REPLACED AFTER 35 YEARS

[Rustyt1953]

Having three grandkids under roof this place is the green mile for microwaves and TV remotes.

 

[Steve912]

What I'm worried about is my electric water heater. It's 18 years old.

Drain sediment and keep a good anode in it. She'll last
longer than you

 

[tops]

We moved in this house in the fall of 1989 and we still have the original hot water heater, refrigerator and stove. We had too replace the washing machine this year (2nd or 3rd one) and it doesn't wash a load as fast the old one. I can remember looking forward to getting new things but now it seems the new has a short life and poor performance. Larry

 

[Ziggy2525]

We moved in this house in the fall of 1989 and we still have the original hot water heater, refrigerator and stove. We had too replace the washing machine this year (2nd or 3rd one) and it doesn't wash a load as fast the old one. I can remember looking forward to getting new things but now it seems the new has a short life and poor performance. Larry

IMO, new washing machines are a huge step backwards. With all the water saving features, they try to wash a load of clothes with like three eye droppers of water. If you use the "extra dirty" mode, you might get six eye droppers of water.

 

[djohns6]

I miss my Amana Radar Range. It was huge but built like a safe.

I remember them ! My sister in law had one that was probably 20 yrs old when she passed away . I think one of her girls has it now .

 

[df06]

I remember buying my wife an Amanda Radar Range for her birthday in the fall of 1978. That was a pretty high end appliance in those days. Believe it cost $400 or so at that time. Don't recall how long it lasted. But that cost would be a couple grand in today's dollars. They're a commodity these days.

 

[Ogandydancer]

I remember buying switches, timers, belts, solenoid actuators, etc locally so you could keep washers/driers and other appliances going for most of your life. Today they design stuff to be thrown away. Don't get me started on COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.[/QUOT

Last sentence says it all . Most likely China or Korea.

 

[zeke]

Current one is 27 yrs old. Great appliance for thawing/reheating smoked ribs. Smoke em, throw em into barbara walters face suck machine, freeze and microwave at your convenience.

 

[Chubbs103]

Drain sediment and keep a good anode in it. She'll last
longer than you

You beat me to it.

If you haven't been changing the anode rod regularly, though, it is not coming out.

 

[sousana]

I still have and use the VHS machine I paid 600 bucks for at Sears back in the early to mid 80's. If it works, why fix it?

 

[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.