Thread Number: 78540
/ Tag: Small Appliances
What modern appliances are based on old designs? |
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Post# 1025496 , Reply# 1   2/24/2019 at 11:02 (1,858 days old) by TheSpiritOf76 (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and OZ All Together. )   |   | |
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I got it when I moved out on my own in 2009, and it ended up directly in my trashcan in 2011! I guess that is a fair life expectancy for an appliance of that quality. But I hated it!!! I mostly use my irons for sewing, pressing seams and such. For that, you pretty much have to leave your iron on for long periods of time, that stupid thing had a 5 minute timer, to where if the iron wasn't moved for 5 minutes, then it would shut off. I get that is a safety feature, but you couldn't disable the feature, and then after taking 5mins to pin something, stitch and whatever, then to go press. Only to find you have to sit there and wait for your iron to heat back up!=(...Very vexing! Then after its few short years, it sometimes wouldn't heat up at all..I was so done! I threw it away, and found a good old, late 50s GE Steam/dry Iron..I couldn't be happier!....
I hope this gives a little insight on those made to look like appliances... |
Post# 1025513 , Reply# 3   2/24/2019 at 14:40 (1,858 days old) by TheSpiritOf76 (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and OZ All Together. )   |   | |
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They may look like they are good quality, but even still they have been cheapened. Eureka actually still makes one F&G upright the model 1934B, it is listed as their "Light weight" upright. Metal Royals are no longer even made unfortunately, that ended a few years back. Really that leaves Kirby, and the G3 didn't come around until 1993. But none of those are really in the business to "look retro", just how it is.
Also, the main thing about the new Kitchen Aids are, that the main gear that drives the mechanism is nylon. It use to be made out of metal. They are still good mixers, but I have heard stories of them not lasting near as long in some cases because of that fact. |
Post# 1025568 , Reply# 8   2/25/2019 at 01:15 (1,858 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Has been copied/ripped off by more than a few.
First Pfaff, but now Reliable and others (including Singer IIRC) have versions: www.performancesewing.com... |
Post# 1025570 , Reply# 9   2/25/2019 at 03:23 (1,858 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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Royal still has them on their website, mostly commercial versions but there's one listed as residential (unless they have not updated their own site which is possible...still new ones found online and Amazon). I think I read somewhere they are now made in China/Taiwan since they are now owned by TTI but who knows? CLICK HERE TO GO TO askolover's LINK |