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The Maytag Center Dial Dishwasher |
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Post# 216386   6/16/2007 at 06:25 (6,131 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Does anyone here have any photos of the original Maytag Top Loading portable dishwasher? I was asked about the racking in it and although I sort of remember it being white and essentially similar to the racking in the Jet-Cleans, I haven't seen it since one was on the floor at Gimbel's on 33rd Street back in 1969
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Post# 216476 , Reply# 2   6/16/2007 at 16:51 (6,130 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Here is the one we brought back from the Early, IA store a few years ago. It worked OK but was covered with iron deposits inside. I never really used to wash dishes, but just looking into it was annoying. The cups, glasses and smaller items were placed in the lower rack via a hinged opening in the top rack where all the plates and larger items were placed (similar to the racking in the front-loading units) but what a pain that would be! If you had a full load and put everything in all at once and ran it, it might not have been too bad, but if you saved dishes for several days to make a full load, it would be a mess trying to open the "trap door" in the top rack, moving things out of the way, etc. to get your coffee cup down to the lower level. I ended up giving the machine away as I had no room for it and could never see myself having anything more than contempt for it's design. It was also a rather large appliance, the tub portion was 24" square and then the controls & hose/coupler housing was added to the front of the machine so it had a rather large footprint.
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Post# 216501 , Reply# 3   6/16/2007 at 20:04 (6,130 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 216518 , Reply# 4   6/16/2007 at 21:57 (6,130 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 216570 , Reply# 5   6/17/2007 at 11:03 (6,129 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Does anyone have a picture of the inside with the racking? It's exactly that "annoying" racking that I was curious about. I remember this was the first dishwasher where the glassware was loaded on the bottom and the plates were loaded on the top rack. With the front loaders, and one of them is my daily driver, I thought and still think this was an exceptionally clever design as it solved the problem of making sure the glasses and cups got sufficient water spray, but I guess with the top loading model, the ergonomics of shifting racks was a pain in the butt.
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Post# 216574 , Reply# 6   6/17/2007 at 11:08 (6,129 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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I remember that model with the drain-pipe curls from "An American Quality Legend". I thought she looked kind of ratty back then, and I still do. She was dressed in polyester pants suits and used to display the 906,806,606 and 206 on the first Maytag Washer and Dryer brochures I ever requested from any appliance company back in the summer of 1969. I'm still looking for those brochures which I hope are buried deep inside some moving box I haven't looked in yet.
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Post# 216623 , Reply# 7   6/17/2007 at 18:40 (6,129 days old) by bpetersxx (laf in on the banks of the Wabash River)   |   | |
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