Please join us in mourning

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Fellow Cyclechatters, don your black armbands and join the Browser household in a brief period of mourning.
After 15 and-a-half faithful years our Zanussi Jetsystem 1000 washing machine is finally beyond economical repair and is destined for that great utility room in the sky
It does mean that tomorrow we will be taking ownership of a nice new Bosch WAQ283S0GB with more wash programs than one can shake a stick at and (hopefully) lower 'leccy & water bills, but I can't help but wonder if I'll be 15+ years older (48 ) when this one finally dies.

 

[biggs682]

[QUOTE 2179887, member: 259"]If you open the old girl up once she's been decommissioned, you'll probably find all your missing socks![/quote]
check for my missing socks to please before throwing the old gal out

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'm getting a new electric drill this weekend, my old Bosch had been with me for about 25 years but has just passed away...sniff...

 

[sheddy]

Take yer washing to the river -
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmEBlrRRMBQ

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2179933, member: 259"](Sigh, can't resist.....) Are you getting an SDS one, Ed? (There's room for at least fifty pages of drivel about the comparative merits of differing drill bit systems here )[/quote]

Gosh, I've got no idea what an SDS one is - I'm getting the Wickes own brand one, bought their stuff before and it's always been pretty good.

 

[Night Train]

I'm getting a new electric drill this weekend, my old Bosch had been with me for about 25 years but has just passed away...sniff...

I have a Bosch SDS drill that I bought in 1988/9 that is still running and in regular use. Arch was using it last weekend to mix plaster.
My Bosch jigsaw is also of a similar vintage and also running well.
I have a Bosch Classixx 1200 washing machine that has given nearly 7 years trouble free service so far and still going strong, though the matching dryer is starting to play up.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I have my eMac which is over 10 years old now!

I think I am going to donate it to a collector or a museum somewhere once it finally passes.

 

[Globalti]

You done well, I got about the same from my Hoover washer, during those years I fitted three or four new sets of brushes and a new door interlink and a few other bits. My best investment was the Haynes washing machine and dryer repair manual.

 

[byegad]

I understand your grief. Five years ago my Goodmans TV packed in. It was well over 12 years old, can't remember exactly we'd had it that long.

I don't know you pay out good hard cash for something and it wears out before you do. What is the world coming to????

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I have my eMac which is over 10 years old now!

I think I am going to donate it to a collector or a museum somewhere once it finally passes.

Wait long enough and this could happen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18456746

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Wait long enough and this could happen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18456746

I doubt it, 20 quid on Ebay methinks!

 

[swee'pea99]

My wife grumbles now & then at my refusal to replace our 32" Sony Trinitron with a 'less embarrassing' tv, but it still performs beautifully and has never missed a beat in 15 years, so I can live with the 'embarrassment' (which, needless to say, doesn't aflict me in the slightest). Out of curiosity, I looked 'em up on ebay...there was one went in Cheltenham last week, with stand, for the princely sum of - wait for it, wait for it......£1.20.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2180158, member: 259"]Actually £1.20 is not that bad - you literally can't give them away nowadays. Our local dump is stacked high with CRT tellies and apparently most of them work perfectly. Charities won't take them, they'll just be broken up and recycled (the bits that can be).[/quote]

We gave our old Sony CRT away when I finally caved in under immense pressure to buy shiny new electrical goods. The people who took it had their car stolen with the TV in it and the TV was still in it when they got it back, and they'd shat in the car too.

 

[asterix]

I have my eMac which is over 10 years old now!

I think I am going to donate it to a collector or a museum somewhere once it finally passes.

You don't happened to have an Apple 1 in your loft do you? If so I'd be prepared to offer you silly money for it, couple of tenners do?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

You don't happened to have an Apple 1 in your loft do you? If so I'd be prepared to offer you silly money for it, couple of tenners do?

No, but I do have some apples if you want!