Pilot
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Nov 20, 2004
- Messages
- 1,208
- Location
- Oregon
- Tractor
- JD 770, Yanmar 180D, JD 420 (not running), had a Kubota B6200
We remodeled the kitchen 3 years ago and this evening an alarm went off on the 3 year old stove. The oven was overheating. Nothing on those electronic controls did anything. Shut off the circuit breaker and after 10 or 15 minutes with lots of very hot air coming out of the open door. I remembered I had one of those infra red thermometers that you point at a heat source and read the temp. 520 degrees after sitting awhile with the door open!
Last stove went 18 years with the only fault being the oven heating element dying. No fancy electronic controls and an easy homeowner repair.
About 6 or 7 years ago we bought a new refrigerator; the previous one was 25 years old, needed it's second repair and the "experts" (Consumer Reports among others) said a new one would save so much energy it would pay for itself in a few years. It died in about 5 years--bad compressor. Sales folks at several dealers said that in order to meet new energy standards manufacturers made the compressors smaller, but that made them run more. Maybe that's just a story they all repeated, but that's what they said. Also said not to expect more than about 8 years out of a new one. Gee, that's really saving the environment when you have to trash a machine after 8 years.
We still have a washer we bought in '78, a dryer we bought in about '88, and a dishwasher we bought in '92, all mechanical controls. I hope they chug along a long time--the parts guy said some parts for the dishwasher are no longer available (we thought it had broken, but it was our diagnosis that was the problem).
Last stove went 18 years with the only fault being the oven heating element dying. No fancy electronic controls and an easy homeowner repair.
About 6 or 7 years ago we bought a new refrigerator; the previous one was 25 years old, needed it's second repair and the "experts" (Consumer Reports among others) said a new one would save so much energy it would pay for itself in a few years. It died in about 5 years--bad compressor. Sales folks at several dealers said that in order to meet new energy standards manufacturers made the compressors smaller, but that made them run more. Maybe that's just a story they all repeated, but that's what they said. Also said not to expect more than about 8 years out of a new one. Gee, that's really saving the environment when you have to trash a machine after 8 years.
We still have a washer we bought in '78, a dryer we bought in about '88, and a dishwasher we bought in '92, all mechanical controls. I hope they chug along a long time--the parts guy said some parts for the dishwasher are no longer available (we thought it had broken, but it was our diagnosis that was the problem).
