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Thread Number: 56479
Maytag RR DD dishwasher |
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| Post# 787950 10/8/2014 at 07:41 (3,486 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan) | ||
I love these and a direct drive! This is going into my partner Scott's new house. He had one growing up. Not tested it yet.
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| Post# 787961 , Reply# 1 10/8/2014 at 09:28 (3,486 days old) by whitetub (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Great dishwasher. Post some pics when installed, cleaned up,and fully loaded. | ||
| Post# 787975 , Reply# 2 10/8/2014 at 11:02 (3,486 days old) by brib68 (Central Connecticut) | ||
Our family had one of these for our first-ever dishwasher. It was a white convertible-portable and a little higher trim. It had 5 option buttons, a group of two and a group of three--no recollection what they selected, but my guess is the group of two probably chose heat dry or air dry.
That machine lasted a long time. I think mom bought it in 1979 or 1980, and they moved it to the 'new' house where they converted it to a built-in. It lasted there until the mid 2000s. They replaced it with a Kenmore, which was replaced a few years later with a stainless steel KA when mom remodeled the kitchen. The Maytag was noisy, but always gave great results. | ||
| Post# 788084 , Reply# 3 10/8/2014 at 23:07 (3,486 days old) by washdaddy (Baltimore) | ||
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My parents had one of those in the house that they use to live in. You could always here those wash arms spinning round in that machine. They certainly weren't slow moving. When it pumped out the water it would somehwat sound like a jet with the noise it made. Did a good job of cleaning. | ||
| Post# 788085 , Reply# 4 10/8/2014 at 23:12 (3,486 days old) by washdaddy (Baltimore) | ||
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I forgot to mention this- I've never heard of a dishwasher as being direct drive. Am I missing something? | ||
| Post# 788088 , Reply# 5 10/8/2014 at 23:37 (3,486 days old) by murando531 (Augusta, Georgia - US) | ||
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| Post# 788252 , Reply# 8 10/9/2014 at 23:24 (3,485 days old) by murando531 (Augusta, Georgia - US) | ||
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My grandparents had a Maytag JetClean RR for a long time, since before I was born. About 5 years ago they gave it to their daughter, my aunt Monica, in place of a WP built Kenmore stainless steel tall tub. My aunt and her brood promptly killed it within months, as they do with most things. A huge pity, and I still get on to granddad for letting it go.
I can't remember the year model, but I know it has to be early eighties. It was an 8 button electronic control board, but the cosmetics and design were identical to the one pictured above minus the timer knob. For a while it was the only dishwasher I had ever seen with electronic buttons and LED lights, and I loved that it showed the Wash-Rinse-Dry indicators. That thing never left a speck of anything after a cycle, and the best part was during the forced-air heated dry, where steam would billow out of the vent. I thought it was the coolest machine in the world, right along with their Lady Kenmore Solid State of course. Later, as I became more adept at repair and disassembly of things, I would take the pump assembly apart and clean the scale and gunk from the crevices of the filter and the arm assemblies. My grandparents live where the water comes from a spring, so their water is horrendously hard. It got to a point where once a week granddad would have to take the arms out and clean the scale buildup out of the spray holes with a toothpick. If not for that, they would still surely have that machine and it would have been saved from my aunt, uncle, and cousin's wrathful terror on everything they touch. | ||
Post# 788305 , Reply# 9 10/10/2014 at 07:47 (3,484 days old) by combo52  (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Maytag Built-In RR DWs
Mt built three different versions of BI RR DWs over the life of this interesting DW.
The first were also DD pump models, [ roughly 1969-1973 ] they had a side mounted motor and pump assembly mounted in the back of the machine. These were a pain in the A.. to work on as you had to completely remove the DW and turn it over to do many repairs [ just like a Bosch, Meile, etc ]. Then around 1974 they came out with the belt driven RR models, as Barry mentioned this was done to save space and in theory at least to reduce repair costs because you would not have replace the motor when the pump suffered a main seal leak. Problem was that the pump module almost immediately cost more than the complete pump and motor for a Whirlpool DW and was harder to install, LOL. Also because the BD RR DW was more expensive to build because they had to install a set of bearings and shaft in the pump module in addition to having a motor that already had a shaft and bearings the RR DW started out at a BIG competitive disadvantage in the cost to build area. As a result they cheaped out by using a cheap urethane belt instead of a real Vee belt with the motor mounted on a pivot to keep the Vee belt properly tensioned [ MT engineers told me that this was the way they wanted to build the DW initially ]. So owners had to endure a lifetime of funny noises and sometimes poor performance because of belt slippage from their DWs. After the initial rough start the BD MT RR DW had they eventually got it running pretty well. If you look at the history of any new MT appliance they designed and built in the last 60 years they always had a lot of problems that to their credit they usually ironed out in the next 2-6 years of production. The final RR DWs went to a DD pump with the motor directly below the pump, this was partly a result of the motor manufactures being to make the motor a little more compact, this change was made around 1989 and the DD RR this time was only built about two years before MT finally abandoned the silly RR configuration because of consumer dislike of this unusual difficult to load design. When checking over a MT RR DW one should dissemble it and check and clean the Micro-Mesh filter and the BD and later DD models the pump cover could hold all kinds of crap that would get stuck and would just stay there till it eventually discomposed, These were often very messy DWs, my customers often were freaked out at all the garbage their DW contained if they saw me working on it. | ||
| Post# 788347 , Reply# 11 10/10/2014 at 15:57 (3,484 days old) by murando531 (Augusta, Georgia - US) | ||
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I loved loading my grandparents' RR. It was even more flexible than my PowerClean with item placement. You could put plates on both top and bottom, center of the lower rack of course because of the tines and the dip it made in the middle, but I've never seen another dishwasher that could handle the pots and pans and casserole dishes while still having plenty of room for plates bowls and glasses. I was always surprised that tall pitchers placed in the corner of the upper rack would be spotless despite being sprayed from a tower. That Maytag dishwasher design is the only exception to my "No-Tower" rule.
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Post# 788351 , Reply# 12 10/10/2014 at 16:34 (3,484 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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I had a Maytag RR installed when I bought my home in '91. I did not find it difficult to load at all...nor was it a silly design. In fact I found it very flexible as I could load mixing bowls and pots/pans on the top or bottom racks. It cleaned very well and quickly. The short cycle was 67 min, regular 75 min. and pots/pans was 87 min. It was a bit loud however but then most dishwashers of that vintage were loud.
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Post# 788381 , Reply# 13 10/10/2014 at 20:57 (3,484 days old) by electronicontrl (Grand Rapids, MI) |
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What Fun!!
My Maytag-built Jenn Air is super sweet. Mine is one of the last ones from the Newton, IA plant.
Great find for Scott!!
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| Post# 788605 , Reply# 14 10/12/2014 at 08:20 (3,482 days old) by whitetub (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Silly design?? To me, it was the best design I ever used. I had one for about 12 years, a used WC 401 Avocado Green, from 1988 to 1999, when I moved to a brand new house. If they still made one, with a stainless steel tub, Nylon racks, I would buy it in a second.
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| Post# 788726 , Reply# 15 10/12/2014 at 22:14 (3,482 days old) by awooff (Peoria, Illinois) | ||
yes, these can be loaded to the max! - the timer is stuck on mine, didnt bother me as I just advanced the timer manually (while cleaning the rest of the kitchen). These models heat the water constantly so with dirty pots positioned dead center of upper rack, a two hour wash would scour anything clean he he
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| Post# 788899 , Reply# 16 10/13/2014 at 21:51 (3,481 days old) by murando531 (Augusta, Georgia - US) | ||
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My grandparents were the type to run the dishwasher every day, only loaded to MAYBE 50% capacity, if that. Now that I look back, it bugs the snot out of me, but at that time I was a little squirt and that was the way it was. I had gotten so attuned to the sound of that dishwasher running with all the dishes spaced out. One night, they had collected a counter-full of dishes and pots and pans (they have gorgeous SaladMaster pans that fit perfectly in a dishwasher and clean up brilliantly), and that Maytag was packed to the brim. Not even another spoon could have fit. When the wash started, I was so worried that something was wrong with the dishwasher because it sounded so muffled and quiet, as you could no longer hear the sound of water torrenting against the door. She had to assure me that the arms were moving freely and that it was quiet because there were more dishes to catch all the water.
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| Post# 788960 , Reply# 17 10/14/2014 at 07:34 (3,480 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan) | ||
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It seems | ||
| Post# 789126 , Reply# 18 10/15/2014 at 11:21 (3,479 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan) | ||
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tested!
Works amazing! Superb cleaning, no leaks. Sounds beautiful, I like a noisy dishwasher. The inside is pretty good. Racks have a little rust. Only 2 panels though. Harvest gold, black, white, or bisque. I have seen machines with 4 panels, but overall this was a great find.
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| Post# 789127 , Reply# 19 10/15/2014 at 11:40 (3,479 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan) | ||
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Scott's fridge and hairy arms
Nice old school Amana, no computer board.
Scott closed on his house and wants some nice stuff. He also has bizarre hairy arms, lol. | ||
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Post# 791653 , Reply# 20 11/1/2014 at 20:50 (3,462 days old) by electronicontrl (Grand Rapids, MI) |
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Hairy Arms | ||
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