Posted: 1/13/2010 9:04:12 AM EDT
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our 10 year old behemoth of a microwave went tit's up...
any recommendations for a new one...that will last another 10 years? Thanks in advance! 
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A white one?  I have been looking at the GE Profile http://products.geappliances.com/ApplProducts/Dispatcher?REQUEST=SpecPage&Sku=PEM31SMSS
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A white one? I have been looking at the GE Profile http://products.geappliances.com/ApplProducts/Dispatcher?REQUEST=SpecPage&Sku=PEM31SMSS
that looks nice...thanks!
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If you're going to toss the old one out, consider opening it up and removing the magnetron. Notice the gray rings on either side of the cooling fins. These are high quality ceramic ring magnets like you find on the base of magnetic car antennas for CB, ham, phone, etc. I use these magnets and parts of them all over the shop to hold screwdriver bits, extensions, drill bits, chuck keys, and for cleaning up drilling chips. I have broken up magnets in my cars' radiator overflow bottles to remove rust from the coolant. Very handy things to have, and just try finding a place to buy them, and they can't be shipped by air.
 
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Someone once told me that there are really only two companies making microwave ovens - Sharp and Daewoo. I don't know if that's true, but when you look at most of the others and compare them with a Daweoo, they are VERY similar in construction with mostly easily interchangeable beauty plates. The Sharps were usually very different.
I had one Sharp that lasted me over 10 years before I gave it away. Put a Sharp in the house (had to special order it) and it is still working well. |
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If you're going to toss the old one out, consider opening it up and removing the magnetron. Notice the gray rings on either side of the cooling fins. These are high quality ceramic ring magnets like you find on the base of magnetic car antennas for CB, ham, phone, etc. I use these magnets and parts of them all over the shop to hold screwdriver bits, extensions, drill bits, chuck keys, and for cleaning up drilling chips. I have broken up magnets in my cars' radiator overflow bottles to remove rust from the coolant. Very handy things to have, and just try finding a place to buy them, and they can't be shipped by air. http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/images/tubes/magnetrons/magnetron1.jpghttp://www.duramag.com/images/ceramic-ring.jpg That is a heck of an idea! |
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Quoted: If you're going to toss the old one out, consider opening it up and removing the magnetron. Notice the gray rings on either side of the cooling fins. These are high quality ceramic ring magnets like you find on the base of magnetic car antennas for CB, ham, phone, etc. I use these magnets and parts of them all over the shop to hold screwdriver bits, extensions, drill bits, chuck keys, and for cleaning up drilling chips. I have broken up magnets in my cars' radiator overflow bottles to remove rust from the coolant. Very handy things to have, and just try finding a place to buy them, and they can't be shipped by air. http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/images/tubes/magnetrons/magnetron1.jpghttp://www.duramag.com/images/ceramic-ring.jpg Just be careful not to spill all the nuclear stuff out! |
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If you're going to toss the old one out, consider opening it up and removing the magnetron. Notice the gray rings on either side of the cooling fins. These are high quality ceramic ring magnets like you find on the base of magnetic car antennas for CB, ham, phone, etc. I use these magnets and parts of them all over the shop to hold screwdriver bits, extensions, drill bits, chuck keys, and for cleaning up drilling chips. I have broken up magnets in my cars' radiator overflow bottles to remove rust from the coolant. Very handy things to have, and just try finding a place to buy them, and they can't be shipped by air. http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/images/tubes/magnetrons/magnetron1.jpghttp://www.duramag.com/images/ceramic-ring.jpg That is a heck of an idea! If you keep your coolant level in the radiator and overflow bottle up where they're supposed to be, and your radiator cap is good, it works great. Some of the hot radiator water expands into the overflow bottle, gets de-rusted, siphons back into the radiator when the engine cools. Repeat the cycle hundreds of times as you use the car and your coolant gets de-rusted a little here, a little there. Low coolant levels or a radiator cap that leaks will break the siphon between the bottle and the radiator, and it won't work. I used to have a 1980 AMC Eagle that ate water pumps. I had 3 water pumps fail, the original and 2 replacements. I then put strong magnets in the overflow bottle and stopped it. Years later I drained the coolant to replace all the hoses and the water came out green and transparent rather than greenish brown and cloudy. The magnets in the bottle were expanded fuzz balls of rust sludge that had been pulled out of the water and trapped. ETA This is just one source of strong magnet material for this purpose. I salvage magnets from bad DC motors and r/w head arms in bad computer hard drives, old refrigerator stick ons, whatever. I imagine some of the cheap crap in Wal-Mart and Dollar Stores could be a source of cheap ceramic button magnets. Anything will work in the overflow bottles. |