Thread Number: 36787
Question about vintage Whirlpool dishwasher |
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Post# 547650 , Reply# 1   10/5/2011 at 19:48 (4,580 days old) by eronie (Flushing Michigan)   |   | |
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sounds to me like a brastemp kitchenaid!!! whirlpool has been with ka for a long time!! brastemp has alwawy took world teck |
Post# 547682 , Reply# 4   10/5/2011 at 23:01 (4,579 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Since you said it's from 1977, Here's a picture of the Inglis Sterling dishwasher that my parents had when I was a kid. It was from 1976-77. It had no pilot light. Fancier Inglis Royal models had pilot a light (and one for the sanitize cycle) and the Royal 100 had a rapid advance timer with lights for each cycle.
My parents replaced this dishwasher with a slightly newer Kenmore (also a Whirlpool) and it had less features, no adjustable upper rack and only 3 push buttons for cycles instead of 5. It did have a small round amber pilot light. The timer button was a bit smaller than on their previous Inglis (as was the one on my grandmother's Inglis dishwasher from the late seventies) and the design of the push buttons changed but it was still very similar to their previous Inglis Sterling with the same angled aluminum control panel and a plastic door latch under it. I don't think that in the late seventies, any Whirlpool dishwasher had led lights. They had neon lights. See the link below for a slightly older Inglis Royal 100. (my aunt had one from the mid seventies). I think that the silver, non replaceable lower panel and door latch design was found all across the Inglis line then. Years ago, another of my aunts gave me an an almost BOL Inglis Superb portable dishwasher with the same door latch and silver lower panel and a friend of mine still has an Inglis Royal (without the rapid advance timer) and the same door latch and silver lower panel. CLICK HERE TO GO TO PhilR's LINK |
Post# 547689 , Reply# 6   10/6/2011 at 00:25 (4,579 days old) by thomasortega (El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles de Porciúncula)   |   | |
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curious detail that I forgot... there was also an optional screw, sold at authorized Brastemp service to replace the upper arm feeder screw. if the upper rack had to be removed for any reason (useful to wash the hood filter, for example) we could replace the screw and get full power only in lower arm. the brazilian version always had only one speed. (the only thing was the motor reversing to drain) |
Post# 547743 , Reply# 7   10/6/2011 at 09:08 (4,579 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Inglis in Canada was the same as Whirlpool in the US and the Inglis/Whirlpool dishwashers were almost identical but not related to Hobart-Kitchen Aid. Door-mounted silverware baskets (and the useful large cutlery basket on most models) were also a thing found on Whirlpool/Inglis/RCA and Kenmore-badged Whirlpool dishwashers.
Also, the large white plastic filter screen is a Whirlpool design. Hobart-Kitchen Aid has a very different design. |