Singer and Kingston Timers
You choose to ignore all the GE/Hotpoint Dishwashers and Clothes Washers from the 80s with Singer timers that still go on to this day. All the Maytag DC washers that have never required a timer replacement. As a whole the reliability was excellent. Worst timers (way worse) were 90s/2000s Eaton, Siebe and Invensys if you ask me, those got many Potscubbers junked and failed early in a lot of other appliances.
Difficult to convince me that a perfectly functioning 35 year old heavily rusted, calcified, lime caked, pitted Singer timer out of a Porcelain Hotpoint is an unreliable timer.
Yes the AWN542s had a batch of bad timers but honestly I predicted that before it happened. To many short degree increments trying to double change a half dozen contacts... it was bound to cause problems under reasonable manufacturing tolernaces.
Which takes me to the TC series. An EM model would be more than welcomed by consumers and repair techs.
@repairguy: Experience by itself means nothing and to me its cringe when someone repeatedly boasts about it. Not to bash an industry as a whole but in a lot of places anyone can become a service tech. There is no well established college or schooling system, academy, accreditation, required course work, annual re-training, apprenticeship, testing, certification, recertification, licensing, state registration, organization ect as say compared to a medical doctor, electrician or professional engineer. Things like gaps in say mechanical or electrical theory can and do fall through the cracks in practice. Yes such a lax system can let talented stars shine, but with it also comes with the less than stellar ones going uneducated.
However, on the other hand, in defense of all techs, electronics add complexity to each machine. An obscure or intermittent failure mode is much harder to diagnose, touch, see, feel, smell, measure, ect, ect. Car and diesel techs at least have a diagnostic laptop...