I have a Sunbeam mixer that used to belong to my grandmother. I’m sure it dates from the early '40s.
We’ve got a Singer “Touch and Sew” sewing machine that’s 50+ years old and more than once, it’s been pressed into service to save the day when the hyper-expensive six month old computerized machine couldn’t cope.
In terms of raw power, our super-powered item is the 6-quart KitchenAid mixer.
My accounting computer has a mouse I bought in 1998 that is still going strong.
We have a Pelonis/Del-sun Original Disc Furnance from around 1980 that just keeps on blowing heat with no signs of ever giving up. I think it is one of the very first models they put out and was pretty pricey at $85.00 bucks, back in the day. Tiny thing is very efficient, has a thermostat and fan, and heats an entire RV on a chilly Florida night. I would’ve thought for all of the heat it has been subjected to over fairly constant use for the past 30 years something would have worn out or failed by now.
That Pelonis furnace is from the mid-eighties, so it’s actually more like 25 years old.
I’ve never changed the batteries in my HP 11C calculator, which I bought from my high school sixteen years ago. I imagine the batteries had never been changed before, and I know that calculator was several years old even then. I think the time is coming, though. There’s an asterisk flickering in the corner that makes me think is the battery indicator.
Our oven is still the original 1968 model that came with the house. The broiler stopped working, and we haven’t bothered to pull it out and fix it, but that’s it. I *wish *the damn thing would break for good so we could justify buying one built in this century.
I also have a cool little Japanese mechanical pencil made by Tombo. My brother-in-law got it for me in the Tokyo airport. I’ve written many notes, balanced my checkbook countless times and I never replaced the pencil lead.
He gave it to me in 1990.
I have a highpowered, programmable, solar powered, scientific calculator from around 1985. Still works and I’ve never had to change the batteries.
I don’t have it, but my mother has some kind of supernatural cast-iron skillet that she cleans with Dawn, and despite that, is still ridiculously well seasoned. It’s something like 40 years old, and she’s had it for 35 or so.
Our microwave and one of our travel alarm clocks (used pretty much every day) were both purchased new in 1986. Still work great.
We are also using an upright Hoover vacuum cleaner that used to belong to Mr. S’s mother. She died in 1983. We’ve replaced the cord and the bag, and those only because the dog liked to pee on the zipper and it rusted, and the cord was a bit frayed. The motor still runs like a jet engine. Best vacuum I’ve ever seen for dog hair.
A seldom-used lightbulb in a spare room back home was installed by the previous owners in 1969. As of this summer, it still lights.
I have an irrational affection for my television. It’s only about 15 years old, nothing out of this world, but when my family had a house fire ten years ago, it was virtually the only electronic device that still worked. I replaced the remote control, but that’s it.(you really don’t want to know why that was necessary.)
-Lil
Um, woosh?
I have a VCR that my dad bought in 1977, a big faux wood sided sucker with spring loaded buttons and what not that works just as well as it did 30 years ago, it just looks a bit out of place now with the rest of my sleek plastic stuff.
Bolding mine. :dubious:
Edit: Damn, Cluricaun, ya beat me to it! 
And that makes approximately one thing that I’ve ever beaten someone to on the boards before. Damned tough to do that is.
Only my driver’s side head light ever goes out. The passenger’s side light is almost 8 years old (as old as the car…) AND I can not turn the head lights off while the ignition is on. The other light has burned out three time now.
The Penco boiler in our house was original equipment in 1976. My Remington made in USA electric razor is now pushing 15 years without a problem. My wife has a portable Singer that her mother gave her in high school, which would make it over 40 years old and still running. My sister has my mother’s old black Singer in the wood cabinet, which has to be at least 60 years old or more.
I’m not positive that my 2003 Dodge Durango actually requires gas. Oh, it guzzles it willingly enough. But I have frequently run more than 70 or 80 miles past the needle hitting E (and the digital DTE display hitting zero), and it has never yet stranded me on the side of the road.
I have Grandpa’s hammer. My Grandpa gave my Dad his hammer in the early '70s. It became my hammer in the mid-1990s. There are a bunch of screws holding the head on, but it’s still in service.
My grandfather on the other side of the family gave my family a Snapper lawn mower that we were convinced was immortal. Someone who shall not be named deliberately put non-premix in it (it was a 2-stroke) and that finally did it in.
I’m very proud of my bar blender. I overpaid for it severely in the early 1990s. Not that it’s terribly old, but it’s a commercial model with a stainless steel top and it’s frickin’ bulletproof. I’ve done nothing but beat the crap out of it, shredding up ice for frozen drinks with the damned thing for over 15 years and it still looks and runs like new.
My maternal grandparents were married in 1935. When they got engaged, my grandfather’s friends gave a toaster to my grandmother as an engagement gift.
It has made toast more or less every day from then until today, a fairly impressive 72 years. Furthermore, in the spirit of being “super-powered”, for many years it would pop up with such force that it would actually throw the bread fully out of the toaster and you’d have to catch it on a plate (which sounds like a hassle, but was incredibly entertaining for grandchildren).