Welcome to the forum, T! I'm pretty sure richappy didn't mean anything negative with his first reply at all. After all, it's people like him that volunteer their time and help out on the forum.
This forum is open to anyone. Post your [URL="http://forum.appliancepartspros.com"]appliance problem[/URL] or use the [URL="http://forum.appliancepartspros.com/general-talk/"]General talk[/URL] section to chit chat
Oh yeah, a big welcome to Jackmcmanus21 as well!