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| Post# 652545 , Reply# 3 1/11/2013 at 23:09 (4,121 days old) by cam2s (Nebraska) | ||
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KDS-18 Thanks in advance for your replys! Any information about this beauty would be greatly appreciated! | ||
Post# 652548 , Reply# 4 1/11/2013 at 23:34 (4,121 days old) by gansky1  (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Oooh - where in NE are you? 
Where was this auction?? LOL - that was a great buy for $2 for sure, I'd have even paid $4.
This should clean up pretty nicely, they are relatively easy machines to work on, I have a KDS-18 in my kitchen as my daily-driver dishwasher and love it. There are still parts around for this machine, if you even need any. I've seen much worse porcelain tanks come out like new with a good cleaning and a bit of touch up here and there. Is there rust in or around the chip near the sump? It looks like someone overshot the silverware basket and dropped something through the rack. It's easily touched up if there is rust beginning to form with a little epoxy patch. The racks look pretty good from the pics but also can be spruced and touched up easily as well. For cleaning the tank itself, light iron staining can be removed easy enough running through a cycle with Super Iron Out and then hard water deposits can be removed with an off-the-shelf dishwasher cleaner available at most grocery stores. Nothing looks that bad so it should be an easy restore! ' Congrats on a great find! Two dollars! Wow! This is one I found on Craigslist last year, now rebuilt and combined with my first KDS-18 and in the kitchen. The gold is long, long gone! 
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| Post# 652635 , Reply# 5 1/12/2013 at 09:00 (4,121 days old) by mitch (Atlanta) | ||
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Nice score!! That 18 is nice!! I keep hoping to find the portable version of this one! Have fun shining her up!! | ||
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Post# 652793 , Reply# 8 1/12/2013 at 21:10 (4,121 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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| Post# 652897 , Reply# 9 1/13/2013 at 06:57 (4,120 days old) by beekeyknee (Columbia, MO) | ||
Things you might want to try.
Cameron,
Here's some things you might want to pick from. It's a long drawn out old posting I made two years ago. You could also download the service manual from the web site. I think you might have to be a contributing member to do it though. Robert's been posting all the service manuals lately. Nice machine. Good luck. Brian CLICK HERE TO GO TO beekeyknee's LINK | ||
| Post# 652909 , Reply# 10 1/13/2013 at 09:03 (4,120 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
Brian:
There is no requirement to be an AW contributing member - or even a member - to order materials from Automatic Ephemera. A user does not have to join Automatic Ephemera, nor sign in, nor anything else. You simply select what you want from the offerings, pay for it via PayPal, get your download link, and download.
All of the differences between paid and unpaid membership to AW are spelled out at the "Forum Topics and Rules" link on the AW home page. | ||
| Post# 652922 , Reply# 11 1/13/2013 at 09:40 (4,120 days old) by beekeyknee (Columbia, MO) | ||
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| Post# 653004 , Reply# 12 1/13/2013 at 10:53 (4,120 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Brian:
You've made a couple of remarks here about what you think are differences between paid and unpaid members here - differences that don't in fact exist - so I wanted you to know where the actual list of differences could be found.
You certainly don't need to "jump up out of bed and read them every day." But I think it might be useful information if you read them once. | ||
| Post# 653019 , Reply# 13 1/13/2013 at 12:33 (4,120 days old) by beekeyknee (Columbia, MO) | ||
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Sandy, | ||
| Post# 653036 , Reply# 14 1/13/2013 at 13:42 (4,120 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA) | ||
Nice... | ||
| Post# 653298 , Reply# 17 1/14/2013 at 14:31 (4,119 days old) by cam2s (Nebraska) | ||
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Detergent dispenser Here is an up close shot of the detergent dispenser. 
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| Post# 653299 , Reply# 18 1/14/2013 at 14:32 (4,119 days old) by cam2s (Nebraska) | ||
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rinse aid ... 
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| Post# 653300 , Reply# 19 1/14/2013 at 14:33 (4,119 days old) by cam2s (Nebraska) | ||
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and... The backside of the front panel. 
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| Post# 653412 , Reply# 20 1/14/2013 at 21:00 (4,119 days old) by qsd-dan (West) | ||
Nice KDS-18 there, congrats.
The soap cup dispensers have a seal that rides on the pivoting shaft. The seals gets old with age and leak. My KDS-18 was pouring water out of both shafts when I tested it out in the garage with the front panel removed (I highly recommend doing this before installing). I disassembled the soap cup doors, pulled the seals out, and matched them up with ones from Lowes. Upon testing, I found that the new seals were juuuuuust a hint tighter than the originals and the doors wouldn't fully open. I disassembled the unit again, coated the new seals with Vaseline, reinstalled, and all has been good for sometime now. There's two ways to replace the seals. If you have to do it by yourself, you'll need to remove the entire dispenser from the machine. You'll most likely need a new dispenser to door seal to go with it. If you have an extra hand, you can replace them without removing the dispenser. The cotter pin is jammed in there pretty good. The trick I found was using angle cutters and getting a good grip on the cotter pin (but not tight enough to shear the pin). Next, take a hammer to smack the cutters in the direction you want to remove the cotter pin. The soap door is spring loaded, so it'll shoot out into the tub. I also had the same problem with the rinse aid dispenser leaking, like yours. Those seals have very odd dimensions and I had a hell of a time finding ones to match online. As luck would have it, I was able to find some from my local Orchard Supply in the plumbing department. I'm not sure if Hobart or Whirlpool stock those anymore. Let me know if you don't have any luck finding them and I'll shoot over to Orchard and see if they still have them in stock. Lots of other info I can give you, but I don't want to discourage or overwhelm you. | ||
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