A 200-lb or so aluminum-framed hunk of glass that no longer moves, and the last attempt to do so has made it jump out of the bottom channel. This has happened because those channels are absolute magnets for dirt and junk, and most haven’t been cleaned since the door was new.

The result is everyone’s scared to death to go near it and for good reason. These things are not safety glass and if it falls and breaks will slice off a limb without even slowing down.

The cure is to get on in there anyway and CLEAN THAT CHANNEL and I mean METICULOUSLY and oil all rollers etc with Break-Free and preferably with a friend’s help, stick the door back in the channel, give a lecture on keeping it clean and oiled, and know in your heart of hearts it’ll be similarly messed up in another 20 years.

In the era when everybody is crazy about low-carb food, “sweet” just does not sound right. Salty stuffs are better.

Still, “most appliances never used”, and a precipitous drop out the back? Sounds like someone got it halfway built in 1977 and then didn’t finish it. That’s thirty years of equity just waiting for someone to snatch it up and sweat it to a finish.

Unused 30-year-old appliances are likely to be worth a lot as antiques I suppose. Maybe that is where the appreciation comes from….