• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    14 minutes ago

    I still have a stuffed animal from when I was a kid and a couple of plates from when I lived with my parents. I had to drop a lot of things I wanted to keep, I didn’t because they were utterly infested and I didn’t have the spoons to try and clean it out for when I moved out.

  • Flatfire@lemmy.ca
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    15 minutes ago

    I have an analog multimeter that still does the trick. It isn’t the most precise tool, but it tells me if my batteries are flat and when I have a short on a component. Great tool, probably 50 years old now and I wouldn’t touch a high voltage circuit with it but it does what I need it to do.

  • Dremor@lemmy.world
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    21 minutes ago

    French Press. It was my grandmother’s, kept it after she died.

    The brand, Melior, was bought by Bodum in 1991, and all French Press production went under the Bodum brand (the old Melior model became what is now known as the “Chambord” line), so it is at least 35 years old, possibly older.

    I contacted Bodum to know if they could give me an approximate age, but they couldn’t (or didn’t want to bother searching). All I know it is a version with Pyrex glass, which may help a knowledgeable person to more precisely date it, but I kinda put my curiosity on pause for the time being.

    Other than that, some of my grandfather’s vinyls are quite old too (at least one of them is from the 80’s), and I got some 20+ yo cassettes, some old mixtapes (back when mixtapes where actual tapes 😆).

    I have an old Caban which is probably at least 40 years old (was my grandfather’s, once again).

    Oh, and some kitchen tools made in West Germany 😆.

  • Pipea@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    My ICOM IC-7000. We take it out almost every weekend to a park and work some ham radio. Manufactured in 2006 making it 20 years old!

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Canning funnel.

    Makes it easier to get things into glass jars without the narrow opening that would get clogged in a smaller funnel.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Part of the original large corner desk I bought after graduating college. It was like 8’ in both directions from the corner. I finally switched to a motorized rectangle desk, but I kept one side of the old desk for it’s hutch. The thing is made of cheap mdf, but it’s still doing it’s job.

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    5 hours ago

    I wanted to say N64 but it’s closer to 30. I still boot up my PS3 from time to time though