Built to last?

[227bhp]

AndyT77 said:

My mum and dad have had the same bedside digital clock radio since i was born, almost 38 years ago. Can't recall the brand i'm afraid.

I have a wood effect Fidelity of approx 30yrs old, if not a bit older. It still glares into the night with its red digital numbers, I suspect they will bury me with it.

[AndyT77]

227bhp said:

I have a wood effect Fidelity of approx 30yrs old, if not a bit older. It still glares into the night with its red digital numbers, I suspect they will bury me with it.

Rings a bell (no pun intended), think their's is wood effect too!

[BoRED S2upid]

A £100 kettle? What did it do apart from break?

[Adenauer]

Storer said:

R2T2 said:

My boiler at home is over 30 years old and it still works, allbeit slightly inefficiently. Potterton.

My Microwave is older than me, by a few years

I replaced a 30 year old Potterton boiler a few years back and halved my oil bill!!!

I've been together with my old boiler for 20 years in September.

[lickatysplit]

Zingari said:

Trigger's broom?

its had 4 handles and 5 new heads, but its the same broom he's had for years

[FoxtrotOscar1]

Im not sure if its built to last but I bought the cheapest 2 slice toaster I could find for my work kitchen. £4.97 from Asda. (only me that uses it)

minimum 2 slices daily, had it for 3years.

[Itsallicanafford]

Another kettles gone...useless crap

[daytona365]

rolex said:

Bought a Dyson vacuum and it's still working after one year!

Doing well.

[brickwall]

Le Creuset pans.

The 747 I'm sitting in now is probably 20 years old. And I still prefer it to the 777s that are (mostly) replacing it.

I had a cheap Casio alarm clock that frequently got dropped from a bunk bed when I was a kid. Finally died last year after about 15 years of use.

[bazza white]

My old man's pioneer HiFi separates. 28 years old, still putting out power and still sounding great. Same with his pioneer headphones still going but you need f1 drivers neck muscle's for prolonged use.

[Storer]

Sebo vac cleaner. 1st one is 15 years old at least and still going strong. Now have a second one so our cleaning lady doesn't have to carry it upstairs.

Cleaning lady now been with us for 25 years, so does she count???

[iva cosworth]

The gas cooker in my house is ancient,was here when I moved in 1991.

The grill has never worked properly,so I don't use that bit.

[daytona365]

Nothing they make now is as good as what preceded it. More gimmicks maybe, but not as good, and certainly not made to last. Imo.

[rehab71]

People in hard water areas just need to buy a Brita water filter, job jobbed, kettle will last for years.

My Sebo vacuum, whilst only about 7 years at the moment, I really can't see it going wrong.

My Marantz CD is about 15 years old and going strong!

[Itsallicanafford]

daytona365 said:

Nothing they make now is as good as what preceded it. More gimmicks maybe, but not as good, and certainly not made to last. Imo.

This the numb of it! You might well have hedge clippers/microwaves/alarm clocks etc which have lasted 25 years+ but when they finally break down, even if you replace them with a similar model from the same manufacturer, in most cases they are now such low quality that they soon break.

I am looking at an example right now...HP Designjets, (Large format printer). We have an A0 model which we have had for about 12 years but when it had a minor malfunction last year and parts were getting hard to come by, we bought another modern example from the same manufacture as a back-up. What a cheap and nasty load of rubbish, all the quality and robustness has been beaten out of it to squeeze a few more quid of profit.

[Mr-B]

My Flymo hover mower gave up the ghost this summer, was bought early nineties I think so about 23 years old, and the warranty had run out, won't be buying junk like that again!

Have a few other electrical items of a similar age still going (touch wood), I'm actually starting to think that if I have to replace those items and I get the same level of age and wear out of the new ones they may outlast me and they could be the last such items I need to buy in my lifetime

[minimalist]

My old Technics turntables. Bought new in 1994 and used for c.10 hours every week. More when I was younger. Still perfect.

[RizzoTheRat]

Can't remember what make my old microwave was but my sister bought it when she started uni in about 1987. I only replaced it a couple of years ago as I wanted a combination one, and now welds have gone on both the wire trays in my expensive Panasonic one.

The <£10 toaster I bought from Sainsburys when I moved in to my house 9 years ago is still going strong though.

[Zoon]

iPhone 5, 3 years old and it's still fine.
Black and Decker cordless drill, still original battery and works perfectly 12 years on.
Mountfield Petrol mower also over 12 years old and still works.

[Harry H]

My old Hayter Mower. Bought second hand 25 yrs ago. Has never had any attention. Not even an oil change. Starts second pull every time, used once a week.

I do feel a bit guilty about the oil change as generally I like to think I'm a mechanically sympathetic person but just never get round to it.