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Post# 313469   11/6/2008 at 13:13 (5,643 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan)        

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Found this in a church, works, doesn't even seem to leak. they used it just often enough to keep it from going to pot. I told them it was an interesting machine, and they are willing to give it to a collector, for are cheap, new one to replacement it.




Post# 313470 , Reply# 1   11/6/2008 at 13:14 (5,643 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan)        

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another

Post# 313471 , Reply# 2   11/6/2008 at 13:16 (5,643 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan)        

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last one

Post# 313474 , Reply# 3   11/6/2008 at 13:33 (5,643 days old) by toggleswitch2 ()        

ooooh a really early D&M. Any chance fo a timer close-up?
Waht is the vintage of this gem?

Post# 313482 , Reply# 4   11/6/2008 at 14:53 (5,643 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        
Neat!

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If I was closer, I'd be trading them my 2002 Moffat for this one!
Oh and forgive my ignorance, but what does D&M stand for? I am making an educated guess that they were a manufacturer of several different brands.

Post# 313485 , Reply# 5   11/6/2008 at 15:29 (5,643 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)        

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D&M Design, and Manufacturing

Post# 313489 , Reply# 6   11/6/2008 at 15:57 (5,643 days old) by ricky5050 (Durham Britain)        
just a question

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has any one got a spare impellor for this type of machine for my dishmaster in the UK ? (see uk dishmaster uk thread) as mine is a bit battered and i doubt spares available in the uk.

thanks

Richard

Post# 313520 , Reply# 7   11/6/2008 at 18:25 (5,643 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)        
WOW

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If someone can snag this, I would. This is the first of two "missing links" between D&M's original impeller design and the Roto-Racks. The next would be an impeller with a spray tube to wash the top rack. This machine depends on the rotation of the spray from the impeller to spin the top rack--truly a rarity.

And a handsome machine!

Post# 313526 , Reply# 8   11/6/2008 at 18:40 (5,643 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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WOW, snag it!! Not only a timer shot, but also the buttons!!! Looks to be 1960 or 1961 machine.

Post# 313570 , Reply# 9   11/6/2008 at 22:57 (5,643 days old) by toggleswitch2 ()        

Does anyone have a video clip (or a link to same)showing an impeller (sp?) system washing?

Now did KithchenAid always have a spray arm and weren't they first with dishwashers?

If so, strange to see this type of wash system later in time.

Interesting to note that the impeller fan in panel #313470 appears to have one blade(left) that flings water to a mid level and that the blade on the right looks like it tosses water straight up!

Post# 313604 , Reply# 10   11/7/2008 at 08:01 (5,642 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan)        

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roto204 is exactly right, the spray from the prop gets the top rack spinning pretty fast, it is really a cool system. The top rack has a very good bearing system, spins so smooth.

Post# 313673 , Reply# 11   11/7/2008 at 16:45 (5,642 days old) by logixx (Germany)        

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"Does anyone have a video clip (or a link to same)showing an impeller (sp?) system washing?"

Here you go!

CLICK HERE TO GO TO logixx's LINK
Post# 313675 , Reply# 12   11/7/2008 at 16:51 (5,642 days old) by iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas)        


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From that video it appears that the splasher did a pretty good job of moving the water around.
I was very young when my aunt had a GE portable with a splasher, but I remember them being very noisy.

Post# 313720 , Reply# 13   11/8/2008 at 03:39 (5,642 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)        
I would think...

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As far as I can remember, KitchenAid always used a pump and spray arm. I'm going to guess, in the advent of the UM Commercial series machines , one would think that's when they started production of KitchenAid.
But there is one man that could tell us : Dr. Stevet, Dr. Stevet.... Information on The Hobart Manufacturing Co. Please !!!!!!

Post# 313766 , Reply# 14   11/8/2008 at 12:51 (5,641 days old) by stevet (West Melbourne, FL)        
no roto spinners here!

 Nah, Hobart never had anything remotely like the prop jobbers!
The UM preceded the Kitchenaids but the both had the horizontal mount motors similar to the SM series which I think you remember, Ed and then went to the vertical motors we are all more familiar with and of course the "Big Blue Washarm" was a standard from day one!
The first domestics were out in 1949 and some are probably still out there running.

Now my question is this: How much water did these prop jobbers use to move the water up to the top? How high did the tub fill up? I never saw one of these but do remember my aunt's bowtie pullout GE machine years ago. I thought it was so cool. So F& P is not really ahead of the times, just copied a good idea from way back then on a smaller scale!

Post# 313914 , Reply# 15   11/9/2008 at 12:54 (5,640 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan)        

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I can answer any questions about how it works, it is only a few blocks away.

Post# 314309 , Reply# 16   11/11/2008 at 06:47 (5,639 days old) by toggleswitch2 ()        

Thanks for the link to the video clip.

That explains the loading pattern and the reason everyone moved to spray-arms!

I'm sure the motor running without water made for a good fan-dry!



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