10 Old-School Appliances Getting Harder to Find in America

🔗 Save Thousands on Repairs, Replacements and Power Bills with my Complete Appliance Blueprint: https://nakamurasecrets.com There is a dryer in my sister's basement that my mother bought in 1979. It has one dial on the front. You turn it to the number of minutes you want, you pull it out, and it runs. That is the entire machine. It has been repaired twice in forty-six years, both times by me, both times with a part I carried in the truck. You cannot buy that dryer today. I fixed appliances in other people's homes for thirty years. In this video I count down ten things that used to be ordinary in an American kitchen and are getting hard to find now. For every one of them I tell you what happened, and then I tell you where you can still get the real article, because a video that only tells you what you lost is not worth your time. Two warnings before you start. Number three I had wrong, and I tell you exactly where I had it wrong, because I would rather correct myself than let it stand. And number one you cannot buy at any price. I have looked. Number four is the one that means the most to me. For decades every machine left the factory with a folded paper schematic tucked inside it, behind the kick panel or taped inside the back. The whole electrical map of that appliance, put there by the people who built it. Think about what that paper meant. Nobody prints a map to a place they expect you never to go. And number one is not a product at all. It is the reason every other item on this list happened. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment for home appliance repairers will decline by about three and a half percent through 2030. Around forty-five percent of repair businesses cannot find technicians right now, and roughly sixty percent of the people who apply have no formal training. Across the skilled trades, for every five people retiring, about two are coming in. So the machines get more complicated every year while the number of people who can open one goes down. Now the honest word, so nobody mistakes this for an old man complaining. The past was not better. My mother's refrigerator used three times the electricity yours does. Her washer used far more water and had no safety on it worth the name. Machines today are quieter, cleaner, safer and cheaper to run, and I would not go back. What we lost was not quality in general. It was repairability, specifically, and we lost it because a machine that cannot be fixed gets replaced, and replacing is where the money is. That is not nostalgia. That is arithmetic. Go look behind the kick panel of your washer tonight for that folded diagram. And tell me in the comments what the oldest appliance still running in your house is, how old it is, and whose it was before it was yours. Nothing good should ever be wasted. Not the machine in your hands, and not the knowing of how to keep it. SOURCES: The Appliance Repair Workforce Shortage Is Getting Worse (ServiceMag): https://www.servicemag.org/news/techn... Service Leaders Network Is Addressing the Appliance Technician Shortage (Nationwide Marketing Group): https://www.nationwidegroup.org/servi... Top Freezer Refrigerator Without an Ice Maker (Fridge.com): https://fridge.com/blogs/news/top-fre... Best Gas Ranges With No Electronics, including the GE JGBS30DEKWW (With Kitchen Pro): https://withkitchenpro.com/best-gas-r... Speed Queen TC5 vs TR5, eight differences explained (Prudent Reviews): https://prudentreviews.com/speed-quee... Oven Control Board Replacement Cost (EasyBear Appliance Repair): https://easybear-appliancerepair.com/... #appliances #appliancerepair #oldschool #madetolast #homeappliances #nostalgia