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Thread Number: 85487
/ Tag: Classified Ad Finds
Early Tappan DW |
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Post# 1100416 12/13/2020 at 08:39 (1,222 days old) by goatfarmer  (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 1100418 , Reply# 1 12/13/2020 at 08:46 (1,222 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 1100421 , Reply# 3 12/13/2020 at 09:17 (1,222 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1100425 , Reply# 4 12/13/2020 at 09:46 (1,222 days old) by CleanteamofNY ((Monroe, New York) |
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Post# 1100443 , Reply# 5 12/13/2020 at 14:13 (1,222 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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This was the absolute worst dishwasher I've ever encountered in my life. the O'Keefe & Merrit labeled version was the installed dishwasher that came with our house September 1961. My dad had decided the 1960 Waste King would be brought from our old house to the new house. The dishwasher would be sent back to our old house as replacement for the WK per agreement with the buyer. My godfather moved to Houston in 1963. The house they bought had a Tappan kitchen in it, complete with this dishwasher. I still hear in my head the noises it made while progressing through the cycle. Also struggling to load the thing after a dinner for 8 people.
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Post# 1100474 , Reply# 6 12/13/2020 at 20:00 (1,222 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 1100478 , Reply# 7 12/13/2020 at 20:42 (1,222 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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| Post# 1100538 , Reply# 8 12/14/2020 at 09:12 (1,221 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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Seems like a space wasting design. | ||
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Post# 1100541 , Reply# 9 12/14/2020 at 09:15 (1,221 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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a space wasting design.
Well yeah. Drove me crazy with that big open area in the top rack. But it had to accommodate the dinner plates going down the center of the bottom rack and the openness also facilitated the water movement from the bottom. Incidentally, that rack was unitized. Both levels rolled out as one.
The cylinder ran during the dry cycle to creat "forced air" drying. When washing/rinsing, the noise it mad reminded me of the noise car tires made as they moved down the freeway of a rain slick surface. Kind of like a hiss. | ||
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Post# 1100606 , Reply# 10 12/14/2020 at 17:09 (1,221 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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| Post# 1100925 , Reply# 11 12/17/2020 at 09:36 (1,218 days old) by reactor (Oak Ridge, Tennessee-- ) | ||
bad prelude to the wonderful reversa-jet
You wonder what was going through the minds of those at Tappan who approved and marketed this machine? The engineer who designed it must have been the CEO's cousin or something.
Apparently Tappan got the message and went from one of the worst dishwashers to one of the best with the Reversa-Jet. The Reversa Jet was over-engineered, I think in compensation and trying to get Tappan's reputation back. The Reversa-Jet, in the 1965 Consumer Reports test, placed in the top group with the Kitchen-Aid, and Whirlpool. Consumer Reports stated the Reversa-Jet cleaned up their aged soiled dishes perfectly and they said it would have given it their "Check-Rating" (highest quality and value) except it frequently tumbled glassware on the top rack due to the force of the spray from the upper wash arm. I've notice many on this site confuse the Tappan "Dual Drench" with the Tappan Reversa-Jet. Goatfarmer's posting is a "Dual Drench" design with the name derived from the fact the drum reversed rotation during the cycle to wash on both sides of the racks. The Reversa-Jet was a totally different animal. 18 place capacity, dual wash arms that reversed periodically in direction, self-latching door, lighted control panel, adjustable rack dividers and fine particle water filtration. | ||
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Post# 1101031 , Reply# 12 12/18/2020 at 08:26 (1,217 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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Wonder if there was some tie to the rubber industry in Ohio---you could see some engineer visiting Goodyear's lab and saying "wow...we could make a dishwasher with a tread like that it would spray off all the dishes". The only thing I find a bit confusing--since Tappan was already in the porcelain enamel business, and wasn't big enough to have multiple manufacturing locations, why did they initially choose the plastisol interiors? Maybe they were maxed out in their porcelain kilns, but it just seems counterintuitive to put in an entirely new technology line (maybe it WAS a fever dream from Akron---rubber coated steel LOL)
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