Moment with Mookie

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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Have no questions - been too cold and too much snow to go watch trains this past weekend. But it is nice to hear train whistles instead of snow blowers at night.

But a riddle for you: Which spouse said it? We lost our 17 year old - microwave, so went to get a replacement. Of course, the one we wanted wasn’t in stock. So while looking at the rest, we spotted a GE that seemed to have what we wanted in a microwave. One spouse said " I don’t know much about GE, so don’t know if they are any good at all". The other spouse replied, “well, they made the Dash 9!”.

I will leave it up to you to draw your own conclusions as to who said it and what she was inferring…[}:)] [:D]

And yes, we bought the GE…

Mookie

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Does it have dynamic brakes?

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Still reading the manual. May have to take night classes to get through it!

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Does it have yellow thingies on the cord???
stay safe
Joe

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Presumably if Alco made one it would come with a smoke hood!

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If it’s any thing like a dash 9 it will handily double as a vibrator… for sore backs and stuff.
Randy

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When you microwave leftovers for too long, does it smoke like an out of tunr Dash9?

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Does it sound like an GE Locomotive when you heat up that cup of coffiee in the morning?

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What kind of horn does it have? Leslie,Nathan? 3 or 5 chime?[:D]
Did you use a 'trade-in’microwave cart?[:D]

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When you attempt to heat things up too fast, does it shoot out flames? Hope not!

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2 cycle, 4 cycle or wash cycle?

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It hasn’t done the familiar “whoop” yet. It does have a bell and it is pretty quiet. But insistent! It does warn that it will burn food if you don’t do it right…guess that is a GE!

The instructions are as complicated as running any locomotive, but it is almost as quiet as an SD70 - wonder if they collaborated on this?

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There aren’t too many companies out there anymore that make everything from Microwaves to Locomotives.

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And don’t forget toasters!

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And light bulbs!
Mookie, you said it was pretty quiet, are you sure it’s a GE? That sounds more like an EMD.Or a GE that isn’t running[:(].

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…and pretty much anything else you find around the home…

Refrigerators & Freezers
Electric Cooking
Microwaves
Washers & Dryers
Water Systems
Small Appliances
Speed Cooking
Gas Cooking
Venting Systems
Dishwashers, Compactors & Disposers
Room Air Conditioners

…that’s just things for around the house.

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…Jen, I’l give you a bit of help here…You were wondering if the GE was a good product…We have a “Spacesaver” GE above stove microwafe that is now 24 years old and still running. We recently tried to find a replacement for it but sizes have changed since then so still wondering which way to go. New models make it too low to the stove. Maybe we’ll have to reinstall a range hood and purchase new microwave to just set on counter when we do replacement. Believe we’ve had 2 service calls for the GE in that amount of time.

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I forgot to ask earlier about what kind of antenna came with it.
Was it a “Firecracker”?[:D][}:)]

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Q: Our old mw was a Sharp Carousel - 1988 and it had one service call years ago. They have upgraded them quite a bit, but they still just basically cook. Now the price - that’s a lot nicer. They are getting pretty cheap. I guess the plasma tv’s are the $ makers! We are still driving the old 1981 LTD daily, so you can see we really wear things out!

LM - I have the turntable from the old one on the top - communicating what will happen if this one gives me a bad time!

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…Yes, Jen very expensive back then and for the most part our unit has mainly been used for heating coffee water…!!