And after 44 years this little plastic linkage part breathed its last

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  • June 24, 2022 at 10:31 pm #261912
    Beno
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      Luckily the new one snapped in quickly!

      June 25, 2022 at 5:46 am #261916
      billw
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        Yup. To engineers, plastic always seems like such a good idea at the time…..

        Long live American manufacturing!

        June 26, 2022 at 10:18 am #261994
        William Jatzek
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          Well there are several ways to look at it. Yes the part broke after 40+ years but the item was probably figured to last  15 so it did well exceed what it was designed for. Also parts were available and people or service centers could repair it. That’s the way we used to do it. Now items are designed to be usable for a time and not be repaired at all. Parts availability non existent. All this bull about being a green society and we put more in the dump than we ever did before.

          June 28, 2022 at 10:51 am #262102
          boscovius
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            “All this bull about being a green society and we put more in the dump than we ever did before.”

            So true!

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