Rant: Found out a 1920s boiler in the old city hall basement is still on the original tubes

Read it in the town's maintenance log from 1998... how has that thing not popped yet? Anyone ever seen a vessel run that long without a retube?

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sanchez.mary20d ago

Remember my grandpa's old farm truck. That thing had the same spark plugs from the day he bought it in 1963 until he finally sold the heap in 2005. Some of that old stuff was just built different, like they used thicker metal or something. It makes you wonder if they knew something we forgot about making things last.

baker.simon19d ago

That part about the spark plugs lasting from 1963 to 2005 is wild, but I gotta say it's probably not true. Spark plugs back then were just basic copper and they wore out way faster than modern ones. He must have changed them and just forgot, which is totally something my grandpa would do too. The truck itself was definitely built like a tank with simpler parts, so it felt like it lasted forever. But today's stuff, especially the electronics, is way more complex and that's what usually breaks first. They didn't know a secret, they just made simple things really solid.