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Just realized something about those old Maytags at the laundromat on 5th Street
I was fixing a coin mech there yesterday and noticed every single one of their 15 washers was a direct drive model from the early 90s, still running on the original motor couplers... makes you wonder if they even make them like that anymore.
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robinson.leo1mo ago
Notice this everywhere with stuff built before everything went digital. My grandma's fridge from 1985 still runs perfect, but the fancy one my sister bought last year already had a motherboard die. They design things to break now so you have to buy another one.
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fisher.kevin1mo ago
Honestly, I used to roll my eyes at the "they don't make 'em like they used to" talk, but seeing stuff like this really shifts things. It's like @robinson.leo said about his grandma's fridge. My parents have a microwave from 1992 that just won't quit, but the one I bought in college died in three years. Those old Maytags were built with simple, tough parts meant to last, and now everything has a cheap plastic piece or a circuit board that's the first to fail. Planned obsolescence isn't just a theory anymore, it's right there in the repair bills.
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