Thread Number: 60019
/ Tag: Vintage Dishwashers
POD 6/5/15 30" GE Empress |
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Post# 826693 , Reply# 1   6/5/2015 at 06:56 (3,245 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 826882 , Reply# 5   6/6/2015 at 21:53 (3,244 days old) by spiralator60 (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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Thanks, Jon and Tom! |
Post# 827279 , Reply# 6   6/9/2015 at 20:11 (3,241 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Although I would have loved having this model as a portable, it would have been a little too huge for rolling around (although not much bigger or heavier than my coveted Maytag WP-600). My dream dishwasher would have been an SU-80V (AFAIK, never existed); an Empress with all of the improvements of the 1961 line including 4 cycles, a Power Shower and cup racks.
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Post# 827399 , Reply# 8   6/10/2015 at 11:08 (3,240 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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The one on the left goes to the Power Shower from the pump and the one on the right goes to the drain. When the Power Shower machines were introduced in 1960 the drains went up and out through those same spring valves, so once one unplugged the electrical service from the junction box, the tank was completely separate from the housing and could be serviced away from its installation. All the earlier machines had a drain hose that went through a hole in the housing to an air gap or an elbow somewhere.
I agree that two dishwashers ALWAYS makes more sense in any kitchen and I recommend that arrangement when I design kitchens, especially if one is lucky enough to find a Hobart undercounter machine. Real cooks always go for it (although it amazes me how many people opt for two identical machines instead of one for dishes and one more like a pot-washer), non-cooks can't understand why it's advantageous.
Somehow, the 24" square dishwasher adheres to that Da-Vincian ideal of the circle in the square that makes these machines work well (it's another reason I've always admired Newtonian Maytag design). Once they're bumped out to 30", performance seems to suffer. I think most of us are fascinated by the existence of the 30" machines because they're, like myself, an oddity.
For some reason the color is completely off when I export my Adobe illustrations into JPEG format to post them. Those pinks need to be toned down a lot and the blue tones have shifted over to green. I must be using the wrong palettes.
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