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GE Mobile Maid Dishwasher To Good Home
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Post# 659839   2/12/2013 at 08:04 (4,090 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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I've had this little guy for about 8-10 years now, found at an estate sale. It needs a new home, I'm out of room and this doesn't deserve the indignity of recycling!

It's in beautiful shape and works very well, or at least, how it was designed to! Timer works, water valve, dispenser, motor and pump all function well.

It only needs a couple of minor things, a new cord and the unicouple needs a new seal or o-ring at the faucet connection. When you first connect the coupler to the faucet and turn on the water, it leaks but when the machine starts the first fill sequence the leak stops and becomes a drip.

Let me know if you're interested soon, the space is tight around here and I won't be able to store it!

Best of all - it's FREE to a good home!





Post# 659841 , Reply# 1   2/12/2013 at 08:06 (4,090 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Inside. I've repaired a couple of small spots in the Plastisol interior with some blue dishwasher rack repair. This will hold it for a while but I wonder if it will last permanently as it doesn't "bond" with the plastisol. You can see one on left side tab that holds the upper rack, one at the back and then around the opening of the pump at the bottom in the sump area.

Post# 659843 , Reply# 2   2/12/2013 at 08:07 (4,090 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Original unicouple - the hoses are both good, I replaced the washer on the fill hose when I got the machine.

Post# 659845 , Reply# 3   2/12/2013 at 08:09 (4,090 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Inside. You can see the bad spot around the pump opening. I believe the touch-up will protect the area from getting worse, but it's not matching pink. Seems nobody makes that anymore, wonder why? :-)

Post# 659846 , Reply# 4   2/12/2013 at 08:11 (4,090 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Formica top and GE emblem - yes, it's automatic!


Post# 659847 , Reply# 5   2/12/2013 at 08:11 (4,090 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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And for the Logo Lovers

Post# 659849 , Reply# 6   2/12/2013 at 08:17 (4,090 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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And a quick video of it running with no dishes - to show that it does!


Love that jigga-wash movement!







Post# 659863 , Reply# 7   2/12/2013 at 09:44 (4,090 days old) by rollermatic (cincinnati)        
it's beautiful and i

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would love to add it to my collection buy i am in ohio and i don't have any way to get it here that i can think of. i have one bowtie already i got in toledo several years ago that works fine when i use it. if i could find a reasonable shipper however i would take it if no one else grabs it!

Post# 659866 , Reply# 8   2/12/2013 at 10:04 (4,090 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        
Paging mikepaquette

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Here's a great opportunity to get a dream machine for you, Mike!

Post# 659879 , Reply# 9   2/12/2013 at 11:46 (4,090 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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A big milestone for AW.org - this is thread # 45,000!

Post# 659885 , Reply# 10   2/12/2013 at 12:05 (4,090 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)        
Take it from me -Oh that machine has only two modes

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of Operation!
1- Intent to wash
2- Just sitting here



Post# 659896 , Reply# 11   2/12/2013 at 13:10 (4,090 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

I've had too many years of experiences with this machine, at our neighbor's house and at ours, to believe what you are saying. I watched her load the Mirro Matic with smashed potatoes suck to the sides into a bottom corner of that machine and saw it come out perfectly clean so it does wash. She had those neat Franciscan dishes with the stars and planets that are so collectible now. She rinsed nothing before putting it in the GE and it turned out clean loads, load after load, like Ultramatic.

Post# 659900 , Reply# 12   2/12/2013 at 13:27 (4,090 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)        
Yes I know Tom

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It amazes me our experiecnes have been so different with the same machine. And we had a water softener too.



Post# 659901 , Reply# 13   2/12/2013 at 13:30 (4,089 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)        
tub

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Would this tub be identical to a pull-out undercounter 1960 model GE my folks had? It looks incredibly similar, and the racks and bow-tie impeller and even pink. but we moved out in 73 so the memory is "olde." I do not remember the performance, it was simply the dishwasher we had, no questions.


Post# 659903 , Reply# 14   2/12/2013 at 13:45 (4,089 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Maybe you had too much foam with the soft water. Do any of you remember the dishwasher detergent commercials on TV about 1970 or 71 with a 14 or older KA with a see thru door and a light bulb on top that flashed as the wash arm turned and it was really slow with what they called "protein foam" and then they introduced the Dishwasher ALL, I think it was, into the machine with a neat injector on the front and the foam subsided and the wash arm really took off and the light flashed faster?

Our water in Atlanta was soft, but not mechanically softened. Whenever I hear the term mechanically softened I think of those machines at the butcher's that turn a tough piece of meat into a flaccid, floppy minute steak like thing. When I make country-fried steak, I always have the meat put through that tenderizer.


Post# 659905 , Reply# 15   2/12/2013 at 13:47 (4,089 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        
Very close, indeed

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The tub, racks and impeller would be very close to the pull-out version of the GE dishwasher. I have a 59 Princess that looks disturbingly similar... LOL

As far as performance goes, my 57 Mobile Maid was the 'daily driver' down in Ogden from about a month after we moved in unitl the kitchen centre was installed in 2009 - I honestly never had any complaints about it! I thought it did fine - but to be fair, I did grow with an impeller-wash so I was aware of their potential problems and pitfalls.


Post# 659945 , Reply# 16   2/12/2013 at 16:35 (4,089 days old) by christfr (st louis mo)        

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well hell just pop it into the mail and were all set.. i wish

Post# 659960 , Reply# 17   2/12/2013 at 18:18 (4,089 days old) by pdub (Portland, Oregon)        
Greg

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I have that same dishwasher. I know what you mean when you talk about being out of room but you only want to get rid of something if you can find it an appreciative home.

Mine has sat in the corner of the dining room for several years now and never gets used but I would find it very hard to part with. I hope you find a good home for yours.

Patrick


Post# 659998 , Reply# 18   2/12/2013 at 21:31 (4,089 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Ohh, this was at the 2005 wash-in at Greg's.  Yep, it was fun and it did that impeller wash boogie.  lol


Post# 660619 , Reply# 19   2/16/2013 at 07:53 (4,086 days old) by mikepaquette ()        
beautiful

what I would do for that dishwasher. Living so far north in Canada has its pitfalls bigtime right now. My dream machine and sooooo far away.

Post# 662034 , Reply# 20   2/24/2013 at 07:24 (4,078 days old) by mikepaquette ()        
Drean Machine

It has been 30 years from the last time I have seen one of these dishwashers in my area. Sure hope it went to a good home. Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Post# 733582 , Reply# 21   2/7/2014 at 18:26 (3,729 days old) by cbrayinga ()        
Still There?

I know the original posting is a year ago, but do you still have the Mobile-Maid?

Post# 733587 , Reply# 22   2/7/2014 at 19:15 (3,729 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)        
I thought I was going crazy.

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No, I have it. And she is truly beautiful.


Post# 733812 , Reply# 23   2/8/2014 at 18:23 (3,728 days old) by cbrayinga ()        
Congrats!


Wow, Congrats!! She is truly beautiful... I love that color.



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