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Post# 767411   7/2/2014 at 11:03 (3,557 days old) by tennblondie78 (Bowling Green, KY)        

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Holy cow! I have never heard of this!!! I guess you could fit a couple coffee cups in there... Anyone ever seen one of these?

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Post# 767430 , Reply# 1   7/2/2014 at 12:26 (3,557 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)        

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I know of at least one member here who has one, and went on a road trip to get it.

 

If you dig deep enough with the Super Searchalator you'll find a video clip of one in action.


Post# 767431 , Reply# 2   7/2/2014 at 12:30 (3,557 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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That's pretty adorable! It could almost pass for a large toaster oven. Are you going to get it, Stephanie?

Post# 767436 , Reply# 3   7/2/2014 at 13:05 (3,557 days old) by tennblondie78 (Bowling Green, KY)        

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I found it on a website I follow; it's not for sale. I would love to play around with one of those though and watch it run. Too cute!!!

Post# 767444 , Reply# 4   7/2/2014 at 13:34 (3,557 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)        

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These machines use a wall of water system from an oscillating sprayer.  They are fun to watch!

 

Here's a link to the video.  It took forever to load, but others may have faster results.



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Post# 767466 , Reply# 5   7/2/2014 at 15:23 (3,557 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        
Temco...

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That's a beautiful dishwasher....maybe one day I will find one too...LOL...hey... hope is last to die!!!!

There was an italian maker (ignis) who made a similar configuration....model was named Alice, even if I find one I would not have where to put it now, too large to fit in the undercounter space, and would need to lift it with sometihing and would be uncovenient to load......these were meant to stay over the counter indeed.


Post# 767467 , Reply# 6   7/2/2014 at 15:24 (3,557 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        

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Here is the 1966 Ignis "alice"





Post# 767504 , Reply# 7   7/2/2014 at 17:34 (3,557 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

These were interesting in many ways. They were redesigned James dishwashers. They were among the smallest major appliances of the late 50s-early 60s and were often seen in boat galleys. They normally did not have a pump so they used a gravity drain which is why they were mounted above sink level. The portable model did have a drain pump and had a cart that looked remarkably like a cart for a portable TV in the 60s. These filled and washed then gradually filled so that the wash water overflowed down the drain and was replaced by rinse water. At the end of the cycle the steam generator fogged the load with steam which condensed on the dishes essentially giving them a final rinse with distilled water. The steam heated the dishes to where they dried with their own heat. The timer was a spring-wound device; you turned it all the way to the end and it ticked down through the cycle. It might have been the only spring-wound timer used on a dishwasher. The dishwasher came in three sizes. I can't remember for sure, but I think it was 4,6,10 or 6,8,12 place settings. Loading was very regimented, but the rack for glasses could be removed for loading large items. John found one without the glass in the door and then another one with the glass, I think. These did not handle food particles especially well because the twisted blade that made the spray rotated in a perforated tube with a slit at the top. The mechanism that rotated the blade made the tube oscillate back and forth. Bits of food would clog the holes in the tube which was hard to clean and there was no way it could be called self-cleaning or self back-flushing.

Post# 767517 , Reply# 8   7/2/2014 at 18:50 (3,557 days old) by SRSwirl ()        
What's Old is New Again

More proof that with appliance technology, like clothing styles, what's old is new again. So, those morons over at Samsung who are claiming they invented this water wall technology need to get a life and acknowledge that they just copied old technology.

Post# 767593 , Reply# 9   7/3/2014 at 02:42 (3,557 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))        

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Niagra Falls! Sloooowly I turned..........

Post# 767595 , Reply# 10   7/3/2014 at 02:48 (3,557 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)        

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Step by step . . .

 

Wait!   This could turn out badly for the Ling-Temco!

 

I'm hardly what you'd call a TTS fanatic, but that one I remember!

 

On par with the "I Don't Care" episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show.


Post# 767596 , Reply# 11   7/3/2014 at 02:57 (3,557 days old) by bluejay (Havre de Grace, MD)        

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That dishwasher in the initial post was featured as yesterday's post over on Retro Renovation. I believe the owner is trying to find it a home, although I imagine he won't be selling it inexpensively, as he dropped the phrase 'museum quality' several times.

Personally, I think it'd be cool to use it to replicate and supply parts for existing units. With 3D printing advancements, it'd probably be feasible. The company is long out of business, so I imagine getting parts for these is fairly tough.


Post# 767808 , Reply# 12   7/4/2014 at 00:47 (3,556 days old) by hydralique (Los Angeles)        
Ling-Temco . . .

Ling-Temco was a very strange company that started as an electrical contracting firm shortly after WWII in Dallas. James Ling proved to be a wizard with building a business empire through acquisitions and proceeded to do just that until about 1970. The company became Ling-Temco Vought in ‘61 when the Chance Vought aerospace company was purchased. By ‘70 LTV owned a whole passel of companies including Braniff airways, Wilson sporting goods and National Car Rental. At that point Ling lost control and LTV began selling off bits and pieces until little was left but a steelmaking division in the late ‘80s. In 2000 the remnants of this sank into bankruptcy. Needless to say whatever tiny arm of Ling-Temco that produced the dishwasher is very long gone.

Chance Vought and LTV played an important part in my life as my father was an aerospace engineer for Chance Vought and then LTV, spending virtually his whole career there. Had Chance Vought not transferred my dad from Dallas to Ventura he would have never met my mother who was living there at the time. I didn’t even know that Ling-Temco had produced a dishwasher until recently, we certainly never had one.



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