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Post# 492151   1/28/2011 at 16:46 (4,829 days old) by cyclemonitor ()        

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Notice the telephone number! Bellmont 7 AKA-- B E 7


Post# 492161 , Reply# 8   1/28/2011 at 16:56 (4,829 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)        
Question

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Did the housewife really sit on a stool next to the machine and read a magazine while it was running?

 

Malcolm


Post# 492172 , Reply# 9   1/28/2011 at 17:24 (4,829 days old) by Kenmore71 (Minneapolis, MN)        
They were noisy!

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I grew up with an early 70's Maytag dishwasher in the house. I think reading during the cycle would be your only option since you couldn't hear a TV, radio or have a conversation in a normal tone of voice with it running!

Post# 492192 , Reply# 10   1/28/2011 at 18:30 (4,829 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
MT DISHWASHER BROCHURE

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I have this same brochure some where and it always looked like the lady on the cover was whearing the hanging lamp and about to pick up the vase of flowers with her right hand and toss them at anyone who made fun of her lighted hat LOL.

Post# 492195 , Reply# 11   1/28/2011 at 18:39 (4,829 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Very nice.  They eventually modified the pots & pans cycle  on the push-button model such that the brochure I got in  1984, said the main wash phase was extended.  I think by that time they'd also rearranged the buttons such that there was heated dry on or off and it wasn't tied to one certain cycle. 


Post# 492221 , Reply# 12   1/28/2011 at 20:06 (4,828 days old) by cyclemonitor ()        
in addition

1971 ?

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Post# 492237 , Reply# 22   1/28/2011 at 20:27 (4,828 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)        
David, a thousand thanks!

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That first dishwasher catalog is one of the first I ever got back in 1970! Forgot totally about it! And the model is the same woman they used for the Washer and Dryer catalog. And I'm here to attest that that Maytag Top Loading portable is one of the best freakin' dishwashers I've ever used.

 

 

 


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Post# 492260 , Reply# 25   1/28/2011 at 20:53 (4,828 days old) by A440 ()        
Very nice!

Great Scans!
Interesting on the first set of scans the pots & pans cycle is shorter than the regular cycle. I wonder if this was a misprint?
There are beautiful dishwashers!
Thanks for sharing!
Brent


Post# 492263 , Reply# 26   1/28/2011 at 21:04 (4,828 days old) by Maytagbear (N.E. Ohio)        
Oh!


A white WC400 was my first dishwasher. So far, my best dishwasher.
I Bobloaded it on a regular basis, and unless the item was BURNED on, instead of just baked on, everything cleaned the first time.


Thank you for scanning.



Lawrence/Maytagbear


Post# 492269 , Reply# 27   1/28/2011 at 21:18 (4,828 days old) by appnut (TX)        
Pots & Pans time misprint

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Brent, no it wasn't.  The description mentioned the cycle was also plastics.  The heating element was not energized at all during the cycle and at the end of hte final rinse, the cycle terminated without drying heat.  As I mentioned above, I knew at some point Maytag rearranged buttons/names on the TOL and the Pots & Pans Cycle ended up with an extended main wash and added heat and heated dry.  They just switched the no-heat option cycle to china & plastics. 


Post# 492277 , Reply# 28   1/28/2011 at 21:33 (4,828 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)        
Thank you

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Once again... Great Scan. Eddie

Post# 492302 , Reply# 29   1/28/2011 at 23:22 (4,828 days old) by gowest84 (Phoenix, AZ)        
Montgomery Wards Dishwasher made by Maytag

These machines look very much like the pushbutton dishwasher we had in the early '70's. Did Maytag make them or was it someone else?

The MW we had look identical to these Maytags - and yes, they were loud.


Post# 492310 , Reply# 30   1/28/2011 at 23:51 (4,828 days old) by A440 ()        
Nah Not Loud.....

The "direct drive pumps" were very nice sounding.  I always thought they sounded like a washing machine washing.

The pump out was kind of loud.  Not too bad though.

Fun Dishwashers that is for sure!


Post# 492318 , Reply# 31   1/29/2011 at 00:43 (4,828 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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I was also surprised to see that the Pots & Pans cycle added no heat during the cycle (in the first brochure) when Maytags made their debut.

 

In the second brochure, the Pots & Pans cycle added heat, which only makes sense.  Why would anyone create a cycle for non heat- resistant plastics and pots & pans? 


Post# 492366 , Reply# 32   1/29/2011 at 09:15 (4,828 days old) by verizonbear (Glen Burnie )        
Loading the top loading portable

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Thanks so much for these scans growing up in Orlando FL we had the WU600 in harvest gold, it lasted 20 years and held a ton of dishes and washed flawlessly. Was curious about the configuration of the top load portable,it was not seem to have the top racks that folded out like the GE and Kitchenaid. Did you have to remove the top rack to load the bottom rack. Also this top load had a bigger footprint than the competition did it hold the same amount of dishes as the front load Maytag?

Post# 492393 , Reply# 33   1/29/2011 at 12:17 (4,828 days old) by appnut (TX)        
Pots & Pans cycle without heat

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eugne, in the early days of starting to offer cycles other than on, one of the options was some sort of pots & pans or utensil/utility cycle.  The KitchenAid VariCycle (Superba) KDS14 was their firsst.  The utensil cycle had a 5 minute dry.  Our 1959 Waste King did prewash, wash, and 1st rinse.  Someon posted a GE Impeller with button and the pots/pans cycle had no heat dry.  I believe the premise was to wash and soften up soil so it could be easily removed without being dried on at the end of the cycle.  If you will notice on the Caloric Intake thread, the machine with the pots & pans cycle did the same thing, no head.  it was even a wash & two rinses I believe.  Gaffers & Satler did the same thing in the 1980 dishwashers with Pots & Pans cycle.  Even the cookware cycle on our 1968 Waste King did a ocmplete wash cycle and the last rinse was 7 minutes long to finish scrubbing.  Then there was a no heat dry.  I think all that changed with the advent of the Power Scrub and Soak & Scrub cycles as well as the Power Scour cycles on KA, GE, and WP machines, respectively. 


Post# 492419 , Reply# 34   1/29/2011 at 15:35 (4,828 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
MONTGOMERY WARDS DWs

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Were never made by MT, in the 1970s they were made by GM Frigidare and 1980 were W Westinghouse designs.

Post# 492425 , Reply# 35   1/29/2011 at 16:37 (4,828 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)        

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Great scans! Awesom thread!

You got to love a center dial portable topload dishwasher!


Post# 492791 , Reply# 36   1/31/2011 at 09:33 (4,826 days old) by whitetub (Montreal, Canada)        

Wonderfull scans. Thank you so much.

It seems like the flatware basket is a long thin one, or a split basket, in the first top-loading portable model. Not the regular Maytag flatware basket.

Am I wrong?

Thanks,

Serge


Post# 492847 , Reply# 37   1/31/2011 at 16:28 (4,826 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)        
Serge

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"It seems like the flatware basket is a long thin one, or a split basket, in the first top-loading portable..."

 

Well spotted. The early ones also had a nifty dual detergent dispenser that maybe we can persuade John LF to post a picture of. Either way, I don't think there has ever been a dishwasher with a better designed racking system. Even far superior to their own racking system in the front loaders.


Post# 492856 , Reply# 38   1/31/2011 at 17:02 (4,826 days old) by cyclemonitor ()        
I missed a few years....

1984

 

Ken! I love the graphics you do!!!!!


Post# 492895 , Reply# 39   1/31/2011 at 19:28 (4,825 days old) by nmassman44 (Brooksville Florida)        

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love love these scans! Keep em coming!

Post# 492913 , Reply# 40   1/31/2011 at 20:11 (4,825 days old) by steved (Guilderland, New York)        
more dependability

"Bristles-of-Water"

Post# 492916 , Reply# 41   1/31/2011 at 20:16 (4,825 days old) by steved (Guilderland, New York)        
and more...

features

Post# 492917 , Reply# 42   1/31/2011 at 20:17 (4,825 days old) by steved (Guilderland, New York)        
your servant

gotta love that. There's that detergent dispenser

Post# 492919 , Reply# 43   1/31/2011 at 20:28 (4,825 days old) by steved (Guilderland, New York)        
and finally

the guts

Post# 492940 , Reply# 44   1/31/2011 at 22:11 (4,825 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)        
That's the dispenser!!!!

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Steve.

 

Perfect.

 

Thank you.


Post# 493169 , Reply# 45   2/1/2011 at 19:22 (4,824 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
MT WP600 TL PORTABLE DW

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Yes we do have one of the very first of these it has the two separate motors one for drain and one for circulation of wash and rinse water. I will say it was a very interesting machine and one of the largest inside capacities of any home machine Except the 30" GE roll outs and the eil fated 30" Day-cores. I never used the machine to actually wash dishes as we used it for years in the shop to wash all sorts of refrigerator and other parts in. I was never really all that impressed with the loading of MT reverse rack machines, but this TL machine you could take out the top rack and load all sorts of unusual items in it.


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