Thread Number: 48274
GM/Frigidaire Impeller Dishwasher Find |
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Post# 699611 , Reply# 1   8/28/2013 at 22:06 (3,864 days old) by bwoods ()   |   | |
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I did not have the time to let it run through it's cycle, so I don't know if the timer progresses. Will check that later It looks as if there is one main wash and two rinses. |
Post# 699612 , Reply# 2   8/28/2013 at 22:09 (3,864 days old) by bwoods ()   |   | |
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I wiped it out. Tub has no rust throughs. Hopefully running some CLR through it will take some of the rust and calcium deposits off. |
Post# 699613 , Reply# 3   8/28/2013 at 22:12 (3,864 days old) by bwoods ()   |   | |
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No visible rust on the racks, that I could see. |
Post# 699614 , Reply# 4   8/28/2013 at 22:18 (3,864 days old) by bwoods ()   |   | |
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The upper rack has a neat feature in that the two center pieces swing open to allow access to the lower rack. |
Post# 699615 , Reply# 5   8/28/2013 at 22:21 (3,864 days old) by bwoods ()   |   | |
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Don't know if this is the original basket. If so, it must be missing the hangars that I assume would have supported it in the missle space in the upper rack. |
Post# 699617 , Reply# 7   8/28/2013 at 22:30 (3,864 days old) by bwoods ()   |   | |
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hefty motor. The total amps for the machine is listed as 12.0 |
Post# 699618 , Reply# 8   8/28/2013 at 22:34 (3,864 days old) by bwoods ()   |   | |
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Unfortunately, I do not have the male fitting, that goes on the kitchen faucet, to snap into the unicoupling. Anyone have a spare laying around?? |
Post# 699638 , Reply# 9   8/29/2013 at 00:43 (3,864 days old) by pdub (Portland, Oregon)   |   | |
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You can still buy that unicouple faucet adapter at any hardware or appliance parts store. There are two sizes sold and it should be the larger size of the two.
What a cool find. It appears to have the Frigidaire logo of the early 60's so I'm betting the machine was made about 61 or 62. PhilR will probably know. Looking forward to more pictures of the machine all cleaned up. Patrick |
Post# 699640 , Reply# 10   8/29/2013 at 00:52 (3,864 days old) by alr2903 (TN)   |   | |
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Bwoods thanks for posting the pictures. I have never seen this one. A frigidaire impeller. How cool is that? Best of Luck with it. alr |
Post# 699701 , Reply# 11   8/29/2013 at 05:51 (3,864 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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That silver basket sits along the side of the tub on the lower rack. |
Post# 699705 , Reply# 12   8/29/2013 at 06:32 (3,864 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 699744 , Reply# 14   8/29/2013 at 11:19 (3,864 days old) by Volvoguy87 (Cincinnati, OH)   |   | |
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Post# 699842 , Reply# 16   8/29/2013 at 17:27 (3,864 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 699871 , Reply# 17   8/29/2013 at 20:14 (3,864 days old) by classiccaprice (Hampton, Virginia)   |   | |
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I paid $100 for my 1955 D&M Kenmore and it was completely restored. I know they also made these for Westinghouse. I love mine, even if the gasket does leak slightly! As with anything, it is worth what someone is willing to pay. Good luck and I hope it finds a good home!
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Post# 699872 , Reply# 18   8/29/2013 at 20:23 (3,864 days old) by classiccaprice (Hampton, Virginia)   |   | |
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Post# 699890 , Reply# 19   8/30/2013 at 01:19 (3,863 days old) by rinso (Meridian Idaho)   |   | |
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Like most impeller machines, they do a good job is you rinse the dishes off before loading. We had the 1959 version of this and the glasses always came out spotless. |
Post# 700281 , Reply# 20   8/31/2013 at 19:42 (3,862 days old) by bwoods ()   |   | |
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Ran some of "The Works" toilet bowl cleaner through the machine to try and get rid of calcium and rust staining. Most (but not all came off.) |
Post# 700283 , Reply# 21   8/31/2013 at 19:47 (3,862 days old) by bwoods ()   |   | |
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First time I have ever tried an impeller machine, so I scraped most of the solids off. Not exactly a "Bob Load". :) |
Post# 700286 , Reply# 22   8/31/2013 at 19:54 (3,862 days old) by bwoods ()   |   | |
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more room than I expected and was able to get the popcorn popper top in. |
Post# 700288 , Reply# 23   8/31/2013 at 20:01 (3,862 days old) by bwoods ()   |   | |
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Not bad results, if you look closely at that bowl on the lower right, you can see some redposition of a piece of cat food on the outside of the bowl. |
Post# 700294 , Reply# 25   8/31/2013 at 20:23 (3,862 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Back when these machines were quite the norm, many families I knew had melmac and melamine dishes. Plastic just tended to hold onto food soils far more than glass surfaces. And since so many people had such amounts of plastic dishes, they pretty much got disgusted and rinsed everything. Very very fine job of loading there!! I'll certify it as BobLoad just because you managed to fill that thing up all the way.
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Post# 700297 , Reply# 27   8/31/2013 at 20:32 (3,862 days old) by bwoods ()   |   | |
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Thanks for the BobLoad certification, Bob! |
Post# 700312 , Reply# 28   8/31/2013 at 21:47 (3,861 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 700787 , Reply# 30   9/3/2013 at 08:07 (3,859 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Barry Thanks for taking the time and effort to show everyone here at AW this DW, it is always neat to see how an early machine operated. Your test results really show the need for a DW to have a detergent dispenser and at least a dual wash, your tests also shows how poorly most impeller DWs washed dishes. If I were going to use this machine to actually wash dirty dishes I would stop it after the first or final rinse add more detergent and start it over again. Of the impeller DWs that I have had direct experience with only the GEs with the SS bow-tie impeller and the WH top loading DWs with the flush through detergent dispenser did a half decent job.
The best and only impeller DWs to have a separate roto-rack for the top rack were undoubtedly the best overall performers, all made by D&M in the early 1960s.
It is easy to see why the impeller style DWs disappeared, it was a cheap and easy type of machine to build and it was fairly durable but they were no match for DWs that used a real pump and wash arm. It is also worth noting that every [ decent ] DW built today has a full wash arm under rack washing UP and no one uses a silly center wash tower that only washes the middle of the top rack, also gone are the DWs that attempted to wash dishes from the top down. |
Post# 700808 , Reply# 31   9/3/2013 at 09:53 (3,859 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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