Older GE Dishwasher

Utter crap.

I'm always tempted to get one of these "Celery and Avocado" machines ( I might spring for something like the top-loader pictured below) to fill-out the Plastisol collection but I will never forget what a disappointment ours was. Not a good cleaner and by far the noisiest dishwasher I've ever experienced. When we bought ours in 1972, our cousins replaced their old Waste King with a KitchenAid KDC-17. I looked at my Mother and said "We made a mistake" and she agreed. We both had a prejudice against KitchenAids because lots of relatives had older KA's and they all seemed very small in capacity, and were compared to our GE 1961 pull-out. But the 1972 GE was a piece of tin and I noticed almost every rack pin was bent and misaligned. They sold millions of these to builders in our area; the first truly disposable major appliance.

GE improved their dishwashers later on in the 70's when they replaced the Plastisol-on-Steel tanks with all plastic ones. They must have changed some of the mechanics as well because the machine I knew was practically silent.


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Post# 704502 9/21/2013 at 18:32 (3,862 days old) by laundryboy (Orlando Florida & Moravia NY. )
Checkrate/Likes Not too sure about Dishwashers, but I listed this house this morning and this was in the kitchen..

Post# 704503 , Reply# 1 9/21/2013 at 18:33 (3,862 days old) by laundryboy (Orlando Florida & Moravia NY. )
Checkrate/Likes *Pic 2 GE washer* Outside Pic

Post# 704582 , Reply# 2 9/22/2013 at 07:58 (3,861 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.)
Checkrate/Likes *My family had that same portable dishwasher at our summer co* ours was a Potscrubber model and the buttons on ours said normal cycle and power scrub.....PAT COFFEY

Post# 704593 , Reply# 3 9/22/2013 at 09:55 (3,861 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)
Checkrate/Likes *Pass* Utter crap. I'm always tempted to get one of these "Celery and Avocado" machines ( I might spring for something like the top-loader pictured below) to fill-out the Plastisol collection but I will never forget what a disappointment ours was. Not a good cleaner and by far the noisiest dishwasher I've ever experienced. When we bought ours in 1972, our cousins replaced their old Waste King with a KitchenAid KDC-17. I looked at my Mother and said "We made a mistake" and she agreed. We both had a prejudice against KitchenAids because lots of relatives had older KA's and they all seemed very small in capacity, and were compared to our GE 1961 pull-out. But the 1972 GE was a piece of tin and I noticed almost every rack pin was bent and misaligned. They sold millions of these to builders in our area; the first truly disposable major appliance. GE improved their dishwashers later on in the 70's when they replaced the Plastisol-on-Steel tanks with all plastic ones. They must have changed some of the mechanics as well because the machine I knew was practically silent.

Post# 705152 , Reply# 4 9/24/2013 at 17:09 (3,859 days old) by washer111 ()
Checkrate/Likes These are quite interesting machines. It seems no-one can agree on their cleaning performance! For what they are worth however (next to nothing), they can probably clean dishes, but just re-deposit all the garbage onto glasses and the like, being baked on during the Drying cycle. If anyone were to end up with the machine, you need to ensure it has a Rinse Agent (E.g. "Jet-Dry") dispenser, which could help cut back on rubbish collection. It could also be beneficial to replace the pump in the machine (another debated subject), that may very well help things along, if the old sump has collected considerable amounts of garbage (which it will have) during its existence. Whoever ends up with this machine will probably "enjoy" playing "Can you find the clean dish in the GE after the cycle is done?" On a side note, I've just realised this machine uses the same upper rack as the one in the 1960's Mobile-Maid dishwashers. This means GE used that upper rack for the best part of 40 years! And the wash tower, through its various iterations...