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Hi and Welcome, pictures are always cool! It's quite true that parts for KDS15 and later are easier to get. We restored a portable 15 with no parts problems, at all. However - and I know this will upset some members of the KA Ladies Auxiliary, but, what the hey: KA dishwashers aren't...

Sigh. I miss the real GE Once upon a time......

shaded pole motor This motor is a single phase, induction motor. It's advantage is, of course, that, as long as the bearings last, the motor will run forever with no other service ever required. The shaded pole runs at roughly 20% efficiency (dear anal retentives, we all know you're just...

Float Switches, Flooding, Failed Timers Failed float switches are, indeed rare. Failed timers, however, even this improved version, are not. Especially not on an appliance coming up on 40 years old. Considering that that float switch is the only thing between a flooded house and a timer stuck...

Yes, resistance varies by temperature. This is why I said to run the dratted thing for ten minutes, turn off the power (circuit breaker/ pull plug) and then measure the resistance at the heating element. Realistically, it will be about as high as it's going to go, producing the lowest Watt...

Darlings, we're overthinking this Run the damn thing on main wash 10 minutes. Unplug or trip circuit breaker. Measure resistance at heating element. Plug into Ohm's law calculator, assume 120 volts. Done. It's a purely resistive load for goodness sake, no power factor to correct for, VA for an...

Several potscrubber heating elements I have tested Came in pretty close to 500 watts. I remember reading in an appliance for him sometime in the late 1980s that general electric had decided to de-rate the elements down to prevent damage to the plastic liner. Given that this is a purely...

Something to keep in mind Most repair shops neither know nor care that just about everything in that stove which can break is still made or a safe modern equivalent is available. The push buttons are a real challenge, but the rest should be no problem. We had to replace the energy regulator...

I never could spell that acronym right... When I still taught, I was able to purchase small quantities at a reasonable price from our university's supply store, cleans great, but,  gosh - it turns into TSP at the slightest failure to store it in a 0% humidity, cool, air-tight container.  ...

Ideally, You'd go back to 1958 and grab some carbon tet. Problem solved. This being 2020, here's what works for me. I'm married to a neat-freak who can't drink a glass of water without spilling it. So, lots of experience. 1) Medical grade gasoline, poured through the stain in a thin stream...

Oh, I do like this idea. We have three different perspectives on dishwashing. When I'm using one of the Potscrubbers with multi-orbital arm, I don't pre-rinse, only remove bones and olive pits. Throw everything into the machine so water can hit it, put in a standard WalMart pod in each of the...

Yeah, Jim, I'm leaning that way. We've been rotating through Flairs, Monarchs (that's the one where the energy control only kills one leg, something apparently no other stove has ever done), the RAINBOW Westinghouse, the GE  SPACEMAKER from 1974.... And it's just awful hard to see how to do it...

Friend of mine volunteers at the local Habitat Restore. I don't at this one for reasons which are more for Dirty Laundry, so whenever he calls and says he has something in PANK! I take notice. Their management had rejected it and it was headed for the scrap bin. Would I like them? He doubted...

Yup, Nothing cleans remotely as well. Good illustration.

Uncle Owl Face would be proud of you I'm not an engineer and high-school geometry was a very long time ago, but, yes, I believe the wash arm's patterns are nutations of an orbit. Euler's second law? Way too long ago. Anyway, there were three wash arms from the post PotscrubberII era. This one...

That seal is super duper thin Even brand new, it appears to have been in use for 90 years with five full washloads a day. It might quiet down over time. It works without it, but I'd only pull it if you have no choice. I'm so glad it's working for you. Water in the door can mean various things...

You have the 900 Watt heater! Lucky you!

Good for you! We had a Potscrubber III fall into our laps two weeks ago. Filthy, otherwise worked great. Having done a lot of Potscrubbers through the years (no II, though), here's some stuff I've learned (a lot with the help of the folks around here) which might be useful: 1) That...

Breville. Or, genuine Commercial Hobart. Never KA Kitchen Aid, today, is all about the look and not about the durability. Sadly. You get some really well engineered stuff and then there's the trash when some bean-counter has taken a really well-engineered product and raped it. Nothing to be...

My favourite, Model 463, Series A Has the lowest stir speed I've ever encountered. Bought it at an action off of a very old greasy spoon. They'd made milkshakes with it for decades. Taking it apart and cleaning was interesting, to put it mildly. I changed out the brushes, even though they...