My trusty blender finally died after 12 years

Last Tuesday my old Osterizer just stopped spinning mid-smoothie. I opened it up and the rubber coupling inside had completely crumbled into dust. So I took the glass jar to the thrift store and found a matching base for $4 that works perfect. Anyone else have luck keeping old appliance parts alive?

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the_olivia18h ago

My neighbor actually fixed her grandma's old stand mixer from the 70s the same way. Found a replacement base at a garage sale for like $3 and it works better than any new one she could buy. I read somewhere that most modern blenders and mixers use the same standard coupling size, so you can swap parts across brands sometimes. Pretty wild that a $4 thrift find can keep a 12 year old machine running like new.

lilycraig17h ago

Sat here nodding like I knew that, meanwhile I just threw out a perfectly good blender last week.

kais6715h ago

Saw a guy on YouTube rebuild a 1980s washing machine with a scrap car motor, never throw anything out again.