Stop appliance genocide

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

I've been reading Popular Mechanics, Popular Sciece, ETC, for like 60 years now. There were several adds showing correspondence courses for small appliance Repair. They would quote, "There's big money repairing these things."
Way back when, TV and radio repair shops would take in toasters, irons, mixers and other small appliances.

Was that Howard on the Andy Griffith Show that had the appliance bench with the plug-mold on it?
I wanted to BE that guy

[bgadow]

Emmett! Never seemed to actually fix anything, though. I have daydreamed myself about having my own fix-it-shop. Tough row to hoe, these days.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by bgadow

Emmett! Never seemed to actually fix anything, though. I have daydreamed myself about having my own fix-it-shop. Tough row to hoe, these days.

Is that the shop that had the Magnavox chassis, that they used to sit around and watch? A black and white set.

[Telecolor 3007]

I hate to defreez the fridge!

My maternal grandfather bought in the '50's or early '60's and <<Pinguin>> fridge! This where the refrigerators ever to be made in Romania - they where made by "Klement Gottwald"/I.M.E.B./U.M.E.B. * factory from Bucharest, begening with 1957? and up to around 1962-1963. Many people don't even know about them or that in Bucharest there wehere ever made refrigerators!
Thet think that <<Fram>> (manufactured by I.M. Sadu ** from Sibiu County, under "Frigero" licence) or even "Frige.ro. ***/Artic" (this where with compressor and made under "Thomson-Huston" licence) where the 1st refrigerators to be made in Romania. Well, he took it in the countryside, where my relatives kept it as a cupborad. I tryed to save it, but with no succes. To the museum gave a beeep about it. And this year my relatives salled it to scrap iron so they will buy themselvs a gas tank for the stove. And they dind't talled me. I would better salled some railwaycars from my toy-train and save that very rare refrigeator - I don't think that they ever been made more then 30.000-50.000 of it and I never seen one besides the one that belonged to my grandfather.

* I.M.E.B. = Întreprinderea de Maşini Electrice Bucureşti = The Bucharest Electric Machines Enterprise... U = Uzina (The Plant).
** I.M. = Întreprinderea Metalurgică = (the) Metalurgicall Plant
*** "Frige.ro." was the acronim for "Frigider Românesc (Romanian Refrigerator)"

[dieseljeep]

I've seen a lot of European refridgerators with compressors built under license of "Tecumseh" USA. They made the best ones in the US.
I was surprised to see that some of the foreign countries are as wastefull as we are.

[Telecolor 3007]

"Frige.ro" (today "Artic") was the 1st Romanian refrigerator with compressor. Before that we made only refrigerators with absortion. <<Pinguin>> din't even have a thermostat!
Before "Frige.ro/Artic" we imported refrigerators with compressors from other countryes (I communist era only Z.I.L. from U.S.S.R. - I have an 1981 Z.I.L.).
Yes, people are wastefoul in Europe. With the so called "raising of the living standard" and "consumerist society" we started dumped a lot of thing. In the period 1990-2004 Romanian was a kind of "trash bin" for Western Europe (I do like second-hand things), but with the start of "credit only with your I.D. (papers)" (period 2006-2008) we became very wastrfoul. No many people can't afford to pay their loans, but they will not teach a lesson from it.
Can some one tell me, why people spent money on L.C.D. tv when they dind't had a big living room, dind't had problems with theyr eye sight and you have allmost nothing to see on tv?

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

"Frige.ro" (today "Artic") was the 1st Romanian refrigerator with compressor. Before that we made only refrigerators with absortion. <<Pinguin>> din't even have a thermostat!
Before "Frige.ro/Artic" we imported refrigerators with compressors from other countryes (I communist era only Z.I.L. from U.S.S.R. - I have an 1981 Z.I.L.).
Yes, people are wastefoul in Europe. With the so called "raising of the living standard" and "consumerist society" we started dumped a lot of thing. In the period 1990-2004 Romanian was a kind of "trash bin" for Western Europe (I do like second-hand things), but with the start of "credit only with your I.D. (papers)" (period 2006-2008) we became very westfoul. No many people can't afford to pay their loans, but they will not teach a lesson from it.
Can some one tell me, why people spent money on L.C.D. tv when they dind't had a big living room, dind't had problems with theyr eye sight and you have allmost nothing to see on tv?

You have a Z.I.L. Isn't that the finest? The build the finest luxury cars in Russia.
Your entries are welcome here! You speak the truth!

[DavGoodlin]

Telecolor 3007, I can tell you that the USA is in the same unsustainable rut.
Easy credit on goods that prices never seem to rise much over the years, due to reduced quality and built-in obselesence in the form of over-dependence on electronics.
Extended warranties (from unknown entities)that carefully exclude anything likely to fail.
All this devised by actuaries who predict the odds of payouts.

We (consumers in general) want shiny new things to feed our egos with features we will never have the attention span to use. We also love to go shopping with short memory of how recent we bought the one we're tossing out.
Must haves include:
1. Stainless-steel fridges, ranges and dishwashers with increasing electronics
2. Front-load washers
3. Flat tv's
4. Web-based items tying us into recurring charges from "Service Providers"

[Telecolor 3007]

@dieseljeep: yes, they made cars too. In fact 1st time they where an auto plant. Only in 1951 they've started manufcaturing refrigerators. Between 1950 and 1959 they made bicycles too. I heared that they made some electronics.
Just curios, from what country are u?

Stailness steel refrigerators look awfoul ugly
I do like front load washing machine. I like too look inside when they wash and see how much water they are getting inside. I know that top loaders are more relaible!
Will people got someday theyr brains back?

[dieseljeep]

[QUOTE=Telecolor 3007;3058085]@dieseljeep: yes, they made cars too. In fact 1st time they where an auto plant. Only in 1951 they've started manufcaturing refrigerators. Between 1950 and 1959 they made bicycles too. I heared that they made some electronics.
Just curios, from what country are u?
My name is David and I live in Wisconsin, USA. Retired electrician, 68 years old.
BTW, Happy New Year.

[radiotvnut]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

Telecolor 3007, I can tell you that the USA is in the same unsustainable rut.
Easy credit on goods that prices never seem to rise much over the years, due to reduced quality and built-in obselesence in the form of over-dependence on electronics.
Extended warranties (from unknown entities)that carefully exclude anything likely to fail.
All this devised by actuaries who predict the odds of payouts.

We (consumers in general) want shiny new things to feed our egos with features we will never have the attention span to use. We also love to go shopping with short memory of how recent we bought the one we're tossing out.
Must haves include:
1. Stainless-steel fridges, ranges and dishwashers with increasing electronics
2. Front-load washers
3. Flat tv's
4. Web-based items tying us into recurring charges from "Service Providers"

1. I'd rather have traditional looking appliances with mechanical controls. Those "high end" appliances have too much Chinesezzy electronics in them to fail and make the appliance not worth repairing.
2. I'm happy with my traditional top load model, thank you.
3. I can see the same content on my CRT TV, that is highly repairable.
4. There's enough people with their hand out getting my money every month. I don't need any more to add to the list.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

We (consumers in general) want shiny new things to feed our egos with features we will never have the attention span to use.

Not all of us.... SOME OF US PREFER GOOD QUALITY

[Mad-Mike]

All my stuff is either old or used high-quality stuff. I don't care about the Joneses, and always would have loved to be the guy when I'm 60+ that walking into his house was like a time warp into another era....ah yes....

Laying on an 80's Broyhill couch in front of my 80's Mitsubishi TV after mowing the REAL grass lawn with my 80's MTD mower playing 80's Video Games on an 80's Atari or Nintendo or watching laserdiscs on our 80's Pioneer CLD900, while sipping a Pepsi and sometimes listening to 80's rock on my 80's Panasonic stereo, and playing my 60's Fender Mustang guitar through a 60's Fender Champ amp!

[Dude111]

[Jon A.]

I picked up this beauty for free on my way home, along with some extra bags. This was after two or three attempts to get free uprights that were probably of lesser quality. I was actually the first respondent this time, *and* the person giving it away actually had some integrity, so I got it. Free vacuums tend to go fast around here, regardless of their age.

The pic makes the power nozzle look gray, but it's actually light green.