Just Another Day in Paradise...
Remember when our freezer turned turtle? Gee, that was just a few days ago... Well, we fixed the freezer, but now the top half is belly up...
If that wasn't entertainment enough, my bandsaw has decided to go down in flames. (Not really, but it might as well have...)
I'll simply skip over the former for the moment, and focus on the latter... Here's a microscopic shot of the part that failed on the saw.
Micro-cracks... That's not good news, because there's a hutch demanding to completed...
But back to that fridge... Ten years and we're looking at a new unit... As for the bandsaw - that struggled to last 15 years under powder-puff conditions. Whatever happened to 25-year refrigerators and 50-year power tools?
And people wonder why we feed the birds... We put the seed out, the birds show up, and everybody's happy. No planned obsolescence... No junk metals... Just birds...
Just another day in Paradise...
See you by the feeders,
CapeCodAlan
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Comments
Good morning CCA,
Fret not my friend. You're not alone in the challenges you face. I replaced a 25 year old refrigerator and a dishwasher a couple months ago. I rebuilt my 35 year old band-saw nearly a year ago. Other than the frig' installer ripping a large hole in the vinyl sheet flooring, a new floor required, and the dishwasher installer causing a water leak that flooded the floor and warped the cabinet rails, new cabinets desired, all went OK. LOL! Oh, the retail appliance store told me the damages were not their fault.
Your photos of the band saw look like one of the wheels. If so, my first thought was that the stress cracks were caused by the wheel being out-of-balance for a long time.
I agree, bird feeding is a much more productive and satisfying activity than dealing with machinery. Like you say, just another day in paradise.
Cheers,
Harry "Gipper" Morris
Posted by: Harry "Gipper" Morris | July 16, 2010 9:09 AM
Hi Harry,
Thanks for the support... More and more often I find myself muttering, "Life doesn't have to be this difficult." If the manufacturer only used a decent metal, the bandsaw would be a 50-year machine easy.
A couple years ago our new washer/dryer unit failed... After several visits from the repairman, he admitted off the record that it was a piece of junk, and his best advice was to let him fix it, then I should sell it and buy a quality European unit for $2,000... Since when can't Americans design and build a quality washer/dryer for $1,500? What happened to the ethic that could produce the DC-3 or build the Empire State Building in 410 days? Grrr...
Posted by: CapeCodAlan
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July 16, 2010 12:21 PM
CCA
Well, now, there, then. Let's see. Americans, as well as other societies around the globe, are being "brain-washed" every day into believing that everything is disposable and nothing is sacred. When a new cell phone is introduced, the idea is, throw yours away, and buy a new one.
An old axiom is "the older I get, the dumber I become," Now days, a new axiom is developing and being nurtured which says in mathematical terms, "the more brain-washing I accept, the more Stupid I become."
I would predict that this axiom is greatly flawed, however, in the meantime, we have to deal with it as it comes, no matter how wrong or distasteful it is.
For our younger folks, please understand that being stupid is not related to being dumb. Stupidity is the "Dark Force".
Cheers,
Harry "Gipper" Morris
Posted by: Harry "Gipper" Morris | July 16, 2010 2:25 PM