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I found a backpack over 15 years ago at a yard sale for $1, and had to get it. Whole thing is real leather; no idea how old it is, but this thing is a freaking tank. Sturdy af; the stitching is still flawless and solid, hauls 50 lbs of books easy, and no signs of deterioration at all. I'll be using this thing probably for the rest of my life.
$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! 😂
One of the best things I taught myself that I recommend everyone learn is sewing, especially by hand.
Even if it’s just repairing a seam of a shirt, or fixing a small hole, it makes even the cheapest clothes live long lifetimes.
Bonus if you learn to “spice up” boring clothes, cuz why throw em away when you can give them a makeover?
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 verily enjoy when Emkay makes a video, it keeps me from going to far into the void of bad mental health.
Same tho like they single handedly make my life better
Me too
I only really enjoy it, if its robin.
He is the best
@@flavioromano8754what about lexi?
@@omni-slime3314 i only really like when its robin.
This subreddit makes me realize how badly I treat my stuff.
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!
I can personally attest, KitchenAid mixers are no joke. My parents got one before I was born and that sucker is still going strong nearly 30 years later.
Edit: my grandma’s Singer sewing machine too! Granted, hers was the chunky beige type, and not the absolute _art piece_ featured in the video. Seriously, put that thing in a museum.
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)
Important thing to note about lifetime guaranties. They don't mean your lifetime, it's the lifetime of the product which in some cases can be less than a year. I used to work in retail, this came up a lot.
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.
@@MmmHuggles 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.
Just a reminder: PLEASE Lead test your old things, especially if they are painted and touched often/used to prepare food, especially if you live in the US
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
I love the difference in "impressive age" for things based on when they were made. Like the fact that the silicone bags being 4 is impressive, meanwhile older things start being impressive at 100+ years... idk. I feel like it says a lot but also idk what it says a lot of lmao
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.
I’m just gonna say now since I don’t have Reddit, I own and play three instruments regularly: a 1963 conn trumpet, a 1916 Buckingham cornet, and a 1955 accordion. All three of them play beautifully, specifically the Cornet.(the valves work way better than any modern instrument I’ve played)
Man, they sound nice af
@@justaperson4656 they are
thats some WW1 era crap right there
The thing with the Kitchenaids. It’s only the older ones that will last the longest. Not the newer ones. The older ones were made with all metal parts including the gears. My cousin has one from a factory that 30 years old now and it works like a dream. The new ones have metal bodies, but will have plastic gears. I’ve seen and heard many complaints from people about the gears cracking quickly and needing replacing more often than not.
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.
Man, old sewing machines are just so CHARMING. And especially in the case of Singer, the vintage ones really are so much better than what they're currently offering. And they're usually really affordable, too! I have been tempted by so many a vintage sewing machine, and that post just affirms why.
Here's the thing, Robin. KitchenAid does have outstanding products, but the Artisan stand mixer has plastic internal gears, which will wear out with regular use. The Professional line is costlier, but has metal components. If you keep your nose to the ground, you can occasionally find them at a real decent price. I lucked out and got mine for less than 150 bucks! Granted, part of that was an error on the store's end, but it happens!
Edit: And yes, take care of your stuff! I had my Artisan for about 3 years before I passed it on to my sister-in-law. She said it looked like it was brand new! Hopefully it still does... 😅
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 imagine those replacements that ended up being a lifetime supply were something along the lines of
'we have too many of these in the warehouse and need them moved' and worker handling replacement goes 'perfect! I know exactly what to do!'
I was thinking the same.
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whats are you plans , duck?
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This subreddit reminds me of the 122 year old light bulb that was almost continuously burning since 1901
It still works
The idea of having a 99 year old fridge *terrifies* me. Modern fridges are SO much safer than fridges THAT OLD. We've had our fridge for a good while; but it's still a modern fridge that's built to be safe for humans to actually be near.
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.
Concerning "eternal" kitchen appliances, Germany has 2 old brands that fit into that category, Braun and another one from the GDR that IIRC doesn't have a real brand name but just their iconic bright orange color.
I got a Braun KM32 from my mum that's ~50 years old (though it spent ~40 of them in an attic), still works like a charm and it used every week to prepare bread dough.
Only downside is that it's REALLY loud, but I can live with that. So far the only thing I had to replace was a noise suppression capacitor that spew out its guts. At one point I opened the kneading/mixing "arm" to check its gears, and that thing is really built to last. Everything solid metal, and the whole thing is filled with oil for lubrication and thermals.
The only thing I might have to replace in the near future are the coal sticks in the motor, but that's maybe an hour of work and at most a few € for the sticks.
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").
The cast iron pans are literaly just a chunk of iron in a particular shape, blackened to prevent corrosion. The one thing that could really damage them is someone scraping their surface off.
If you *do* scrape it off, the iron will start to rust. A way to fix a hole in the blackened surface to remove any rust present and then burn some fat in the pan. This will blacken the iron and prevent corrosion.
It's worth the extra time to "season" them after use.
Old Factory workers really went to work in the morning and said to themselves “time to make immortal appliances”
11:45
My last apartment had this fridge. Moved in in 2013, moved out this past August. It was the original from when they built the complex. Never had a single issue with it. Sucker’s a tank.
When the universe finally dies, only Nokias will be left floating in the abyss
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
@Robin: Hope you feel better soon!
@13:43: We have a shoe repair guy where I live. Has a store and everything. He got sick before COVID and then got COVID and almost closed down. Mid-April 2020, people were coming in bringing him shoes to repair (and donating money) wearing handmade masks, so he could stay up and get better. Dude has been an institution in town for as long as I've lived here (31 years). He got better and still in business. Most of his equipment is OLD school. Even newer shoes (Nike, Vans, etc.), he will resole and it costs like $12.
@20:41: That tortoise will be around LONG after we are all gone. Johnathan, a tortoise that lives on Saint Helena, turned 190(!) last year. The unconfirmed longest living tortoise was 252!
The funny part is, modern “power efficient” models use *more power* than those really old ones. The much lower power levels of the old grid (and how bad the wiring infrastructure was) meant everything had to run on very little power.
18:16 Hey, I've got that same type of cooler! Mine is just the MiniMate, and I haven't used it yet, since I get free lunch at work, but I can confirm, it's a tough little cooler. Helped me move a good amount of small trinkets from my mom's house to my dad's, when I started living with him full-time.
Le creuset pans tend to be enameled cast iron, lifetime warranty. They're expensive but you get what you pay for as they seem to last forever
Edit: slate is tricky, lot of it in New England but finding replacement pieces, never mind full roof stock, got real difficult for a while. Looks pretty, but when trees or ice crack the tiles it does look a bit funky if the pattern isn't matched.
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.
Hey editor, you've done a great job. Apologies I don't call you by name, the credits are at the end of the video, and I always like to comment at the beginning. Either way, props to doing probably half a dozen of these videos per day.
Robin, I'm sorry that you have to work while you're ill, but you're really handsome and I hope someone else has let you know that today.
you are a kind soul, I wish you have an amazing year.
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
This edit was done by @asafebet_
@@EmKay well then, thank you @asafebet_ for working so hard, and putting in all the hours.
I abused the hell out of my KitchenAid when I was in college learning to bake. I've only had it 10ish years, but I use it almost daily now, and I've had to tighten ONE screw in that time.
6:52 These things are literary indestructible, the one I have fell off the counter and broke our floor. Not a single dent on the mixer itself.
All the narrators should make a video together
YES!!!
Yes
I used to work at kitchenaid, they tried changing their components from metal to plastic back when i worked there. The adjustment speed lever actually melted due to the heat so they had to go back to metal. Not sure how much has changed since i left
They got more friction/heat resistant plastic for the internal gears
This video reminds me of the sound system my parents got as their wedding present. 37 years old this year and they sound (and look) way better than any modern sound system I've seen/heard (in private use)
I'd love to post my dad's Chevorlet on this subreddit if I still used reddit. It's from roughly the same year he was born, and he's in his late-50's-early-60's now. It still looks fantastic and runs pretty well. It's a convertible but the top doesn't go up anymore so it's more of just a roofless car. It's a stunning, sparkly blue color and we brought it to car shows all the time before covid. We've had the car since before I was born and I have so many great memories of it. That thing is great.
When I got my own place, I specifically searched for a name brand washing machine from the 90s or older. My family gave me weird looks and asked why I bought old crap. Well, my "old crap" still runs flawlessly and their new Bosch washing machine they bought 5 years ago is already throwing error codes and stops working sometimes
Before this Robin did a voicing for "aged like milk." This video is mostly about stuff that aged like fine wine.
The 'Sentimental warranty' one really pulled on my heartstrings. How many companies out there are going to do that instead of nickle and diming you for every bit of lost revenue of you using that knife instead of buying a new one? I can't think of any.
I got tired of belts and bags wearing out after a year or two, so I searched long and hard until I found factories that produced high quality, genuine leather products, and bought a belt and bag. Now It's been about 5-6 years and they're hardly worn at all. And since I purchased from the factory, it still cost me less than buying the inferior stuff in the store.
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.
My family bought a Renault 19 in 2002, but the model of the car was 1996...
Today, that car not only still runs, it achieved 1.260.000 km (783,000 miles approx.) which is pretty great...
When i turned 18, that was my first car basically and it's still my car 5 years later (it got resprayed and i fixed some stuff of course... also i change wheels, steering wheel, front lip and audio for some JBL speakers, but still it's almost original)
8:40 13 billion miles would take radio waves 69,892 seconds. (19 hours 23 minutes) Not even one day.
*Who checked my math?*
Only 5 minutes into this 23 minute Whopper and I'm already feeling like this is a great subreddit for this channel to regularly revisit because it's always cool to learn someone's story of something that they've owned for years if not decades that they still regularly use constantly and it still works from cell phones to tote bags bottle openers game boys you name it
16:52 Wow, a 10 years old winter jacket... that's literally every guy's entire wardrobe, once you enter that mid-thirties threshold. And we wear that shit every damn day.
I love how EmKay always upload all the time.
Keep up the good work the EmKay team!
I'm attached to my truck and hoping we can keep it going for several more years. I want to at least see it hit 300,000 miles. It's about 280,000 give or take now. It hasn't really required much work, especially compared to our other vehicles we've had since buying my truck. It's got a few issues, but so do I, lol. It still gets me where I need to go. I'm going to be sad when it finally gives up some day. Until then, it's proudly my truck. :)
I have a 33 year old IKEA plush giraffe. Never been fixed (save for the tail) and is still just as cuddly as the day I got it. And that plush have flown all over the world, gone through the mail system and followed on many adventures.
I received my grandmother’s kitchen aid mixer when I got married. I use it exclusively for batter and mashed potatoes. It still has its original parts and original manual, and it’s older than my mother is, and was made about 5 years after the second world war ended.
It looks and works amazingly well.
Fun fact:
I have the exact same wooden train set as in the video! My brothers got them as hand-me-downs over 20 years ago and have endured 5 roughhousing children through the years, but still look brand new (apart from a teensy bit of paint chipping from the edges). They're connected by magnets (the red and blue prongs on each end) and run on a wooden track that hasn't damaged at all in the time we've had them!
Absolutely incredible toy and I love my set to death. Highly recommend for young kids, especially since most pieces aren't able to be swallowed :)
My mom got a SNES (Super Nintendo) when she was 10 (1996). 27 years later it is still going strong. That thing sparked my love for gaming.
14:16 There's an old tiny wooden chair fit only for a baby that was used by my grandfather's grandfather; My mom sat in it, I sat in it, anf my grandad was alive to woo my grandma by falling over in a giant-front-wheel bicycle. Right now, it's in a corner in my T.V. room.
Way back in 2012 my parents and I cleaned my room, and put in a bunk bed so I could sleep on top because my dad likes doing carpentry work and we had the money. He even stained it dark. Most of my youth I had severe anger issues because I was an introvert and school was extra-stressful and I had 2 unresolved traumas that had no time to heal during the school year or summer because my parents didn't want me alone in the house and that's the only time I could relax enough to resolve those traumas; thank GOD for quarantine. So in my many fits of rage at the horrid injustices of the universe like racism, my parents not caring about or understanding my mental health issues, and the nie-constant bullying, the CONSTANT patronizing of ANY adult to me, all putting me in loose canon mood and one tiny thing setting me off like a stress bomb, during those fits of rage, I dented my bedframe with a maglite, kicked the top from underneath, punched the top hard enough my hand bled after one blow, and set several dozen pounds of useless stuff on top of it.
It NEVER ONCE took on any more damage than a dent. These fits were violent enough I broke my bedroom door off its hinges, and that bedframe STOOD STRONG LIKE A ROCK. I slept on it for 3 years, and abused it for 8 more, and when I got a girlfriend in 11th grade, and we sexted, I fapped for so many hours with my foot propped up against one beam, that that corner of the beam has worn smooth as polished marble.
A few weeks ago, My parents and I cleaned my room again, removed and sorted EVERYTHING, and we dissassembled and took down the bedframe. It came apart exactly as it was put together, we cut the top so it would work as a desk in my room, and shortened the legs as well.
It put back together exactly as it had the first time, with only a few less bolts in the front because we moved the front back a bit. Now I'm an author, and I KNOW FOR A FACT that this desk will serve me for the next 40 years if I want it to. I hope my grandson can work at this desk.
My dad built this from plywood, 2×4's, and 4×4 posts, steel bolts to keep the legs on, and it is to this day Sturdy As A ROCK, and perfectly level.
If you want good furniture, take a class in Carpentry, find some good oak planks, and use sturdy fastenings; that piece of furniture will last decades to CENTURIES of abuse.
the Singer sewing machine is exceptional because, though true, they don't make the funky filete paint on them anymore, i love how these sewing machine are being preserved by some people and they look straight outta time travel machine
the other day we saw MINIATURE sewing machines with my mom and they were showcased with samples of fabric with stichting tests, they were perfect!
I personally rock quills and ink, but most vintage pens tend to be metal fountain pens. Mum is a fountain pen kind of person, so it works well for her. Also, Gameboys are cool as hell
when i was a scrawny 14yo, my grandma gave me a leather jacket that was way too big for me. now i’m more than twice that age, everyone keeps telling me i look exactly the same as before but i know i must’ve grown because that leather jacket fits snugly around my shoulders and the sleeves are just the right length. and it still looks as good as when i first got it, with the addition of a few paint splotches i can never seem to get out.
9:08 using radio waves, which are (non-visible) light and thus travel at the speed of light, it would take a bit over 19hrs for the command to travel 13 billion miles.
At my home I do have a fridge that my parents used before I and my brother were even born (My brother is 29, I'm 27) and it still works without any repairs whatsoever.
Yes, it isn't as energy efficient, but I personally care more about something that lasts a lifetime rather than being efficient, yet breaks after 2 years already.
The seasoning on that pan is immaculate looks like you could see your face in it nothings going to stick to that 23:33
Regarding the shoes: I absolutely LOVE steelcap boots. I've had my pair for about 3 years now (so yeah, not as old). They're doing great tho and except for a few scratches they're as good as new. My uncle's steelcap boots lasted about 25 years until he sold them. As long as they're cared for, cleaned and polished regularly, they last an eternity.
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 🤣
No one notice how at 19:15 the poster mentions using the TI83 throughout school and as a teacher, and Robin calls those calculators "completely bulletproof" 💀💀💀
I normally take a shot of vodka every time Robin gets angry halfway through the video and I am stone cold sober
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It would take light a few hours for it to reach Voyager at that point.
19:21 YOU FOOL, MY TI-82 (NO REVISION, NOT NEW DESIGN) IS FROM 1991 AND HAS NEVER BEEN REPAIRED, GOT IT AT A THRIFT STORE FOR 8$. It still works perfectly and it is an early unit. There isn't a single dead pixel on the screen.
my grandpa is a wood worker. 45 years ago he "threw something together" with some spare wood and marble from another project because my grandma wanted a coffee table asap. that same table stood sturdy through 7 children for their entire childhoods, then 15 more grandchildren. for 43 years before my mom decided he needed to refinish it. according to the old man, it will now last the apocalypse and is "earthquake proof". its like 200 pounds. my mom still has her childhood dresser, its in perfect condition. he also made our garage cabinets, which are from a highschool science room. they outlived that school. there is not one single story ive heard about his furniture breaking. and i pray i get to keep one of the furniture sets hes made for my house one day
When I was 6, all I wanted was my own radio for Christmas. The year was 1987 and my parents bought that radio with a casette player for me. I loved that thing for several years until I upgraded to something bigger. My parents adopted the radio for their camping wagon. It survived three camping wagons over the years before they decided to upgrade to a newer radio. My father brought my old radio home in his garage where it lived until it finally passed away 3,5 decades later. I'm 42 and that thing just died a couple of years ago. My father was sad. He had loved that radio more than I me over the years.
I am just imagining how i'd react if i was the guys with the 2 cases of boots sent to replace a too small pair. My first reaction to see two boxes for what i'd have assumed up to that point for a single pair of boots would likely have been " Just how big are these freaking boots? " Then seeing it was a dozen pairs in two boxes i would be O.O.
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.
My parents were wedding gifted a Toshiba microwave oven when they got married in 1987.... it still works to this day. We only had to replace the heating coils in it once because of some shitty electricity system (it overloaded the coils) in our country.
Hondas really are built for longevity. I still love my 2001 Honda CRV, and it's doing just fine with regular maintenance. It's been modified to all hell (floodlights, front grate, radio panel upgraded, wee-woo lights, interior back end replaced with aluminum dog boxes, etc), but all the guts are original, and it's been ridden hard and put away wet more than a few times.
Its trade-in value was zero years ago (at this point I think a dealership would charge me an entrance fee to their parking lot), and it's perfect for Search and Rescue work so I don't have to pay much to keep it registered, so it's stuck with me forever now until it needs to be towed off from wherever it dies.
My great grandpa Bill hand carved and assembled a cradle for my dad, when he was a baby. My brother and I each slept in it when we were babies. It broke once, but we fixed it. Now it's sitting in the living room as decor (just until me or my brother have a kid). The carvings in it are beautiful, and the wood is still shiny, polished, and perfectly intact. These are the kind of things that will last forever.
Also, we have my great grandpas woodcarving tools! Someday I plan to fix them up a bit, sharpen them, and make some stuff using the tools. They're an old brand, but a good one. I forget which brand, but my agriculture teacher told me it was a great one. I need to get back into whittling over the summer. I come from a long line of whittlers and woodcarvers. Also, it's a nice way to pay respects to my great grandpa and my papa (my moms dad). They're both dead, but it's alright. Partying up in heaven with their old wives, probably. Both their wives died before them. Actually, nana is probably in hell. She was a terrible woman. Oh well, maybe papa is partying with this other lady that he was friend with before she died.
12:29 I have one of the ones that flips upside down and is just a table when not in use. I have no idea how old it is but there’s a pretty good chance my great grandmother used it. It still works
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
this subreddit makes me happy you should make more videos of this subreddit
The North Face is a fantastic brand for long lasting stuff. My mom bought me a brand new backpack from them for my second grade school year and it’s still going strong 12 years later. It’s a bit small for most uses, but due to the highly extendable straps I can still use it to carry lunch & water bottles for hiking trips.
Absolutely love this subreddit! My favorite thing is my monster high baseball cap from 2016, it's in perfect shape and I wear it nearly daily when going outside ^^ it looks brand new
Thanks to my work i have a couple cast iron skillets.
My work threw them out because of a bit of rust on them, i restored them and sold the extra ones for 40 euros a piece.
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!
10:10 As someone who has had 2/3 of their past phones be modern Motorola's. I 100% agree. My current one falls down *constantly*. Out of my pocket, off my lap, etc. Yet, the only thing that's really damaged is the case which has a big chip taken out near the camera. Everything else is fine. My last phone only shattered because I was running down my culdesac, which is at a slight decline, at break neck speeds trying to race my friend who was on his scooter. My phone didn't fit properly into my pants pocket because apparently the pocket was too small and it flung out and smashed a corner into the curb. I still managed to text my Aunt to ask if she could help me get a new phone when I got home, albeit being a pain to do so.
TL:DR; Yeah, Motorola is great. My phone case broke before my current phone and my last phone only broke because it slammed into the curb at mach 10.
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
Seeing old things still working makes me feel emotional. It's sad how things are no longer made to last. just die around the release of the new version
20:48 those are kilometers, but still impressive
I cling to my old stuff in fear of, when i replace it with modern stuff, getting cursed with buying it every 2 to 3 years
My ma's maroon Motorola flip phone outlasted the very phone carrier company that issued it. Company folded in 2006, so she had to go to the company and ask for her mobile connection to be changed to a different one (it's a cdma phone so it can only have 1 connection and you can't change services). They took the phone, changed something in ti so that she could now have a new connection and only left the phone in 2012 cuz the charger was absolutely eaten away and there's no replacement. The 2nd connection she got, yeah that company folded too!! But that happened in 2016 or something.
20:16 cute Kitty
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We picked up in old 81' Blazer for about $4500, it managed to drive with two misfiring pistons and a malfunctioning carburetor, still runs pretty well today after a little rewiring and a bit of carb work
I tend to dislike the term "They dont make em like they used to" becuase theres always been a "cheap and disposable" option avaliable over the decades, but for obvious reasons, they aren't still operating/using/in one piece.
Granted, with cheaper and cheaper materials and planned obseclence, more companies have embraced the greed, but there's some brands that are still built forever.
Also, I too have one of those GE alarm clocks. My grandpa had it for a few decades before I was born. When he passed in 2003, I plugged it in and used it through the end of high school.
I may have moved on to using my smartphone for my primary clock and alarm, but its still plugged in and still operating.
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This is just making me hate the 21st century. My family on both sides had a lot of shit from the early 1900s especially at the grandmas' houses. Little to none of it is still around anymore, sadly. I wish I'd known to try and salvage things when i was a kid but oh well.
Now I'm having a temporal identity crisis though. Thanks Robin.
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.
For Robin's question at 13:59 : Try looking into Clark's. My dad has a pair of their modern hiking shoes that we've taken up and down mountains for five years and they look like he just bought them.
Makin me feel a Lot better about things feeling like they're just going in circles for me. Such a good sub, and a good narrator for it. ❤
You're doing an amazing job my dude. Keep on truckin. 😅
New vid lets go 🎉🎉🎉
New sub!!!😊
In 1983 I removed the compressor and condenser assembly from a 1950's GE chest freezer that had been thrown out. We installed it in the basement hooked up to the refrigerator in the kitchen. It is STILL pounding away keepin stuff cold in that horrible asparagus green and chrome fake-woodgrain handled side-by-side but is on its third owner of the house.
This subreddit is dope, mainly cause vintage is my entire life, we’ve got a bike still kicking from 1910, a 770cc matchless V twin and damn it’s beautifully scary
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14:35 I REMEMBER THAT CLOCK!!! I had one in middle school and high school, I remember getting it at a flea market once and that thing would take a beating and keep on ticking! I loved the selection of sounds for the alarm clock, especially the old Nickelodeon jingle! (almost makes me want to low key find one just for nostalgia sake)
Another awesome video as I watch this channel like daily!
My dad got this Pioneer CD player with rosewood sides in like 1991 and its still holding up beautifully
My mom also got a cassette player radio in like 1989 or something and it plays music crystal clear when you put a cassette in.
I love old tech, it works way better than the new cheap stuff we have today.
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KitchenAid mixers- you want the older ones with Hobart motors. After they were manufactured by Whirlpool, they cheaped out on some parts. I have two by Hobart we got for a steal that my husband refurbished for me. They'll last virtually forever.
My KitchenAid range is awesome and should last longer than my lifetime. I'm happy with my KitchenAid double ovens too.
We bought a used set of Kenmore washer/dryer off of a couple's back porch 20 years ago. They were butterscotch colored made in the 60's if I remember correctly. They worked great for several years for us before they finally died. We've had a Whirlpool Gold set that barely made it past the warranty. Our current set is Electrolux and has required frequent repairs since immediately after the warranty period expired. It's frustrating. Both the Whirlpool and Electrolux sets were supposedly top end.
We have an old Kenmore upright freezer in our garage. It was a classified ad find. It has been chugging along in our care for nearly 20 years. The refrigerator next to it was replaced under warranty twice and repaired twice.
As someone who is obsessed with old tech this subreddit is true nirvana for me and I'll be sure to check it out often thanks for exposing this things existence!😁
11:28 the first time I saw the name of that place, I read it as "Piano" and never corrected myself until I heard someone else say it just now
My family owns a small old church that was built in the 1860’s and converted to a cabin in 1932, The building is still standing today in near perfect shape, and the original stove/oven and fridge from 1933 are still used regularly and still going strong. As well as the cast Iron water pump from the 1900’s.
it seems like mid 80s and early 90s cars hit that sweet spot between cars being unreliable because they are unreliable, and cars being built to be unreliable because *money* , which created utterly inviable cars and trucks, like the toyota hilux
“They don’t make anything like they used to”, meanwhile, the education system, “are you sure about that?”
This one hurts... Good point though.
Robin I hope you feel better too. And thanks to the Emkay team. My favorite channel for sure
[13:39] if someone comes up to you and says your shoes look old af you should show them how much damage they can still do.
Love when we get new subreddits, because it gives me new ones to check out and follow!
You can repair vans and other canvas shoes, it's just a case of replacing the canvas as opposed to redying the leather. Honestly repairing canvas shoes is just more hassle than it's worth. I tend to go for pleather where I can, leather in desperation, and make sure they're shined up to snuff where I can. I'm heavily considering a pair of docs now though.
Here's a tip from my time in air force to keep your shoes good: never EVER use liquid shoe shine. That gel/paste shine is slightly more expensive, but it is worth it. There is usually more in paste shine tubs, and they contain wax. That wax is the important bit. Liquid shoe "shine" tends to be dye only or majority dye. Paste shoe shine is mostly wax with little dye inside. It is a lot more work, but it will waterproof your shoes and provide a layer of protection to them so they don't scuff or rip as easily. The more you shine your shoes, and the more often you do it, the better your shoes will be and the longer they will last. I used to shine my shoes once a week, and I only actually got rid of them because I didn't have a need for dress shoes anymore. They didn't scuff, they never ripped, and the heel was solid. I don't shine my shoes as often now, mostly because it's hard to find a good white paste shine
My dad had a Toyota tray back Ute (think 2006) it had around 680,000 km on it and never had a engine overhaul and he sold it the other day and the guy didn’t believe it.
If you were wondering, It was a delivery car.