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| Post# 730220 1/24/2014 at 16:58 (3,742 days old) by xpanam (Palm Springs California ) | ||
Says Mobile Maid were it would say Power Shower? What is the blue disk on top of the cover? Never saw one like this before. Hope someone saves this!
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Post# 730229 , Reply# 1 1/24/2014 at 17:34 (3,742 days old) by bajaespuma  (Connecticut) |
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 It's not-quite-a-BOL. This is probably an SP203W or X, ('62 or'63, maybe even as late as '64). The round blue thing is the cheap machine's version of the Power Shower. A spray of water from the "Power Tower" shoots up at the disk and gets diverted over the tops of the dishes in the upper rack. That said, I have no idea how this machine performed compared to its more expensive siblings; possibly quite well and you're right, you don't see lots of these around. | ||
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Post# 730267 , Reply# 2 1/24/2014 at 19:47 (3,741 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio) |
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notice how the front cover rises up to surround and include the hose/uni-coupler assembly. On many models, the front stops an inch or so below the tub gasket, allowing space for cycle buttons and options. This does look entirely BOL, but fun.
Also, while it's hard to decipher the picture, I think this is the rack system where you actually load the bottom first, entirely, while the top rack is sitting on your counter. Then install the top rack and load it up. Very cumbersome, not the way we eat or dirty up dishes or anything. Maybe that's why it's still around for someone else to own? Too weird/cheap a machine to really use all that often? I am not picking on Mobile Maids,I have two that are GREAT. But the higher end racking systems, that lift up with the top, are far more reasonable machines to use. But if I didn't have my 2 already and this came up locally, I'd buy in an instant. The GE spray arm/tower system of this era cleans everything I give it. | ||
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Post# 730330 , Reply# 3 1/25/2014 at 07:08 (3,741 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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Post# 730335 , Reply# 4 1/25/2014 at 08:25 (3,741 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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 Is this a wash-arm machine then? My grandmother's looked exactly like this; same colored dial, brown unicouple & trim and the tiny cover-open button next to the unicouple hole. Her dishwasher had the bowtie impeller and no 'splash disc' on the lid - could it have been the BOL and this one is the next up in the line as you thought, Ken?
My grandfather relented to buying this, probably after much needling. As usual, another kitchen gadget that was a "must have" and then sat unused for decades. It's a good thing there was no QVC or HSN on television back in my grandmother's day or she'd have surely bankrupted them. Sure was a fun house to spend summers in with an attic full of all the gadgets and appliances one little boy needed to shape a life | ||
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Post# 730345 , Reply# 5 1/25/2014 at 09:40 (3,741 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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Post# 730356 , Reply# 7 1/25/2014 at 10:59 (3,741 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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It's an SP-103C, one up from the BOL Greg - yeah, your granny had the BOL BOL, this one is the next one up. There's cut-sheets on these models in Ephemera. Once GE switched to blue Plastisol from pink in the portables the bow-tie impeller was gone, never to return.
Paul - I have to check, but they didn't call this AFAIK a three-level, they implied it though. The deflector disk was the Power Shower consolation gimmick that they called a "Shower-Flo"
Lemme see... 
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