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They stopped making machines he could repair and parts for the few that he could. I fondly remember the actual Maytag repairman coming to my parents’ house when I was a child (he also did Kenmore and a few other brands). And the subsequent years as he explained what not to buy until it got to the point where he couldn’t recommend anything (at least near the prices his customers were used to in rural eastern Canada).