg-whites to make a low-carb, heart-healthy “Sunday bagel brunch omelet” with light cream cheese and chunks of smoked salmon. Delish. We didn’t miss the bagels, and the cats enjoyed licking the plates.
FYI one of the more “creative” jobs for a librarian that I have run across is that of a former fellow student in library school. He worked as the “librarian” for a company that maintained databases of information on appliance replacement parts. It would be especially cool if your 15 minute path to the world of appliance replacement parts was aided by a librarian!
Mmmm, plate licking. My cat would approve.
I once had an entire refrigerator door fall off on me. I was eight years old, and luckily the door hit the island in my grandmother’s kitchen before it crushed me. My cousin fixed it with some mysterious bits and pieces he found in the basement, and it stayed fixed that way for the next decade, until a kitchen fire necessitated the buying of a new fridge.
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