Thread Number: 70362
/ Tag: Vintage Dishwashers
POD 4/16/2017 |
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Post# 932707 , Reply# 1   4/16/2017 at 10:46 (2,565 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Hotpoint certainly did lead the way as far as front-load dishwashers went. I have an ad from a 1936 magazine showing a Hotpoint front-load machine!
I've used a few impeller-wash machines and while loading them can be a challenge, they can still do a good overall job of cleaning. I was surprised at the suggested loading instructions I found in the user booklet for the '56 MobileMaid. GE suggested that you could really cram stuff in there! Heavy, baked-on soils are more than they can handle, I admit, but most regular dish loads come out of the machine fine. I think overall performance of an impeller machine depends on the machine's cycle too. My 'daily driver' 56 GE pull-out in Ogden has a pre-wash, pre-rinse, main wash and three rinses and it does fine. The '65 Kenmore 600 Roto-Rack uses similar cycling but the thing really does not clean plates well at all. The old Westinghouse-designed Viking I grew up with had a wash-rinse-wash with 3 final rinses and it did fine using an impeller also. |