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Post# 107051 1/31/2006 at 18:14 (6,652 days old) by sweeperking04 ()
Checkrate/Likes Hi folks... first post on here.... Does anyone ever remember seeing a Kent commercial dishwasher? I t stood with a lift up half circle lid with a round basket in three sections rotating on a spindle powered by the force of the wash spray.... I remember using one when I had a job age 15 washing up at local restaurant in late 70's. I was fascinated by this machine even though it was rubbish and had little power and always blocked up due to insufficient filtration....would love to see one again somewhere...... Anyone got any idea where to look for these things?? cheers Andrew.

Post# 107145 , Reply# 1 2/1/2006 at 08:22 (6,652 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)
Checkrate/Likes Andrew, There was a company by the name of Jackson that made a round dishwasher. It, too, had semicircular doors arranged so that the machine opened on one side for the rack of dirty dishes to be pushed in. After the wash-rinse cycle was completed, only the door on the clean side of the counter would open. There was a safe guard so that once the clean dishes were removed, that side had to be closed in order to move another rack of soiled dishes in and the machine had to go through a cycle before the dishes could be unloaded on the clean end. At one time the circular racks were yellow vinyl. The round shape wasted a lot of space compared with square racks. They were not so great at washing and were the devil when it came to installing the electronic detergent and rinse-agent dispensers, because everything was in one tank. This was my father's opinion and he had to train people to do those things on every brand of commercial dishwasher. When I had the opportunity to tag along with him, the various big commercial machines were pretty neat. I liked to eat in restaurants that had a counter as well as booths (like Waffle House, Toddle House, and back when they still existed Dobb's House, and then get a seat where I could watch the Hobart Turtleback be put through its paces. When dime stores and drug stores had luncheonettes, I liked to watch the front loading Hobart witn one rack and a 4.5 minute cycle. The Dunkin' Doughnut Shop that was on Piedmont between Montgomery Ferry and Cheshire Bridge had one for coffee mugs and the way they stacked those mugs, you would have thought the Flying Wallendas had trained them. I will have to drag out some of his information on dishwashers. Kitchens were pretty neat, but for machinery, bottling plants won hands down. The bottles were washed in a machine that was about as long as half a city block. Their width was measured in how many bottles one link of the machine's conveyor link would hold and they could be up to several dozen bottles wide. The tanks of the caustic solution where the bottles soaked were kept hot 24/7 and some times, I could look under them and see the big gas burners firing along. A lot of the operation was, as Robert terms it, a "Forbidden Cycle", but some of the machines had glass windows along the top of the side where you could look in and see each row of bottles move into position over the spray jets, get sprayed and then move on with the water running out. If I had been given a good, strong flashlight or work light and a ladder, I could have stayed there all day. The machine that my father thought did the best job was the only one that had a row of brushes that went up inside the bottles to further scour them. Tom

Post# 107150 , Reply# 2 2/1/2006 at 08:45 (6,652 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!)
Checkrate/Likes Tom--I loved Toddle House! veg

Post# 107190 , Reply# 3 2/1/2006 at 12:14 (6,651 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)
Checkrate/Likes *Sadly drifted off the road and into a ditch (OT)* My favorite food in all three places had to be the hash browns, cooked in that metal ring on the griddle with the melted shortening poured on them from the little stainless steel container that looked like a small coffee pot when they were first put on to cook. Those, along with a burger on a toasted bun were heaven.

Post# 107195 , Reply# 4 2/1/2006 at 12:34 (6,651 days old) by maytagbear (N.E. Ohio)
Checkrate/Likes *back on topic, sorta-* Andrew, you might try a restaurant supply store. Here in the States, most carry used equipment, as well as new. Tom, I agree with your dislike of the Jackson commercial dishwasher. As for Waffle House, I like my hash browns scattered, smothered, and covered. Lawrence/Maytagbear

Post# 107206 , Reply# 5 2/1/2006 at 13:59 (6,651 days old) by duetboy ()
Checkrate/Likes *hasbrowns* don't forget chunked, diced and topped! jeff

Post# 107216 , Reply# 6 2/1/2006 at 15:21 (6,651 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)
Checkrate/Likes I know Kent made floor polishers and such,never heard of dishwashers,but wouldn't surprise me. kennyGF

Post# 107240 , Reply# 7 2/1/2006 at 17:45 (6,651 days old) by stopmeister72 (Irving, TX)
Checkrate/Likes *hobart's better* I remember seeing one of the Round Jackson's in Arkansas at a coffee shop as a little kid. They still make them (check out the link). The dishwasher in the pic is a Hobart wm-5h think its about 15 years old. Orginal cost was 2160.00. On ebay the other day, one of the same models just a few years newer went for over 2000.00. couldn't believe it. Guess the people thought it was a newer LX model. Had a WMc1 before the wm5h, but the timer went south and Hobart sold the last one in the country about a month before i went to buy one. Should have kept it though, DOH!!! The wmc1 had the same guts and body as the really old kitchenaids, the 5H has the same pump and body as the kitchenaids before Whirlpool got a hold of em. The only thing, the pump material is pretty crappy. When its new it is slick, seems like plastic. But after awhile, it seems like it is made of some kind of pressed fiber. don't care for Jackson's. The one at the daycare that replaced the 2nd hobart, wasn't that great. Didn't get me very wet when i watched it with the door open. Since there was no wash arm on top, there would be one tray that wouldn't get a spray in the rack. Liked the fresh water rinse though. I could go on and on, let me know if you want to know more. Cya, John Irving, TX stopmeister72@aol.com CLICK HERE TO GO TO stopmeister72's LINK

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