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On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 07:33:10 -0300, wrote:

>On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 00:41:33 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>My FP has been in regular heavy duty use for well over 30 years
>>>>and I've had no blade problem, but better safe with the new blade
>>>>than sorry with the old one.
>>>
>>> I think I bought mine about 1977 - I did replace the blade maybe
>>> sometime in the early 90s. Thinking about it, I give it top
>>> points. Doubt one can buy anything that would last as long these
>>> days!
>>>
>>
>>I checked my file folder of small appliance books, receipts, and
>>warantees a sort while ago. I purchsed both my KA 5 qt. stand mixer
>>and my Chisinart Professional PRo 14 cup FP in the mid-1970s. I
>>doubt that the current models of either of these are as good as the
>>originals, as both have seen really heavy duty use. I know that KA
>>had some gear problemts some years ago when they tried to switch from
>>metal gears to either nylon or plastic. My KA was made by Hobart,
>>but the newer ones are not.
>>
>>I have kneaded almost everything in one or the other machines,
>>depending on quantity. I've never had really good arm strengh for
>>hand kneading, except for a short finish.
>
>I have a Kenwood stand mixer I bought about 1969, still going strong.
>I do give the works a feed of oil every few years. It's a bit on the
>noisy side now, but I don't really mind that.

The oldest electric appliance still in use is my mother's Sunbeam
stand mixer, purchased in the late 1940s, I used it, and now my
daughter uses it, next will be my grands.