POD!

It sounds exactly like the model I had in a house I built in Houston and lived in for 10 months before being transferred here. I'm 99% sure your dishwasher is made by GE. You are correct regarding the Temp Boost on option. It extended the main wash by 10 miknutes to aid in heating water and that was for any of the 3 cycles. It also added about 5 minutes to the final rinse phase. Otherwise this was simply a stripped down GE (at the time, more like a Hotpoint in cycle sequence). The true PotScrubbers ha an automatically extended main wash with the heating element engaged. The only way you could attempt to mimic this was the temp boost on. The only difference between the Pots & Pans cycle and Normal was the number of water changes still crammed into the same basic 60 minute cycle. In fact, I didn't like the Pots & Pans Cycle for heavy soil siemply because that (stupidly) shortened the main wash by a few minutes to be replaced by an initial short 1st rinse. So, I never used it. Because the machine performed so outstanding compared to my 1980 D&M kenmore, I got the GSD1200 GE in 1987 after puttihng up with the crappy Hotpoint PotWasher that came with the new house I bought January 1986, actually built July 1984. Flatly, that Hostpoint was no comparison to even your Tappan. But I loved the Tappan because it was a reasonable facsimile of a true PotScrubber with normal wash cycle and the temp boost on.

FYI Michael, here's the cycle sequence

Pots/Pans: PreWash, Rinse, Rinse Main Wash, Rinse, Rinse Rinse.
Normal: PreWash, Rinse, Rinse, Main Wash, Rinse, Rinse.
Light PreWash, Rinse, Main Wash, Rinse, Rinse.

With heated dry, all cycles were 62 minutes long and temp Boost added a total of 15 minutes more. Heting was not thermostatically controlled.


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Post# 475472 11/16/2010 at 11:21 (4,901 days old) by peteski50 (New York)
Checkrate/Likes Years ago a family friend had this exact Tappan, I remember it and it was a quiet machine for it's time. I was wondering if anyone has any specs on this machine. Thanks Peter

Post# 475473 , Reply# 1 11/16/2010 at 11:33 (4,901 days old) by rollermatic (cincinnati)
Checkrate/Likes *don't have any specs* but would love to find one of those again. i saw one once in 1969 thrown out in back of a plumbing supply store. used to go there looking for dishwashers. wish i would have taken it home. took home a hotpoint instead. have never seen another tappen with that roller wash system since! couldn't have been that great a machine.

Post# 475545 , Reply# 2 11/16/2010 at 15:46 (4,901 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)
Checkrate/Likes *Hi Pete and Pete* been waiting a long time to see a Tappan here. I have one but not the model in the pic. Pete you sent me on a wonderful wild goose chase looking for the manual, and it was not where it is supposed to be, (laughing) that is, in one of a dozen places. Still missing. This quiet old gal is about 25 years old. She has a nice combo of options: Pots&Pans....Regular....Light; a Temp Boost Switch; Air or Heat Dry switch. Here's why I wanted the manual. When I moved here 15 years ago, I thought the P&P cycle heated on the pre-wash which I haven't used in years. When I tried to engage the cycle a few weeks ago, the heating light did not glow and the pre-wash lasted the usual 3 minutes. So now I'm not sure. The P&P cycle also gives 3 rinses, the last of which is heated. Selecting Temp Boost gives an additional 10 minutes of heated washing and 10 minutes of extra heated rinsing, on any cycle. So I'm wondering if the Temp boost switch somehow works with the cycle buttons, allowing differing heating options. Ah! to find the manual. Just a few more places...chuckle. She's a dependable old gal who has yet to breakdown. Her model number is 61 1144, made in 85, I think.

Post# 475602 , Reply# 3 11/16/2010 at 19:25 (4,901 days old) by appnut (TX)
Checkrate/Likes *Michael your 1985 Tappan* It sounds exactly like the model I had in a house I built in Houston and lived in for 10 months before being transferred here. I'm 99% sure your dishwasher is made by GE. You are correct regarding the Temp Boost on option. It extended the main wash by 10 miknutes to aid in heating water and that was for any of the 3 cycles. It also added about 5 minutes to the final rinse phase. Otherwise this was simply a stripped down GE (at the time, more like a Hotpoint in cycle sequence). The true PotScrubbers ha an automatically extended main wash with the heating element engaged. The only way you could attempt to mimic this was the temp boost on. The only difference between the Pots & Pans cycle and Normal was the number of water changes still crammed into the same basic 60 minute cycle. In fact, I didn't like the Pots & Pans Cycle for heavy soil siemply because that (stupidly) shortened the main wash by a few minutes to be replaced by an initial short 1st rinse. So, I never used it. Because the machine performed so outstanding compared to my 1980 D&M kenmore, I got the GSD1200 GE in 1987 after puttihng up with the crappy Hotpoint PotWasher that came with the new house I bought January 1986, actually built July 1984. Flatly, that Hostpoint was no comparison to even your Tappan. But I loved the Tappan because it was a reasonable facsimile of a true PotScrubber with normal wash cycle and the temp boost on. FYI Michael, here's the cycle sequence Pots/Pans: PreWash, Rinse, Rinse Main Wash, Rinse, Rinse Rinse. Normal: PreWash, Rinse, Rinse, Main Wash, Rinse, Rinse. Light PreWash, Rinse, Main Wash, Rinse, Rinse. With heated dry, all cycles were 62 minutes long and temp Boost added a total of 15 minutes more. Heting was not thermostatically controlled.

Post# 475685 , Reply# 4 11/16/2010 at 23:11 (4,901 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)
Checkrate/Likes *Right, heating is is timed not temped. HELLO Bob!* But funny you should mention the timer. There is no marking for the third rinse on the P&P cycle. It does the three in the space of two, with timer doing a mechanical sleight-of-hand when the P&P button is pressed. I have never timed the three rinses to see if they take the same amount of time as two, but if you say so, it's good enough for me. Also, to your point about the 62 minutes: when Light is selected, which skips the second rinse after pre-wash, that time is used for washing which gives a longer wash than PP or Normal--funny huh!--the light wash is the longest wash of all!;-> EXCEPT, the detergent isn't dumped till what would be Normal or PP time so I always open the door and pop the soap lid right after the fill. I use light almost all the time. Saves water and I love the long wash. Also, it's so quick in getting to the wash, that I'm still in the kitchen AND I always add my shots of Clorox when I open the door to pop the lid on the soap box. It's a wonderful machine, Uncle Robert, and before you wonderful exposition, I had never seen a Tappan mentioned here before. Most people think of stoves when they hear Tappan. Nice to know someone else knows what competent machines they are. But if they're GE's, then lots of people know. I never would have guessed. Thanks. Have you figured out who made Grant's Bradford washers?