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Thread Number: 31514
Tappan Dishwasher POD Nov 16, 2010 |
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Post# 475607 , Reply# 2 11/16/2010 at 19:45 (4,901 days old) by appnut  (TX) |
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Tom, you are abbsolutely correct in everything you said. Our house we moved into September 1961 had an O'Keefe & Merrit version of a basic builder model. It was removed and replaced with our 1960 Waste King before we moved in and that other dishwasher was put in our old house. My Godfather's family moved into a new house in 1963 with the basic model version of this. One dial with Rinse & Hold, Normal, Short, and Plate Warmer cycles. When it washed, it literally sounded just like the tires on a car as it's going down a wet freeway or expressway. Pretty pathetic at washing. My memory of the dishwasher is a little bit fuzzy regarding the racking--I was always far more intersted in the WO65-2 in the laundry alcove. What I'm fuzzy about with rackintg is this. The POD picture appeas to have a top rack that was fully usable all the way across and it looks like the racks moved independently of each other. I vaguely seem to remember the basic model had a rack that had both top & bottom racks all tied together with somewhat of an opened top rack to allow loading of the bottom rack. Top rack capacity was pretty dismal then.
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Post# 475648 , Reply# 3 11/16/2010 at 20:48 (4,901 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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TAPPAN DISHWASHER
In 1982 we removed a DW like the one on POD machine from a house in Bethesda Md. that was never used.I had just purchased a weekend house in Harpers Ferry WV. and wanted a DW for the dinning area of the house which was one level up from the kitchen. I though that this might make a good machine for this purpose, I knew that it would be helpless at washing pots and pans etc and installed a WP power Clean in the main kitchen. So I hooked the Tappan up in the shop at home and tried washing several loads of lightly soiled dishes. It was a total cleaning failure it moved the food from one side of the machine to the other. As Tom described it had four water changes per cycle two washes one in each direction and two rinses again one in each direction. I wish now that I had saved it for the museum so people could see the crazy things that were tried.
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Post# 475735 , Reply# 5 11/17/2010 at 07:16 (4,901 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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TAPPAN REVERSING ARM DISHWASHER
The Tappan [ I think it was called Reversa-Jet ] dishwasher had two sets of propulsion holes in both ends of the lower wash arm and as Tom was describing it would turn so many revolutions in one direction as a little SS spring would wind up and finally cause little SS shutters inside the ends of the arm to flip closing one set of holes and opening the other which caused the arm too reverse. These dishwashers had a plastica-sol tub like the earlier Tappans being decussed and the machine was actually made by Tappan, The D&M Tappans came a little later and did not have the reversing lower arm any longer.
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Post# 475754 , Reply# 6 11/17/2010 at 09:44 (4,901 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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This is a cool vintage oddball
I'd love to get my hands on one of these. It's washing performance wouldn't have been a problem in our house as my Mom hand washed every knife and fork that went into the pull-out. Did it at least have hot enough temperatures to sanitize everything? To paraphrase Joan Crawford, "If you stick a dish into a box with lots of hot water, what's to keep it from getting clean?"
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