Having no electric power while living in a cabin in Northern Arizona, we were rather hard-pressed for some of the hand tools supplanted by the new stuff. So, my Mother, at my request, mailed her trusty old eggbeater to us! Do you remember them? Hers was then "primo', not stamped parts, die-cast construction, last a lifetime! I used it today to beat an egg, before subjecting that to the microwave! The old precedes the new! imp