Nah, 50 (fifty) year old gas oven. Clock/timer wasn't working when I
bought the house in 1984. Broiler area gave out, thermocouple burnt up
, we thought we deserved a new one.
Gas range top, stainless steel deck rusted out under the drip catcher of
the most used burner. We felt we deserved a new unit. We combined the 2
and got a mid-level gas stove. Same thing with the 25 year old gas
dryer. A home visit from a service tech can easily cost $200 these days.
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Ken Norton wrote:
> John H wrote:
>
>> Speaking of collectors. Our 50 year old Kenmore wall oven finally gave
>> out (within 2 weeks of the 25 year old clothes dryer AND range cooking
>> top dying).
>
>
>
> Sounds like you may have had a low-voltage situation at the house--possibly
> on one phase. Low-voltage has a nasty tendency to kill appliances young and
> old and for you to have had three things die in short order tells me they
> had an external influence.
>
> Blame it all on Obama. This is part of the "Stimulus Package" from last
> year. There was one provision in there to drop the USA voltage from the
> nominal 120VAC to 95VAC to cause mass appliance failure. The rush to buy new
> appliances was for his buddy, the head of GE.
>
> ;)
>
> AG (have I sufficiently offended both sides yet?) Schnozz
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