General Electric Bowtie in TN

I never knew what they were for until the day my Father and I removed it from our kitchen for replacement in 1975. We looked at each other, when it was all done, and both of us agreed that it was an amazing design and maybe we should have though more carefully about repairing that wonderful SU-70V instead of sending it to the curb(AAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!).

All the utilities for the GE pull out dishwashers made from 1960 on were roughed in to a cabinet frame that came with the machine, housed it and was designed to be hard-plumbed to the inlet water and drain facilities and hard-wired to the electrical service. Installation was comparatively easy (mostly in new construction), because the frame is a wide open structure and it is easy to access and work with all of the wires in one junction box, the inlet, drain connections and their knockouts from the front. Once that is done, the installer levels the entire unit by hammering 4 wooden wedges into 4 openings in the floor of the frame and the unit is ready for final installation. That installation then consists of plugging an electrical module into the junction box outlet and rolling the dishwasher tub into that frame. DONE! I will admit that it goes in much more easily than it comes out (think, Tiger sex).

The two small "fittings" on the back of unit are male automatic spring connections for the Power Shower, to the left, and the drain, to the right. They connect to receptacles built into the frame and seal when the user closes the unit by moving the operation lever to the right to the "ON" position (at that point the lid of the built-in dishwasher lowers from the top of the frame and at the back of that lid are the female connections for those fittings. It was an elegant and effective design. I have a BOL version of this dishwasher without a Power Shower that has only one fitting for the drain on the back of the tub. You can see it peeking out from under the counter at the back of the tub in the drawing below:


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Post# 555964 11/11/2011 at 15:52 (4,548 days old) by bwoods ()
Checkrate/Likes Exterior needs a little work...but for $25 CLICK HERE TO GO TO bwoods's LINK on Greenville Craigslist

Post# 555996 , Reply# 1 11/11/2011 at 18:51 (4,547 days old) by mikepaquette ()
Checkrate/Likes *Some day* Some day I will own another one of these. They are always so far away. When I was young these dishwashers were very common around here .

Post# 556007 , Reply# 2 11/11/2011 at 20:21 (4,547 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)
Checkrate/Likes Just emailed the seller. I've always wanted one with that magnetic dispenser. Still on the prowl, however, for my coveted SP-51T (with maple top and rinse-glo dispenser:

Post# 556008 , Reply# 3 11/11/2011 at 20:23 (4,547 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)
Checkrate/Likes the SU-70V that we had in our first house:

Post# 556009 , Reply# 4 11/11/2011 at 20:23 (4,547 days old) by Crevicetool (Snellville Ga.)
Checkrate/Likes Please excuse the not-so-appliance-nickname savvy.... Why is this a "Bowtie"? Rick

Post# 556012 , Reply# 5 11/11/2011 at 20:28 (4,547 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)
Checkrate/Likes ...and, of course, the holy grail of pull-outs, the elusive SU-80P:

Post# 556013 , Reply# 6 11/11/2011 at 20:34 (4,547 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)
Checkrate/Likes Rick, The impeller on the bottom of the tank looks like a bowtie:

Post# 556020 , Reply# 7 11/11/2011 at 21:11 (4,547 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)
Checkrate/Likes Ken, that 24" pull out GE dishwasher is in a house that I've been to several times for sales. The lady who owns it is cleaning out the house that belonged to her her aunt, a hoarder. She's been working on it for a couple of years (the niece is a hoarder I suspect so it's difficult) but told me that she's going to remove the sunny-yellow appliances in the kitchen and replace them before she sells the property. Don't wait up for Santa, it may take a while! There's also a set of yellow 700 series Maytags in the basement...

Post# 556077 , Reply# 8 11/12/2011 at 06:32 (4,547 days old) by polkanut (Wausau, WI )
Checkrate/Likes *Greg,* Patience is a virtue. You will be rewarded someday. (fingers & toes crossed)

Post# 556138 , Reply# 11 11/12/2011 at 18:10 (4,546 days old) by Travis ()
Checkrate/Likes Mike, Have you tried posting a wanted ad on the local Craigslist page for one of these? A lot of this stuff is out there, but no one knows someone would want it. You could also look at shipping one. You want one bad enough. It seems it might be worth it to go ahead and make it happen.

Post# 556311 , Reply# 12 11/13/2011 at 13:36 (4,546 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)
Checkrate/Likes That's our first GE smasher.

Post# 556323 , Reply# 13 11/13/2011 at 15:09 (4,546 days old) by frontaloadotmy (the cool gay realm)
Checkrate/Likes *reply # 3* Ken- what are those " fittings " in the right rear su-70v ? Related to boomerang power shower? -D

Post# 556427 , Reply# 15 11/14/2011 at 02:16 (4,545 days old) by frontaloadotmy (the cool gay realm)
Checkrate/Likes *Well , well ......* Ya learn something new every day. I had always thought that the bowtie builtins were like their predecessors as far as the drains were concerned, from the bottom of the machine to an air gap fitting mounted on the counter. A small amount of flexible hose does the job , until it gets hardened with age. The new design probably solved an occasionally annoying failure. I thought the top spray plumbing would have been easier to accomplish with the limited range of movement of the cabinet housed lid. I bet your SU-70V " kicked ass " ; simply load, add detergent , close , move the lever to lock , select the desired custom cycle and slightly rotate the timer dial to " power rinse " .....!!! Time for " Man from UNCLE " .

Post# 556092 , Reply# 9 11/12/2011 at 10:26 (4,547 days old) by Crevicetool (Snellville Ga.)
Checkrate/Likes I'll be darned - it does look like a bowtie - thanks!

Post# 556137 , Reply# 10 11/12/2011 at 17:55 (4,546 days old) by mikepaquette ()
Checkrate/Likes *Yes* My Dream

Post# 556359 , Reply# 14 11/13/2011 at 16:43 (4,545 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)
Checkrate/Likes *Again, more than you probably wanted to know:* I never knew what they were for until the day my Father and I removed it from our kitchen for replacement in 1975. We looked at each other, when it was all done, and both of us agreed that it was an amazing design and maybe we should have though more carefully about repairing that wonderful SU-70V instead of sending it to the curb(AAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!). All the utilities for the GE pull out dishwashers made from 1960 on were roughed in to a cabinet frame that came with the machine, housed it and was designed to be hard-plumbed to the inlet water and drain facilities and hard-wired to the electrical service. Installation was comparatively easy (mostly in new construction), because the frame is a wide open structure and it is easy to access and work with all of the wires in one junction box, the inlet, drain connections and their knockouts from the front. Once that is done, the installer levels the entire unit by hammering 4 wooden wedges into 4 openings in the floor of the frame and the unit is ready for final installation. That installation then consists of plugging an electrical module into the junction box outlet and rolling the dishwasher tub into that frame. DONE! I will admit that it goes in much more easily than it comes out (think, Tiger sex). The two small "fittings" on the back of unit are male automatic spring connections for the Power Shower, to the left, and the drain, to the right. They connect to receptacles built into the frame and seal when the user closes the unit by moving the operation lever to the right to the "ON" position (at that point the lid of the built-in dishwasher lowers from the top of the frame and at the back of that lid are the female connections for those fittings. It was an elegant and effective design. I have a BOL version of this dishwasher without a Power Shower that has only one fitting for the drain on the back of the tub. You can see it peeking out from under the counter at the back of the tub in the drawing below: