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Post# 120487   4/6/2006 at 21:15 (6,595 days old) by gadgetgary (Bristol,CT)        

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Maybe someone would like to add this one to their collection??????

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Post# 120490 , Reply# 1   4/6/2006 at 21:36 (6,595 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN)        

No Rotorack :-C

Post# 120497 , Reply# 2   4/6/2006 at 22:18 (6,595 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Steve 1/18 had this dishwasher years ago when it was new.

Post# 120511 , Reply# 3   4/6/2006 at 23:35 (6,595 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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From around the same time as the Modern Maid rapid-advance dishwasher that was in this house when we bought it in 98.

Post# 120515 , Reply# 4   4/6/2006 at 23:42 (6,595 days old) by peteski50 (New York)        
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I like this dishwasher with simple to use cycle controls and nice interior. I hope it gets a good home.
Peter


Post# 120569 , Reply# 5   4/7/2006 at 08:02 (6,594 days old) by cybrvanr ()        

I find it interesting that a hotel would buy a Sears DW. Sears typically doesn't sell to "bulk" customers becasue they cannot make a lot of prophit off of the sale. I guess the machine replaced an original machine when it malfunctioned that may have been bought as a bulk sale at the time of construction. Someone from the hotel I guess went over to sears to replace the machine in a hurry.



Post# 120622 , Reply# 6   4/7/2006 at 14:34 (6,594 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York)        

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Boy this brings back great memories!
I had that dishwasher when we slightly upgraded my moms kitchen back in the eighties and I must say that I miss that mechanical timer cranking and clicking when I wanted to change cycles. It cleaned the dishes well with the Cascade of years ago and I bet it would do better with todays Cascade complete. All I can say that it was a water hog, but who cares when there was a double rinse using the pots and pan or the normal cycles! No scent of detergent was to be found........


Post# 120666 , Reply# 7   4/7/2006 at 19:35 (6,594 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Yeagh Larry, I remember the P'n'P cycle being Pre-wash, rinse, rinse, 30 minute main wash, and two more rinses.

Post# 120793 , Reply# 8   4/8/2006 at 12:25 (6,593 days old) by peteski50 (New York)        
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I am so surprised nobody is bidding on this gem. If I was a collector I would snatch this baby up. They dont build them like this anymore.
Peter


Post# 120824 , Reply# 9   4/8/2006 at 18:34 (6,593 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York)        

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Yes Bob, that was a long cycle but everything was clean!
I wish it was a lot closer, I would snatch it up in a nano second.........


Post# 120829 , Reply# 10   4/8/2006 at 19:30 (6,593 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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Would someone kindly explain the double open detergent cup that supplements the closed one?

Post# 120842 , Reply# 11   4/8/2006 at 21:16 (6,593 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Well Steve, for starters, that's not the original dtergent dispenser. Obviously, it's not "yellowed' like the corersponding rinse-agent dispenser lol. As D&M dishwashrs continued to evolve, they got more "WCI" oriented. Those double open cubs are for prewash detergent. There's comparable double ones under the cover too. On the last DU&M Kenmores I saw, with a rising tower like my GE, they had double cups on both open & closed area. This last rendition I saw actually was reminiscent of the KA dispenser like we saw at Roger's last weekend. You had a cover flap that rotated around.

Post# 120843 , Reply# 12   4/8/2006 at 21:19 (6,593 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York)        

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Toggles,

One side cup is for the miser cycle, both cups used for normal and pots and pan cycle and if you look at the dispenser closley, there's a cup that swings out for the main wash.

Larry


Post# 121518 , Reply# 13   4/11/2006 at 22:45 (6,590 days old) by peteski50 (New York)        
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This is a sin no body is biteing
such a awsome model at such a price
sad
Peter


Post# 121546 , Reply# 14   4/12/2006 at 00:22 (6,589 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Sears had a very big "contractor sales" division - I've seen lots of apartments equipped with Sears Kenmore appliances and numerous other commercial spaces used Sears as well. You save money buying in bulk... I think I have, or used to have, a Sears Kenmore contractor sales brochure and I remember seeing them in the Sweets Catalog files.

D&M was taken over by WCI at some point in the late 80's or early 90's.


Post# 121586 , Reply# 15   4/12/2006 at 07:40 (6,589 days old) by hoover1060 ()        
I remember that

Back in the middle-late 80's when I was working for the cleaning service we cleaned for a builder that used all Kenmore appliances: fridge, range, DW and disposal. I thought it was strange they'd use Kenmore. I remember the DW's being very BOL, and my co-workers commenting on how cheap they seemed.

Post# 121838 , Reply# 16   4/12/2006 at 19:25 (6,589 days old) by oldwasherguy (Ladson SC)        

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i dont have a dishwasher at all except for my old lady,i bet she would love it.don.


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