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SchnorkIes posted:The mechanical timers were fiendish and unserviceable too lol Ehh, they're just more likely to have NOS parts laying around. Timers breaking isn't surprising, like anything else. Last time I had a washer apart was to replace cheap rear end pvc fittings. It was a basic washer, nothing fancy, and parts were dirt cheap. Never had a problem with timers, but door switches were common. 20 years ago we didn't need boards in this poo poo. It was less efficient, but the planet is hosed at this point anyhow. Nothing is built to last anymore.
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Thanatosian posted:"sure, this guy is an ignorant piece of poo poo, but other ignorant pieces of poo poo are listening to him"
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Ehh, they're just more likely to have NOS parts laying around. Timers breaking isn't surprising, like anything else. Twenty years ago it was 2001 and nothing was built to last then either, RIP
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The Oldest Man posted:Twenty years ago it was 2001 and nothing was built to last then either, RIP Yeah, it was more the rear end end of the era. Durability of consumer products loving tanked hard back then, but the level of built in failure is just ridiculous now.
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just buy a miele and be done with it, usually a lot more expensive but much better built as the germans a decades behind planned obsolescence tech the US excels at
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Charlatan Eschaton posted:Mine broke a few months ago and after running out of clothes to wear i spent forever looking at reviews to find the best simple new top load agitator, just a basic washing machine. Why do you specifically want a top-loader? Aren't front loaders generally better? That's what I've always heard. I would guess that one reason it may be hard to find a good top-loader is because there's just not much demand for them?
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SchnorkIes posted:Do modern commercial grade washers suck? I looked up Speed Queen since I'd heard that they just started selling to consumers since they got such a good reputation, and apparently some time after that they decided that instead of just selling people good washing machines they'd make a consumer-specific version that's worse and market it as a "luxury" washer instead lmao
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Jel Shaker posted:just buy a miele and be done with it, usually a lot more expensive but much better built as the germans a decades behind planned obsolescence tech the US excels at The EU might be relevant here too, I think we have some regulations specifically targeting planned obsolescence.
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any reason washing machines are so expensive in the us? I just did a quick zero-effort search (Scandinavia, nothing is cheap here), you can get a Miele frontloader for about $900-ish, the cheapest frontloader (with good reviews) for $280 and the cheapest topploader for around $375, if the machine stops working at any time the first 5 years they’ll have to fix or replace it free of charge unless you did something monumentally stupid to cause it to fail
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Tiggum posted:Why do you specifically want a top-loader? Aren't front loaders generally better? That's what I've always heard. I would guess that one reason it may be hard to find a good top-loader is because there's just not much demand for them? i had heard that the seal around the front door is an extra potential point of failure and was looking for the simplest thing available. also helped narrow search results among the huge and confusing selection of barely different models/brands.
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Charles Ingalls posted:any reason washing machines are so expensive in the us? I just did a quick zero-effort search (Scandinavia, nothing is cheap here), you can get a Miele frontloader for about $900-ish, the cheapest frontloader (with good reviews) for $280 and the cheapest topploader for around $375, if the machine stops working at any time the first 5 years they’ll have to fix or replace it free of charge unless you did something monumentally stupid to cause it to fail Wow all the mieles I saw on US sites were like 5000 bucks
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Shame Boy posted:For some reason the paper cut out the last part of that quote but then put it in a little graphic over on the side. I think this is as close as I've seen someone come to just outright saying this Kelly comic: Lol that comic is racist as gently caress it's incredible
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Mar 2, 2021 14:06
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Kelly is larping as a conservative cartoonist, so yeah that is the point
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mycomancy posted:Lol that comic is racist as gently caress it's incredible Kelly is The Onion’s fictional cartoonist.
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don’t buy a samsung frontload washer. the spider arms that connect the drum to the motor are deliberately designed to catastrophically fail after 4-6 years of use and this is not covered by warranty. the only reason i can fathom there hasn’t been a massive class action suit over this is individual damages are a few hundred each at best.
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I thought "just get a used washer/dryer for a hundred bucks, replace if it breaks down after a few years" was realistic advice for someone living in the US once  that market is downright extortionary
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Every market is extortionary.
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Charlatan Eschaton posted:If you have a washing machine that you like right now, take extremely good care of it because if it breaks you cannot buy a new one that cleans clothes from stores anymore. Look up the used appliance store in your town/city. They'll have a lot of the old washing machines and the dude that runs the place is the dude that fixes them (so he'll actually be very knowledgeable about what's good/bad). Also, the guy in my city only charges 150$ for any used washer. 100$ if that's too much for you. And if it ever breaks he'll know exactly how to fix it.
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got a front load whirlpool about five years ago to replace a 25+ year old Kenmore and it’s great, no complaints here
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My parents got their washer from SCRATCH N' DENT WORLD and it's like a $1400 model that I think they paid $600 for cuz it's got a big gash in the sheet metal on the side. Thing has worked completely fine for 10+ years though 
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New dryers are a grift. Go to the used appliance sellers that live near laundromats on facebook and buy a dryer for 200. They all dry the same, old or new. New washer can be worth it. The lg front load save a ton of water and clean fine. Though, if we're at a point we're we all need to be conserving water wouldn't we just go back to a bucket of water and washing pan.
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Re: appliance chat. I had 2 fridges in row be defective and on the the last delivery attempt, Best Buy lied about showing up because they sure as hell didn't call me and I was home all day. I cancelled that poo poo and got a smaller 12 cu-ft one from a different vendor that's hopefully working (I'm watching the temps like a hawk). I hadn't had a fridge for a month until last Saturday. Just life in a collapsing empire Shame Boy posted:Though I do find it funny that people are FrEaKiNg OuT at the idea that a kid might want to imitate a relatively comfortable job that allows you to work from the comfort of your own home, but we've been giving kids "babby's first heavy industrial construction machinery" toys or "babby's first officer involved shooting playset" toys since forever and that's just fine I guess Does the officer involved shooting set come with a baggy of drugs and a small revolver to plant? skooma512 has issued a correction as of 17:27 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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skooma512 posted:Re: appliance chat. I've been waiting on the fridge I ordered to show up since November, now due for mid-April. Thank you Brexiteers.
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Surely the increased freedom and sense of national pride you feel more than makes up for your lack of a kitchen appliance, doesn't it? Stiff upper lip and all that, you're doing it for England 
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Shame Boy posted:I looked up Speed Queen since I'd heard that they just started selling to consumers since they got such a good reputation, and apparently some time after that they decided that instead of just selling people good washing machines they'd make a consumer-specific version that's worse and market it as a "luxury" washer instead lmao My parents bought a Speed Queen washer when they got married. It needed a new transmission after 5 years and a new timer after 10. The timer was backordered for 6 weeks and cost almost as much as a new washer, so it went to the scrap yard. I have a Bosch front loader that's 16 years old and it hasn't needed a single part, which is more than I can say about the top-loader washers we had when I was growing up.
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Has anyone thought to set up Washr, the community laundry app that lets washing machine owners sublet their appliances. Let strangers come in your house with no background checks #sidehustle #getyourbreadup
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the sex ghost posted:Washr wasn't that the name of the company that would ship you $15 of quarters for $20 to do laundry?
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The_Franz posted:wasn't that the name of the company that would ship you $15 of quarters for $20 to do laundry? https://www.vox.com/2014/6/20/5828318/washboard-quarter-delivery-service
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The_Franz posted:wasn't that the name of the company that would ship you $15 of quarters for $20 to do laundry? Jesus christ we really do deserve our suffering don't we
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"Quartr" was right there
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Weatherman posted:Surely the increased freedom and sense of national pride you feel more than makes up for your lack of a kitchen appliance, doesn't it? Stiff upper lip and all that, you're doing it for England That might be a more persuasive argument, except I'm Irish...
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the sex ghost posted:Has anyone thought to set up Washr, the community laundry app that lets washing machine owners sublet their appliances. Let strangers come in your house with no background checks #sidehustle #getyourbreadup When out lease was up we looked at another place owned by our current people and it's listing advertised all the same poo poo we have now, a bigger floor plan, and lower cost. So we paid the fee and applied only to find out that no, the amenities are now in fact the same for that model and the washer and dryer hookups are in a shared community basement. "I can assure you we don't have a problem with people using others washers and dryers"
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The Bloop posted:Jesus christ we really do deserve our suffering don't we but also lmao it was the best idea for separating lazy people from cash
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Weatherman posted:"Quartr" was right there actually that’s my medieval tortue delivery service, surprisingly good business recently too
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Mr. Nice! posted:don’t buy a samsung frontload washer. the spider arms that connect the drum to the motor are deliberately designed to catastrophically fail after 4-6 years of use and this is not covered by warranty.  I think that's the brand my parents just bought a few months ago, to replace their perfectly fine set because they're boomers and had to buy something new apparently.
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The Bloop posted:Jesus christ we really do deserve our suffering don't we I swear there was also some idiot that did this for bitcoin too and was just walking down to the bank, taking out a roll of quarters and mailing them himself, but I'm pretty sure it happened a long-rear end time ago and I can't find it
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Failed Imagineer posted:That might be a more persuasive argument, except I'm Irish... My point stands  Seriously though, that sucks and I'm sorry your country got bent over a barrel by a bunch of butthurt boomers 
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DACK FAYDEN posted:it got shut down for money laundering, which it technically could have been Money laundering to get laundering money
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Got into arguments online with libertarians. Ended up with these text. First If all actors stopped working, other actors would take their place. If all Rich people stopped working, other people would take their place. Libertarians are stupid. Second opponent "Sad that your life is based on what other people do. You are doomed to be a victim forever." Name one thing you life that isn't based on what other people do. You can't. You eat farmer's food. You're protected by a country's military. Your money exits from banks, and government. Telephone companies control your access to the internet. Your plumbing (toilet, shower, and water) needs to be maintained. Third Republicans: The minimum wage increase will cost 1.4 million jobs. Republicans: Give Rich people more money! They make jobs. Normal people: Where is the Job Surplus? mazzi Chart Czar has issued a correction as of 21:12 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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