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Post# 56508 , Reply# 1 2/8/2005 at 23:30 (7,009 days old) by appnut  (TX) |
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Dave, lemme irst welcome you to the group. I have a 1987 GE GSD1200G PotScrubber, one of the last of the rapid advance timer dishwashers, aside form KA superba. Anyway, I've been dealing with these dishwashers since 1963. I've simply learned to work around it. But then again, my dishes are from 1961 and they fit very well, I even bent the small saucer rack to fit my cereal bowls. Yes there are some times the tower and silverware basket get in the way. I do creative loading and move the silverware basket around some whre it will fit with the tines. I have to admit, when GE came out with the super upper rack, that made loading bulky items easier--such as my 5 qt. crock pot, stock pots and similar things. It's also very rare when things in my top rack don't get clean. But 99% of the time, even when I have large cassaroles, skillets, and mixing bowls all stuffed in the bottom rack, as long as there's space for the tower to pop up, cleans like a champ. I used to have a link to some photos of my dishwasher loads on the old site, but now gone and I can't find my photos under my yahoo id appnut. If you can find them, good luck. In fact my load right now has a 10.5" skillet tilted over and resting on the saucer rack to provide an ange; a 5 qt. mixing bowl, 9 x 13 cake pan, a small roastin pan, 4 qt. sauce pan, skillet lid, rimmed soup bowl, salad plate, 10" round biscuit pan, and a saucer--that's just in the bottom rack. The top rack is equally full. The skillet had some burned on stuff on it; cake pan was baked mac & cheese and mixing bowl mixed that up. Ran it on PotScrubber with Cascade Complete powder, all is immaculate, including the 16 oz tall glass on the right back corner of the top rack. Personally, I prefer the tower for dealing with tall cookie sheets and platters. I had a Kenmore made by D&N with an upper rack wash arm. Was very frustrated with it's height limits and it was a piece of junk, dind't clean worth spit. I know someday I'll have to get a new dishwasher, but the tall tub design will help me with the upper wash arm. Bob | ||
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Post# 56546 , Reply# 5 2/9/2005 at 06:48 (7,009 days old) by GadgetGary (Bristol,CT) |
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GE Tower
In 1986, I bought the GE Potscrubber(Model#2800-I think) with the all digital display. It had the tower and everything that i put in that machine came out CLEAN, however, some things did not dry as well as in the KitchenAid that I replaced. The GE always heated the water, and back then, was one of the first to have a 'CLEAN' light(which I thought was KEWL). I replaced it in 1992 with a KitcheAid Superba. The KitchenAid is still running strong(upper racks are starting to rust along the rails) and the PreWash dispenser does not open due to a loss of spring action but no big deal). If I had it to do over again, I would have kept the GE since I loved the racking and Super upper rack, and never had a problem with the dish tower. I did have to replace the digital display, but, it was under warranty. If I had to replace today, don't know if I would get a KA, Maytag, or GE. I am scared about the imports since they seem to have smaller racks, and I hear it is hard to get someone to service these machines. My brother still has the GE machine that I mentioned above and is still going strong. GadgetGary | ||
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Post# 56553 , Reply# 7 2/9/2005 at 07:49 (7,009 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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My sister has a wash-tower GE Profile potscrubber that I put in their house to replace an older GE model when they moved in, some of you might remember the pics and the Tappan Fabulous 400 range... They GE does a fine job on everything and I've heard no complaints from them so far, of course her husband is legally blind so he's more concerned with noise but the cleaning seems to be up to par as well. Over Thanksgiving last year, we had lots of family in town and we all centered around her house. Three loads a day and that GE never missed a dish.
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Post# 56645 , Reply# 8 2/9/2005 at 14:15 (7,009 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Add me to the list of people who shake their fist at the dreaded wash-tower----not because of how they affect cleaning, but for how much they limit what you can load into the rack. I use a lot of stockpots and other large, out-sized pans, so a wash-tower would drive me nuts. I also hated the water funnel in the center of the upper rack of my 2002 Frigidaire for the same reason. My new Frigidaire has done away with the funnel, and now I can put oddly-sized items in the top rack, too. Having said all that, if you wash large pots and pans by hand (some people prefer to), then the wash-tower probably isn't as much of an issue. Welcome to the site, by the way! | ||
| Post# 56649 , Reply# 9 2/9/2005 at 15:07 (7,009 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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Post# 56655 , Reply# 10 2/9/2005 at 15:48 (7,009 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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Post# 56714 , Reply# 14 2/9/2005 at 23:15 (7,008 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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David, I beg to differ about your comment about the power shower not being worth any good for large bowls or cups/glassses in the top rack. That is what helps keep food bits from accumulating in those concave areas. And helps make sure the outside of large bowls or stopots get said food bits removed too.
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| Post# 56750 , Reply# 16 2/10/2005 at 08:55 (7,008 days old) by deeptub (Carbondale, IL) | ||
I try to keep an open mind about wash towers. I tell myself that there must be some good reason for it to be designed that way. I don't mind the fixed towers as much as the telescoping ones. At least the fixed ones remind you that they're there. Having grown up with single hydrosweep KitchenAids, I can be pretty crafty about loading. But even a single hydrosweep KA can hold a half-sheet baking pan on each side of the lower rack. My present everyday machine is a KA with upper and lower washarms. I'm so used to putting 12" skillets and 16 qt stockpots and all sorts of big items in the bottom rack, that when I go to a friend's who has a recent Maytag Jetclean, I start to fuss at all the loading constraints. And this Thermador that I've found recently is tricky...it won't hold half sheet pans, which it COULD if they hadn't put the upper rack tracks right at the very bottom of the rack. If they were closer to the top, the pans could slide right into the gap between the tub wall and the upper rack. That is, if you also moved the side mounted silverware baskets inboard. They could theoretically be placed anywhere in the lower rack, but the tine spacing is such that they only fit in their designated places in the front corners. In my experience, GE dishwashers always have done an amazing job IF they have the self-cleaning micro filter in the back of the tub. AND, that new QuietMotor really is quiet--and can be retrofitted to all GE DWs back to 1970. T. | ||
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Post# 57043 , Reply# 19 2/12/2005 at 12:54 (7,006 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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concave bottoms | ||
| Post# 57046 , Reply# 20 2/12/2005 at 13:22 (7,006 days old) by agiflow () | ||
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your a goof appnut ;-) | ||
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Post# 60891 , Reply# 22 3/22/2005 at 05:10 (6,968 days old) by GadgetGary (Bristol,CT) |
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YES!
I loved this dishwasher. Got rid of it for my KA since the drying was not up to the KA, but, always wish I kept it since it washed everything GREAT. And I always could load so much into it. Well, thanks to the forum, I just got one like it again. I am going to put it in my laundry room and use it as a second one when my KA is full. This forum is AWESOME. Here's my find in great condition: I put a plug on the wiring, put the drain in the laundry sink, and decided to have a plumber put something on the water supply so I could 'quick-connect' it to the laundry sink faucet. The parts came to $23.00. Are you all sitting down???? Labor was $120.00!!!! Oh well, at least I found what I was looking for and am looking forward to using the dishwasher. CLICK HERE TO GO TO GadgetGary's LINK on eBay | ||
| Post# 60910 , Reply# 23 3/22/2005 at 10:21 (6,968 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ) | ||
Wash towers and versatility
I think it all comes down to a question of versatility. I've seen everything from my 1975-ish GE's wash tower to my friends' much more recent (maybe 1997-ish) GE Profile wash tower. The old one is okay if you're careful about top rack loading; the new one seems unfazed by anything you can throw at it. Usually I can move silverware baskets and do ridiculous somersaults to achieve the desired loading effect. The problem in both models, though, is what to do with a big bowl or pot that needs to go in the bottom rack, but can't, because the little guard for the spray tower is in the way. I like piped systems that don't use towers, myself, and though its presence can also be a limiting factor (citing the low-hanging Whirlpool top-rack spray arms of yesteryear), an upper spray arm really adds a level of forgiveness to top rack loading. | ||
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