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Post# 423270   3/17/2010 at 19:10 (5,124 days old) by Pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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Interesting item on Ebay - owner claims it's a "Vintage General Electrie 'Waste King' Dishwasher"........ Hmmm....
Trust me, I'm biting my tongue in order to limit what I might have to say about that person's intelligence, especially when I look at what else they have for sale from the same kitchen. There IS actually a GE bottom mount refrigerator but there is a gas cooktop and a gas wall oven for sale, identified as "General Electric 'Tapper'" models. Location: CA Lawrence CLICK HERE TO GO TO Pulltostart's LINK on eBay |
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Post# 423277 , Reply# 1   3/17/2010 at 19:39 (5,124 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 423287 , Reply# 2   3/17/2010 at 20:36 (5,124 days old) by lebron (Minnesota)   |   | |
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Post# 423389 , Reply# 4   3/18/2010 at 11:20 (5,123 days old) by Pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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When my dad was transferred to Seymour Johnson AFB in July of 1959, we moved into a 6-month-old 3 bedroom unit of base housing (our unit was first occupied in March of that year). The housing came fully equipped with electric range, refrigerator, washer and dryer - all by General Electric. But, the garbage disposer and the dishwasher were by Waste King. This model is probably very similar to what we had. All of the appliances were BOL. I don't remember choices of cycles on the DW and I remember it being rather loud.
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Post# 423405 , Reply# 5   3/18/2010 at 13:47 (5,123 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)   |   | |
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Post# 423410 , Reply# 6   3/18/2010 at 14:15 (5,123 days old) by Iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas)   |   | |
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Post# 423461 , Reply# 8   3/18/2010 at 19:56 (5,123 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Tom, the one in the POD had 3 push-button cycles: Full Cycle, Pots/Pans, and Pre-Wash. The cycle sequence was basically what you described. BUT, a pre-wash was added and the 2nd rinse paused to heat the water to at least 150 degrees, probably higher. The pre-wash spray period was like 2 to 2.5 minutes. The main wash was like 7.5 or 8 minutes. First rinse was like 1.5 to 2 minutes and the final rinse was like one minute. The pump came on onces about the middle of the dry cycle. It first opened the drain solenoid and next increment started the pump. The Pots/Pans cycle stopped after the 1st rinse. This POD was just recently here, like last week. For the first time ever, I noticed the ad said the cycle was also designated for plastics. On our particular unit, there was something I found "interesting". The drain valve kinda made a "kerklunk" noise as the timer moved the increment from the pre-wash drain to the main-wash fill and it only did that on the Pots/Pans cycle. And pe-wash was just that one fill. I do not know about your 1957 models, but our's the top rack was shaped like a KA top rack--deeper on the sides for tall items and sloped upwards/formed a curve underneath for the dinner plates. Our's also apparently had two of those dividers you mentions, both removeable. We had one in the top rack and when the machine was replaced April, 1968, there was a 2nd one still in the cabinet. It was more like a rectangular corral. I thinkk my mom removed it because the dimensions of that "corral" wasn't wide enough to accommodate wide mugs or the large ice tea glasses we always seemed to have. The sides of the top rack had an area on the extreme left & right side that had a low divider separating it from the rest of the rack. That was a great area to place certain shaped cereal bowls (if your dishes would allow fitting there) or maybe berry/fingertip bowls. I know we had some sort of melmac when we moved into the new house. The fluted/swirled egged white dishes mostly seen in my dishwasher loads are the same st that went into this Waste King. And the berry bowls went along the sides of the top rack and the square cereal bowls went in the bottom rack in the back right & left corners of the lower rack as you described. The dishloops were arranged in those corners where those cereal bowls stood up very nicely and allowed water to not be blocked by them. As dishes were loaded in the bottom rack, dinner plates fit nicely on each of the 4 sides farthest from the center of the rack. As dishware was placed more toward the center for each row, dish diameters had to be reduced so they could nicely fit in the ensuing "square". Saucers and fruit bowls best fit on the last set of loops on all four sides at the very center of the rack. We also removed one of the flatware baskets to allow for vertical placement of certain types of pots and cassaroles so they wouldn't be placed face down. Everyone thoroughly confused? I don't think I've ever saved that POD, but I'll have to check. Maybe Glenn (DaDoES) has. Everyone thoroughly confused? ha ha ha.
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Post# 423474 , Reply# 9   3/18/2010 at 21:56 (5,123 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 423523 , Reply# 10   3/19/2010 at 05:23 (5,123 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)   |   | |
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Post# 423535 , Reply# 11   3/19/2010 at 07:17 (5,123 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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The POD is a later model than we have. I only referred to it because of the question about the lower rack. I can't think of any 1957 dishwashers with cycle modifiers. The cycle of our two Waste King dishwashers is wash, rinse & dry. That is all I was trying to describe. |
Post# 423582 , Reply# 12   3/19/2010 at 12:28 (5,122 days old) by lotsosudz (Sacramento, CA)   |   | |
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My Parents recieved one of the early Waste King dishwashers used, from some friends in 1962-63. It was a late 50's model,
bottomn of the line, with just wash, rinse, rinse dry. The dry cycle often melted light weight plastics, and the detergent cup had two sides, but was open and dumped all the detergent at once anyway. It didn't last long, as the timer pooped out, and we replaced it with a Kenmore roto-rack model in 1974. The Waste King roared when it ran, and use to make it hard to hear the TV in the adjoining family room. But us kids thought it was still better than doing them by hand, as we had before we got it. What a great memory. Thanks David |