MT STAIN TEST
MT did this same stunt when they introduced the Neptune FL washers. Tom and I were there at the local Holiday Inn for this big sales-dinner meeting. They had all these little bottles of colored liquid that they wanted us to stain the new white tee shirts with. At the time I was wondering why they weren't using any common things that might cause stains, such as ketchup, mustard, grape juice, blood etc etc. Me being the trouble maker I am went over to the tables and borrowed a few pats of butter and smeared it all over a tee shirt. Some one had the same idea and put chocolate syrup and ice cream on another shirt. Then both were put into the pile of dirty shirts. They then ran one of the orignal Neptunes through the complete while the sales meeting progressed. We were sitting near the rear of the room and I watched as the sales lady unloaded the washer, she was looking at each tee shirt as she pulled them out of the washer. She came to the one with the chocolate on it first and then my butter stained shirt and hid them back in the machine. I made a point of taking the stained shirts out when we all got up at the end of the meeting. At the same meeting I was sitting with a group of people when the MT rep was talking about the wonderful new MT ranges, he was talking about the excellent quality control that was being used at the range plant. As I was sitting there listing to this I noticed that none of the four burners a MT electric range were even remotely level. When I put my hand up and asked who was responsible for seeing that the burners were level the MT rep was not happy as everyone in the group could see what crap this MT [ Magic Chef ] range was and laughed. As I think back I think this about the point when I lost respect for most MT appliances, this was the time they were coming out with al the Norge, Magic Chef, Adrimal, Hardwick and JennAir junk relabeled as MTs at prices far above what this junk had ever sold for before. As we all know all too well now this is what did in MT you had a lot of conservative antiunion executives running the company giving large amounts of money to right wing republicans rather than trying to invest money in making a good product