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Thread Number: 63488
/ Tag: Vintage Dishwashers
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Post# 860647 , Reply# 1 1/7/2016 at 22:22 (3,023 days old) by GELaundry4ever  (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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correction. How were they designed? | ||
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Post# 860650 , Reply# 2 1/7/2016 at 22:32 (3,023 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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My next door neighbors have one that looks almost like mine, but theirs has a separate spray arm for the top rack and mine has the tube thru the silverware basket. I could care less about who or what it was designed around as long as it works and cleans the dishes. And its not nice to like your own comments......
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| Post# 860653 , Reply# 3 1/7/2016 at 23:19 (3,023 days old) by Midcentnurse (Lake Charles, La) | ||
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| Post# 860654 , Reply# 4 1/7/2016 at 23:20 (3,023 days old) by Murando531 (Augusta, Georgia - US) | ||
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| Post# 860786 , Reply# 6 1/9/2016 at 00:09 (3,022 days old) by seedub (South Texas Hill Country) | ||
I recall that on my Grandfather's 1982 machine, one pressed a button on the left for Cycle A, B, C , or D; then turned the timer dial on the right to the position marked with that letter. The dial may even have stopped when reaching the selected position. Pulling the knob out started the machine. When the cycle was complete, the knob pushed itself back in. His had the square, flip-top soap dispenser and the door-mounted silverware basket. That machine had a different fill operation from the one in the video: after draining, it would begin filling with the motor still running. After 10 seconds, the motor would shut off for several seconds, then start up again and continue running throughout the fill sequence. My guess is that was to dump out any cold water entering in, for a true "hot start". The brief pause might be so it could move from drain mode to wash mode? The mechanical experts can say whether that's correct.
Until around 1978, possibly earlier, the door was latched by pushing down on a latch located in the middle of the control panel. Pulling on the latch lifted it upward and outward. | ||
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Post# 860790 , Reply# 7 1/9/2016 at 00:15 (3,022 days old) by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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whirlpool dishwasher So I guess before '78 Whirlpool used rounded dispensers. I could be wrong. Also, They have a telltale sound when filling with water with the pump running. It sounds like it is not to be messed with. They had serious cleaning power. | ||
| Post# 860822 , Reply# 8 1/9/2016 at 06:34 (3,022 days old) by seedub (South Texas Hill Country) | ||
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I don't recall. In 1975, the subdivision in which I lived began installing BOL WP washers but I can *NOT* recall what the detergent dispenser looked like in those. In 2001, I visited an early 70s apartment house that had that model DW installed. That 25-year old machine was quietly, smoothly doing a load of dishes when I walked in, sounding like it was new.
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