Does This 1946 Microwave Still Work? 

Yes, and also make it cheap to not last long so people keep buying news one from them...$$$ its all about... kinda like cars.

All made in the USA.

@@guyfawkesuThe1 i miss stuff being made in the usa now stuff isnt made in the usa much at all

@@1104ray i have to agree with you there most of the cheap plastic stuff is mostly made in china unfortunately

@@smiles29099 yeah it sucks

We bought a new Bosch microwave for 600$ two years ago. It started to behave strange after a couple of weeks. Now broken. Luckily we didnt throw away our old one which we had for 16+ years because it still works like it was new. edit; It was a Siemens, not a Bosch.

Cause they want you to buy new stuff every year... they want to make money xD

@@loyalwolfofficial That is true. Just like what Apple did when they intentionally slowed down the iPhones to get people to buy the latest version.

*_All by design, folks... all by intentional design._*

Planned obsolescence

I know! That would have been a hefty chunk of a person's yearly salary.

But it would be much cheaper to produce today.

Yeah it would of - it's almost as if they told you that 100 dollars in 1950 would be 2000 dollars immediately after...

The fact they didn't compare the old salaries to inflation but only the cost of the appliance being "2000$" seems kind of one-sided and manipulative.

My mom refuses to buy new vacuum. Her old vacuum still works. I dislikes it lol It's heavy . I had to carry it from basement because it has stroage room. But we have floor now. i don't have to use vacuum. So, Broom is so light lol

freaking bozos cant even fact check their stories

@@Fish-cj4ubFor real. Poor news reporting in my opinion.

Yes, microwave technology for heating food in 1946 was still in prototype mode, the oven would have been gigantic.

That's what I was thinking, the first commercial microwave was the size of a fridge.

I thought that sounded a little off

TMI.

Until they start leaking lead radiation mercury battery acid and all that

It bugged me to see that Radarange, because I researched the technology for a paper in college. That cannot be the Raytheon Radarange from the 1940s, as Amana is stamped on the front. The Amana for home use was not on the market until 1967. The Raytheon version was huge, and looked more like a wall oven.

@@Dad-lu1oilol if there weren’t modern regulations the new stuff would’ve been even more likely to have that happen 😂

@@cursorguy You contradicted yourself in the same sentence 😂 Also you can't blame new appliances when you buy cheap Chinese made products.

Not at all. It could be something called survivorship bias. You're only looking at the good ones and ignoring all the bad ones that went out.

Then again, the mixer shown in the video adjusted for inflation is $2,000. With that kind of money, you can buy a commercial one that will probably last just as long depending on the one you buy.

Old is gold.

@@V.G.F. yea

​@@austinhernandez2716 It's very obvious stuff back in the day was made better. Way less plastic and better materials used. You're not going to find a department store mixer that will last 60 years nowadays.

You could have had a new cord pUT on!

Just because of the fabric cord? That can be easily fixed!

It could have easily been put back to safe working order with a new cord, which you can buy at any hardware store and would have probably still outlasted another new waffle maker when put side by side for the same number of hours used. Because 1950s appliances were made with a durable metal housing as opposed to cheap plastic of today's appliances, you should use a 3 prong cord as a replacement even though the old cord was 2 wire. You would wire the black and white to the appliance like the original cord using wirenuts, and fasten the green (ground) wire to the metal housing somehow, wrapping it around one of the screws used to assemble the appliance is a great way to make sure it is properly grounded to help prevent electrical shocks if a live wire comes loose inside the appliance and touched the housing. Oh and one additional thing to be aware of when replacing the cord on a vintage appliance. A fabric cord on an appliance with a heating element may contain asbestos, and asbestos containing insulation was likely used inside the appliance.

So just like people related to me you threw it out.

That's what I thought

Yeah, I thought the Radar Ranges they had in the 40's were only large units that were meant for restaurant and institutional use.

I agree with everyone else here. Thank you for clarifying the year that the microwave was produced. I along with some people were confused because I recalled as everyone has mentioned that microwaves in the 40's and 50's were A LOT LARGER, basically an OVEN size.

You should teach a class on how to restore or rebuild these appliances. We can't let this knowledge die 😢

Glad to see this comment, I thought I knew they didn’t come out until a couple decades after WWII, but this video almost made me uncertain

That's because it's not electric and was made to last for generations.

I want a treadle sewing machine

@@vulcan2882even non electric appliances get rusty and slow over time, my mom also had a sewing machine from the early 2000s, it was non electric it got rusty and it would get jammed every once in a while

@@Jittrippin2050 .. from the early 2000's. Interesting because nobody would buy anything like that 24 years ago.

My 2000 year old Abacus calculator even doesn't require battery replacement 😅😊😊😊

Thank you for pointing that out. That microwave looks like the one we had when I was growing up in the '70's. Still impressive that it works today though.

I thought it looked way too modern for 1946.

Yes. Raytheon, who invented the microwave oven acquired Amana Refrigeration in 1967 and introduced the Radarange, the first home countertop microwave oven.

Maybe clickbait.

Take a seat inside edition

That is not the same one.

@@snowflakehunter Pretty much just realised a bit later that it’s a slightly different model from the same series.

In the unit we lived in from 61 - 65, had a built in booth in the kitchen. The loungeroom was so big, my parents had a dinning table in there, we only used the booth at breakfast, or if we had lots of people over for dinner and there wasn't enough space at the dinning table. All of us kids loved the booth.

Lead paint

1911? thats not that old, were i live theres houses from 1730's-now

Before late stage capitalism.

Actually that's not true. Plus for $2,000, you can find industrial microwaves that will last as long as those.

No, it's called capitalism.

​@@austinhernandez2716 its both.

That’s what this video was pointing out lol

@@cursorguy They never mentioned it.

Exactly. It is called "planned obsolesce", for a reason. It is a necessary evil to keep people employed and the economy rolling

@@snowflakehunter you don’t have to mention something to imply it. Saying “older versions of current products lasted extremely longer than their modern equivalents” means “modern products fail more easily”

It's called capitalism.

But it wouldn't be as power efficient.

​@Jesus_Christ_loves_you_alot Not necessarily. A fridge from the 50s more than likely has no defrost coil, fans, controllers or anything else. It would have a compressor, a finned coil in the back to dissipate heat, a coil on the inside around the freezer box, a tstat, and a light bulb. Cooling was done inside through simple physics- cold air sinks. The freezer box would be at the top of fridge area, and that box would have to be manually defrosted from time to time, usually through unplugging the unit and putting the contents in a portable cooler.

I might have one id part with. Kelvinator, made by Nash motor company

But that's very recently

2022 was not that long ago, i still use my tv from 2007 everyday

Its a joke

PUT mesh' wire" around it. It's a open fan.

idk whats with the whole "apple gives new updates to iphones to break it down overtime" thing ive been hearing. Android and apple user, never experience anything like this on either.

So you're saying that capitalism is a scam and it can't work by making superior products that last? Wow, I never would have guessed!

Apple has admitted to slowing down older iPhones with updates ​@@alternatedenz

I think a lot of it has to do with it was handmade back then and now is everything being made by machine

@@MusicAddict9228 That’s what I meant actually. Worded it wrong. 🤣

@@MusicAddict9228 no. they literally came together to decrease the quality so there will be more demand. Handmade has nothing to do with it. People make more errors than machines.

Yes!

You can modify the design to work with a grounded cord.

How would companies make money