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Thread Number: 45847
Need help with late 70's Frigidaire Model |
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| Post# 670492 , Reply# 1 4/4/2013 at 18:08 (4,038 days old) by Help () | ||
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This is the inside of the front door. 
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| Post# 670494 , Reply# 2 4/4/2013 at 18:10 (4,038 days old) by Help () | ||
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This is what it looks like in its natural environment. Obviously, the front was put in to match the doors and drawers. 
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| Post# 670500 , Reply# 3 4/4/2013 at 18:38 (4,038 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
Well, Okay....
....If you want to hold out for a manual before putting the machine to use, you can, but it's not a complicated dishwasher. Here is what you do:
1) Load it. Common sense here; this is not a dishwasher with a strange or unique loading pattern. 2) Fill the detergent dispenser. Both cups for Normal cycle. Rotate the dispenser door (probably clockwise) to close it. 3) Close the door, turn the dial to Normal cycle, and flip the door latch to the right. The machine should start, go through all its gyrations, and reward you with a tub full of clean dishes. There is one tricky part, I must warn you. It is finding someone as anxious to put clean dishes away as they are to stuff dirty ones in the machine. Oddly, this problem is not confined to any one make or model.... | ||
| Post# 670505 , Reply# 4 4/4/2013 at 18:50 (4,038 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
In the Manuals & Literature section (top right of main page), you can click Publisher and scroll the drop-down menu to Frigidaire, then click on Restrict and scroll to dishwasher. There you will see a manual for 1978. Should be close to what you have.
Clicking on the picture of the dishwasher, it looks like yours. | ||
| Post# 670578 , Reply# 5 4/5/2013 at 04:18 (4,038 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
Many instruction manuals are available on the Frigidaire website. Unfortunately, their database isn't searchable anymore. I did manually search most of the manuals available and I found a few similar models with more features but not exactly yours.
Here's a Custom Deluxe, just on step above from yours in the lineup... CLICK HERE TO GO TO PhilR's LINK | ||
| Post# 670579 , Reply# 6 4/5/2013 at 04:21 (4,038 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
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And here's the model that followed in 1978 (another Custom Deluxe).
CLICK HERE TO GO TO PhilR's LINK | ||
Post# 670605 , Reply# 7 4/5/2013 at 07:26 (4,038 days old) by turquoisedude  (.) |
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Wow, that's a very nice looking dishwasher - that stainless access panel below the door is sweet!
Before you run the dishwasher for the first time, pour a bucket of very hot tap water into the tub and let it sit for about an hour. Even though the machine has never been used, gaskets and seals can dry out and this could result in leaks when you do run a cycle. | ||
| Post# 670792 , Reply# 10 4/6/2013 at 04:33 (4,037 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
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The model number should be something like DWU-2 or DWU-22. I don't think the manual for either of these models is available online as I have looked at most of what's on the Frigidaire website. I even found a GE manual there (see the link below!). I don't know how it ended being there but it's mostly brands that merged into Electrolux like Frigidaire, Westinghouse, Tappan, Okeefe&Merritt, Gibson, Kelvinator from the late 1960's and on.
I guess they scanned old documents they got from a retailer and they inadvertently scanned one from a competitor's brand! Or Electrolux did make 40" ranges for GE like they did with their front loading washers? Even when the database was searchable from the Frigidaire website, some model numbers hosted somewhere on the site didn't show. Your dishwasher is the basic, bottom-of-the-line model and it lacks the triple detergent dispenser or the rinse agent dispenser that some models have. But that also means less things that can go wrong on an old dishwasher. The model number of the machine was probably located on a label on the toe plate (probably gone now). CLICK HERE TO GO TO PhilR's LINK | ||
| Post# 672330 , Reply# 12 4/12/2013 at 20:47 (4,030 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
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I wouldn't worry too much about that! Just take the lower panel out to see what happens under it... You can pour some hot water in and let it sit for a few minutes to see if there are leaks in the sump... I have a similar dishwasher that had not been used for years that I got in non-working condition last year. The only issues with it were a timer that didn't advance (that was easy to fix) and a broken pump (it would drain water but not circulate it during the wash/rinse cycles). That required to replace some parts. Now it works fine. | ||
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