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Fred B said:
Not sure how old you are but I remember the time when a toaster, radio, or tv was repairable for very little; and a refrigerator would last decades not just 3-5yrs.
It's called planned obsolescence, design it to break down, not repairable, to sell another one.
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We have a guy in the next town over that has a neon sign on his window that says “Old Technology Shop”, he will repair old appliances, like Emmett Smith on the Andy Griffith show. The main business is a small motor shop, mostly well pumps and air compressors. The old appliance thing is more like his hobby. People bring in a lot of Kitchen Aide stand mixers to him.

I had a great old toaster from my grandfather that I really liked but the latch to hold it down wore out, he fabricated a new one just by taking it apart and figuring out what it must have originally looked like. Charged me $40, which could have bought me a new throw-away toaster of course, but I liked that one, had a cool art-deco vibe to it. Wifey sold it in a garage sale frenzy, I still haven’t forgiven her for that…
 
Jraef said:
We have a guy in the next town over that has a neon sign on his window that says “Old Technology Shop”, he will repair old appliances, like Emmett Smith on the Andy Griffith show. The main business is a small motor shop, mostly well pumps and air compressors. The old appliance thing is more like his hobby. People bring in a lot of Kitchen Aide stand mixers to him.

I had a great old toaster from my grandfather that I really liked but the latch to hold it down wore out, he fabricated a new one just by taking it apart and figuring out what it must have originally looked like. Charged me $40, which could have bought me a new throw-away toaster of course, but I liked that one, had a cool art-deco vibe to it. Wifey sold it in a garage sale frenzy, I still haven’t forgiven her for that…
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Yeah, but UL listing, something, something!
 
Fred B said:
Most common issue I come across, Want it as cheap even it is not correct or worse not safe.

Not sure how old you are but I remember the time when a toaster, radio, or tv was repairable for very little; and a refrigerator would last decades not just 3-5yrs.
It's called planned obsolescence, design it to break down, not repairable, to sell another one.
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I have the one I bought for my first house in 1987. It's an Admiral. When we moved from that house, my wife made noises about leaving it behind as the house we were moving into they were leaving a nice stainless steel Whirlpool side-by-side. I put my foot down on that one, and it's one of the best appliance decisions I've ever made. The shiny stainless? We're on round 2, and the old one was new in 2003.
 
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