Matt Mc_Carthy wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

 MMC> 23 Oct 2003, 18:29, Charles Angelich (1:106/2000), wrote to Roy J.
 MMC> Tellason: 

 MMC> Hi Charles.

 CA> There has been talk of the door gaskets leaking on older
 CA> microwaves and that they weren't shielded properly in general.
 CA> I think everyone would be better off to use the money for
 CA> repairs to get a newer microwave. 

 MMC> Door gaskets leaking?  I haven't seen a door gasket on a microwave
 MMC> for over 20 years.  :-((

 MMC> The doors just 'close'.  Sometimes they can even wobble and
 MMC> rattle.  :-((

The one we have here has a big crack on the outside,  happened during our
last move,  over 4 years ago now.  I don't remember seeing any door gaskets
either.

 MMC> My two old Littons DO have SS mesh door gaskets, and a latch
 MMC> handle that looks like it was taken from a submarine bulkhead
 MMC> door.  Heck, the smell of burning food doesn't even leak out...  
 MMC> :-)

It's not vented?

 MMC> They don't make them like they used to, but then, they no longer
 MMC> cost $800 either...

Yeah,  there is that.

Sometimes I wish they _did_ make them like they used to,  but I guess there
wouldn't be much of a market for it if they did.

Maybe they do!  And the prices of such are so stratospheric that the likes
of you and me never encounter such?  :-)

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