Know of any true bullet proof equipment stories?

When I was young idiot I hooked up four pairs of speakers to a Kenwood KA 7100 integrated and played it that way for several years and nothing bad happened.
When I was an older idiot I hooked up a Marantz 500 power amp to two pairs of speakers even though it clearly advised that a fire hazard would result and guess what...? It caught fire after only a couple of minutes. And no it didn't play after that.

friend of mine owns edge nl 12.1 amp. he said it had very good build quality, and then he stood on top the amp (he weighs 170# +). and stood there.

cleaned the shoe marks off the amp. it was playing the whole time. edge gear is very well made.

disclosure -- i'm selling an edge preamp.

Vintage Crown DC300A amplifer. Bought vintage amp last year for my son. The amp was poorly packaged and as luck would have it, was dropped during shipment to me. Part of the chassis was bent. It went back to Crown for a factory check and chassis repair. The drop only did superficial damage to the amp. Otherwise, even after 35+ years since it was built, still specs perfectly. My son loves it! I wonder if it would work under water, maybe as a boat anchor????

I certainly agree with the comments on Crown gear. And in the highly unlikely event something does go wrong, you are going to be supported by a longstanding and credible company that takes customer service seriously. Much the same can be said about Bryston. I have owned much Bryston equipment over my many years in the hobby, and only experienced one problem (which may have been my fault). Bryston repaired the problem -- free-of-charge -- within one day and thus I was only without my component for about one week, shipping included. INcidentally, when that issue did occur I sent a Sunday e-mail to Bryston, and received a reply from Jim Tanner within a few hours on that same Sunday.

Any speaker made out Kevlar!