# I puilled the plug on my 20 year old microwave oven today for the last time. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 15, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-puilled-the-plug-on-my-20-year-old-microwave-oven-today-for-the-last-time/606346 "2011-12-15T23:28:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-puilled-the-plug-on-my-20-year-old-microwave-oven-today-for-the-last-time/606346/21 "2011-12-17T13:34:26Z")
Ours is a mere child, born in 1994. But we have a Cuisinart, vintage 1977, that we use at least once a day on average and it is still going strong, except that the bowl, which is slowly disintegrating, seems to be irreplaceable. New Cuisinarts are very hard to use and to clean. They have been tied up, surely by liability issues. Stupid morons cannot keep their fingers away from a rotating blade. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-puilled-the-plug-on-my-20-year-old-microwave-oven-today-for-the-last-time/606346/22 "2011-12-17T17:39:14Z")
I’ll chime in and second what’s been said-usually, it is the timer/disply module that goesw bad. If the oven has a Amperex/Philips magnetron, that tube will last decdes or more. Which is a pity-if you cannot get a display module, you have to junk the oven. ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-puilled-the-plug-on-my-20-year-old-microwave-oven-today-for-the-last-time/606346/23 "2011-12-17T17:51:14Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ll chime in and second what’s been said-usually, it is the timer/disply module that goes bad. That’s the beauty of having a 1976 microwave. Display modules weren’t invented then, so they can never go bad. Mine’s got a simple dial that one turns to the desired time. All mechanical. Then when it clicks over to zero a (also mechanical) bell makes a loud DING. Sometimes old ways are really best! ---
**Author:** ![sad\_flower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@sad\_flower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sad_flower)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-puilled-the-plug-on-my-20-year-old-microwave-oven-today-for-the-last-time/606346/24 "2011-12-18T04:48:10Z")
> [@Hilary\_Algar](#): > > I pulled the plug on my twenty year old microwave oven today for the last time. > > That little microwave survived six moves and never complained a bit. > > She was a real trooper up until the last week or so when she started making noises not usually associated with a microwave oven. I requested a diagnosis in GQ and got the bad news–she wasn’t _ **necessarily** _ extremely dangerous but she surely wasn’t going to get any better, either. What with the prices of new ones ridiculously low and offering better performance in a smaller package, it just didn’t make any sense to continue with old bessie. > > I tend to hang on to things way too long, beyond the point where they are no longer an asset and have become a liability. It’s always sad to say goodbye to these inanimate objects. > > And that’s all I have to say about that. Very well written. This is very, very sad… ☹ sad flower ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-puilled-the-plug-on-my-20-year-old-microwave-oven-today-for-the-last-time/606346/25 "2011-12-20T00:10:56Z")
[Dude!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSrOS2qTS2Q) ---
**Author:** ![Hilary\_Algar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilary_algar/32/4282_2.png) [@Hilary\_Algar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilary_Algar)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-puilled-the-plug-on-my-20-year-old-microwave-oven-today-for-the-last-time/606346/26 "2011-12-20T06:15:29Z")
> [@D18](#): > > [Dude!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSrOS2qTS2Q) Wow–very poignant yet very sad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-puilled-the-plug-on-my-20-year-old-microwave-oven-today-for-the-last-time/606346.md?page=1)