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Old 01-03-2023, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by robtheplumber View Post
What you need is an honest appliance technician..unfortunately their is no such thing������
They do exist. But they're hard to find.

Or...a person could buy a refrigerator built to last. My brother called last month. During our conversation he excused himself to go grab a beer from the basement refrigerator--an International Harvester refrigerator made purchased by my parents in 1947, the year before I was born! It has been ticking away faultlessly ever since.

Probably outlive me.

I guess "built-in obsolescence" was pretty much a foreign concept back then.