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Thread Number: 6622
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Post# 132882 6/3/2006 at 07:08 (6,528 days old) by gadgetgary  (Bristol,CT) |
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Post# 132899 , Reply# 1 6/3/2006 at 09:30 (6,528 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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| Post# 132902 , Reply# 2 6/3/2006 at 09:37 (6,528 days old) by powerfin64 (Yakima, Washington) | ||
Belt driven | ||
| Post# 133148 , Reply# 4 6/4/2006 at 22:38 (6,526 days old) by awooff (Peoria, Illinois) | ||
I am running one of these as i type, and i agree it took getting used to. I dont think this creans as well as my newer design KA, especially for the silverware. Tall items such as stock pots, and iced tea pitchers have to be loaded in the center of the upper rack, and tilted to catch the water from the center tower. Also, the corners of the lower rack do NOT clean glasses, in fact they will come out with a lot of crud in them. I feel the filtering is about as efficient as the older GE design (potsscrubber 700 or 900. also, my maytag dosent heat the water, so i had to turn the water heater up practically all the way. | ||
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Post# 133572 , Reply# 6 6/6/2006 at 00:07 (6,525 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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I have this dishwasher in my kitchen now and love it. I have a rather long, ongoing affection for this dishwasher design. Like any dishwasher, they take some getting used to with regard to the noise, the loading pattern and spray directions, the noise, and the noise. They hold a ton and scour everything you throw at them. That pleasure nozzle in the center is extremely powerful and quite capable with most pans - yesterday's Turbo Zone". My aunt had this dishwasher installed in her home when I was 9 and I was hooked. The sounds had me riveted. We bought one in 1981, a portable and it sounded like we'd unleashed a freight train from the box but it never failed to clean circles around the roto-rack it replaced. I inherited that machine in 1987 and used it in my own kitchen until 91 when I sold it to a friend. It was subsequently converted to and undercounter and used another 5 years when the pump bearings finally went bad (you should hear how loud it gets!) I found a 1970 portable dishwasher at a sale that they wouldn't sell to me ("it goes with the house", a common reply at sales) but as luck would have it, I found it at a thrift store two weeks later. The pre-1975 dishwashers were of a completely different pump and motor design - pump was mounted directly to the motor, mounted axially at the rear right corner under the tub and and a sump was used for water transfer. This early concept is much quieter than a belt-driven pump, it's really amazing. The WU-601 in the kitchen now was won on Ebay, never used. I painted the scratched avocado panels metallic blue in homage to the color on a few Maytag appliaces for Home Depot, the very last real color from Maytag. I insulated the hell out of that machine but it still is annoying in the next room. I've been riveted by that sound for 31 years and probably always will be. 
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Post# 133588 , Reply# 7 6/6/2006 at 02:34 (6,525 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains) |
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we do get hooked
Even though I know (taken it apart often enough) intellectually that the Maytags of today have no relationship to those of my youth, there is something about the sounds these machines make which resonates very deeply in me. I fight tooth and nail with my family in the US about every "new" appliance they buy...and in the end, when they insist I buy "American" (whatever that is) I still look at the Maytags first. Well, looked. Now that evil Whirlpool has them in their clutches I guess that was that. Does anyone remember the sound the carbon bearings below the macerator used to make in the Kenmores from the 70's? And that whump...pause...whoosh from the separate drain pumps? That's a beautiful paint job - is that a tru-blu Maytag enamel you found or did you have to mix it yourself? Hard to tell on a monitor, but it looks very close to the Maytag blue as I remember it... | ||
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Post# 133602 , Reply# 8 6/6/2006 at 05:47 (6,525 days old) by gadgetgary (Bristol,CT) |
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I've been riveted by that sound for 31 years and probabl | ||
| Post# 133909 , Reply# 9 6/6/2006 at 22:58 (6,524 days old) by awooff (Peoria, Illinois) | ||
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Kelly You are right, the fact that this one is almost 20 years old, could have something to do with the lack of a great wash for ME. Also, it is funny how people can say the exact opposite opinions on the same appliance! LOL I agree, the sounds of the water whipping around in the maytag are mezmerising..... Sometimes, i think my lack of the best washes, is because of the small amount of detergent i use (because of having soft water) I probably only use 3 tbls. If i use too much detergent in my KA, I get suds leftover at the end of the cycle | ||
| Post# 133916 , Reply# 10 6/6/2006 at 23:24 (6,524 days old) by agiflow () | ||
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Maytags best effort couldn't stand up to a WP dw with a powerclean module..huh..huh..(ducking and running fast) | ||
| Post# 134039 , Reply# 11 6/7/2006 at 13:19 (6,524 days old) by awooff (Peoria, Illinois) | ||
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Post# 134046 , Reply# 12 6/7/2006 at 13:58 (6,524 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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WP Powerclean... | ||
| Post# 134054 , Reply# 13 6/7/2006 at 14:18 (6,524 days old) by agiflow () | ||
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Actually my machine does a pretty good job on the flatware....though probably not as well as a basket on the lower rack..but i guess that is the price for increase capacity..especially with a tower in the way. | ||
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Post# 134059 , Reply# 14 6/7/2006 at 14:26 (6,524 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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WP Powerclean | ||
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Post# 134112 , Reply# 16 6/7/2006 at 17:17 (6,524 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Pretty please with sugar and a cherry on top. | ||
| Post# 134184 , Reply# 17 6/7/2006 at 21:17 (6,523 days old) by awooff (Peoria, Illinois) | ||
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WP Powercrean We had one of these growing up, I remember the silverware issue-with the basket on door. We use to put the basket in the rack and that solved the dirty silverware problem. I think a larger flatware basket placed in the rack would probably have been the best setup. Also I remember not being able to place glasses in the four corners of the upper rack, otherwise they'd have plenty of crud blown inside them.........Was there ever a DW that didn't have the problem with taller glasses in the corners??? Although, I dont remember the Whirlpool ever leaving dried oatmeal or potatoes, or leafy particles leftover on anything!!! and I miss that loud "snorting" sound as the Whirlpool drained the last amount of water out. My KA does this too, but not nearly to the extent of the WP. GOOD THREAD by the way.........right up my alley,,,,,NO ONE could ever load that WP the way I could!!!!!!!,,,,Grandma was on septic and taught me to pack er full, course she packed rinsed dishes,,,,,,but now that I'm a big kid now.....I KNOW BETTER!!!!!LOL | ||
| Post# 134349 , Reply# 19 6/8/2006 at 11:21 (6,523 days old) by awooff (Peoria, Illinois) | ||
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Post# 134501 , Reply# 20 6/8/2006 at 20:25 (6,522 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Yes, the top rack is adjustable. But I have friends here with the exact same model. They have over-sized diameter plates like Ross and even with the top rack all the way up, it still blocks the upper wash arm form turning. I had the same issue when "Bob loading" Sat. night at Ross' during the wash-in. Ross you have to tilt the dinner plates over for it to clear properly. Which I've had to do at my firends' house and did at Ross' without a prob. I wish Ironrite could post a pic of the load I did cuz he said the master was at work loading it. I had to rearrange plates 3 times to get it all in there and not have the wash arm blocked. Hold on to that dw Ross, it's the last of the true WP PowerCleans (mourn).
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