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Thread Number: 36768
Vintage Hobart DW's on Ebay |
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Post# 547005 10/3/2011 at 01:05 (4,581 days old) by whirlykenmore78  (Prior Lake MN (GMT-0500 CDT.)) |
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I found many Hobart Dishmachines on a recent Ebay search. Here are some of the machines I found.
Dozens of Kd series Kitchenaids Many C-line machines including a 3 tank CPW-100 and an awesome C-54 WM series machines Several AM-9t2 machines AM-11C Am-12 and 12-C machines Many older AM-14's and early LX machines No Flight dishwashers but they do come up from time to time. If I had the space and money I would adopt all of these machines. Hopefully some here on AW can save them from either going back into a restaurant or the shredder. | ||
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| Post# 547021 , Reply# 1 10/3/2011 at 06:33 (4,581 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
C-54
Do you have these machines ?
There was a series before the "C" Line called the XM. I remember one they had at a summer camp I went to and it was about the size of a C 44 and had a port Hole window in the Inspection Door. The Motor seemed enormous and drove a Crescent R1 reducer which drove the conveyor system and that was connected to the pump. These Machines were absolute Tanks. It also had a 3 jet revolving upper Spray Arm and a Stationary Lower 18 jet arm. The machine also had a Dwell Control This was touted as the "Hobart Crescent Dual Drive". When did Hobart and Crescent Merge ??? | ||
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Post# 547305 , Reply# 2 10/3/2011 at 20:02 (4,581 days old) by whirlykenmore78 (Prior Lake MN (GMT-0500 CDT.)) |
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Hobart and Crescent
First of all I'm sorry to say I do not have any of these. I wish I had the cash and I'd have all of them.
Hobart was fouded in 1897 and purchased the Crescent washing machine company in 1926 to expand into the commercial warewashing market. I know the exact machine you are talking about using at camp. It was a 44 inch, single tank, high temp rack conveyor type machine. You are right the pump,motor,and drive reducer assembly were massive and built like a tank. The next variant of this machine was the C-line C-44, then the C-44a and the current model is the CLe-44. If I am not mistaken dwell control varied the conveyor drive speed (SteveT could verify.) Dual drive meant that the rack coveyor drive system was on each side near the rails that the rack slides on rather than a center pawl bar or carrier chain. This system helps prevent racks from shifting and jamming up the machine. Hope this answers your question Nick | ||
| Post# 547377 , Reply# 3 10/4/2011 at 05:57 (4,580 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
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Dwell System
There was a Spring Loaded Lever right below the Inspection Door. This held the "pawls" below the Rack Track. If you pushed in one rack, the first set of pawls would convey the rack to the center of the Wash arms and let it sit there for as long as desired. Sort of like a Soak Feature. When you pushed down the lever and held it down, the center pawls would be relaesed and push the rack into the Rinse Section until the last set of pawls would take over. This worked only as one rack at a time. If you continued feeding racks, the rack being fed into the machine would just keep pushing the racks through the Wash and Rinse Sections. As I recall the XM series were Very Quiet in operation. All you heard was a low hum of the motor running, the water spraying and the rhythemic click of the pawls pushing the racks through the machine.
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Post# 547686 , Reply# 4 10/6/2011 at 00:03 (4,578 days old) by whirlykenmore78 (Prior Lake MN (GMT-0500 CDT.)) |
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You are right | ||
| Post# 547707 , Reply# 5 10/6/2011 at 05:04 (4,578 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
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Nick... | ||
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Post# 547867 , Reply# 6 10/6/2011 at 19:57 (4,578 days old) by whirlykenmore78 (Prior Lake MN (GMT-0500 CDT.)) |
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Old XM Hobart | ||
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