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ROTO-RACK dishwashers from the sixties
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Post# 240305   10/4/2007 at 12:44 (6,020 days old) by roto-tray-lover ()        

Hi everybody! You now have a new friend from Italy here! I love vintage dishwashers and I have a question for you: does anybody know of a roto-rack front door dishwasher from early sixties (probably 1963-64) which is quite similar to the "REX 3/Dinamic" and to the "Hoover Auto-Jet" models, with a fully rotating circular rack, but which doesn't have any basket for cutlery but single "buttonholes" placed all around the circumference of the rack itself? I once saw a picture of this dishwasher with forks and knives each one inserted in small individual buttonholes! If you know of this particular dishwasher and have a picture or some info for me I would be very grateful! Thanks
Ermanno





Post# 240310 , Reply# 1   10/4/2007 at 13:21 (6,020 days old) by vivalalavatrice ()        
BENVENUTO Ermanno!

Lo sapevo che avresti postato...sono contento!
Qui purtroppo anche tra noi dobbiamo postare sempre in inglese... dunque...

WELLCOME! I remember to have seen sometime ago a pic of a DW with circular racks...I don't know if they rotated of not, but if you want I'll soon post that pic...

I honestly don't remeber of any roto-rack dw in american dw history...

US Friends...any suggests?

Bye
Diomede


Post# 240316 , Reply# 2   10/4/2007 at 14:08 (6,020 days old) by roto-tray-lover ()        
Hi Diomede

It's nice to hear from you!
I'm not sure the dishwasher I'm looking for was made in US.
It could be European, as far as I know, however if you post the pic you have it would be great!
Ciao
Ermanno


Post# 240318 , Reply# 3   10/4/2007 at 14:28 (6,020 days old) by charbee ()        
Either I'm hallucinating, or...

I seem to remember one of my mom's Kenmore's from the mid-1960s had a round upper rack that spun...no fun slots for silverware that I remember, but I have a memory of spinning that top rack when I loaded it! I think that model also had a little side-sliding door that covered up the buttons on the front. She got a later Kenmore that had more buttons, but no round rack, nor fun little slidey-door over the buttons.

Post# 240320 , Reply# 4   10/4/2007 at 14:31 (6,020 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)        
Seems I recall seeing this machine on the POD.

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I think it was a Hoover dishwasher. Both upper and lower racks were circular and I wondered if they spun around during the cycle. I'd love to see photos of a real one.

Post# 240325 , Reply# 5   10/4/2007 at 15:01 (6,020 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)        

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I think there was a thread recently in here where somebody had just snagged a vintage Kenmore DW with a spinning rack.

Post# 240332 , Reply# 6   10/4/2007 at 15:36 (6,020 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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Yup. My mothers Sears Lady Kenmore from 68/69 and her later Kenmore from 73/74 (she moved) [both by D&M BTW] had an upper Roto-rack.

Half the fun was opening the door and watching the upper rack spin 'till it coasted to a stop!

Those machines had more control-panellights and neon indicators than a space-ship! My favorite was the water temperature indicators of:

Cool
Normal
Sani (Sanitary)


YAY Roto racks. Let's see some pics guys!


Post# 240359 , Reply# 7   10/4/2007 at 16:54 (6,020 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Ahhh, the beautiful Roto-Rack dishwasher!

Post# 240383 , Reply# 8   10/4/2007 at 19:22 (6,020 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )        

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It's truly a carousel of color you got there

Post# 240387 , Reply# 9   10/4/2007 at 19:44 (6,020 days old) by washertalk ()        

Wow, does that brings back memories of our 1969 roto-rack MOL KM portable. Ours was avacodo but with green racks and seal.

Post# 240393 , Reply# 10   10/4/2007 at 20:26 (6,020 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Steve, you forgot the Temp Light "Delay".

Post# 240408 , Reply# 11   10/4/2007 at 21:35 (6,020 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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OMG yes, thank you Bob-load Bob Appnut!

Post# 240428 , Reply# 12   10/4/2007 at 23:16 (6,020 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )        

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And I just remembered something. I was out of town yesterday thrifting and I went into a large thrift store and spotted an old Kenmore dw with a bunch of boxes on top, across the other side of the store. Well I continued poking and prodding thru all the old junky small appliances etc and vacuums etc. Found a ne'er used juicer attachment for my Bosch Universal mixer for $10 and a good shape woven vacuum hose, paid for them and left. I totally forgot to go look at the KM dishwasher in my state of euphoria. Now I'm curious if it was a roto rack or not...

Post# 240478 , Reply# 13   10/5/2007 at 09:56 (6,019 days old) by roto-tray-lover ()        
maybe BAUKNECHT?

Hi! I found a picture of a roto-rack Bauknecht (Germany) dishwasher from the early sixties which is very similar to the dishwasher I was looking for. Maybe it is the same brand, but this one is a counter-top model while I'm looking for a free-standing model (bigger than this). Does anyone know if Bauknecht was producing this dishwasher in the sixties? Any pictures to share?
Thanks /Ermanno


Post# 240559 , Reply# 14   10/5/2007 at 19:47 (6,019 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada)        
Nice dishwasher

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would be nice to see a video of this dishwasher workin throug a complete cycle from start to finish.

tank you

Ps: when i was young my grand mother add a rotorack dishwasher but i do not know the year or the brand all i know is the timer was gold with a red arrow pointing to the cycle and it was white.


Post# 240972 , Reply# 15   10/8/2007 at 01:33 (6,017 days old) by vivalalavatrice ()        
Italian roto-rack DW

I don't absolutely remember of any domestic rotorack DW here in Iatly... maybe I saw few in some restaurant or where there's a massif employment of the DW.

Here you are anyway a pic I found in one of the several books I have at home... it could be a zanussi...but I'm not sure.

BYE!
Diomede



Post# 240973 , Reply# 16   10/8/2007 at 01:38 (6,017 days old) by vivalalavatrice ()        
And TL DW too...

Neither TL DW had a good life here...
Here you are an example: my old neighbours had one...I was fascinating by that lady puttin the dishes from above like if it were a washing machine (I've always loved everything is Top loading!).

It maybe a Candy... or Rex?

Anyway it's not completely TL (like some american Whirlpool TLDW I saw around here) it's "mista"...the top rack is TL and the low rack is a conventionale sliding one.



Post# 241002 , Reply# 17   10/8/2007 at 09:07 (6,016 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)        
Wow!

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That machine with the spoons hanging off the rack is very interesting. Thanks for posting it. I wonder, did the entire rack spin while it was washing.

Post# 242456 , Reply# 18   10/15/2007 at 07:13 (6,009 days old) by roto-tray-lover ()        
message for foraloysius!

Hi foraloysius I saw on the old threads posted a few years ago that you had brochures of Bauknecht machines from the sixties! Do you still have them? Could you please post those of the first Bauknecht dishwashers???
Thank you



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