I've had this for a couple of years, first sitting in my garage, then hauled down the basement.  I was intending to use it today but the weather stopped me.  More on that later...

Anyway it has not been used in decades as far as I know.  It came out of a one owner house, and the owner did not like to use the unit.  It appears to have been used a bit in the past from the wear on the interior.  Everything seems to work, I did note a small trickle of water after the valve closed,  the seal may be dried out.  It did seem to stop. The racks are in very good shape too, a plus.

My main question is is there a way to lube the bearings?  The motor sounds a bit noisy, a little whine.  The housing of the motor show a moderate amount of rust, though I did not see any evidence of a bad seal, no water under the machine.

I had intended to run the glass from my exterior lights through the machine since it has a very good flow of water, I usually use the Whirlpool in the basement but occasionally I did see some residue remaining on the glass even with the force it has. But we got close to 12" of snow the other day and it's a bit hard to get to some of the lights, have to wait a bit as it now will been in the single digits for the next few days.  Hate to decorate lights that are not sparking clean.

Any way have the original tag from Hobart on the machine --

Model 11  Stainless steel

Serial number - 377044

Motor watts - 320

Heater watts 1000

Inspected by ( hard to make out the sig...)  Kipner (?) Riotac (?)  no.232539

Forgot to mention one issue I have to deal with -- it's a gravity drain model.  I will use it VERY infrequently I'm sure, so at this point I'm just going to use one of those black flex sump pump hoses and route the water to my floor drain. I do have an old pump I pulled out of an older GE dishwasher I might look at adapting, not sure if it's worth the trouble.

Wow!  Thanks!  That is a crash course in repairing this machine.  Not sure I will do it, as long as it's not making too much noise or causing problems.  I suspect that running it a few times will either loosen up the lube or end the motor bearings.   I saved your info in case I ever get to doing that.

It will join an old Whirlpool in my basement and see rare infrequent use, more as a collector's item than anything else.  I don't know, maybe an occasional cycle may be better than none.  Not sure.