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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by twobitshifter on Sunday August 14, 2022 @09:23PM (#32464853)
On Blenders, I got mine from the free/donation pile at the dump. It’s glass, all metal and proudly declares itself “solid state”. It has 14 speeds with a high and low and smells vaguely of ozone when you turn it on. It’s bulletproof.
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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by userbinator on Sunday August 14, 2022 @09:43PM (#32464978)
About the ozone, you might want to replace the brushes and/or polish the commutator. Blenders of that design use brushed motors, and the brushes are a wear part (although they can last a long time).
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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by ornornor on Monday August 15, 2022 @03:14AM (#32466749)
And they’re dirt cheap and usually easily accessible.
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