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Thread Number: 3641
anybody make a coin-op dishwasher? |
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Post# 89143 , Reply# 1 10/16/2005 at 20:08 (6,764 days old) by parunner58  (Davenport, FL) |
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My thoughts exactly. I have thought about that too, in my mom's neighborhood built in the late 50's none of the houses had a dishwasher, and today some do not. I had thought about this every holiday when we had a house full of people and had to wash all those dishes. A dish-mat. Add a row of dishwashers at the local laundromat I thought it would be a nice addition and extra income. My mom got rid of her dishwasher after the five kids moved out and today she jokes about putting them in the wash basket and taking them to our's or my sisters house after a big family meal. If we are all there and this is just imeadiate family there are 17 of us.
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Post# 89167 , Reply# 2 10/16/2005 at 22:10 (6,764 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 89195 , Reply# 4 10/17/2005 at 00:19 (6,764 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Coin Op Dishwasher
Would not be a very water nor time efficient way of doing massive loads of dishes. Better to install a commercial dishwasher and charge for the service. People could load their dishes onto the standard "dish racks" all commercial dishwashers use, and bring them over to the unit. For really large volume, the small conveyor belt systems would work well; dirty dishes in one end clean dishes out the other. The advantage of commercial dishwashers is not only speed, but water savings. Conveyor models recycle water, and unit washers normally save the final rinse water to use as the first wash water for the next cycle. Just a thought. Launderess | ||
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Post# 89201 , Reply# 5 10/17/2005 at 01:07 (6,764 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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Post# 89202 , Reply# 6 10/17/2005 at 01:08 (6,764 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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Post# 89208 , Reply# 7 10/17/2005 at 02:49 (6,764 days old) by mattywashboy (Perth, Western Australia) |
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i work at Subiaco Oval which is a local soccor/rugby pitch. When i am not helping out waitering i operate the HUGE Hobart dishwasher that all the kitchens in the place have (its a huge place, look it up on the net) This diswasher takes up an entire wall of the kitchen and has a prewash section, main wash section and smaller rinse section. This machine takes about 15 mins to fill up depending on the water pressure (when there is a huge game on hen it can take up to 45 mins to fill) there is one small tank and one huge wash tank. Its a conveyer system with a control that you switch between short medium and long. Its a very cool machine to operate and i just love going to work some days. Anyway just my two cents.
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Post# 89292 , Reply# 8 10/17/2005 at 15:40 (6,764 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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matty: Are the water heaters electric elements, or gas jets under the sections? When I worked in a ritzy country-club there was a conveyor-belt machine there, and the gas heaters' flames (temperature maintainers and boosers) could be seen under the various sections of the machine. The flames jsut licked the bottom of the SS machine, no enclosure no nothing. | ||
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Post# 89314 , Reply# 9 10/17/2005 at 18:30 (6,764 days old) by mattywashboy (Perth, Western Australia) |
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toggle: no this is all electric powered. There is no drain pump, i have to insert and remove a long grey tube into a drain hole in the bottom of the tub. Above that is an electric heating coil similar to that in a household dishwasher. The tempretures are pre set with wash at 80*c and rinse at 100*c. It fills up with hot water and when it is done the heater coil keeps it hot. I wish it was gas, the amount of times the powers conked out! There is a small switch at the end of the machine that stops the machine when too many racks come out from the machine causing a traffic jam. The one is use had a power cut the other night and it confused this switch, now the dishwasher won't start up again, i think one of the wires is splitting, its a fairly old machine, about 7 years old and it has had VERY EXTENSIVE use. Luckily there are 4 more in the building to choose from so i'm never shorty of a Hobart dishwasher :)
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Post# 89319 , Reply# 10 10/17/2005 at 18:56 (6,764 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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It's getting hot in here. | ||
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Post# 89334 , Reply# 11 10/17/2005 at 19:37 (6,763 days old) by mattywashboy (Perth, Western Australia) |
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Post# 89367 , Reply# 12 10/17/2005 at 21:18 (6,763 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Post# 89412 , Reply# 13 10/18/2005 at 06:09 (6,763 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 89413 , Reply# 14 10/18/2005 at 06:18 (6,763 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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.....and in terms of contaimination... ashtrays (eh,a little extra fiber ain't so bad) dog bowls (not fun when not your dog) items containing lead iron - rusty items aluminum containers holding pesticides, germicides or insecticides. people wash baseball caps in there- chandelier glass pieces some steam salmon- I visited a friend years back who had sprayed insecticide in the DW..... and they STILL used if for storage of pots and pans. Guess what fun the next owner of that house is going to have when they decide to keep the retro-antique-vintage DW and use it...... I'd personally be very hesitant to use a community-accessible machine, unless there was a full-time operator "directing traffic" | ||
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Post# 89528 , Reply# 16 10/18/2005 at 17:49 (6,763 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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Dreams of Dish-o-Mats
When I was a kid I used to come up with all sorts of crazy ideas (ok maybe I still do). But one of them was a laundromat style store for dishes called a Dish-o-mat. People would take their dirty dishes and pots/pans into the car and schlep them to the Dish-o-Mat with coin op, windowed-doored dishwashers. It would have made for one very happy little boy to have visited one of these.
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Post# 89707 , Reply# 17 10/19/2005 at 12:38 (6,762 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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When I was in college, I wasn't on the campus meal plan. My roommate and I had a cool old microwave and I bought a Corning Microwave Browning Dish, so we made a quite amazing array of dorm-room cooked food. But I digress. We had a lot of dishes to do, so we bought a used portable dishwasher and stuck it in the laundry room in our pod. There was a single laundry tub in there, so it worked out perfectly. Naturally, we had to let everyone use it. Some of the disgusting things people put into the machine included sneakers and a freaking BED PAN (why anyone needed a bed pan in a dorm room, I'll never know). At any rate, it was almost a relief when the old Whirlpool gave up the ghost... | ||
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Post# 89721 , Reply# 18 10/19/2005 at 14:03 (6,762 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR) |
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Post# 89724 , Reply# 19 10/19/2005 at 14:29 (6,762 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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You mustn't eat out much then, do you? Most if not all restaurants by code are either required to use automatic dishwashers which must also by code santitise (by chemicals or heat), or hand wash with same chemicals or heat. In fact do not think many places in the United States allow pure hand washing alone, but hand washing followed by some sort of machine cleaning/rinse. This would be on the theory a machine can reach temps not safe for human hands, and or exposure to chemicals. Same would be true of most pubs, bars, or anyplace else that serves drinks and or food. Launderess | ||
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Post# 89726 , Reply# 20 10/19/2005 at 14:45 (6,762 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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If we really thought about all the gross stuff that we do or that happens around us we'd all be DEAD. Just don't think aobut it! I mean I have shaken plenty a hand and it was OBVIOUS that someone just had a personal itch minutes before. It should be mandatory to have to wash one's hands to get out of a lu. Some type of interlock for the door would be great. Back to gross dishwashers. BEDPAN in the DW? Not unless it was dedicated to that purpose, and CLEARLY labeled. | ||
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Post# 89727 , Reply# 21 10/19/2005 at 14:49 (6,762 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 89738 , Reply# 22 10/19/2005 at 16:04 (6,762 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR) |
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Any hard contact lens wearers still around? | ||
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Post# 89770 , Reply# 24 10/19/2005 at 18:46 (6,762 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 89805 , Reply# 26 10/19/2005 at 22:46 (6,761 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 827921 , Reply# 27 6/13/2015 at 21:51 (3,237 days old) by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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I agree with the dish-mat idea! I wish there was a dish-mat so that I could take my dirty dishes to get washed! I'm sick and tired of washing dishes by hand wasting handwashing dish detergent and water! Very unsanitary especially dealing with dirty sponges! | ||
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Post# 827965 , Reply# 28 6/14/2015 at 08:20 (3,237 days old) by imperial70 (MA USA) |
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After this thread... I just threw up in my mouth. | ||
| Post# 828093 , Reply# 30 6/15/2015 at 13:50 (3,236 days old) by frontloaderfan (Merrimac valley, MA) | ||
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| Post# 828133 , Reply# 31 6/15/2015 at 21:01 (3,235 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii) | ||
 A few years ago, I had a wildass dream that I opened a nationwide chain of "Dish O Rama" Dishomats where you had the choice of drop off or self serve. We also had step vans to go pick up and/or drop off. Drop off clean dishes to use while your dirty ones go get done. Some of my SAve also Had generators to run the six machines on board to get plenty of business. We did extremely well and Ellen had us on to demonstrate and loved it. Her remark, "My God! That sounds "dish custing, /made me laugh so hard, it woke me up. What a dishaster!! LOL.
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| Post# 830565 , Reply# 33 7/3/2015 at 07:22 (3,218 days old) by jkbff (Happy Rock, ND) | ||
A coin operated timer power supply.
A few of the property managers tried putting them on household laundry units. The customer puts money in and the timer runs for however long you program it. Me being me, I helped a 'friend' rewire the washer to plug directly into an outlet ;-) If I might add my two cents to this, if it were me, I'd find a restaurant supply or local auction or something and pick up a low temp commercial warewasher. The control box could be re-wired to where a coin-op/bill acceptor would be the trigger after the door is closed. It wouldn't be hard to wire into one of the safety lines. You could install the unit, have the chemical dispenser set up, have all the workings out of users reach, behind cages etc, they load the rack, slide the rack into the warewasher, close the door and place their money in the vending unit. When there are sufficient funds, the relay clicks and starts the washer. Since its low temp, the chemicals dispense as needed, the cycle runs, completes and user pulls dishes out the other side. If you were to set something like that up, ecolab gives you the dispensing equipment as long as you buy the chemical from them. Someone would just need to pop in throughout the day and check the filters etc make sure there isn't stuff stuck in the sump etc. *edit: Ugh, I didn't realize ... the age of this thread... there needs to be a way to keep people from reviving posts older than two years.... .......* CLICK HERE TO GO TO jkbff's LINK on eBay | ||
| Post# 1044620 , Reply# 34 9/12/2019 at 09:26 (1,686 days old) by HappyCamper (Fort Wayne ) | ||
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Post# 1044646 , Reply# 35 9/12/2019 at 14:36 (1,686 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR) |
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I'm shocked... | ||
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Post# 1044649 , Reply# 36 9/12/2019 at 15:20 (1,686 days old) by LowEfficiency (Iowa) |
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 There is a zero percent chance I would use a public coin-op dishwasher. Absolutely not. No way. Wouldn't even think about it. Might sound good on paper, but people will use them to wash anything and everything they can fit in it. Just no.
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Post# 1044650 , Reply# 37 9/12/2019 at 15:54 (1,686 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR) |
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Me too..
Now the you mention it, I'm thinking of all the times over the years I took a blanket or comforter to the laundromat because the dog or cat did something on them. Yeah, not me either. I don't want that in my washer even though I often run the Sanitize cycle.
For the archive.
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Post# 1058222 , Reply# 38 1/20/2020 at 16:43 (1,556 days old) by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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warm damp smell I would also enjoy the warm damp smell of Cascade products, including cascade complete citrus breeze and cascade platinum power dry rinse aid. | ||
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Post# 1058235 , Reply# 39 1/20/2020 at 19:53 (1,555 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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 Back when this post originated 15 years ago, I don't think portable countertop dws existed and if they did, I doubt they were so affordable.
It's more common now for RVs to have dishwashers compared to 15 year ago.
No struggling RV park is going to waste money with another potential maintenance issue.
The last RV park I stayed at in Vermont, attendance was dropping like flies as their older clientele base was also.....
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Post# 1058269 , Reply# 40 1/21/2020 at 08:18 (1,555 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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