Good one to throw out to prospective customers who think the machine is too expensive. As Andie pointed out in one of her threads, this equates to $40 a year at today's prices - that is if they build them as good as they did back in the 60's. I know there are so many more features on today's model that there is more to go wrong but even if we get 30 years from them, it is still a very good run.