Who here as the oldest working Microwave?

Its huge. They paid an outrageous sum of money for it though because its also a convection oven, I don't think they've used it as a microwave in 20 years though (thankfully ).

take an old radar put it in a box and it's an oven!

My uncle suggested that it might be leaking radiation so she replaced it. I don't know if it was really a hazard or not. My grandmother tends to never replace things that she bought in the 60's and 70's though.

I don't know how long it had been here before then. I do know they'd bought a new a/c and done some minor remodeling in about 1984. I guess there's a date on the appliance somewhere...label or model #. I've never looked.

It's still going strong!

I've window shopped for new microwaves occasionally, expecting mine to go kaflooey any time. But it hasn't.

If my memory serves me right, it came with a 7-year warranty. That was a time when most things were made in America.

In 1979

Very basic model

kind of small and built a little like an igloo without the front crawl in part of the igloo and it is cobalt blue. Actually it is just not square, more curved edges. First people ask me what it is and then they are really impressed with it. It wasn't that expensive.

It doesn't cook real fast but hey, it doesn't take up much room and I still like the way it looks and so what it is takes a minute longer.

I've had to replace a relay and a couple wire connectors. we had it on layaway at the time and when we paid it off they brought out the next largest model. It's big enough so that I once defrosted a 20-lb turkey in it with room to spare. I'll use it until it finally dies.

I grabbed the power cord and yanked it out but the fucker still kept shooting sparks into the innards. It took about an hour for it to cool down. I'll NEVER, I mean NEVER, set a microwave to come on at a future time. The things fucking freak me out.

It undergoes some sort of biological metamorphosis that gives it the same consistency as leather or perhaps a car tire.

things, and I stick around until it's through.

If it explodes, I think I'll know about it.

It was a wedding present. It's a bit on the small side, currently in our son's dorm room. It has some display glitches but works fine.

I still don't use a microwave for much. Most nuked stuff tastes odd to me.

The saleswoman warned me not to get the touch pad model because the buttons wouldn't last (the alternative was a dial like on a board game) but I went against her advice.

Well - 28 years later, I still use it in my office. At 500 watts, even in its prime it really wasn't good for much more than heating up water, soup & cooking popcorn.

Still in my garage, and it still works to heat my coffee. It will also run even if the door is open, as there's no safety feature.

A physicist friend of my dad built his own. Was it safe? No idea - but it was pretty amazing.

it has been working for almost 30 years and then one day it would not power up! Usually when electronics have no power the first place to look is the fuse! So I took the cover off of this beast and found the fuse, which was so old and burnt I couldn't see inside the glass, but a quick test was to wrap some aluminum foil around it and put it back in to see if it is a fuse related issue (which 95% of the time it is!) Sure enough she was back in business and I replaced the fuse and closed her up! This is a micro that was built right! it is so sturdy and solid compared to the microwaves of today! I can see this thing lasting another 30 years!