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The Neptune TL was Maytag's own design as combo52 said. It was made by Maytag in Florence South Carolina, not Florence Italy. The Florence SC plant was formerly the Amana/Caloric range plant which Maytag took ownership of in 2001 when they bought Amana. In late 2003, Maytag discontinued the...

I like Consumer Reports for reliability data. Nowhere else are you going to get good quality, independent data on how frequently different brands break down in the first five years of operation. Of course, it's not perfect - for example, in cases where a manufacturer has reliability issues that...

The US/Canada version of these machines were all imported from Mexico (which is North America not South America). So if there is any difference in longevity between these machines in the US/Canada and Mexico, that would seem to indicate that the explanation is down to use conditions rather than...

Kenmore hasn't been exclusive to Sears for a while now. In 2017 Sears announced a deal to sell Kenmore appliances through Amazon, and they've been seen in more places since. If you think about it, Sears as a store is basically dead - there are only 8 stores left. But the Kenmore brand is one of...

Well in theory, heat pump dryers should be able to last a long time. We already know refrigerators are capable of lasting 20+ years without much maintenance. And a heat pump dryer isn't really anything more complex than that, and has a lot less runtime. That said, the devil in the details...

The EU did need to do something about their grading systems, since the amount of pluses being added onto the A was getting silly. The A-F scale should be calibrated to the range of appliances that are actually on the market. That said, the new labels seem to go too far in the opposite direction...

Yeah it's definitely the Electrolux connection. The 24" ovens are mainly a replacement market here - you don't tend to find them in new kitchens - so as demand for them has dropped over time, manufacturers have moved to sourcing them from abroad, where they're a more common size. Electrolux must...

Yes! The Frigidaire 24"/60cm wall ovens here in the US are now made in Australia (probably in the same plant as your Westinghouse) and I noticed the gas ones had this same setup as well.

It's true, they're gradually going away. Yeah cheap dryers still have mechanical timers. Cheap ranges still have mechanical thermostats rather than boards. Cheap dishwashers like entry level GE were still using mechanical timers until pretty recently. I definitely agree the industry is...

Nonsense. The Neptune TL was a flop for Maytag - they discontinued it just 2 years after production started - before Whirlpool even took them over. So there's no way they'd still be selling it today. I don't know why you're comparing it to VMWs either, as they competed in very different...

Strong disagree on that one, at least when it comes to durability. Just looking at the manufacturing timelines of the machines is enough to prove that. Amanatags were barely even made for 2 years before Maytag killed them off. Model Ts by contrast were made for over a decade, and WCI Frigidaires...

I wouldn't even put Norgetags and Amanatags in the same sentence, IMO. Amanatags barely could even make it through their warranty period. Whereas I've seen plenty of Norgetags last 15-20 years. The quality may not have been up to the Dependable Care standard Maytag was known for, but not...

Yes, they were. Amana washers, which had been forced to completely redesign after spinning off from Raytheon, already had enough problems at the time Maytag bought them. They should have just been discontinued. But instead, Maytag made them the backbone of their whole washer lineup, and put the...

The twin impeller machine was the Neptune TL being discussed in this thread. The Atlantis was a higher end, larger capacity version of the Norge design.

Do PC boards cost less than mechanical timers though? Generally the places you've been most likely to see mechanical controls and timers in recent years are on bottom of the line appliances, which would seem to contradict that. And it's worth noting, even Speed Queen, which specialize in high...