GE CEO, Jack Welch, who raped and pillaged RCA, dead at 84.

[JohnCT]

Originally Posted by AlanInSitges

I came across a video on YouTube a few weeks ago of a Canadian TV show investigating the fact that all new appliances are junk not made to last more than a couple of years. The biggest culprits were American brands like Kenmore, Maytag, and GE.

My tenant is an appliance repair shop, and I fix a lot of the control boards that new appliances have for them when I can, and let me tell you, LG and Samsungs are the biggest offenders.

Aside from that, the biggest problem is that in order to make these refrigerators more efficient, all modern refrigerators and freezers have complicated compressor inverter boards, and they are filled with cheap electrolytics, so you can guess what the biggest problem with these is.

In the back of my shop, I have a 1947 GE refrigerator that we bought used back in 1971 from the side of a road for $20. It's been running continuously since then. It's never been apart.

It's a very simple machine to be sure, but it's also extraordinarily well built. How an electric motor and a compressor can be in continuous duty for over 70 years is beyond me, and this is not an extreme example. Most of these have been scrapped out because they're inefficient, but there are a lot of these in basements that are used for backup.

John