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Post# 267836   3/4/2008 at 10:15 (5,868 days old) by kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC)   |   | |
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Wow - I did not realize that dishwashers that long ago had rinse agent dispensers. I always was curious about Kenmore's round upper racks (the roto-rack). Did anyone use them or still have one today? All I remember about Kenmore dishwashers of that era was the demo model endlessly running at Sears with the transparent plexiglass front. Since they were nearby the washers on the sales floor, I was always preoccupied by the time I saw the DW. :-) |
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Post# 267843 , Reply# 1   3/4/2008 at 12:15 (5,867 days old) by tuthill ()   |   | |
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what year? |
Post# 267851 , Reply# 3   3/4/2008 at 12:29 (5,867 days old) by tuthill ()   |   | |
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The list of features on that thing is pretty darn impressive for a 55 or 56 IMO. |
Post# 267884 , Reply# 5   3/4/2008 at 17:45 (5,867 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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I think we figured my Roto-Rack was a '68 or '69. Yes, the top rack booked when it spun (you could hear it squeak as it spun down for a minute or two after the water stopped, and before the unit drained), and plastics were a problem. You did have to weight them down, or risk finding your lids in the bottom rack (or your bowls full of water, as charbee noted). Better still was when something plastic popped-up enough to stop the rack rotation altogether when it jammed against the rack rail on the ceiling of the unit :-) It did have a liquid Jet-Dry dispenser (with an unusual cantilevered ratcheting dispenser mechanism that worked in concert with the detergent dispenser, and only used one solenoid to fire/arm both the rinse-aid and detergent units), and Tom's spot-on (pun not intended) as always; I think it was the '56 Hotpoint with the rinse-aid built in. |
Post# 267929 , Reply# 6   3/4/2008 at 23:09 (5,867 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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Post# 267930 , Reply# 7   3/4/2008 at 23:10 (5,867 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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Post# 267931 , Reply# 8   3/4/2008 at 23:11 (5,867 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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Post# 267932 , Reply# 9   3/4/2008 at 23:12 (5,867 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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Post# 267935 , Reply# 10   3/4/2008 at 23:19 (5,867 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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Post# 267937 , Reply# 11   3/4/2008 at 23:21 (5,867 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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Post# 267941 , Reply# 12   3/5/2008 at 00:24 (5,867 days old) by tuthill ()   |   | |
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does it really spin that fast during the cycle? or did you just spin it to take a picture? |
Post# 268008 , Reply# 13   3/5/2008 at 13:55 (5,866 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Tuthill, my Hotpoint is mid 50s, not the Kenmore. |
Post# 268013 , Reply# 14   3/5/2008 at 14:53 (5,866 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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I'd say it spun at about 100 RPM on mine when it achieved top speed--it really booked. I had spun it to take the picture in the above instance (had I opened the door during the cycle, water droplets would have been flung everywhere...incidentally, food particles tended to get flung against the door, where there was no water coverage due to the top-rack spray being in the back of the machine--so you had the pleasure of wiping parsley bits and niblets of rice off the porcelain once a load was complete). Happily, coffee mugs never had pools of water in their bases... |
Post# 268022 , Reply# 15   3/5/2008 at 16:10 (5,866 days old) by charbee ()   |   | |
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Thanks for the memories, roto204! ;-) |
Post# 268182 , Reply# 16   3/6/2008 at 17:35 (5,865 days old) by bpetersxx (laf in on the banks of the Wabash River)   |   | |
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