Why is everything so crummy!! warning CAPS have been used

[lovemysan]

I'm 28 years old. I remember when I was a youth that things didn't break. You buy a rake, it has a nice long handle, etc. Now you go to buy a rake you have to pay extra to get the long handle and the rake falls a part after raking about 3 hours, and remember you paid $10 extra because your over 5' tall and don't want to bend over to rake. A week ago we were using a marshall town sheetrock sanding pole. It was brand new it broke after 20 minutes use. RIDICULOUS!!!
Its a pole sander!! You should only need a new one every few years if your using it daily!!

Whats going on? I went to the midwifes house yesterday. She a new used whirlpool stove, natural its was "digital", which of course means its 3 turkey cookings from the scrapyard, anyway she had used it to can some veggies. Well the burner legs bowed under the heat and weight of a 5 quart canner. I realize that its 40lbs in all but please! When you design a BURNER ELEMENT should you not design it to withstand some HEAT!
RIDICULOUS!

Why is every consumer product made anymore a piece of JUNK! I cringe every time one of my 40 year old general electric furnaces rust out. Why? Because the junk they sell now is packed with cheap, junky electronics and made out of BUGGARS AND TOE-JAM by a poor third world worker and I know that in 5 years I'll be poking my eyes out in disgust because its broken and needs replacing AGAIN! I have a dozen 2 ton GE condensing units that were set on the roof in 1967-1973. And they still work and require very little attention. While I loose one occasionally I replace many of the more "modern" units. Cheap junk!

I went shopping for a mixer for my wife's birthday. I went to a place that sells refurbished kitchen aid products. After looking at the hand mixers(what she had asked for) I made a decision. I noted that the mixer bits were extremely flimsy, the weight of the machine itself was suspect, and the nail in the coffin! A DIGITAL speed control. It might has well said on the box "I will break or burnout 3 days outside the warranty!" I went and bought the 575watt stand mixer instead, yeah, the one with METAL gears.

Anybody bought a printer that works lately? It seems to me I see as many printers in the trash as coke bottles, I had an HP laserjet 2 that lasted a decade. A DECADE and then the fuser roller wore out. I bought another refurbished one. Guess what happened. Ran it 2 years and then the fuser roller wore out. WHY? because when it was refurbished they used a fuser roller out a YUGO imported from china.

Lawnmowers, LOL, do they make a good one anymore. It takes very little engineering as to what makes a good mower, good. Have you looked at what they sell at wallyworld lately. If you were to sneak over there and spray water on the pushmowers the handles and wheels would literally rust off in one season. I see mowers all the time on the side of the road for free. When you buy a mower its not really nessecary to maintain it, just use it for 50 hours and then toss it out. What happened to toro, lawnboy, cub cadet.

What happened to portercable tools. I still have some of there tools, american made in jackson, TN. But no more. These tools when they die will be replaced by cheaply manufactured tools that last only a year or two at most. I have a 19.2volt cordless drill that was purchased in 2000. Its still a very potent tool. I mix full buckets sheetrock mud with it using an 8" bit. I'd give this new lith ion HD ryobi about 2 minutes to live doing that. Porter cable's R&D department used to chuck drills of different manufacturers together. GUess who would win. The ones with metal gear boxes. Pick a drill up and run it in high if its buttery smooth its probly got nylon gears, but don't worry the crummy switch and battery will die long before anything else does.

But cars........cars are the best they've ever been. Very dependable, even the cheap ones.


Thats my rant! enjoy!