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Thread Number: 86069
/ Tag: Vintage Dishwashers
A new toy! |
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| Post# 1106317 , Reply# 1 1/31/2021 at 00:29 (1,175 days old) by Repairguy (Danbury, Texas) | ||
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Post# 1106318 , Reply# 2 1/31/2021 at 00:34 (1,175 days old) by appnut  (TX) |
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Alan, I venture to guess this is the last rendition of Westinghouse dishwashers before the divestiture to WCI. So erly 70s. Obviously the TOL or next to TOL. The Power Soak should be 3 separate detergent washes with temperature holds possibly if some are built into the sequence without the sanitizer option selected. Otherwise would have to select that option.
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Post# 1106324 , Reply# 4 1/31/2021 at 05:56 (1,174 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Last Real TOL Westinghouse DW Probably early 70s, This is very cool, I have never seen this model and they probably did not make many TOL ones.
We saw a lot of the basic one dial builder versions, they had lots of problems with the pump and motor assembly, leaking main seals, bad rust on the motor shaft, burned out drain valve solenoids, motor cooling fans that disintegrated, other than these faults there were not that many problems, the racks did not even have wheels to break off.
This DW design was WHs answer to GEs cheap plastisol DWs and the last gasp for WHs appliance engineers, the only problem was GE had better engineers and better materials and could make something that looked really cheap actually work and get will beyond the warranty without lots of problems.
WH even had a shaded pole motor in these DWs that used more power than the cheap black motor GE used at the time that needed a powerful fan to cool it.
WH was very clever in several areas, The motor cooling fan provided air movement to pull heat and steam out of the tank to dry the dishes, of course this meant running an 8 Amp motor through the entire dry cycle without using any of the motors heat to actually dry the dishes.
Other clever cost cuts included, a very simple door latch and switch, no wheels on the racks, most models did not have a detergent dispenser, basic models used a cheap to build clothes dryer type timer that could be turner either way and advanced continuously to save the cost of an escapement. And best of all it actually had a porcelain enameled inner door and tank.
We have a basic Harvest Gold one of these in the museum, many people have asked me why I kept this DW with all the other cool DWs and I did so because it is interesting to see how cheaply a DW could be built at the time.
John L.
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Post# 1106328 , Reply# 5 1/31/2021 at 07:32 (1,174 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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 Very cool!! I've never seen the Westinghouse-badged version of this machine up close, but I remember seeing the Viking models that were built for the old Eaton's department store - I think I may still have a picture or two in a catalog showing this ultra-fancy rapid-advance timer model. I'm not at the house in Ogden today, but please remind me to look for them - I think there was a cycle chart included to help folks compare models.
Does this one have a porcelain tub? I've got a 72 or 73 Viking-badged and a 71 Westinghouse (both built in Canada) and they are porcelain.
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Post# 1106335 , Reply# 6 1/31/2021 at 09:05 (1,174 days old) by steved (Guilderland, New York) |
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Didn't have much...... My library is a little thin on these models. | ||
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Post# 1106350 , Reply# 7 1/31/2021 at 11:11 (1,174 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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| Post# 1106373 , Reply# 8 1/31/2021 at 13:39 (1,174 days old) by Cam2s (Nebraska) | ||
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Beautiful machine! Looks to be in pretty good shape given the dodgy build quality. Can’t wait to see it loaded up and to explore all the engineering “quirks!” | ||
| Post# 1106386 , Reply# 9 1/31/2021 at 15:54 (1,174 days old) by Hippiedoll ( arizona ) | ||
CONGRATULATIONS... | ||
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