What's the best product you ever owned?

[smokey04]

My 1963 mod.Omega Speed Master Chrono. and my 1967 mod. Speed Master Professional Chrono. The original "moon watches" selected by NASA for the Early Astronauts. Nick

 

[HoleCarder]

Amazon Kindle Voyage.

I love to read.

 

[HoleCarder]

Great thread!

Good job DWalt.

 

[loknload]

My wife and I have our two original Wheeling Galvanized trash cans we purchased when were first married 38 years ago! She backed into one of them but one good swat with a rubber mallet put it right back in shape again, I still have that mallet too!
These two trash cans have never seen raw garbage or trash, they have lived the good life of always being lined with a 33 gal. Hefty trash bag
These two trash cans have served us well!

 

[mocha001]

My 2005 sierra 2500 diesel, 270,000 miles still going strong

 

[tcon]

I too own a plasma HDTV (2010 Sammy) which has the best picture I've seen. Note that I do 10-15 in-home warranty services a week on flatscreen TVs so I have a good comparison basis. I bought a 51" Sammy plasma last year for when this one bites it after it was announced that plasmas were no longer going to be manufactured by Samsung.

BUT THE BEST PRODUCT I HAVE OWNED.... I have an Onkyo AV receiver model TX-SV717PRO that I have used constantly for my TVs' audio since the early 90's. It has been powering my BOSS AM5 Acoustimass 2.1 speakers. I don't turn it off. It has literally been powered on for 25 years with the exception of moving one time and a handful of power outages.

 

[Salty RI]

After reading most of these posts, I can't believe how many of the items mentioned I also had, some I liked and some I didn't.

 

[Rastoff]

This has yet to let me down:

I've heard that others have had reasonable service from it as well.

 

[LittleCooner]

My Buck Knife!! I have what was a 317 Trailblazer that I purchased 40+ years ago. Looks just like the Case folding hunter, with two blades, 4 1/4 inches long. Sent it to a good friend back then and had Sambar Stag Handles put on the old gal. It is truly unreal how many game animals it has help process in the past 40+ years and how many other duties it has preformed. The metal is something else. Now that I have a couple of Grandsons, this thing will be listed in my will. They sell today for $ 150 - 200 if you can find one and worth every single penny. My most prized item and best purchase outside the guns and it has been a constant companion for my adult life.

 

[Gulfecho]

Easy choice for me. My 1990 Toyota 4Runner that I bought new in April, 1990...this will mark our 26th year together.

Lots of memories associated with this truck...ladies, friends, and dogs...places it's taken me, from the swamps and bogs of Georgia, through the mountains of Tennessee and West Virginia, to the UP in Michigan with its tremendous scenery and snowfalls. It's never let me down. Not once. I've taken good care of it, and it's taken good care of me. I did get stuck in it once...in a snow-covered ditch up around Haslett, Michigan...my fault, not the truck's. A friendly guy on a big John Deere (nothing runs like a Deere) yanked me out. He wouldn't accept any money, but I had some beer in the cooler, so we shared a cold one together, there in the snow and the 5-degree temperature. That was back in '93...where has the time gone?

It still wears its original paint. It has the 3.0 V6 and a 5-speed manual transmission. Other stuff, if anyone's interested, includes a 4-inch Trail Master suspension lift, Rancho heavy duty torsion bars, shocks and steering stabilizer. Heavy duty skid plates from Northwest Off Road Specialties in Bellingham, Washington. We ride on Dick Cepek tires and Mickey Thompson wheels. I put Warn manual hubs on it. It also now has a brand new Kenwood stereo system including a sub with its own separate amp.

It'll be seen to even after I'm gone. It's in my will and it'll go to the young son of a good friend of mine.

It's been a good ol' truck.

I couldn't agree more. I bought a 2004 4Runner put 190,000 miles on it with only replacing the battery. It never left me in a bad place. I was so happy with it that I traded it for a new one. Didn't want to tempt fate.

 

[Houlton]

Panasonic Refer

Sent a 4.2 cu ft refer home from Binh Thuy in 1972. Still using it and it will freeze drinks if its turned all the way up.

 

[Stan O]

1971 Rolex Submariner. Only cleaned once and still going strong
Cleaning today cost would be 3 times what the watch cost in 71.
R75/7 BMW motorcycle
My Toyota Van. It's a perpetual motion machine.
Les Baer 1911 Flawless after 13,000 rounds
My 2 Collings guitars. Just amazing instruments.
Finally, The Macintosh tube amp and pre-amp I foolishly sold.

 

[Bugkiller99]

Hate to say this, as it's not Made in the USA, but...
Volvo 240 Sedan. Bought it when my son was born. He drove it as a teen and in college. I finally sold it, and still see it around town on the road.

 

[BigBill]

1955 jeep cj5 snowplow. She needs a body but she's served me over 25 years.

 

[hanken]

My wife sells aflac insurance and she put 300,000 miles on a 1994 lincoln mark 8 and 297,000 miles on a 1998 mark 8 lsc. She now drives a lincoln mkx.

 

[Smoke]

Made in America Tevas



Before the moved the factory over seas. I paid 70 bucks for them 20 years ago and I wear them more than any other shoes I own

 

[ky wonder]

got an old anvil that belonged to my great great great great grandfather
been in our family for over 200 years still as good as ever

 

[Ed Fowler]

My grandfathers vice, given to me after my grandfather died, it has held every knife I have made, clean and oil the screw once a month and love it.

In second place would be a Rolex Black Dial wind up watch made in 1940, just keeps going.

 

[SilentKnight]

The John Wayne can opener never failed me. The Spiderco knife three inch blade as a one hand operational knife. Both affordable and worth the price.

 

[Donn]

The battery on my Swiss Army wristwatch died today. I went to the battery store to get a new battery which I took home and installed. I got to reflecting on that watch. I've had it for close to 20 years, and it has been a constant in my life for all that time and we've been through a lot together. Reliable, accurate, and rugged it certainly is, and I admire its clean and uncomplicated utilitarian appearance. All in all, it is so satisfactory I don't believe I will ever want another watch so long as this one stays running.

Got a Wenger Swiss Army watch for Christmas, 1994. All I've ever had to do is change batteries. I've got a few others that fit under this umbrella, the watch is right up near the top.