REPLACED AFTER 35 YEARS

[Tom Beavert]

Late 60's I was a repair tech for a Div. of Litton. Restaurants started getting microwaves. Long learning curve to not using metal cookware. I replaced lots of 'caps'.
TB

 

[bricker]

What's a microwave?

I don't know, apparently it is like a Yugo?

 

[hemiram]

After much urging by my sister and brother, both of them engineers, I have just acquired a replacement for the microwave oven my sister gave me some 35 years ago, more or less. Being engineers, I gave much credence to their opinion that materials can deteriorate in that period of time and therefore it was time to replace it. The display on the old one was getting a little faint too. In size and power, comparing the new machine to the old one is like comparing the Batmobile to a Yugo.

Now the I have to relearn all the cooking times and power levels of things I don't have written directions to, like my homemade breakfast sandwiches. I just hope I don't turn too many of my meals into charcoal before I get used to running the new oven.

Even back 35 years ago, I could tell when ours started to get weak. It was about 10 years old, and at first, stuff just took too long compared to new ones I used at work, or a friend's house. When my mother lived with us, she resisted me buying a new one, as she had learned all the times for stuff and finally one day, I got fed up with it scorching my popcorn and tossed the old one and bought a really nice new one that actually made decent popcorn. Mom was not happy about it, but she survived. I was kind of disappointed that I survived too.

 

[Chubbo]

Good fortune

After much urging by my sister and brother, both of them engineers, I have just acquired a replacement for the microwave oven my sister gave me some 35 years ago, more or less. Being engineers, I gave much credence to their opinion that materials can deteriorate in that period of time and therefore it was time to replace it. The display on the old one was getting a little faint too. In size and power, comparing the new machine to the old one is like comparing the Batmobile to a Yugo.

Now the I have to relearn all the cooking times and power levels of things I don't have written directions to, like my homemade breakfast sandwiches. I just hope I don't turn too many of my meals into charcoal before I get used to running the new oven.

After several years of continuous daily use, Our combination Microwave-Convection oven stopped working. We did 99% of our cooking on that highly efficient oven. We were faced with the choice of replacement or having it repaired, and were convinced to replace it, as it would have cost more to have it repaired, than to replace it with a plain, higher wattage, microwave oven. What a monumental mistake! After two years of anguish, and frustration, failing to master that new oven, I stopped using it, entirely, but my wife still fights it in daily use. I'm firmly convinced that it's impossible for folks of our advanced age, to ever master it. We were told that combination Microwave-convection ovens are no longer sold. I'd willingly pay triple the price, that it would have cost for the repair of that old unit, but we disposed of it. Good fortune on your endeavor.