I grew up with one of these, and then lived for several years with another (by way of a roommate). These things inevitably revert to one of two failure modes:

I grew up with one of these, and then lived for several years with another (by way of a roommate). These things inevitably revert to one of two failure modes: 1) The toast does not go down, despite banging the toast up and down like a basketball. 2) The toast does not come up, so you have to dig it out with a knife or a fork. There's an adjuster screw for #1, but it's a finicky analog adjustment. I already pick banjo, I don't want to have to retune my toaster on the same schedule. #2 is probably just due to the undersized holes and necessarily weak spring action.