Thread Number: 73088
/ Tag: Vintage Dishwashers
Would you consider D&M machines legendary? |
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Post# 965319 , Reply# 1   11/1/2017 at 08:11 (2,339 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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I have a few D&M built dishwashers and while they may not perform as well as other vintage dishwahers, I think they deserve a 'legendary' status for one reason - they brought automatic dishwashing to so many homes and led to the development of machines that could clean just about anything (the latter because dishwasher owners no doubt got more demanding). My 2 cents, live from India where I have yet to see one dishwasher... LOL |
Post# 965342 , Reply# 3   11/1/2017 at 10:12 (2,338 days old) by dermacie (my forever home (Glenshaw, PA))   |   | |
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Many homes in my suburban Pittsburgh neighborhood were built in the 1960s and were offered dishwashers. Since many of these homes would be considered starter homes with small kitchen they all had GE spacemaker dishwashers under the sink.
My mom years later replaced her GE with a regular Caloric (dm) (kitchen modification) to accommodate a full size dishwasher. She regretted it and hated the performance of the Caloric. |
Post# 965358 , Reply# 5   11/1/2017 at 10:57 (2,338 days old) by johnrk (BP TX)   |   | |
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what are D&M dishwashers? |
Post# 965364 , Reply# 6   11/1/2017 at 11:17 (2,338 days old) by agiflow2 ()   |   | |
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Design and manufacture |
Post# 965371 , Reply# 7   11/1/2017 at 11:42 (2,338 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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D&M dishwashers were produced for a number of brands from the 1950s through the 1980s. The brands were Kenmore, Gassers & Sattler, Tappan (at times); Caloric, Magic Chef; Moderen Maid. Cheap, porcelain coated tubs and racks. No filter system. But washed well with numerous water changes. Sears/Kenmore was probably their largest customer and brand label. |
Post# 965472 , Reply# 11   11/1/2017 at 21:03 (2,338 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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top it off will deposit a fine dusting of goo on your plates due to the lack of filtering
I have a 1965 Lady Kenmore D&M as my daily driver and don't find that an issue at all and I never pre-rinse. The built-in grinder is excellent at removing food particles as it has 6 full fills for R-W-R-W-R-R. Build quality I agree is questionable, but I have found cleaning ability excellent. |
Post# 965497 , Reply# 12   11/1/2017 at 22:17 (2,338 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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My experiences with them were good! I have a friend that had this late 60s or early 70s caloric! This was my 1st real experiences operating a DW! I liked the fact it didn't have a tower and it held a lot of dishes! No it didn't wash like a KA, whirlpool or Maytag, but it did a good job cleaning dirty greasy dishes! And of course cleaned quickly! Everything always sparkled after the fact! The model my friend had was builtin but is was like this one exactly!
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Post# 965505 , Reply# 13   11/1/2017 at 22:27 (2,338 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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This one a friend had and I operated many times with excellent results! Theirs was builtin and I always had fun :) helping clean up after the parties!
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Post# 965508 , Reply# 14   11/1/2017 at 22:36 (2,338 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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In the late 70's their initial design except for Kenmore and modern maid to my knowledge was changed to this interior design. It seemed they were trying to be like maytag with a RR! This capacity was cut and they became a POS design! Made no sense! I think this was the beginning of their demise! Almost as bad as what WCI did to Frigidaire!
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Post# 965518 , Reply# 15   11/1/2017 at 23:40 (2,338 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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Post# 965598 , Reply# 17   11/2/2017 at 12:56 (2,337 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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I have a D&M mobile dishwasher in my kitchen, it doesn't have a fan-assisted drying and I don't use it very often but it does work fine.
My other D&M dishwasher (pictures 1 to 4) is an impeller machine and the impeller does turn during the drying cycle. It doesn't extract air from outside the machine but it does move air around the small heating element that glows red! One might think having the Bakelite impeller turn during the drying cycle avoids that it catches fire! Probably not as the wash arm D&M (pictures 5-6) seems to have a very similar heating element and it didn't melt anything around it including the plastic wash arm just above it! |
Post# 965671 , Reply# 18   11/2/2017 at 20:00 (2,337 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Hi Mike, All D&M DWs with wash arms had a chopper blade, and All DWs work better with a filter, out first DW [ disaster] was a 1966 KM by D&M and yes it generally produced pretty clean dishes, BUT there were many times that a lot of crap was left on the bottoms of glasses and any other dead areas that was recirculated by by the pump that should have been filtered out of the wash stream.
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Post# 966022 , Reply# 19   11/4/2017 at 17:49 (2,335 days old) by seedub (South Texas Hill Country)   |   | |
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This is very similar to the Modern Maid our builder installed when we constructed our dream home in 1977. Ours was black also, but had no rocker switch to control the dry mode (apparently using one of the cycle buttons on the left to accomplish this, I suppose.) My aunt owned a portable 1975 avocado MOL KM with roto-rack and illuminated control panel.
It was fun to listen to D&M machines drain: sounded like a jet plane taking off.
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