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Post# 415118   2/13/2010 at 16:49 (5,185 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD)        

...ran for something like 8 years nonstop. a number of years
ago i remember seeing on the news a little blurb about a
maytag washer an appliance store rigged up to restart every
time it finished,so that it would run through the cycles
constant for years until it ground to a halt.
As i remember the washer was a 1992.
Anyone else see this or know any details?





Post# 415172 , Reply# 1   2/13/2010 at 20:24 (5,185 days old) by qsd-dan (West)        

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On 12/1/1991, Bob Leibold as Bob's Specialty Service in Monroe, Wisconsin started a Maytag washing machine during a Maytag promotion and expected it to run about 2 and 1/2 years. Amazingly, the machine ran until August 16, 1996 and stopped after 32,500 hours. The machine pumped over 56 cycles a day and cost about a $1 a day in electricity. Leibold calculated it was the equivalent of 193 years of use by a family of four.

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Post# 415226 , Reply# 2   2/14/2010 at 00:05 (5,185 days old) by maytagmark (Galveston,Tx.)        

My '94 Dependable Care washer is still in like new condition,If it breaks I will repair it,if it is terminal there is always my 85 model. I only wash at the most three loads a week, so they will most likely outlast me.

Post# 416772 , Reply# 3   2/19/2010 at 10:30 (5,180 days old) by gmmcnair (Portland, OR)        
My 1993 Dependable Care....

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....is still at my mother's house. Almost 17 years of doing what averages out as a load a day, and no repairs and purring along sweetly.

Post# 416993 , Reply# 4   2/19/2010 at 23:32 (5,179 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD)        

would be interesting to know what part failed to bring that
washer to a stop after all those years of constant operation.



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