What's The Oldest Item You Have But Still Works?

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

I have a Philips TV which is about 30 years old. I don't use it but I plugged it in the other day to see if it was still working and to my surprise the screen lit up. It was my belonging to my dad so I kept it as an heir loom. Lets see who comes up with the oldest item that still works.

Hande hoche!

Turf box at home is late 19th century.

Boom_Bap

The Wife


boom boom

BorneTobyWilde

Boom_Bap wrote: »

The Wife


boom boom

What is she 96 ?

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

Boom_Bap wrote: »

The Wife


boom boom

Was thinking the same.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Turf box at home is late 19th century.

Do you Still use it? I hope that's not a turf question to answer.

Harry Palmr

Me.

A camera which is from the 1890s, it's still complete and as there is only two mechanical parts - the aperture ring and the shutter (and even that isn't needed really) then it still works regardless.

Hande hoche!

natashaob6 wrote: »

Do you Still use it? I hope that's not a turf question to answer.

Yeah, still sees somewhat regular use. Have some tools stamped GDR as well.

beefburrito

A scary holy picture of Mary thats over 100 year's old, it looks like it's watching me and it still freaks people out....

So in hindsight it still works 😂

The Backwards Man

Have a purdie grape that most be over a hundred years old.

valoren

A Seiko manual winding watch from 1966. I inherited it. Wore it on our wedding day.

mickrock

I have an air loom from the 19th century that I still weave on.

ohnonotgmail

natashaob6 wrote: »

Was thinking the same.

you were thinking about boom_baps wife?

kylith

A pair of brass binoculars from who knows when. Have some volumes of shakespeare from the 1800s too

ohnonotgmail

mickrock wrote: »

I have an air loom from the 19th century that I still weave on.

was it passed down through the family?

hatrickpatrick

Korg A3, a guitar effects system from the late 1980s which was used in the original recording of this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jejpb0M0w_I

peasant

A padlock from the 1950's that's been hanging outside for at least 20 years continuously locking the garden shed ...still works flawlessly. A squirt of WD40 once a year is all it needs.

Also a radio from the 50's, pre-transistor, with actual valves. Once it warms up it works really well and sounds fantastic, really warm and deep.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Have a CD player from about 99/00 that still works well.

Think my old Sega Megadrive does also, but I haven't hooked it up in years.

Rows Grower

I used some of the bigger stones dug out for the foundation of the house in the stone facing of the house. Those and the stones used with them from the local quarry are the oldest things I own. (How old is a stone that was a good few feet underground?)

The wife's wedding ring was her grandmothers, that's at least 100 years old.

glenq

Rows Grower wrote: »

I used some of the bigger stones dug out for the foundation of the house in the stone facing of the house. Those and the stones used with them from the local quarry are the oldest things I own. (How old is a stone that was a good few feet underground?)

The wife's wedding ring was her grandmothers, that's at least 100 years old.

And the stones still worK?

That's pretty amazing.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

valoren wrote: »

A Seiko manual winding watch from 1966. I inherited it. Wore it on our wedding day.

Worth a few bob now me thinks.

Rows Grower

glenq wrote: »

And the stones still worK?

That's pretty amazing.

Yes glen they do and it is.

I'm honored a tri annual poster would dedicate an entire post to me.

Thank you.

Wibbs

When I used to fish to cut fishing line I used a Neandertal stone blade I found in France as a kid. About 50-80,000 years old. Still sharp too. I have a late Jacobean(17th century) sideboard I use as a chest of drawers in my bedroom. Fair few things that are over a hundred years old that still work. Including a couple of early wristwatches. I'm wearing this one from 1916 today.



In fairness I'm a weird bastard.

Graces7

ME! Body, mind and soul..

Rows Grower

Wibbs wrote: »

When I used to fish to cut fishing line I used a Neandertal stone blade I found in France as a kid. About 50-80,000 years old. Still sharp too. I have a late Jacobean(17th century) sideboard I use as a chest of drawers in my bedroom. Fair few things that are over a hundred years old that still work. Including a couple of early wristwatches. I'm wearing this one from 1916 today.



In fairness I'm a weird bastard.

Be careful if your winding that watch and still wearing it Wibbs.

There could be an awful tangle altogether.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Beautiful watch Wibbs.

Is it a family heirloom or something?

gingernut79

I've a pen that I bought in 1995 to do my Junior Cert. Still works. Its refillable, but I never have refilled it.

Wibbs

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Beautiful watch Wibbs.

Is it a family heirloom or something?

Nah D. I used to collect old watches before they became "collectable" and "antiques" and the prices went daft. I have that one since the early 90's. The earliest days of the wristwatch interested me. For something seemingly so obvious and common, wristwatches aren't around for that long, just over a hundred years. Women wore them alright, but a man would have been considered effeminate for wearing one. It was the mechanised mayhem and murder of the First World War where timing of those over the top near suicide charges was so important that made them popular, because pocket watches were clumsy and took too long to glance at. And now we're full circle as most people check the time on their phones, the pocketwatch of today and wristwatches are more fashion items for men.

D3V!L

I have a Galaxy Note 3 that i use daily !

Irish Guitarist

I have a fair few old records including this 7" EP. The title song was released in 1935 but I'm not sure how old the actual record is. It may be from the early 1950s (7" records were first released in 1949). There are a couple of 'negro spirituals' on it.

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Rows Grower

Wibbs wrote: »

Nah D. I used to collect old watches before they became "collectable" and "antiques" and the prices went daft. I have that one since the early 90's. The earliest days of the wristwatch interested me. For something seemingly so obvious and common, wristwatches aren't around for that long, just over a hundred years. Women wore them alright, but a man would have been considered effeminate for wearing one. It was the mechanised mayhem and murder of the First World War where timing of those over the top near suicide charges was so important that made them popular, because pocket watches were clumsy and took too long to glance at. And now we're full circle as most people check the time on their phones, the pocketwatch of today and wristwatches are more fashion items for men.

That's actually very interesting to learn that wrist watches have such a short history and why.

Genuine thanks for that.

facehugger99

A soda dispenser from the 1960's

DMcL1971

I still use, on a regular basis, the scientific calculator I bought for school in 1986.

buried

2 Technics SL-1200's I bought back in 1998. They are not only items that still work, but glow with the 1000's of hours of enjoyment and memories that still hang about them. They still work like a dream. Ark of the Covenant Turntables.

mojesius

My super Nintendo still works

I have a candy man wind up song/radio thing I had as a baby early 80s, my mam had it her attic and now I play it for my baby daughter

Tigger

1977 BMW for complicated item 1956 Gillette butterfly opening safety razor for daily use item and 18sometging carpenters axe for brutal tough item that will outlast everyone reading this.

ella23

We have an old Radio here that belonged to my grandmother from the late 40's. Still works like a dream! Has all the old dials for Rome, Luxembourg, London and ehhhh, Athlone!

A record player that belonged to an old convent here in my home town. This came with records from the 1940's, you know the really hard vinyl ones. Still works.

My uncle gave me a reel to reel player when i was a kid that he had when he was a kid. He passed away in 2005. In 2012 I stumbled across it at my parents house and decided to give it a go to see if it worked. Rewired the plug and what do you know, it worked! I did bawl like a baby though when i played the reels. It was my uncle as a kid pretending to be a radio DJ, roaring down the stairs to my grandmother that he'll be down in a second, my grandfather coming up and giving out to him, everything.

NOW... Here's the one that has me stunned to this day. How it is still working to perfection is beyond me. We have a Microwave from 1988 here. We have never needed to get a new one, it is more powerful and better than any Microwave I have seen to this day. My brother won £1000 in the bingo when he was twelve, he went along with my grandmother. Obviously being 1980's Ireland my mother immediately took it, gave him some cash to get a commodore 64 and spent £500 on the microwave! It was obviously worth it! So it still stands there proudly in an ultra modern kitchen, this ugly brown giant awesome Panasonic Microwave! Also, every important toy me and my brothers had as kids in the 70's and 80's are still up in the attic in my parents house. The hoard includes an Atari from 1984, The Commodore 64, Sega Megadrive (original 1990 or so), Nintendo and Playstation 1, Barbies Rock Stage, Original Troll Dolls, Polly Pockets and Care Bears from the 80's that my 7 year old niece is mad to get her hands on so I must get them down for her.

antodeco

A sweeping brush. Have it over 20 years. Still works perfect. Only has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles.

somefeen

I'm not sure of the exact ages of these things but I own a Nintendo NES and an Amstrad CPC 464 that still work.

Absolute oldest, from 1962, is an original vinyl single of Booker T and the MG's tune Green Onions which still gets a spin every now and then.
That record is only two years younger than my own father and that fact blows my mind.

Arghus

My bed.

Still going strong.

JupiterKid

My great grandfather's beautiful hand carved walnut bureau which dates from circa 1887. He got it around the time he started university.

He was close to 50 when my grandmother was born in 1915.

padd b1975

A clock radio with the numbers on flaps.

Agricola

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Beautiful watch Wibbs.

Is it a family heirloom or something?

More like a family hairloom by the looks of it.

mwah.

r93kaey5p2izun

My parents have a 48 year old fridge and hoover that both still work fine.

Atoms for Peace

"I've had the same broom for twenty years.....'

not yet

My pecker, got it in 1965 brand new out of a box, still works today..

Coffee Fulled Runner

I've a Amstrad 6128 plus computer from when I was a kid, I think late 1980s. I was over at my parents last week and came across it. I plugged it in and played Burning rubber and Lemings all afternoon.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

not yet wrote: »

My pecker, got it in 1965 brand new out of a box, still works today..

Same age as mine. Still works aswell.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

A few books from the mid 1850s and you can still read them.

Tom Mann Centuria

I have a couple of Sinclair Zx81 computers from, unsurprisingly 1981 that both work last time I tried them and a Sinclair ZX Spectrum from 1983 that works and gets used most days.