the maytag washer that...

[cfz2882]

...ran for something like 8 years nonstop. a number of years
ago i remember seeing on the news a little blurb about a
maytag washer an appliance store rigged up to restart every
time it finished,so that it would run through the cycles
constant for years until it ground to a halt.
As i remember the washer was a 1992.
Anyone else see this or know any details?

 

[qsd-dan]

On 12/1/1991, Bob Leibold as Bob's Specialty Service in Monroe, Wisconsin started a Maytag washing machine during a Maytag promotion and expected it to run about 2 and 1/2 years. Amazingly, the machine ran until August 16, 1996 and stopped after 32,500 hours. The machine pumped over 56 cycles a day and cost about a $1 a day in electricity. Leibold calculated it was the equivalent of 193 years of use by a family of four.

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[maytagmark]

My '94 Dependable Care washer is still in like new condition,If it breaks I will repair it,if it is terminal there is always my 85 model. I only wash at the most three loads a week, so they will most likely outlast me.

 

[gmmcnair]

My 1993 Dependable Care....

....is still at my mother's house. Almost 17 years of doing what averages out as a load a day, and no repairs and purring along sweetly.

 

[cfz2882]

would be interesting to know what part failed to bring that
washer to a stop after all those years of constant operation.