THE LIFETIME LIST
THE LIFETIME LIST
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Two kinds of glass are sold as oven bakeware in America, and only one of them survives a real temperature swing. Borosilicate takes a change of about…
27 to buy · 27 entriesSee the guide →Buying guideMost of the names on a hardware store wall no longer belong to the company that forged the tool. Four do, and they still run their own plants in the…
17 to buy · 18 entriesSee the guide →Repair guideWhen a washer's drum bearing wears out, some makers sell you the bearing and some sell you half a tub. The first part of this page lists every part…
11 to buy · 20 entriesSee the guide →Repair guideSpeed Queen washers are sold through appliance dealers, not through Amazon, and the company runs no repair fleet of its own. The parts, though, are…
7 to buy · 10 entriesSee the guide →Buying guideSeven refrigerator badges in one American aisle are owned by three companies, and a seventh is a name that hires a factory. A full-size refrigerator…
4 to buy · 12 entriesSee the guide →Buying guideTwo Tonka lines sit side by side under the same yellow paint. One still has a real steel dump bed; the other is plastic and zinc alloy. This page…
4 to buy · 6 entriesSee the guide →Buying guidePremium interior paints from three different companies run from 40 to 46 percent volume solids on their own data sheets. That number, the binder and…
3 to buy · 7 entriesSee the guide →Buying guidePlastic model kits are reissued for decades from the same steel molds, often in new boxes with new artwork. The five checks on this page date the…
4 to buy · 12 entriesSee the guide →Buying guideThree companies build the tank water heaters sold in America under a dozen different names, and a single sacrificial rod decides how long any of them…
5 to buy · 11 entriesSee the guide →Buying guideTwo of the three great American cast iron names ended as trademarks; the third has never been sold since 1896. This page shows who pours and who…
4 to buy · 6 entriesSee the guide →Buying guideFour American workwear names hang on the same rack, and only two of them are still owned by the families that started them. This page has the…
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