30 Very Well-Designed Products That Are Almost Guaranteed To Last You (Almost) A Lifetime

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Same on the OUTSIDE. Not same inside. Some years ago they switched from metal gears to nylon gears and they don't last as long. Maybe some other changes too but the gears are the change I hear about. You can find videos on YT showing how to replace the gears. I think I also heard it is possible to purchase compatible metal gears to upgrade your product close to what it used to be.

There's a guy on Youtube who repairs them. The newer ones are less reliable and are missing some really cheap but key parts that help them last. It's a real shame.

With many of these - you have to make sure you get ones with internal steel gears/parts. Manufacturers are increasingly putting plastics in crucial places to generate mean time before failure - timed obsolescence.

I just used mine to make Brownies.

There's a good yt vid on its history and why it's one of the most well-designed and successful products ever

That hole in the end of the cap is newer than the design: I was alive when they introduced it, because a child choked.

It had one design change--the hole in the cap.

Eh, gel ink pens are a step up.

Love Lego!

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Well, they may not have changed their original bricks, but they now have so many other shaped pieces, to make all kinds of stuff (Star Wars, etc.). and so with the uniquely shaped pieces, there is more plastic waste. "Forever plastics that winds up everywhere.

Basically anything from Fiskars.

Don't look easy to use for a leftie, although I would imagine there must be a left-handed version.

My Singer Featherweight sewing machine is 71 years old. This year is the first time I need to take it in for a minor repair.

Even my grandma's treadle machine works to this day.

I bought one for my mom that came from a high school and reconditioned. She used that machine for another 40 years, until she died.

Juki sewing machines. We used to run a drapery business. Singer is awesome but they don't hold up to production level sewing and the difference in power and speed is wild.

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I have my mother's from 1948, along with all the original attachments, and it still works great!

They have got better contemporary designs like wall mount and the more streamline base so much easier to clean. apartment-...9f1633.jpg

It eliminates a lot of feces-borne diseases, but you have to put the lid down to prevent stuff getting airborne. Do you ever have to clean the inside of the lid of a toilet? Think about where that stuff would go if it was not blocked by the lid.

Victorinox has been my every day carry for 30+ years. I have like 6. None of them have ever broke. They just came out with different models that I had to have. They have pushed into the expensive side the last few years but still amazingly made knifes.

Still have mine in the attic, I should take it down and see if it still works

Still got one somewhere. Prolly still works

The only problem is how easy it is to take off the wood pieces and how hard it is to put them back into the spring

It was funny to make 'guns' with two of them when I was a child...

I have four and they are packed

Is there a standard height for baseboards? My current house has 5" (12.7 cm) baseboards.

Ikea IVAR is even better and fully customizable

I got mine in Milano. This will stay with me.

My daily morning coffee. They make "near espresso". Some of the advertising says espresso but "ideal" espresso pressure is 9 bar and this unit pushes bout 1.5 bar. BUT - still good coffee from a low cost unit. I have two, both bought used at garage sales. Paid $5 for the the stainless steel one I use daily and have been using it for about 15 years now. Some day I may pay a thousand bucks for a fancy espresso unit. But I probably wont' - cuz thousand bucks. EDIT: Also, while not true expresso, the coffee it makes is much stronger than drip coffee.

Any moron can make a decent cup of coffee, as long as you have good coffee from the start.

I much prefer the sound of the tele than the strat - some famous telecaster players: Joe Strummer, Waylon Jennings, Tom Morello, Keith Richards, Kenneth Pattengale, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Keith Richards, Jeff Buckley, Chrissie Hynde, Jimmy Page, Muddy Waters, George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen, Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead)

This! As well as Fender Precision and Jazz basses, and the Stratocaster, (every classic Fender design) the Music Man Stingray and some G&L Guitar and bass models... going strong after 70+ years in some cases, others for almost 50 years... Even some more "modern" looking musical instruments like Ibanez SRs have been built almost without any major changes since 1987.

That is really cool, there's a lot of bottles that could use this!

"...the hole the syrup comes out of is in the shape of a smiley face." ?? Liquid comes out retaining a shape? Also, I think the liquid comes out of the "mouth" while the "eyes" are there to move air in so that the liquid coming out flows without a hitch.

What's the difference between a hippo and a Zippo? One can weigh up to four tons, while the other one is a little lighter.

There is a trick you can do with a Zippo, if youi hold it between your thumb and index finger and squeeze, the lid pops up and you hit the striker which lights it up

I really like my Chaco sandals. So durable for summers here in Washington or wading across a river in the Philippines.

Doc Martins too. We bought my oldest a pair when they were about 7. They got handed down to my ex-husband's niece, came back to my son, and have been handed down to my nephew. 4 kids in 4 years; they've seen some hard use.

I had a pair Bass Sunjuns sandals that I bought in the 70's that I only threw away last year.

Love my Dremel. The drywall attachment just cut a big project time down by hours for me. I built out my shed/ workshop and put outlets and lighting everywhere because once I finished i never wanted to decide i needed another outlet or light. Did legitimately 20 outlet cut outs and the dremel just ate it up. I got a chance to use the dewalt drywall tool recently and it legit puts the dremel to shame for drywall but I don't do drywall every day and for a 25$ attachment on an existing tool it was amazing.

One of these is lurking in my basement

I have different sized ones that I use when I make cookies.

When I was a kid we had a solid pewter ice-cream scoop. It was amazing. You could get a scoop or fight a zombie with it.

Casio watches seem to last for ever and the basic designs of many stay the same for decades even if they regularly shift the country of manufacture.

I am a watchmaker. I hate working on them with the fuel of 1M stars.