What's your oldest domestic electrical appliance in regular use?

[Animo]

Had a Belling oven in my rental property that was still going strong until we replaced the kitchen last year. I was told that the model in question was discontinued in the 1980s so it must have been 30-40 years old.

 

[PeteXXX]

Probably an electric carving knife that MrsPete came home with on 13th of March 1996.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ha, I remember my first Casio LED calculator,, the same year. I think it ran on a 9-volt battery.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Had a Belling oven in my rental property that was still going strong until we replaced the kitchen last year. I was told that the model in question was discontinued in the 1980s so it must have been 30-40 years old.

Hopefully not a Baby Belling. The original “slow” cooker

 

[briantrumpet]

Ooh, good point. I still have one of these. Mid 70s vintage is my guess.

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Ah, actually, yes, my first one was a Texas, I think, not Casio - that was the subsequent LCD one used for the A-level exam when we were allowed to use them rather than log tables.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

 

[briantrumpet]

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Yep, that's the one, though with the display on 80085, obvs.

 

[Pblakeney]

Ooh, good point. I still have one of these. Mid 70s vintage is my guess.

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I too had a TI-30 while I was at school. It failed during the tail end of my apprenticeship in 1983 and was replaced by a Casio fx-450 which lasted right through to retirement. Money well spent. 😎 Solar powered too so well ahead of the green brigade. 😂

 

[Ian H]

That'll be for the flame effect. Cheaper than actually using it to heat, and it'll impress the neighbours and audaxers you feed, without the outlay for real fuel. It also has the safety benefit that you can't burn your feet if you accidentally leave them in the oven overnight.

It controls the gas supply so that it goes to 'slumber' at nighttime and saves us vast amounts of a tiny amount of money.

 

[Fastpedaller]

Sewing machine 64
Fan heater ~50
Drill #1 ~50
Drill #2 ~45
Hi Fi 41
Bedside clock radio >39
Iron >39
Vacuum cleaner 30-35
Cooker 34
Freezer 26
TV 17
Fridge 12

Previous appliances:
Cooker 52
Vacuum cleaner 45-50
Fridge 42
TV 27


My aunt had a gas fridge.

Until last year we had an Amstrad bedside clock radio, it then failed - maybe I should have asked Lord Sugar if he could fix it? that must have been pretty old. When I was a teen (in the 1970's) my Gran had a gas fridge. After she passed my Aunt kept it going for a while, so that was 80's. I suspect it was post-war, so maybe about 40 years old.

 

[Fastpedaller]

No, but I don't buy stuff just to follow fashion. If I've got something I like, I won't generally change it unless I'm forced to.

I'm the same - I'm still using a 28 year old jumper (although I've relegated it to garage duties). It has been washed

 

[Fastpedaller]

I have one of these from October 1975:

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When I think how much the price of a calculator was in the 70's I nearly feint (half a weeks average wage?). At school our english teacher proudly showed us 'maths kids' the Decimo Vatman calculator he'd just bought (more expensive than the regular Decimo), his face fell when one of us realised (and demonstrated) that the % button just divided eveything by 100

 

[Alex321]

I'm the same - I'm still using a 28 year old jumper (although I've relegated it to garage duties). It has been washed

One of my office shirts dates back about that long, as I'm pretty certain I had it when I still worked for BT, and I left them in 1998.

 

[Psamathe]

My washing machine is 29 years old and mostly stilly going (the bits I use are working).

 

[briantrumpet]

My washing machine is 29 years old and mostly stilly going (the bits I use are working).

As one gets older, this is something to be grateful for.