Thread Number: 93732
/ Tag: Vintage Dishwashers
GE Mobile Maid SM200DS |
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Post# 1183790 , Reply# 1   6/30/2023 at 01:44 (309 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Have model just before yours IIRC. Cycles are pretty much same I think.
It's late and owners manual is put away but think from left to right four buttons are "Pots and Pans", "Normal", "China and Crystal" and "No Heat Dry", or words to those effects. Pots and Pans is full cycle of W-R-W-R-R-D Normal skips first wash (you have to move timer to proper position) China and Crystal also skips first wash but also (again IIRC as never used) either skips one rinse but certainly does not engage heating element for full drying cycle. My machine is timer fill. No float or anything like that. Being that water pressure is rather powerful here machine fills with quite a bit of water during allotted time. You may want to search archives as one *thinks* there maybe some sort of feedback or system to prevent dishwasher from filling if timer does not engage to stop. Unless changed by your model year thermostat is more to maintain hot water temp. Only comes on during main wash (and again for drying) but timer remains on during entire wash period until timer clicks it off. There isn't any sort of temperature feedback/thermometer. Long as MM DW timer is in heating phase it will continue to do so. If your hot water is already hot (say 140F or above) this can result in some very hot washes. More to point if you stop washer and reset for another main wash when timer again reaches point to switch on heater, it will do so. Thus by end of second main wash you'll likely have some very scalding hot water. One rarely used drying function. FWIU it's better for racks, especially lower ones not to expose them to heat of that drying coil often. Tub liner is GE's famous Plastisol. One dropped knife or sharp object can cause a nick with may prove fatal to tub liner. Mine had a rust hole eaten through which was patched up by *Moi* Am here to tell you these Mobile Maid DWs move quite a lot of water. Mines shimmies back and forth a bit from force of water hitting sides of tub. If using full cycle you want to turn knob just until machine begins filling. If timer is moved too far there is risk of short cycling/not filling with enough water. Again these dishwashers are pretty basic, no float or other fill feedback and everything pretty much driven off timer. When timer says it's time to do "X", that is what machine will do. www.automaticwasher.org/c... www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/... |
Post# 1183791 , Reply# 2   6/30/2023 at 01:53 (309 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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As for pristine state one assumes many simply grew weary of constantly having to shift stuff off then back onto lid of these top loading dishwashers.
Three or four meals per day means unless thing was left without anything on top having to haul things off to open lid, then put everything back when lid was closed. |
Post# 1183798 , Reply# 3   6/30/2023 at 06:21 (308 days old) by Repairguy (Danbury, Texas)   |   | |
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Post# 1183804 , Reply# 4   6/30/2023 at 09:58 (308 days old) by rinso (Meridian Idaho)   |   | |
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IIRC, this dishwasher is very easy to use, but has no soil separator. (food particle filter) This means it has a tendency to re-deposit food particles on the items it is washing. |
Post# 1183834 , Reply# 5   6/30/2023 at 16:49 (308 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Compared to previous Kenmore (made by Frigidaire) 18" dw the MM leaves things comparatively spotless and yibble free..
Long as things are well scraped before going in and use of a good detergent (in my case Cascade powder loaded with phosphates) have never had a problem. This even with third upper rack (glassware). Then again this dw has about five changes of water with some of the rinse cycles rather short. That is quite a lot of energy, time, effort and water which does a good job in blasting off soils and sending them down drain. |
Post# 1184160 , Reply# 7   7/4/2023 at 16:11 (304 days old) by thomasortega (El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles de Porciúncula)   |   | |
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Thanks for the advice... although quite obvious hahaha. |
Post# 1184777 , Reply# 9   7/12/2023 at 20:32 (296 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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I deeply regret offering help. |