Thread Number: 15657
Yoo-Hoo! Vintage KitchenAid (Hobart), KDI-18 in Ohio |
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Post# 263018   2/3/2008 at 01:21 (5,898 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Looks in very good condition. Only 16 hours left on the auction. L. CLICK HERE TO GO TO launderess's LINK on eBay |
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Post# 263026 , Reply# 1   2/3/2008 at 02:58 (5,898 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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Post# 263029 , Reply# 2   2/3/2008 at 04:49 (5,898 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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Nice unit but no water heater, would be ok but would need a good source of hot water to have the machine operate correctly. Also looked at pictures and cycle sequence dial seems to have strange sequence compared to other KitchenAid dial machines. Any Opinions? I hope it goes to a good home. With a 140 hot water and a change to have the up / down upper rack this would be a rocking unit. Peter |
Post# 263045 , Reply# 4   2/3/2008 at 10:29 (5,897 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Steve, you're absolutely correct on your cycle observation. when I moved here 22 years ago, friends of mine that moved here with me, bought a house that was around 1978 or 1979 built and had an avocado kitchen with the 2-oven self-clean hotpoint range, a Philco fridge, and this exact dishwasheer. I got to play with this dishwawsheer several times, particularly when they were on vacation & I'd go use their secluded hot tub. IIRC, the first thing it did on all 3 cycles was like a suds kill or purge--the water line opened up while the drain solenoid was still open to flush out the hot water line. And yes S'n'S and Normal cycle sequences were solely determined by which button was pushed. And no, no wwater heat maintenance during soak periods like on the Superbas. Otherwise, it circulated, soaked, circulated, soaked, ... The dry cycle was shorter on S'n'S because the rinses went further into the "dry" portion on the knob. Unfortunately the house was out of my price range when I moved here--I wish I had seen it first though. I'd have bought it solely for the kitchen and hot tub. It was a 4-bedroom house.
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Post# 263150 , Reply# 5   2/3/2008 at 23:27 (5,897 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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Post# 263152 , Reply# 6   2/3/2008 at 23:27 (5,897 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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Post# 263153 , Reply# 7   2/3/2008 at 23:29 (5,897 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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Post# 263154 , Reply# 8   2/3/2008 at 23:30 (5,897 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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Post# 263155 , Reply# 9   2/3/2008 at 23:31 (5,897 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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Post# 263156 , Reply# 10   2/3/2008 at 23:39 (5,897 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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This was a well designed series and I think they should not have drastically changed after this series. The 19's worked completly differently. They should have kept the 18 series designs for the 19's but add the heaters like they did for all models except they should have had the main wash heat to 140. How they came up with the 19 design is beyond me. But they did stick with that crazy water heating system until the end with the first water fill being heated. But no dishwasher will ever be built like them. Peter |
Post# 263159 , Reply# 11   2/3/2008 at 23:54 (5,897 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 263168 , Reply# 12   2/4/2008 at 01:07 (5,897 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 263179 , Reply# 13   2/4/2008 at 06:18 (5,897 days old) by gadgetgary (Bristol,CT)   |   | |
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Post# 263184 , Reply# 14   2/4/2008 at 07:23 (5,897 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 263196 , Reply# 15   2/4/2008 at 11:07 (5,896 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Post# 263205 , Reply# 16   2/4/2008 at 12:30 (5,896 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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'The 19's worked completly differently' - yes Gary the 19's all had water heaters in them and the dryer heater was taken out. In the 1st pre rinse and in the final rinse of all cycles the water would be heated to 150 degrees. They worked well so you could turn your water heater down to 120 as apposed to 140. But cycle times were long and the drying suffered without the heater even though the fan was still used. If you used jetdry the performance was improved. In todays standards this 19 series would be more acceptable with a SS tub. In the 20 series they put back the dry heater and only the 1st rinse was heated to 150. In both the 19 and 20 during the main wash the heater would be on at 1/2 the watage to maintain the temperature while water circulated. In later series water was heated in the 1st fill to 140 not 150. My thing was why didnt they just heat water in the main wash to 140. That would have saved energy and time. Actually I think the Insink Erators were better in that way they would heat water in the main wash to 140 unless you selected the energy saver wash option. (very simple and more desireable) I hope someone does take this kdi18 it would work great with a good hot water source. Peter |