> but getting those two men into the same room at the same time can approach impossibility.
Yeah, you said it. I've also got a QX-949, but luckily no vintage refrigerators.
As much as the over-built, last-a-lifetime quality is a big component of owning of these old appliances, I can imagine how that fades when it's an object that weighs 800 pounds instead of 80.
Diverging: The motors for the meters on the 949 still work, last I checked, but the lights are dead. Lots of lights are dead. (It's old and unrestored.)
I'll have to decide whether to fix those, and whether to use appropriate[1] LEDs or find some correct incandescent bulbs, or just leave the lights dead, before it gets sold.
Thoughts?
(I'm strongly in favor of low-color-temperature white LEDs. They should live ~forever if not pushed hard, and they should look the ~same as the tungsten bulbs did in 1970-whatever. But low-CCT LEDs are tricky to find, and they're often designed with light dispersion characteristics that don't match those of an old-school light bulb.)