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SUCCESS!!!! KD-10 |
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Post# 738288   2/28/2014 at 15:50 (3,680 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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I great big giant shout out to everyone for all their help with the KD-10. She is back up and running perfectly and with no leaks in sight!!!
Thanks John for the motor. Thanks Steve for all the help and about the new seals. Thanks Robert about using cork for the gaskets, worked great! And thanks Sandy for rallying the troops and getting this project moving!! She is back up and running beautifully because of this site and all the knowledge that comes from its members!!!! Could not be happier!!! Joe This post was last edited 02/28/2014 at 16:19 |
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Post# 738290 , Reply# 1   2/28/2014 at 15:57 (3,680 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Post# 738296 , Reply# 2   2/28/2014 at 16:13 (3,680 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738299 , Reply# 3   2/28/2014 at 16:28 (3,680 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Post# 738303 , Reply# 4   2/28/2014 at 17:13 (3,680 days old) by STEVET (West Melbourne, FL)   |   | |
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On the revival! Knew it was a long shot to get everything but glad to have been of help to you. Hearing success stories like yours makes all of this AW stuff all the more worth it. |
Post# 738306 , Reply# 5   2/28/2014 at 17:21 (3,680 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738326 , Reply# 7   2/28/2014 at 18:39 (3,680 days old) by lotsosudz (Sacramento, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 738357 , Reply# 8   2/28/2014 at 19:57 (3,680 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738359 , Reply# 9   2/28/2014 at 19:59 (3,680 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738360 , Reply# 10   2/28/2014 at 20:06 (3,680 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738361 , Reply# 11   2/28/2014 at 20:08 (3,680 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738368 , Reply# 13   2/28/2014 at 20:21 (3,680 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738369 , Reply# 14   2/28/2014 at 20:21 (3,680 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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These are truly amazingly overbuilt machines, to anyone that likes the later KAs if you ever tore a KD-10 apart you would realize just what an amazing well built machine these 10s were.
I parted out 3 KD 10s last year [ one was where Joe's motor came from ] and after taking these machines apart I came away feeling that KA should have just quit making DWs after the KD-10, the machine is just that much superior to any KA that that followed. I think that this is also the way many Maytag fans feel about the Maytag's grey ghost wringer washers, again nothing they built after the GG was anywhere as well built. John L. |
Post# 738372 , Reply# 15   2/28/2014 at 20:24 (3,680 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738380 , Reply# 16   2/28/2014 at 20:48 (3,680 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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Post# 738387 , Reply# 18   2/28/2014 at 21:16 (3,680 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 738493 , Reply# 19   3/1/2014 at 13:20 (3,679 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738580 , Reply# 20   3/1/2014 at 18:30 (3,679 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Post# 738582 , Reply# 21   3/1/2014 at 18:46 (3,679 days old) by washer111 ()   |   | |
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This is excellent news! Definitely wishing you many more happy years of overbuilt KD-10 dishwashing :-)
Can we see a shot before you wash the dishes so we know you aren't committing dishwashing-blasphemy? |
Post# 738707 , Reply# 23   3/2/2014 at 11:20 (3,678 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738708 , Reply# 24   3/2/2014 at 11:21 (3,678 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738710 , Reply# 25   3/2/2014 at 11:28 (3,678 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738711 , Reply# 26   3/2/2014 at 11:28 (3,678 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 738712 , Reply# 27   3/2/2014 at 11:31 (3,678 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738726 , Reply# 28   3/2/2014 at 12:05 (3,678 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738728 , Reply# 29   3/2/2014 at 12:06 (3,678 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738731 , Reply# 30   3/2/2014 at 12:14 (3,678 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738851 , Reply# 31   3/2/2014 at 19:58 (3,678 days old) by washer111 ()   |   | |
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Nice load :-) I wonder what the water/energy consumption of one of these machines, compared to a modern one is? Do you have a particularly hot inlet temperature, or just the standard 120°? |
Post# 738865 , Reply# 32   3/2/2014 at 20:39 (3,678 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738887 , Reply# 33   3/2/2014 at 22:13 (3,678 days old) by maytagman (Half Moon)   |   | |
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What a beauty!! Love your kitchen. Would love to see a video of it running (love the sound effects). Great job! Thanks, Don |
Post# 738895 , Reply# 34   3/2/2014 at 22:24 (3,678 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )   |   | |
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Hell...it runs 1/4 the time of a new one, and I bet it uses about 12 gallons or so of water, water is a lot cheaper than electricity!! |
Post# 738900 , Reply# 35   3/2/2014 at 23:05 (3,678 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 738928 , Reply# 37   3/3/2014 at 06:38 (3,678 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 738978 , Reply# 38   3/3/2014 at 11:01 (3,677 days old) by ken (NYS)   |   | |
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Post# 738983 , Reply# 39   3/3/2014 at 11:20 (3,677 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 739000 , Reply# 40   3/3/2014 at 12:19 (3,677 days old) by whitetub (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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Beautiful machine. Shoudn't the bowls on the right be facing inside the machine? |
Post# 739048 , Reply# 41   3/3/2014 at 15:41 (3,677 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Possibly. I was thinking about this last night and some today. The larger of the bowls could possibly fit on the outside rail of the rack, but they still may be too heft or thick to fit properly. So the direction which they are loaded might be best. If those larger bowls did fit well on the outside rails, then they could face toward the center and the smaller bowls could then fit on the next rail in toward the center. But even if the smaller bowls could fit on the inside rails, given the heft of the dinner plates, those smaller bowls may not sit properly either. Joe may have already experimented with all this. These are quite hefty dishes, far larger than the typical dishes which were most common in homes during this time, even though these dishes are vintage. The 10 & 11 series, and quite possibly the 12 series, had a kind of funky arrangement which loaded the smaller plates for facing toward the center. I know that by the Custom 14, the side facing dishware had the same raised loops to hold the dishware as what you see in the empty rack photos above that were used to support the dinner plates going down the center. I've never gotten to play with a 10-12 series, only a KDC14. And the revised raised loops for the side-facing dishware on the KDC14 allowed for a lot more loading flexibility and capacity.
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Post# 739059 , Reply# 42   3/3/2014 at 16:26 (3,677 days old) by whitetub (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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Thanks for the answer. I never had the joy of playing with an old KitchenAid dishwasher either. As I look again at the pictures, I wonder if the bowls are scraping the tub when you push the lower rack back in. |
Post# 739068 , Reply# 43   3/3/2014 at 17:27 (3,677 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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There is no scraping against the tub when dishes are property arranged. It looks small but it really holds allot of dishes. I enjoy it every time I get to use it. There is really something fantasizing about watching vintage appliances work.
It was also I allot of working on it and seeing how it was built. I am glad John had a motor and it was fun to install it and also put in the new seals. Pretty straight forward. I an reading the KD-10 sales brochure and operating instruction manual. It is very interesting how they described everything about the dishwasher. Take Care Joe |
Post# 739088 , Reply# 44   3/3/2014 at 18:50 (3,677 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 739090 , Reply# 45   3/3/2014 at 19:01 (3,677 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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....That's interesting to reflect on.
We think of the KD-10 today as a very simple machine. After all, it does not have a detergent dispenser, a rinse aid injector, a rapid advance timer and certainly no electronic touchpad controls. But in 1949, it was high tech, a magic machine that only the few could aspire to, and which even fewer understood about what was "under the hood." I get the feeling you see your KD-10 as a magic machine still, instead of something "old and quaint." That's how I like to think of my own vintage appliances - as the very best you could buy. |
Post# 739094 , Reply# 46   3/3/2014 at 19:25 (3,677 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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You are exactly right Sandy!! That is how I feel about it!! I love it and I am so glad that I have this site and it members to make this dream come true!!!! It is top of the line back in 1949.
I think this dishwasher cost about $650.00 back in 1949. Only a few would have this dishwasher back then.. Most of the people I talk with that lived during this period, did not even know that a dishwasher existed. I am living the dream in the 1940's!!! Joe |
Post# 739107 , Reply# 47   3/3/2014 at 20:34 (3,677 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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That brings up a little confession: My house is over-equipped for the kind of house it is.
I live in a little 1950 tract house, a starter home for the many Waterloo residents who worked for factories like John Deere and Rath. It was probably about $7995 new - and "new" was about the only thing it would have had going for it. I'm tawkin' basic here. Now? It has as many TOL goodies as I can find - Maytag 806s, a KDS-55 dishwasher, a GE range with P*7 and Sensi-Temp, an Electrolux 1205 vacuum and a Singer Athena sewing machine. If the first owners of the house could see it now, they'd probably wonder what so many "rich people's toys" were doing in it, LOL! |
Post# 739176 , Reply# 48   3/4/2014 at 07:21 (3,677 days old) by dosxxpapa (Oregon)   |   | |
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