We're debating. I mentioned in the exercise thread that we spent about two hours in the basement, working on the treadmill. It's a NordicTrack C2000. We greased and tightened and all kinds of stuff. Worked a bit on the drive motor. Tried to align the walking belt a little better. I did 2 miles this morning on the treadmill and it worked well. No squawking/a little squeaking, but nothing major. The motor still started at 3 mph, went down to 2.4, then came back up to 3 and stayed right there. No shaking, no fluttering. I was able to get right on it and walk without hanging onto the rails for dear life. (I usually start out at 3.5 and by the time I have a quarter-mile in, I'm up to 4 mph at a 3.5 incline.) The thing is that we don't know how long our maintenance is going to last.
The belt is starting to tear. It's not bad, but we can definitely see it. So it's going to need a new belt and I'm going to have to call somebody about putting the belt on; I don't feel comfortable trying something like that. A new belt is around $100. Plus the cost of the visit, plus the cost of the labor. Plus the cost of whatever else it's going to need to get it really working again. I have to keep the incline at 3.5. If I try to take it up to 4, it goes right up to 10 on its own. Then it's a hassle to get the incline working properly again. So once I get it set at 3.5, that's where it stays. So that would need fixed, too. I'm thinking, but don't know, that it might need a new motor....that going up and down on its own is nasty. It will start out at 3 mph, go down to 2.4 mph, back up to 2.8, down to 1.7, up to 3.0, and so on. And it would take a good 3/4 of a mile for it to settle in; meanwhile, I'm walking with both hands on the rails because I don't feel comfortable at all with the way it's moving. Since our maintenance yesterday, we seem to have that fairly well taken care of, but again, we don't know for how long.
I only paid about $800 for the thing and that was a good 10+ years ago. And this treadmill has some serious miles on it. We had it upstairs in the bedroom for a long time, until Rick got scared that I was going to go through the bedroom floor on it. As it was, I was knocking stuff off the bureaus when I'd run. He'd hear me pounding and he'd come back and tell me to slow down; the floor wasn't meant for it. So we put the treadmill in the basement and I go down in the morning to do 3 miles....mostly walking.....when I blew my knee, that stopped me running. At the most, now I can do a bit of a jog, but not for long periods of time. So I walk as fast I can without killing the knee, right around 4 mph at a 3.5 incline. Takes me right around an hour to do 3.5 miles. But I was fairly faithful about it, even (especially) during the winter.
We priced new treadmills and, oy. They're pricey. But I don't know that I want to invest $400 in an old treadmill either. But the thing is....it will get used. I'm faithful to my treadmill (which is a lot more than I can say about the elliptical that's upstairs in the bedroom now....and which I hate).
So....what would you do? Invest the money in a new treadmill? Or try to keep the old one working a bit longer?
The belt is starting to tear. It's not bad, but we can definitely see it. So it's going to need a new belt and I'm going to have to call somebody about putting the belt on; I don't feel comfortable trying something like that. A new belt is around $100. Plus the cost of the visit, plus the cost of the labor. Plus the cost of whatever else it's going to need to get it really working again. I have to keep the incline at 3.5. If I try to take it up to 4, it goes right up to 10 on its own. Then it's a hassle to get the incline working properly again. So once I get it set at 3.5, that's where it stays. So that would need fixed, too. I'm thinking, but don't know, that it might need a new motor....that going up and down on its own is nasty. It will start out at 3 mph, go down to 2.4 mph, back up to 2.8, down to 1.7, up to 3.0, and so on. And it would take a good 3/4 of a mile for it to settle in; meanwhile, I'm walking with both hands on the rails because I don't feel comfortable at all with the way it's moving. Since our maintenance yesterday, we seem to have that fairly well taken care of, but again, we don't know for how long.
I only paid about $800 for the thing and that was a good 10+ years ago. And this treadmill has some serious miles on it. We had it upstairs in the bedroom for a long time, until Rick got scared that I was going to go through the bedroom floor on it. As it was, I was knocking stuff off the bureaus when I'd run. He'd hear me pounding and he'd come back and tell me to slow down; the floor wasn't meant for it. So we put the treadmill in the basement and I go down in the morning to do 3 miles....mostly walking.....when I blew my knee, that stopped me running. At the most, now I can do a bit of a jog, but not for long periods of time. So I walk as fast I can without killing the knee, right around 4 mph at a 3.5 incline. Takes me right around an hour to do 3.5 miles. But I was fairly faithful about it, even (especially) during the winter.
We priced new treadmills and, oy. They're pricey. But I don't know that I want to invest $400 in an old treadmill either. But the thing is....it will get used. I'm faithful to my treadmill (which is a lot more than I can say about the elliptical that's upstairs in the bedroom now....and which I hate).
So....what would you do? Invest the money in a new treadmill? Or try to keep the old one working a bit longer?
