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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


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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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Thanks for "righting" the picture. wish people would learn to post pics right-side up. That's a BOL model. I saw like 3 or 4 of these in that kitchen book that ent from the 30s to the 70s.

Post# 423287 , Reply# 2   3/17/2010 at 20:36 (5,124 days old) by lebron (Minnesota)        
The color is worth noting too

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"Retro Yellow" - priceless hahahah

Post# 423370 , Reply# 3   3/18/2010 at 07:58 (5,124 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

When Waste King came out with a dishwasher in 1957, this was the only model. We have two of them. The oldest one, has a stainless steel front. The slightly newer one WAS yellow, but painted over with some lumpy black paint that should come off the panels easily. Both are in excellent shape.

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.

Lawrence


Post# 423405 , Reply# 5   3/18/2010 at 13:47 (5,123 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)        
Impeller or Wash Arm?

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What kind of machine is this? Seems I remember years ago someone had a machine that looked like this where the dishes in the rack went in a circle like an impeller machine but there was a washarm under the rack.

Post# 423410 , Reply# 6   3/18/2010 at 14:15 (5,123 days old) by Iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas)        
Not the "Tapper" model

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It was horrible. It kept tapping, and tapping. I wonder this was written by the same person that once came into my video store and wanted the movie "Dragging Miss Daisy". Then the same lady wanted that movie with Dolly Pardon "Steel Bagonias"

People are so much fun.


Post# 423455 , Reply# 7   3/18/2010 at 18:55 (5,123 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

This machine had a unique lower rack. Look at it closely the next time the POD is the Waste King ad with the mistletoe. The plates and saucers in the lower rack were loaded from front, back and both sides facing the center. The corners of the lower rack could hold saucers on the diagonal or bowls. The machine had one of the most free-form upper racks I have ever seen; no pins and one divider running front to back. The cycle was one wash, two rinses and dry, but it was unique in its own way. First the wash arm had lots of little holes, but some the holes on each half of the arm were angled to spray to the center so they were spraying across the tub. I think it was not only to wash both sides of plates, but also to spray things from different angles in the top racks. By the end of the wash, these fine, high power sprays had made foam that was left in the bottom of the tank after the wash water drained. Foam was not uncommon in machines that did not give a pre-rinse before the wash. It was called protein foam from foods. It is the same principle behind the foam in ocean waves, organic matter. There is a Dishwasher ALL detergent ad that ran for years in magazines talking about how ALL controlled this foam. While the drain valve was open after the wash, there was a long spray from the fill flume on the left side of the tank, spraying water to wash down all of the foam before the rinsing started. The drain pump came on once or twice during the dry cycle to pump out moisture that condensed on the tub walls.

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.

Post# 423474 , Reply# 9   3/18/2010 at 21:56 (5,123 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Here's the referred to POD. This is a big thankyou to Glenn, this site means a lot to him and has through all these yeaers. He's been very dilligent in saving every new POD.

Post# 423523 , Reply# 10   3/19/2010 at 05:23 (5,123 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)        
I'm not confused.

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I think you described it perfectly. Thank you. That is exactly how I remember the one I mentioned above although not to that detail. Thank you!!

Post# 423535 , Reply# 11   3/19/2010 at 07:17 (5,123 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

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



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