JayMy 43 yr old microwave died today.
This old thing was an absolute champ. Between myself, my ex, and two kids who are now adults, it heated up a lot of stuff for us over the years. I honestly wasn’t sure if I was going to outlive it or end up buried with it. I guess I know the answer to that now…
foodandartSo it’s a mechanical failure, the pads literally wore out… What you’ll be looking for is a membrane switch… That model part number for your unit was ANE6479L80AP - you might be able to find a newer model that can be swapped in.
Can start by looking at current Panasonic models and see if there’s one with a keypad layout that looks like yours, and try and go from there… help.na.panasonic.com/…/microwave-ovens/
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incomparable to today’s planned obsolescence junk that goes out after 2 yrs max
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 I didn’t notice it was in French at first and was like “That doesnt say July… It says Julliet. Is Romeo the father?”
Ah yes, the classic love story of Romeo, and his daughter Juliet.
New Mandela effect split universe detected: Oedipus and Jocasta is the doomed teenage love story while Juliet Tyrannus (better known by its Latin name Juliet Regina) involves Juliet marrying Romeo without either realizing he’s her father.
Back to the Future would be slightly different in that universe. Marty fucks the shit out of his mom. Like…really goes to town, while Doc tries relentlessly to get him to stop sleeping with his mom so much. Because Doc knows, but can’t tell Marty because something something time rip too many actioms changed, blah blah blah somehow Marty sleeping with his mom made trump Biff president. And now we’re in the bad timeline.
TheTechnician27CPS: This, by his voice, should be a sex offender.
Fetch me my clipboard, boy. What dares the perv… Come hither, cover’d with an antic face.
There’s a way to rewire that with either a toggle switch, or using the door switches themselves (3 switches, by law).
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OMG OP!!! YOU GOTTA DO IT!!!
If we do not get updates by Sunday noon, I am going to send you a strongly worded letter.
Lol I was actually thinking of jury-rigging something together to trigger the dead buttons. I can still set the timer for anything under 9 minutes and 99 seconds, but the “ten minute” button and the “Engage” buttons are stone dead, even when checking the continuity with the tester. I’ve already got the panel out and will probably fiddle with it this weekend if I got time and see what I can do. I’m not letting my baby go without a fight…partially because I don’t want a new microwave, partially because I’m sentimental, and partially maybe I’m just a little bit mental.
Its totally doable, just be safe, and there better not be any foolish kids or dumb pets around. Such rigups need to only be handled by grown adults that know what risks might be…
Wire it up to an ESP32 and make it a smart microwave.
A microwave isn’t a person, so here I am more with OP in rounding instead of cuting decimals.
Then why include the month?
HEY!!! 42!!! I was born in Sept '83. Don’t you go piling on extra bonus years!!! My hair is grey enough as it is!
SkunkHey…sorry about your back pain. I mean, I know you didn’t specifically SAY you have back pain, but…c’mon. Let’s be real. You’re 4 months older than me…which means YOU’RE SO OLD!!! 4 MONTHS OLDER THAN ME??? Ugh, watch out everyone! AARP card carrying member coming through! On his way to Dennys for 4pm Dinner!
Eh, once my wife had a Sunday 4pm fondue craving (the Swiss melted cheese yeah) so we went to the local “auberge valaisanne”
It was packed with old farts from retirement homes going on an organized Sunday trip to the restaurant.
Also none of them ate cheese (fondue or raclette), they all went for a non Swiss meal, at a Swiss auberge…
I tried Dennys once when I was visiting the US, I don’t remember it so it probably wasn’t anything special.
“Dennys: We’re not that special.”
New marketing tagline. It’s a commercial based on random drunk people stumbling in at 3am, passing out in the booths, throwing up on the floor. Then an unamused waitress brings them pancakes, and says “Eat up” without a shred of hospitality. Almost as if it’s sarcasm. Then you see this group of early 20 year olds walk in, navigate through that scene, tip toe to a free booth, and still order. They knew what this was. Then it shows the food, and it’s as if the director just said “show some food on spinning plates” with no further direction. Also, this isn’t hollywood makeup fake food. All food you see in commercials is inedible. It’s mostly wax and other artificial things just made to look good for TV purposes, as that’s it’s only job. But instead, for the Dennys ad, they just actually make the food, which looks sloppy as hell. Plus it’s just thrown together by a “cook” in the back, whom I assure you does not give a FUCK about presentation or sanitation. It’s food, angrily thrown on a plate, as some teenager is pissed off by your existence. And that’s what this group of 4 early teens knew they were coming for…because it’s like $5.
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AkasazhWe recently had to replace a $500 Electrolux microwave that was only 11 years old. We mistakenly thought that brand was supposed to be higher quality :(
My mom had a microwave that lasted for decades. I left home in '81, so it was bought prior to that. She was still using it when she passed in '16. That thing was huge. I remember that before my dad would sit down to the table to eat, he would open the door on it to just the right angle so he could continue watching the TV in it’s reflection. The only thing wrong with it was the top and bottom rows of red LED lights had quit shining which made it a little tricky to tell how much time was left on it, but that never bothered my mom. Also, they didn’t have turntables in them back then, so you had to frequently turn the food. Mom bought a wind-up platform that you’d sit the food on and you could hear it in there ticking away while it slowly turned your food. She had to give up about 2.5 inches of height for it, but that oven was so big it didn’t matter…
Really? In my experience Electrolux devices are really easy to repair and they supply parts for a very long time, was it you or a company that would carry out the repair?
I recently repaired an oven from Electeolux that was 20+ years.
But sorry to hear it had to go!
The repair company we use told us it wasn’t worth fixing, and I believed them. To repair the microwave would have cost more than the new GE we replaced it with for <$220 on sale, which I installed myself. We also had an Electrolux double wall oven that kept burning out computer boards at about the 10 year mark. We had them fixed twice in 6 months, and when it went out the third time we wrote it off and replaced it with a Kitchenaid. One of the burners on the stove top is slow to heat up, but still usable. The dishwasher doesn’t seem to have a drying cycle anymore, but still cleans, tho we rarely use it. We did a big remodel back in 2011, and bought all Electrolux appliances and were quite proud of them, but alas… The first thing my wife did when the new kitchen was open was bake 6 trays of cookies at once :)
In my experience Electrolux devices are really easy to repair
In the 90s. New stuff is the same shit as everywhere else. Bosch washers are designed to fail.
Expensive appliances just cost more.
🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞We mistakenly thought that brand was supposed to be higher quality :(
What you can tell from a single instance of failure: Absolutely nothing.
It requires statistics to figure out if that’s a trend or a single instance.
oce 🐆
EatMyPixelDustRebuild the keypad with a custom PCB and some tactile buttons
It would be awesome and totally doable!
Sorry for your loss. It wasn’t just good, it was the best
absGeekNZI have a national as well roughly the same specs and date of manufacture. I’m really scared it’ll go one day, can’t imagine my kitchen without it.
archonetYeah, they sure don’t make 'em like they used to. My mother’s kitchen had a 1984 JCPenney branded microwave (with no turntable) that worked right up until 2024, the original light bulb inside dying sometime in the 2010s.
On the one hand, I remember hating it because it didn’t heat evenly, on the other, it was certainly built like a shit brickhouse if it lasted forty years.
I was born that month, it’s 42…
I’ve just replaced a 34 year old microwave. I hate all the new models, I just want something simple that will last practically forever.
It started making an electrical ticking/buzzing noise. I tried contacting 2 microwave repair companies and both said they won’t touch it.
I’m keeping it in storage just in case it magically fixes itself when the new one fails.
I just want something simple that will last practically forever.
That doesn’t sound very profitable, economical even.
You are not again being a naughty uncapitalist soldier, are you?
Won’t you think of the poor elites??
New microwaves fucking suck. I recently moved and bought a new one and this thing insists on beeping every time it does anything. Every button press, when turning on, when opening the door, closing the door… even 10mins after closing the door because that is when the display turns off. And it takes like 30 button presses and three menus to do something like adjust the wattage. AND you can’t turn down the volume on any of the beeps. It’s driving me absolutely crazy. My husband promised to open it up and solder out the beeping part, but he’s got a busy schedule so idk when he’ll get to it 🥲