teakettle
Our fantabulous stainless-steel teakettle, purchased to replace our old teakettle, which had gone beyond simple repair, has experienced failure #1.
Not enough to put it out-of-commission, but “guaranteed for life.”
It has a small cover that can be removed for filling. It also can be removed for cleaning out the pot. That cover had a small wire pull-handle attached by simple tack-welds.
To me this was utterly stupid, since sooner-or-later one of them welds would break. One did, allowing the other one to work; so it broke too.
The solution is to drill the cap and insall a proper pull-knob — stainless hardware is preferred (I fixed a measuring-cup this way long ago).
Ex-KYOOZE me, but this is how it should have been made in the first place. Tack-welds are a cheap-shot.
So maybe I could send it back under “guaranteed for life” — in which case I have no teakettle for a month, and they reattach the decorative pull-handle with el-cheapo tack-welds, which will break again.
Not enough to put it out-of-commission, but “guaranteed for life.”
It has a small cover that can be removed for filling. It also can be removed for cleaning out the pot. That cover had a small wire pull-handle attached by simple tack-welds.
To me this was utterly stupid, since sooner-or-later one of them welds would break. One did, allowing the other one to work; so it broke too.
The solution is to drill the cap and insall a proper pull-knob — stainless hardware is preferred (I fixed a measuring-cup this way long ago).
Ex-KYOOZE me, but this is how it should have been made in the first place. Tack-welds are a cheap-shot.
So maybe I could send it back under “guaranteed for life” — in which case I have no teakettle for a month, and they reattach the decorative pull-handle with el-cheapo tack-welds, which will break again.
posted by BobbaLew at 12:01 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home