Are modern applicances not old-fashioned enough?
In the last few weeks, we’ve had a startling number of things fail in our house:
- our 8 year-old Sony television rapidly developed a bad case of dry joint (the solder at connections on the boards were flaking away), with pin-cushion indentation happening on both sides increasingly worse til it was finally unusable;
- our 8 year-old Whirlpool washing machine’s pump failed;
- the 2 year-old Baxi back boiler failed over the holiday weekend;
- our 6 year-old hand blender fell apart;
- my 5 year-old desktop PC is seizing up on me, only a few weeks after I already had to replace its motherboard once because its USB on-board ports were faulty;
- our 4 month-old NTL Pace digital cable box is failing, again, with what we now call the White Screen of Death(tm) and periodic claims that we don’t subscribe to any of the channels at all;
- and now our 8 year-old Whirlpool dryer made nasty thumping sounds and is finally not spinning at all. Back to call the Whirlpool repairman.
Was it in the 1980s or 1990s that production quality was flushed down the toilet?
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