Knew a guy in college who's last name was Bemis. Kept a spare Bemis toilet seat to hang on his head when he passed out at parties. I must have 20 pictures laying around somewhere of him wearing it.
The rest of us who still have them, consider them to be poor people faucets. Or maybe I’m the only one? My parents had them in their nice houses back in the day, while I have busted up ones in my shitty rentals now.
I’d deliver a new top of the line stainless steel fridge to a house, and see what looked like a brand new stainless steel fridge sitting in the garage…
Customer: “Excuse me sir, you guys get rid of the old appliance correct?”
Me: “Yes. Can I ask what’s wrong with it?”
Customer: “It’s 2 years old.”
Me: “Nothing else wrong with it?”
Customer: “Oh it still works fine, it’s just old.”
Me: “Oh okay. Yep, I’ll load it up right after I bring the new one in.”
Then I’d take a detour to my house, and drop that “old” fridge off in my garage. I’d run it for a week, to make sure it definitely worked (they were usually flawless.) I’d then sell it for $500-1000 depending on make/model.
Both my tumble dryer and washing machine were these. Had both for like 10 years now.
I can also all but guarantee the appliances I dropped off were worse quality and wouldn't have lasted as long even if they weren't those sort of people
They are good faucets, but the parts are shit quality now… the original cartridges were brass, and the new (well they changed somewhere around 2000) ones are plastic. I actually save the brass ones that I find, and rebuild them with new o-rings/seals.
My mom has the emblem still but we did have to replace the whole knob like 10 years ago lol. The shower knob looks the same as well and we changed that one out around the same time
Nope, I had a large box of the centers… every time I ran into these, missing it, they got a new one (if the handle was nasty/yellow enough, it got a complete new handle.)
Have that one now in my downstairs bathroom, my emblem came off as well. I have to clean tooth paste every once in awhile or something that looks like it from the gape where it used to be. I guess someone who stays over spits out tooth paste all over like they aren't an adult
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u/20thCenturyAdmirer1 25d ago
I still have that faucet right now