Surveyed the house and found all the major appliances etc in good order:


List of everything under five years old:


Furnace
Water heater
Clothes drier
Oven
Microwave
Refrigerator
Toilet
Windows


One thing missing from the above list:

1988 Whirlpool washing machine that has not once required service.
Hope my posting here does not jinx it.

On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:23:10 -0600, philo wrote:

One thing missing from the above list:

1988 Whirlpool washing machine that has not once required service.
Hope my posting here does not jinx it.

When it does fail, I can see a day at the range for target practice

On Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 5:23:14 PM UTC-6, philo wrote:
Surveyed the house and found all the major appliances etc in good order:


List of everything under five years old:


Furnace
Water heater
Clothes drier
Oven
Microwave
Refrigerator
Toilet
Windows


One thing missing from the above list:

1988 Whirlpool washing machine that has not once required service.
Hope my posting here does not jinx it.

40 years was average life on the old "Made in America" appliances. 6 to 10 years is now average on the "Made Anywhere except the USA" appliances.

On 02/15/2015 05:37 PM, Oren wrote:
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:23:10 -0600, philo wrote:

One thing missing from the above list:

1988 Whirlpool washing machine that has not once required service.
Hope my posting here does not jinx it.

When it does fail, I can see a day at the range for target practice



Last time I did target shooting...a friend of mine who lived on a
mountain top brought out a bunch of ceramic cookie jars. Even though we
all knew they had some collectors value...they became targets and not
one of them survived.

I think I'll pass on hauling the old washer up a mountain and having a
shoot out.

I did take the motor out of the old one and hold it in my hand while I
recited Shakespeare's famous poem "Alas poor Yorick. Of course my poem
started out:

Alas poor Kenmore washer


and I went on to decry how it failed me right in the middle of a load of
socks and underwear.

On 02/15/2015 08:05 PM, wrote:
On Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 5:23:14 PM UTC-6, philo wrote:
Surveyed the house and found all the major appliances etc in good order:


List of everything under five years old:


Furnace
Water heater
Clothes drier
Oven
Microwave
Refrigerator
Toilet
Windows


One thing missing from the above list:

1988 Whirlpool washing machine that has not once required service.
Hope my posting here does not jinx it.

40 years was average life on the old "Made in America" appliances. 6 to 10 years is now average on the "Made Anywhere except the USA" appliances.




Many many years ago I took my daughter on a trip to England and just had
to check out their appliances. The washers I saw were so poorly balanced
that the base needed to be filled with bricks...it was part of the design.

At least the ones you get here...no matter where they are made...are at
least balanced.