[alexander_busek]

My grandparents had a hotpoint refrigerator they bought in 1946 right after WWII. It weighed about 600 lbs but was still working when my grandmother died in 1998. It's unfathomable that a refrigerator made today would last 52 years, they aren't designed to last like that now.

Did its ice-maker still work to the end? Was it WIFI-compatible?

Well, at least it didn't contain any of those nasty CFCs that destroy the Ozone Layer, right?

Probably operated on ammonia!

Regards,

[21twelve]

An ice maker is a “necessity” now. The one in our old fridge (in the house when we bought it in 1993) still works - now in the garage. I can do without WIFI though.

Our new fridge, a year old, had a plastic latch piece break. It has the two side by side doors so now the one door pops open when you close the other side. I’m having a hard time locating the piece. Might just have to use my super-glue and fabric softener paper reinforcement to fix it on a $1500 fridge.

The wife likes how the fridge looks, so I guess that is the main thing.

The racks in the doors are nice. It has two drawers for the freezer. It seems the frozen food still gets just as buried as it did with the old fridge with the one freezer compartment on top.