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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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bobyoung53 said:
My father just passed away at 90 and his house went into probate court for a year, I came out here, Nov 2019 and was supposed to return in April of 2020 to clean up the house and get my stuff out because I had been living there for a while. Unfortunately the country of Peru had other ideas as they closed the airport until Nov 2020 and the house got sold and I now have a whole pile of stuff in two storage spaces. The reason I write this though is that there was a GE refrigerator that he bought when he had the house built from 1953-54 in the cellar that still worked and was still being used when I left. It was our main refrigerator for years upstairs but got demoted. I REALLY hope they didn't throw it away, it should have been in a museum as a monument to how things used to be made. It looked a lot like this with the tiny freezer etc.

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Ah, yes...the one with a micro freezer. :D
We had one, too and when we were done with it around 1975 we gave it to my uncle who put it in his vacation cottage for another 40 years. I bet it is still chillin' something somewhere.
 
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notJaco said:
Ah, yes...the one with a micro freezer. :D
We had one, too and when we were done with it around 1975 we gave it to my uncle who put it in his vacation cottage for another 40 years. I bet it is still chillin' something somewhere.
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My parents still had their original teal colored 1961 Frigidaire refrigerator (it had been moved to basement bar duty) in the house when it was sold in 2013. The fridge was never serviced and had run continuously for 52 years (except during its move downstairs). As far as I know it's still running!
 
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bobyoung53 said:
I have several 1930's console radios that work and work well, with a little bit of maintenance here and there.
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We had a late 40s/early 50s(?)freezer that still worked when I gave it away about 3 years ago. It was definitely not self defrosting, which is why it 'lived' in the garage near the door so I could occasionally drain it. My dad had used the thing to hold ice chest chillers and bait in it for years. I'm sure it was not electrically efficient, but it still kept things "frizz" when it left here.
 
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notJaco said:
It was a whole different philosophy for designing and building consumer items.
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It's important to save a penny on manufacturing then let your customer worry about it. Harley Davidson did this in the early '00s with a camshaft bearing changing from Timken to INA in '03. I got lucky - mine's an' 02. The INA bearing had a tendency to come apart and cause considerable damage. The kicker is HD had this same problem on the previous generation engine and apparently didn't learn anything. In my opinion, it was pretty low risk to HD for warranty claims since most folks only ride a few thousand miles a year. The bike would be out of warranty by time before most of the failures happened.
 
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gtmalone said:
It's important to save a penny on manufacturing then let your customer worry about it. Harley Davidson did this in the early '00s with a camshaft bearing changing from Timken to INA in '03. I got lucky - mine's an' 02. The INA bearing had a tendency to come apart and cause considerable damage. The kicker is HD had this same problem on the previous generation engine and apparently didn't learn anything. In my opinion, it was pretty low risk to HD for warranty claims since most folks only ride a few thousand miles a year. The bike would be out of warranty by time before most of the failures happened.
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Same with GMC trucks and their automatic transmissions that developed a small hole, just after the 100,000 mark. Ask me how I know... Other than that black mark, 300,000 miles and it is still going strong. (2006 6L Sierra 2500HD).
 
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GonePlaid said:
We had a late 40s/early 50s(?)freezer that still worked when I gave it away about 3 years ago. It was definitely not self defrosting, which is why it 'lived' in the garage near the door so I could occasionally drain it. My dad had used the thing to hold ice chest chillers and bait in it for years. I'm sure it was not electrically efficient, but it still kept things "frizz" when it left here.
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This country has become the Larry, Darryl and Darryl of business practices: "anything for a buck." I recently asked an appliance repairman who was replacing the motor on the 7-year-old dishwasher what brands he recommended to friends and family. He said, "Honestly, everything is such junk now, I just tell them to go get a cheap Frigidaire dishwasher, because they're going to be replacing whatever they buy in three or four years anyway, so going cheap will make it less painful." Retailers don't know you after the proverbial cash drawer is closed. We marvel and exclaim when someone does a job right these days, when no reputable, self-respecting tradesman used to consider doing things any other way. "An honest day's work for an honest wage" has become "Screw you, buddy, I've got mine, you can look out for yourself." Nobody trusts what a store owner tells them about a product without first having spent a lot of time online reading reviews, hoping the reviews are unbiased. Pride in the quality of what a vendor provides is almost rare anymore. Bah. You kids get off my lawn.
 
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Charlie Tango said:
This country has become the Larry, Darryl and Darryl of business practices: "anything for a buck." I recently asked an appliance repairman who was replacing the motor on the 7-year-old dishwasher what brands he recommended to friends and family. He said, "Honestly, everything is such junk now, I just tell them to go get a cheap Frigidaire dishwasher, because they're going to be replacing whatever they buy in three or four years anyway, so going cheap will make it less painful." Retailers don't know you after the proverbial cash drawer is closed. We marvel and exclaim when someone does a job right these days, when no reputable, self-respecting tradesman used to consider doing things any other way. "An honest day's work for an honest wage" has become "Screw you, buddy, I've got mine, you can look out for yourself." Nobody trusts what a store owner tells them about a product without first having spent a lot of time online reading reviews, hoping the reviews are unbiased. Pride in the quality of what a vendor provides is almost rare anymore. Bah. You kids get off my lawn.
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Much as I'm loathe to admit it, an awful lot seems to going right for me today. An important piece that will likely take me to the Philly area just came through — I think. Rang her back, she's working from home today ... yet I also know she would not have called had it not been a green light. Guardedly optimistic.

Sunday's monthly Ask Ari was profound and still thinking on what transpired. Wanting to be playing now but also not wanting to miss a call.

No doctor's appointments this week but I'm driving a friend to her doctor's appointment Tuesday. And I have back-to-back doctor's appointments on the following Tuesday. So — a draw.
 
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Charlie Tango said:
I recently asked an appliance repairman who was replacing the motor on the 7-year-old dishwasher what brands he recommended to friends and family. He said, "Honestly, everything is such junk now, I just tell them to go get a cheap Frigidaire dishwasher, because they're going to be replacing whatever they buy in three or four years anyway, so going cheap will make it less painful."
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The only things that I think may come close to classic quality are Speed Queen washers and dryers. They too have experienced some problems, but the design approach is at least more industrial/commercial than the 3 to 5 year junk that's out there.
 
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Al Kraft said:
The only things that I think may come close to classic quality are Speed Queen washers and dryers. They too have experienced some problems, but the design approach is at least more industrial/commercial than the 3 to 5 year junk that's out there.
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We'll see. Our 20 something Whirlpool washer timer quit about 3 yrs ago. My attempted repair didn't work. Almost 200 for a new timer. Didn't seem like smart money spending that on an old machine. We bought a new Whirlpool, about 500 bucks. Computer controlled, uses a stepper motor with reduction instead of a transmission. Tub is stainless and larger. Three yrs in and no troubles. The dryer is still kicking. All of our appliances have been Whirlpool and we've had good luck with them.
 
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Looked at the weather forecast yesterday for this week. 10-20% chances of rain. Promptly forgot about it. My just wife came in and said she heard on the radio we have a tornado watch until 11pm. Geez. Looked at a weather map. There is a low pressure and a front to the west of us. Temps on the front side (here) around 90 and humid. Temps on the backside, low 70s.
 
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I have been waiting for a package to arrive. The tracking is spotty, rarely updated, but it shows that the package was shipped from Md. and a couple of days later arrived in Baton Rouge. From there it made it's way to Lafayette ( about 70 miles east of here). Baton Rouge must be a fun place because it went back to there and there is no further word on the tracking of it. Gotta love USPS.
 
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