$1??? that may just be the best deal in the history of deals (for you, not the vendor)

@@aquamidget1131 I think they just wanted it gone? Pretty sure they didn't get just how wonderfully sturdy that bag was (and still is!) But that summer was my best one ever for tag sales; also found a half-dozen out-of-print AD&D books for _25 cents apiece!_ YOINK! 😂

Yup, always liked sewing for some reason, its the reason i can still wear my clothes that i had in high school, 5+ years now and i even managed to fix my Ray Ban glasses leather case. The case and the glasses are over a decade old now and they should last at least a decade more. Fixed one lense and sew up the casing and they just work

not just spice up, but customize, got a bag that you like, but it doesn't have pockets for something (phone, wallet, ect.), just add them yourself.

The front pocket of my bag ripped and I was gonna return it for a new one but forgot so I had it for a while. Eventually I just stitched it up myself and it is one of my favorite bags.

I'd rather go with Husqvarna, a Swedish brand.

My mother also has a singer.

And as someone who’s worked at a thrift store and has seen her fair share of KitchenAid products donated that were like new, I can also personally attest to them. It’s wild how good they are. I think the only blunder I’ve personally ever havd with a kitchenaid with one of their fryers, and that definitely wasn’t on a quality level (the grease trap just had a leak). Thankfully customer service was ok with sending a replacement. Also funny you bring up Singer because I’m pretty sure that’s the brand name of the sewing machine my mother inherited from my great grandmother. It’s not as antique as the one in this video but it’s still the same brand and relatively old; I believe it’s from around the 70s when they were transitioning the design. Editing note: My great grandmother lived to see 3 generations of her family grow to adulthood, which is already pretty rare in the first place; some people are lucky enough just to see their great grandchildren as toddlers!

Same with my grandmothers singer from the 50's! Only thing that needed replacing was the belt (it is electric powered and has a small belt on it to run the machine)

A friend of mine has a few appliances from the ussr like a washing machine and mixer that are still working better than many new appliances (they are a bit of a power hog though)

Don't beat yourself. Most things we buy are low quality especially if money is a problem. It takes time to learn to take care of your shit, I'm still trying my best myself. In the meantime, check everything second hand, clothes, furniture, cooking stuff... you get an incredibly better built and concieved stuff for way less !

@@mouriert honestly I actually still have my old iPhone and iPod touch stowed away somewhere, both in near perfect condition and work perfectly well. Almost anything can last you for years if you’re careful with it. But unfortunately there’s a lot of people who don’t mind what they’re doing, both when it comes to the consumer and the manufacturers. That’s why checking second hand electronics is always a good idea.

@@AiLoveAidoru My entire wardrobe is 10-15 years old and I wear clothes every day (except Saturdays). It's all H&M and discount brands too. Even cheap sh*t holds up well enough, if you treat it normal.

@@AiLoveAidoru be careful with the battery in it. it’s old enough the battery might start to swell but original apple things are way easier to repair

Was thinking the same thing. But to a degree, we're conditioned to. So much stuff these days breaks quickly even if you treat it pretty well. So you learn not to waste your time and effort. Genuinely, planned obsolescence needs to be illegal. It's not just terrible not consumers, it's destroying the planet!

Same tho like they single handedly make my life better

Me too

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@@omni-slime3314 i only really like when its robin.

And make certain they are properly grounded. Otherwise they are a fire hazard and can cause electrocution. Old things can be cool, but safety standards have improved immensely over the last century.

@@Ikajo ABSOLUTELY

@@achimhaun2726 People like to harp about how old things are better, but I've upgraded my stuff over the years because many more modern things have the features I need from them.

This!! My mother collects antiques, but they are almost always wood or metal. Pens, brass inkwells, brass ornaments, and unpainted wooden furniture are the ones that come to mind. I have a wooden bureau that is an absolute work of art, but I never would've taken it if it was painted. It would've been a rough choice, given the working lock, draw sets, etc, but it just isn't worth the risk. My bureau is around 1950s according to mum, but I think I'd have put it a bit older. We found a lotto ticket dated in the 1960s shoved in the hinge lmao

Lead paint isn't a thing outside of US, never saw something led-painted, although I saw a lot of old things

Have to read the fine print. The usual out is "refund" which is garbage since you usually can't buy the same quality anymore for the same price. When I buy something, I don't want a newer crappy replacement and I don't want a refund. I want the original item fixed or repaired to same working condition. I've given up on a lot of appliances, like refrigerators. I ten years I've been through three refrigerators. During the same time I found a 1950s? GE refrigerator that still works just fine. I don't believe in most so-called lifetime guaranties. The company will always find the cheapest way out of it.

@@MmmmJuicy Yea the fine print is very much not in the customers favor. I also like older tech it's built tough and is usually simple to repair.

Those are also different types of things. You can't compare a boot to a fridge to a mobile phone or computer using same criteria.

I think Archer is right - no one should be impressed that a wall brick has lasted 25 years, but a 25 year old cat would be surprising. Exceeding the expected lifetime tells you something about how well a thing was made and how hard it was used.

Indeed. like for example, I have a pony hat (baseball cap style) I bought at a con in 2019. says brony and a pic of rainbow dash on the front of it. its still in perfect condition despite the fact I wear it almost literally daily (even for yardwork and such and i live in FL so it gets hot and sweaty), and wash it periodically. the design is stitched in, instead of a patch. its not faded, nor stained. no holes, no fraying. slight tarnish on the metal clasp on the back, tho. considering the store bought hat i had before that had been falling apart with holes in it and it had only been 2 years old (which most of the caps i'd had lasted about that much), the fact this has lasted 4 and still looks as good as the day i bought it (despite the heavy usage) says alot.

I mean, a metal pan is going to last longer than a piece of electronics, period.

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thats some WW1 era crap right there

And I just thought of something that's either a fun project or yet another grift idea: Creating replacement gears out of metal. Could be cast, could be forged, could be cut. Hopefully does not become some sort of nonsense replacement kit sold separately.

Nothing that can't be fixed by a trip to a competent machinist and/or engineer. Engineering is always a compromise. These days Kitchenaid mixers that were built "the old way" would cost you $1000 easy, that's why they don't do it that way anymore. They're constrained by trying to maintain some semblance of affordability. Plastic doesn't have to mean cheap tho. Ultra-High-Molecular Weight Polyethylene, or UHMWPE, is a kind of plastic. It's the kind of plastic that they use in the plastic cutting boards of a commercial kitchen (like you'd find at a steakhouse). Why do they use that material? Well, they don't like replacing their cutting boards every year because they get so chewed up by the knives that they can't be cleaned properly anymore, and they don't like using their knives on metal surfaces because that dulls the knives, and it's a lot of upkeep to keep a wooden cutting board in good shape. UHMWPE offers both the lowest cost of getting them in the first place (unlike wood), the lowest cost of upkeep (you're not constantly replacing them), and that polymer is just some really fantastic stuff. How fantastic? If you've used some "braid" fishing line in the past few years, that's basically spun strands of UHMWPE. So you know for a fact that it's extremely strong. But guess what? When making gears out of this particular polymer, there's another factor that is useful. UHMWPE is inherently slippery, even before grease is added in to the picture. So what does all this mean? It means that if KIitchenaid is using UHMWPE gears, they can injection mold them because it's a polymer, the stuff's generally cheaper than metals are, and believe it or not, UHMWPE is stronger than the same weight of steel. You could literally make pistol-grade body armor out of cloth made of woven strands of this stuff, I'm not even kidding. And that's before we even start to talk about adding glass beads into this polymer to give it better abrasion resistance..... which is pretty standard practice when making mechanical parts out of this polymer that are expected to see sliding contact. Does it flex more than steel? Of course it does. But that's a good thing in the case of gears. What do you think happens if you have steel gears and you manage to jam the mixing paddle of a Kitchenaid mixer against the bowl in a way that it can't turn anymore? Easy, either the motor stalls, or something in the mechanism gives (in this case if your hand is what's jamming it, your hand will probably fail first, plastic gears or not). With injection molded UHMWPE gears, they're strong enough to withstand this mechanical overload condition, and offer some springiness to the mechanism which helps reduce the total amount of damage done. But if all of that doesn't appeal to you, you could always have a good machinist make you a set of gears out of 4140 alloy steel (for the sprockets) and high strength bronze alloys (for the worm gears and/or pinions). That will be a better, longer lasting gear set than what's in the "modern but still metal gears" Kitchenaid mixers.

My wife's Kitchenaid mixer stopped working and I think it is a broken gear. She loves to cook and bake so it's pretty disappointing that a mixer I paid $300 for only lasted about a year. I suppose I could have gotten it repaired under warranty but we threw out the box and warranty card.

@@dickJohnsonpeter I would still try contacting the company. They're pretty good about standing behind their products. Alternatively, I don't know about where you are, but there are a couple of repair shops near me. Sucks to have to repair a fairly new item, but it shouldn't be too expensive. Good luck!

I'll have to warn my parents about this. They just got a new one. They had a problem with plastic components on their oven and my dad managed to get metal replacements, so maybe he can pull a hat trick with it

@@hmnhntr I wouldn't doubt it. I'm sure the gears would be interchangeable. Good luck!

I was thinking the same.

Yeah, at least have the electrical stuff in it modernized.

I've used one of those old refrigerators. There isn't anything back there that needs modern protections. As long as you don't touch the relays, everything is good and safe

it depends. we used to have a ~50 year old fridge and not only did it smell like a rotting corpse with nothing in it, but it was also a hazard for the kids as it was impossible to open from the inside.

I think those are called carbon brushes in English.

@@jamesphillips2285 Probably, though I find it a bit weird to call a solid block of coal/carbon/graphite (or whatever that stuff actually is) a brush xD

In the US we call those "coal sticks" "brushes" because they used to be literal brushes when electric motors were a brand new thing. They quickly figured out that didn't last long enough for practical use of electric motors, so they switched to a graphite rod contoured to the profile of the commutator. The graphite brush was found to have an undesirably high resistance to electricity, so they started mixing metals into the brush's sintered material. Modern brushes use a combination of graphite (for lubrication), clay (for resistance to abrasion and therefore longer life), copper (for higher electrical conductivity), and in applications where the brushes have to be really small but the motor has to run at high currents, you might even find them using Silver (because that's simply the best conductor of electricity bar none, yeah copper is 95% as good as sliver but silver's still "the best").

It's worth the extra time to "season" them after use.

At the center of every black hole is a Nokia.

this implies that blackholes only existed when we shot nokias into space, OR, nokias are a naturally occuring thing in space

@@Portalz2345-lq2ef im gonna have to pull a 🤓 here, but technicallyyyyy black holes will eventually die, the universe with them, or at least theoretically via hawking radiation (although no one has ever measured or tested it since we are nowhere near a black hole enough to do that), but it is also debatable if the universe ONLY dies when black holes die or if it's beforehand but also, there is a very small chance that a Nokia might or might not actually be left floating in the abyss of the dead universe, or at least a tiny chunk that used to belong to a nokia, but also a lot of other stuff will be left floating in the abyss (unless you go absurdly far into the future)

I fell like if you made a vest out of nokias you could market it as a new and more effective kevlar

Agreed; I'm a serious cheapskate, but I fell in love with a few la creuset pans my mother had, and I ended up getting myself a whole kitchen set of cast iron pieces with a pewter enamel coating that I snagged at their outlet store on clearance. Still expensive as balls, but they're gorgeous and will outlive me. I was going through cheap pots and pans like toilet paper, and it just felt wasteful and frustrating.

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There are a couple of editors in the channel so it's not just one, but I agree too. They make a really good job

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@@EmKay well then, thank you @asafebet_ for working so hard, and putting in all the hours.

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They got more friction/heat resistant plastic for the internal gears

I'd love to know the name of the place for the next time that I buy a belt, because good grief, even the "brand name" stuff sold now starts to wear out way too fast.

Idk what brand or type of belt I have But I been using it since 2015 and it still looks fine, it's also braided instead of using pre-punched holes.

IMO they might have just taken the "shotgun" approach to sizing. The customer said "the boots are too small" so the supplier might have gone "Ok, we'll send you boots of +1 to +8 sizes".

@@44R0Ndin Not gonna happen that is too much money in merchandise to being running that approach, each pair of those boots are $80+ no way would they do that.

@@autobotjazz1972 I should have added that they would have instructed the customer to send back (using included shipping labels) the ones that don't fit. Otherwise yeah I can see how that would be non-viable.

@@44R0Ndin fair but seemingly that did not happen with that guy.

Until you get stepped on by a large animal while wearing them. 😂 They push the end of the steel (the one closest to your heel, not the toe) in a scooping and chopping movement down into your feet and take your toes with them. If they step on the very tip of your toes you're golden, but otherwise...yikes. Had a coworker that wore a pair while we were working tame cattle without a squeeze chute. Never again. Even if they're capped up to your frigging ankle, the metal will bend and stay in place, crushing your entire foot into nonexistence.

​@@Nylak-Otter "crushing your entire foot into nonexistence" my dude 🤣

Same. The one my mom has is at least 60 and all it ever needed was a replacement leather belt for the wheel

@@ABadassDragon they really where built to last

All my phones have been Motorolas and the only one that's broken is the one I sat on with a large wrench in my pocket XD

Those will last several generations if seasoned properly! No idea why your work would throw them out, you just need sandpaper and a fat to fix cast iron rust, that's just such a waste of resources!

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Give in to the time crisis, buy the old stuff. You'll spend less in ten years not replacing it.

@@byronday8696 I'm sure. I've managed to keep my modern appliances alive for a long time. I've had the same smart phone for 5 years, toaster isn't that old (3y) but intending to keep it for a long time. Electric kettle for 6, still doing great. I keep my PCs for at least 7-10 years at a time if I can. Robin is right about the maintenance though. Even if things aren't built as well now, some TLC goes a long way.

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