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Post# 564225   12/20/2011 at 06:39 (4,482 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)        

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Sounds like an easy fix.

Just thought I'd put this up. Looks like a keeper.


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Post# 564276 , Reply# 1   12/20/2011 at 11:23 (4,482 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        

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Oh, man... That is exactly the machine I keep threatening hubby with for the apartment in town. He said I could put in stainless dishwasher,  he never said that it couldn't be vintage.... LOL


Post# 564284 , Reply# 2   12/20/2011 at 12:24 (4,482 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)        
Hi Paul

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I bet it's a Gravity Drain.

Post# 564297 , Reply# 3   12/20/2011 at 13:25 (4,482 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)        
The guy wrote such a wonderful essay about the machine,

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you almost have to buy it, Paul. and not that far away.

 

What a beauty, Eddie.


Post# 564298 , Reply# 4   12/20/2011 at 13:26 (4,482 days old) by westingman123 ()        

Good Lawd!

I have its sister in copper. A workhorse. And beautiful.


Post# 564308 , Reply# 5   12/20/2011 at 14:59 (4,482 days old) by stevet (West Melbourne, FL)        
Buyer Beware!

Eddie, you're a trouble maker! Who could pass this nice looking machine up? Certainly not any member of this group.

But as most of us already know here, there is just about absolutyely nothing out there any more on these venerable machines. If the machine in question is not holding water any longer, it can be something simple like a broken spring which would pull the drain valve lever up when the solenoid energizes to a worn drain o-ring, to something stuck in the valve keeping it open. Even if the solenoid is dead, they are easily replaced by aftermarket ones. Of course, if it is a drain valve itself, then there is no way of getting one except from someone's private stash.

If it was me, I would go after it but with a most likely gravity drain, and no drain pumps and reservoirs out there, it might have to be more of a conversation piece than a daily driver.Not that that would stop me! I can alway put it in the shower stall in the garage and let it drain right down into that drain! LOL


Post# 564340 , Reply# 6   12/20/2011 at 16:38 (4,482 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)        
Oh Yes...

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About those Drain Valves. Boy oh Boy. Do I remember changing out the KD2-P you helped me with Steve over the phone and e-mails.

Yup. I think I got one of the last 2 NIB valves from Steve. Mucho $$$.

But, as you say, it could only be a broken spring (which I bet that's the problem)

Here's just a trip down memory lane with the drain valve.



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