The Lifespan of Large Appliances Is Shrinking

[Granite]

My wife and I are very impressed with and appreciative of all your ingenuity! She says “wow, those Jeep guys!” but caveats it with the assumption that your wives are probably nagging you to get off the damn Jeep forum!
Never!!

I’m gonna put my McGuyver hat on today and see if I can’t apply some of your genius to this little problem …

 

[Granite]

Just had to buy a new over the range microwave - of course the new one has a completely different mounting lashup than the old one even though they're both Whirlpool.

Maybe more suitable for “Piss and Moan” but years ago when my company stopped caring about its employees it subcontracted out the tenure awards. I think it was for my 15 year work anniversary I received some quantity of “points” and the pleasure of sifting through thousands of piece of shit “gifts”. Among those gifts was a very specific microwave trim and mount adapter for one particular model of microwave. Not the microwave, mind you. Just the mounting bracket and cabinet trim.
I ordered a camp stove. 8 weeks later they told me it was out of stock. I ended up with a Dewalt bench grinder that I could have got off Amazon for $50 and no headache.
Can you feel the love?!

 

[BlueC]

I’m gonna put my McGuyver hat on today and see if I can’t apply some of your genius to this little problem …

Don't overlook the option of ripping one out of another unit. My county dump usually has a line of appliances sitting around waiting on the scraper, and people are always listing free scrap appliances on marketplace. Something like that might be a source of free parts.

 

[Apparition]

Maybe more suitable for “Piss and Moan” but years ago when my company stopped caring about its employees it subcontracted out the tenure awards. I think it was for my 15 year work anniversary I received some quantity of “points” and the pleasure of sifting through thousands of piece of shit “gifts”. Among those gifts was a very specific microwave trim and mount adapter for one particular model of microwave. Not the microwave, mind you. Just the mounting bracket and cabinet trim.
I ordered a camp stove. 8 weeks later they told me it was out of stock. I ended up with a Dewalt bench grinder that I could have got off Amazon for $50 and no headache.
Can you feel the love?!

I hated all that garbage. I did get a spotting scope once, rarely use it but it's better than the binoculars I already had.

 

[B1Toad]

If you decide to drill out a rubber caster run the hole saw in reverse to prevent it from grabbing

 

[Zorba]

Maybe more suitable for “Piss and Moan” but years ago when my company stopped caring about its employees it subcontracted out the tenure awards. I think it was for my 15 year work anniversary I received some quantity of “points” and the pleasure of sifting through thousands of piece of shit “gifts”. Among those gifts was a very specific microwave trim and mount adapter for one particular model of microwave. Not the microwave, mind you. Just the mounting bracket and cabinet trim.
I ordered a camp stove. 8 weeks later they told me it was out of stock. I ended up with a Dewalt bench grinder that I could have got off Amazon for $50 and no headache.
Can you feel the love?!

My outift gave out some DAMN NICE tenure awards. As you got up in seniority, the gifts became nicer. The last one was "Pick your own up to $500" - I got a $450 book on Lugers - something I NEVER would have spent my own money on. I could probably sell it now for a couple of hundred MORE.

 

[Granite]

Welp I finally got the 20 year old dryer back up and running. I found these wheels on Amazon. Drilled out the middle to the diameter of the OE ball bearing, sandwiched the ball bearing between two fortunately sized washers, and kept it all together with the mounting bolt and nyloc nut. I didn’t take any pictures installed because I really didn’t think it would work … but, at least for now it’s running a heck of a lot smoother than it was! I was more or less eyeballing getting the bearing hole centered but it sounds pretty darn good.
I earned my beer tonight!

I’m still going to be on the lookout for wheels like this with bearings already installed … this thing is a time bomb.