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Last night while sorting out mother in laws telephone in the kitchen, (that`s another horror story 😯 🙄 ). I asked her how long she had the Belling cooker I had sold her. “Seventeen years and it`s still going well”. She hasn`t had anything done to it all not even a fan oven element. I then had a tour of the cooker with her and I must say it is spotless, the ovens and hob are used daily and the timer probably once a week.
It`s a 500CR and she paid £499 for it.Those were the good old days when Belling made good quality cookers and charged a realistic price.
Can I claim this as a record or can anyone come up with something better 🙄 .
Don
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The old Hotpoint, English Electric and GEC cookers were built like tanks, solid stove enamel. Long before fan ovens, but they would regularly last 25 years or more with very little trouble.
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Went to a Creda Concept yesterday made in March 85, 1st time any one had been out to it and all it needs is a neon tube behind the control panel.
They do not make em like that anymore
Goose
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My Aunt is still on her first gas cooker, I think she bought it in 1969 and I think it’s a Cannon. It has been regularly serviced though as my uncle was a gas fitter. She won’t change it as “the new ones are made out of cheap tin”. Down the road from me in Cullen is a bakers shop. They claim that the oven has been hot continuously for something like 200 years. They did change the fuel at one point from coal to oil but production was not affected. They reckon if it ever was allowed to go cold it would probably be damaged and need a total rebuild.
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Going to a Hotpoint 18680 (1979) on Monday- almost certainly only motor brush fault. This machine right up to WM series hpt’s and their counterparts(Zanussi, Hoover etc) were in many ways far more ‘green’ than today’s offerings. You could effect a good, cost-effective repair which would give you tremendous job satisfaction and also just dispose of a small part – less to recycle as less is thrown away. Parts were easily adaptable and more interchangeable than modern auto’s. Machines were run by a electro-mechanical timer – did the same job but without the ‘chocolate teapot’ reliability of the modern PCB’s.
And above all, they washed much better, much quicker, hardly ever got smelly as they used enough water to do the job, and lasted eight to ten years with ease. Most customers were very pleased with their machines.
Ask the average person what they want from a washing machine and they will say all of the above. The longevity of life of the old machines meant they were, argueably,on the whole more cost-effective than a modern machine pound for pound. Lots of my customers regret throwing away their old machines now, and I can offer them little consolation that things will improve. Unfortunately the world is ruled by accountants; most of them couldn’t run a bath let alone a business. We can only live in hope…… 😥Re: Long Life Cooker is this a record.
Yesterday I went out to the very elderly Mrs Sharp, who has a beautiful, barely used, just-out-of-the-box Hotpoint WM62P – which she hates. So the morning’s mission was to repair the spindryer. A Creda 37041, date code 268 – February 1968 if memory serves. Anyway, spin had become erratic – why had I still got a pair of Delco carbons in the van? Fixed it, customer happy.
The spinner though – immaculate. Chrome handles, metal lid, huge rubber feet and not a bit of rust in sight. Suppose I’ll be back in 30 odd years to sort it again.
Ee, they don’t make ’em like that now.
Chris.
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