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Thread Number: 41779
1970's kenmore portable dishwasher |
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| Post# 616063 8/10/2012 at 12:58 (4,276 days old) by xpanam (Palm Springs California ) | ||
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Post# 616091 , Reply# 1 8/10/2012 at 14:06 (4,276 days old) by turquoisedude  (.) |
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Post# 616106 , Reply# 2 8/10/2012 at 15:15 (4,276 days old) by Kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC) |
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Paul -
I have seen "one knob wonder" machines in the Sears catalog of similar configuration up to the first half of the 80s. Not sure exactly when though. By that time the machine came in white only, had a brushed aluminum panel, with gray or black knob. There was no attempts to make these any sort of a disguised BOL machine, it was very clearly so. Later these seemed to be under counter only, then eventually they were two-level wash I believe. Gordon | ||
| Post# 616113 , Reply# 3 8/10/2012 at 15:55 (4,276 days old) by xpanam (Palm Springs California ) | ||
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Post# 616148 , Reply# 4 8/10/2012 at 17:58 (4,275 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Basic one Level KM DW by D&M | ||
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Post# 616183 , Reply# 5 8/10/2012 at 19:50 (4,275 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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I think Nate had a similar one-level wash D&M machine at one time, maybe a Roper? I think he posted a review of the performance here at the time, perhaps the Super Searchilator will turn up something.
I remember seeing these machines at Sears in the "white goods" department. I'm sure they didn't have much trouble with the up-sell to a two level machine. So very BOL they didn't even have a pressure relief button on the unicouple! For a while, they made a similar BOL machine with the Roto-Rack style spray tube but instead of holes, it had slits in the tube to spray, or attempt to spray, the upper rack. Poor little homely girl, won't Robert and Fred give her a loving home washing vacuum parts? LOL | ||
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Post# 616209 , Reply# 6 8/10/2012 at 21:09 (4,275 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 616212 , Reply# 7 8/10/2012 at 21:19 (4,275 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 616214 , Reply# 8 8/10/2012 at 21:25 (4,275 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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wonder what they were thinking! This was during the period of that "funky" D&M wash mechanism and racking design that kinda imitated being a Maytag RR wanna be so to speak. since this was a BOL, they didn't bother putting in the "tower" for the upper rack. All models had the basic full-size arms above the top rack and the one on the bottom. The perpendicular plate racking design for the bottom rack that wasted a tremendous amoount of space and the center dish loops for the saucers and berry bowls was a total waste. Could put abut 4 or 5 plates on either side of the center row and that was about it. Actually with the tower, and depending upon which brand it was, did a very decent job of cleaning if the "brand" offered water heat delay for main wash as well as the final rinse for the sani-cycle, but not al "brands" did that. | ||
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Post# 616223 , Reply# 9 8/10/2012 at 21:48 (4,275 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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Kenmore | ||
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Post# 616236 , Reply# 10 8/10/2012 at 23:30 (4,275 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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It does look like the absolute bottom of the line. Why even use the top rack because nothing is going to get cleaned in it. I went in to see a friend of the family that was the appliance manager for our local Sears when this BOL model was on sale for $119. He steered me to a reposessed Lady Kenmore in the back room that was $100. I took it and it was a gem for over 15 years. Wished I still had her.
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Post# 616238 , Reply# 11 8/10/2012 at 23:34 (4,275 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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Post# 616253 , Reply# 12 8/11/2012 at 00:34 (4,275 days old) by lotsosudz (Sacramento, CA) |
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Utterly Useless
My sister had this model from 1970. It was useless. It got the dishes wet, maybe the plates got clean, made a lot of noise, but that was absolutely it. You basically had to wash the dishes before hand, then load it up, and run it. It had no fan forced dry, so everything came out pretty wet. My brother in law worked for Sears at the time as a repairman, and got it cheap. He should have left it at the store!
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| Post# 616362 , Reply# 13 8/11/2012 at 16:00 (4,275 days old) by dishwasherfan (Phoenix, AZ) | ||
Mystery top spray arm.
An old boyfriend had a similar machine that was a low end model that was installed when his home was built. I had helped load & used it for years. When he decided to replace it, I helped him remove & install a new one. Only then did I discoverthe full size spray arm attached to the top, never even realizing it was there. I was intrigued with such a strange design; he could have cared less.
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