Carbon Steel wok - over thirty years old, works better than it did when brand new.
All my vehicles. Slide rules. Drafting table & drafting equipment. Fountain pens. Typewriters. Tanker desks. Cutlery, pots, pans, the fancy dishes (Thomas Rosenthal Arcta, close to 60yo), a fair number of tools, a few pieces of furniture. A large number of hardcover books. And likely a whole bunch of stuff I have forgotten is that old.
Most of what I own. No point in replacing something when there’s nothing wrong with it.
Especially since most of the stuff you will replace it (with) will break in 3-5 years.
My car, a Renault Clio II, and a Maxi-matic toaster
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.
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.
I use a really ancient analog hi-pot tester at work, which is basically a high potential insulation stress test. The hi-pot formula under UL is operating voltage x 2.25 + 2000v. It will put up to 40kV through a circuit at milli or micro amps to see if there is any leakage in the conductors through open air. This goes for bare conductors like busbars as well as insulated ones like wire, measuring their terminations or cracks in the insulation. It tests phase to phase and phase to ground to see if the electricity will jump thru air or over an insulated material, which is where the words strike and creep come from which have their own formulas of what is acceptable and what isn’t for manufacturing and installation. There’s a little more room for creep obviously.
All that is to say, there’s plenty of fancy new digital hi-pot testers. We rented one for a project that was going on a marine grade system. They’ll run a test at whatever your parameters you type in and save it all to a flash drive. We worked for 8 hours to set up all of our testing jumpers and ran a test for 1 second on the control wiring for it to say PASS then we put it all back together.
The fancy one saves the leakage current values to the drive. Our analog one will only display it on an analog dial and we write it down. This is ok for testing AC (and this is where things start to get a little over my head), something about the RMS nature of AC causes more leakage current during the test, so generally we have a leakage value of let’s say 1 milliamp. DC will generally only make microamps of current when we run the test. Try recording any kind of value when you look at the dial and it looks like it doesn’t even move past zero haha.
We basically told the customer that we have a pass/fail tester and can’t accurately produce any type of value for leakage on DC unless we rented or purchased another machine. But for 9 out of 10 times, it’s fine that’s all anyone cares about anyway. I’ve fucked up and left a plate somewhere it shouldn’t have been and believe me you’ll know when this thing fails lol. It sent 11kV thru a tiny circuit board, whoops
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 😆.
My damn life.
Blankets
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!
Bunghole
Penis.
Pretty sure most of my stuff is over 20 years old at this point. My razor is at least 60.
I have too many old razors.
My current razor is a feather asd2, less than a decade old.
Canning funnel.
Makes it easier to get things into glass jars without the narrow opening that would get clogged in a smaller funnel.
The doors.
