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| Thread ID: 117595 | 2011-04-25 23:32:00 | Throw away society | Lurking (218) | PC World Chat |
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| 1197183 | 2011-04-25 23:32:00 | Wife bought one of those Breville noiseless electric jugs, not so ! she put that to one side as a spare and went out and bought another of the same brand. The latter was much less noise, but last night it blew up, I suppose it's just over a year old, so I rang to see if Saxons could repair it, no not worth repairing !. 2 jugs and both made you know where " to our exact expectations ", costing about $120.00 the pair. Should see what our Sue Kedgely would have to say. Took the older one down from the cupboard and it doesn't sound as noisy, lol, must be the hearing perhaps. Lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1197184 | 2011-04-25 23:42:00 | Why can't "they" just make a kettle (or jug if you prefer), with a standard replaceable element like they used to do ? What happened to whistling kettles, were they too noisy for modern day living ? :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1197185 | 2011-04-25 23:47:00 | With automatic shutoff you don't really need a whistling one... Ours usually die because the switch contacts burn out or the cord explodes - yes, the cord exploded. I do think that the old metal ones with replaceable element are better though, but a cutoff would be nice, the amount of times the element burnt out from leaving the thing on... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1197186 | 2011-04-25 23:49:00 | Find it hard now to find just the Element for the standard jug now Went through this a couple of years ago,finally found one old stock at a Electrical wholesaler still over $20 though |
Lawrence (2987) | ||
| 1197187 | 2011-04-26 00:29:00 | I have a Russel Hobbs metal effort. No whistle but cuts off fine. It's been doing that for about 7 years now. If it dies I will get another Russel Hobbs. | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1197188 | 2011-04-26 03:21:00 | Damn, forgot to mention, it may have fallen off the bench with the 7.1 or 6.3 quakes. 7.1 was very good to us, but the 6.3 ! everything else fell out of cupboards, pantry (lucky here tho the double doors flexed saving all in there to fall on wifey below), tallboy (along with video and tv atop), bedside cabinets, shelves in wifey's craft room (now that room was a mess) china cabinet, computers on floor, lowboy, duchess, etc, etc. Plenty of double dipping going on here, just look at the sales of tv screens. Motor vehicles are going to take a pounding with the liquefaction getting into brake systems and all, it would be great grinding paste that stuff. Lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1197189 | 2011-04-26 06:08:00 | Mum brought one of these. Noisier than our $20 warehouse one. What a waste of money. | pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 1197190 | 2011-04-26 06:08:00 | Motor vehicles are going to take a pounding with the liquefaction getting into brake systems and all, it would be great grinding paste that stuff. I've been having that problem, got a Tragic, and the belt's started making a horrid noise, but not when it's humid. Word on the street is that ambos are going through new sets of filters, etc, every week. |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 1197191 | 2011-04-26 06:29:00 | I have a Russel Hobbs metal effort. No whistle but cuts off fine. It's been doing that for about 7 years now. Ours has been going fine for over 20 years, so yours still has a long life ahead of it. |
wotz (335) | ||
| 1197192 | 2011-04-26 06:46:00 | No trouble with our Zip, I like the latest, so don't mind if it does kark. | Cicero (40) | ||
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