Most spectacular planned obsolescence ever!

[Alex Zeller]

I have a much older PC ROS. it looks like a 4 1/2" metal grinder. The pad on that died 5 years or so ago. I replaced it with one made by another company for a fraction of what it cost. I think the threads are standard as even the pad off a cheap pneumatic one I had would screw right on.

[Jim Becker]

yeah, but three the same hour after 20 years?

Mr Lippman, please meet Mr. Murphy. Your new best friend. LOL

I agree that the coincidence is, well...over the top, but clearly it was a not a good day for sanding in your shop.

[Bill Dufour]

It was God telling you to take a break or it was the Devil telling you to be lazy.
Bill D.

[Randall J Cox]

I have a 50+ year old Sears power plane that my parents bought me when I was a teenager (I'm almost 74). Have used it off and on (mostly off) over all this time. I used it the other day extensively to plane down the bottom of a outside door to my shed I have been rebuilding. It takes a light cut and the blade is dull so had to make many passes. Amazingly the blade is belt powered and I have never had to replace it and the heavy rubber cord looks and flexes like new. So they can make them like this if they want to..... Randy PS And I know as soon as I take it apart to replace or sharpen the blade, something else will go wrong! ha ha

[Joe Jensen]

Once, I had an entire case of 3M sanding belts fail the same day. Twenty four belts shot to ---- at one sitting!

I had a similar experience. A friend who is a chemical engineer told me that nearly all glues are organic compounds and there are bacteria that eat those compounds so nearly all glues will fail over time.

[Rod Sheridan]

I just ordered a $40K circuit breaker to replace one that has been in service for 4 months, I'd trade for 20 years and $25 in a heartbeat.

The circuit breaker is not repairable, which is the first I've seen in a 3,000 ampere breaker........Rod.

[Frank Pratt]

I just ordered a $40K circuit breaker to replace one that has been in service for 4 months, I'd trade for 20 years and $25 in a heartbeat.

The circuit breaker is not repairable, which is the first I've seen in a 3,000 ampere breaker........Rod.

That'll run a decent sized dust collector.

[Rod Sheridan]

That'll run a decent sized dust collector.

I'm sure it would ...LOL

[Jim Matthews]

I just ordered a $40K circuit breaker to replace one that has been in service for 4 months, I'd trade for 20 years and $25 in a heartbeat.

The circuit breaker is not repairable, which is the first I've seen in a 3,000 ampere breaker........Rod.

Jump start a battleship, again? Lightning strike?

Yikes.

[Curt Harms]

I just ordered a $40K circuit breaker to replace one that has been in service for 4 months, I'd trade for 20 years and $25 in a heartbeat.

The circuit breaker is not repairable, which is the first I've seen in a 3,000 ampere breaker........Rod.

I wouldn't want to be paying the electric bill on whatever that puppy powers.