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There's bad, and there's "Gorenje Pacific" bad. It's -(edit: was Romanian) Slovenian, branded to sound like a Japanese quality brand name. We got one to wash diapers and when it was stolen I was forbidden to replace like with like.

Maytag may have reached an outer circle of Dante's inferno but the cold heart is Gorenje.

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Wait, someone stole a washing machine? I have to know more about this.

Yea, we had it set up under the house, came home from a beach holiday and the offspring said "where's the washing machine"

Gone. We just replaced it, but we put the replacement inside.

Do you live in a tree?

Queensland. Wooden Houses on stumps, because tropics. Most people use under their house as a combo workspace, dumping ground, and in our case, washing-hanging-space.

You wind up boarding it up and turning it into "inside" space a lot of the time which is why "legal height under" is a thing in real estate ads here. The rise of AC made it less necessary to be ventilated under the floors. Also its about termites: modern build uses a concrete slab, less risk.

Very interesting! Here (east coast US) houses are on stilts to protect from the ocean, but that’s about it that I’ve seen. Disappointed you don’t live in a tree house!

Minor correction: Gorenje is Slovenian, now owned by a Chinese company.

Actually.. ours might have been Yugoslavian because this was in '92

That would explain the quality.

I do honestly believe that the Yugoslavian manufacturing industry was conceived solely to make the Italian manufacturing industry look decent.

My Yugo SKS is pretty solid (better than the Chinese ones, but arguably not as nice as the original Russian ones though...).

I just found this in the PAP Wikipedia article [1]:

  > In most variants (Yugoslav models being the most notable
  > exception), the barrel is chrome-lined

That reinforces my comment about the Yugoslav manufacturing industry!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKS

Interesting, I didn't know that they made a PAP. What year was it manufactured? I suppose the real question is, how well does the bolt lock and slide? The furniture is of less concern.

I've never handled a PAP, they're not common where I live. I have seen the difference between the Russian and the Chinese AKs, though, and so I do understand what you mean.

I'm not in the States so I don't have it handy (gave it to my father)...I think it was a late 1970s model? Bolt was pretty smooth, only had a few misfires over the years, and I was running Wolf ammo and barely cleaning the weapon.

Minor correction to the minor correction: according to Wikipedia, Gorenje has been owned by Chinese company Hisense since 2018, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorenje

The quality may have gone up. Hisense did pretty good digital TVs.

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