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Thread Number: 61109
/ Tag: Vintage Dishwashers
POD - 8-20-2015 Tappan Dishwasher |
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Post# 837433 8/20/2015 at 07:53 (3,169 days old) by turquoisedude  (.) |
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Post# 837440 , Reply# 1 8/20/2015 at 08:50 (3,169 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Paul-- I know what you mean. Looking at the interior, all I can think is, "Could there be a worse design for loading flexibility?" On the other hand, I love the look of the control panel. It would be fun to have one simply because they're so rare. An ideal collector's item.
Aside: That was a tantrum? Your partner should count his blessings, LOL! | ||
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Post# 837465 , Reply# 3 8/20/2015 at 12:42 (3,169 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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What is the small blue box on the front of the rack here? Detergent dispenser?
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Post# 837491 , Reply# 4 8/20/2015 at 17:49 (3,169 days old) by eronie (Flushing Michigan) |
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tappin How did these machines work? Spin tube? | ||
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Post# 837507 , Reply# 5 8/20/2015 at 19:15 (3,169 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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 Greg, yes that's he detergent dispenser. My Godfather's family had the low end model of these in the new house they bought in 1963. Our house had the 1961 O'Keefe & Merrit brand of the low-end that got swapped out with the Waste King in our old house before we moved in. If you filled the dispenser too much, not all the powder would be dissolved by the end of the last rinse. It had a big black bakelite cylinder in the bottom of the tub (hence the hump in the middle of the bottom rack) that had baffles at the back. As the cylinder rotated, the baffles threw out the water in it. Imagine tires on a car driving down a highway while it rained. That's about the sound of it too. | ||
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Post# 837534 , Reply# 6 8/20/2015 at 22:43 (3,169 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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Tappan Dishwasher!
We had family friends that had one from 1963. Quiet machine.
But they always pre rinsed so couldn't judge performance! I remember the big timer dial that light up. They always had some type of service problems with this unit. I cannot recall what. But after 18 years in 1981 it was replaced with a reverse rack maytag and they always complained about the new machine being real noisy. This was opposite the norm where when most people get a new DW it is actually more quiet than the old! Peter | ||
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