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Westinghouse design Westinghouse's late sixties/early seventies (pre-divestiture) designs must be timeless, because they look great, even now.    Everything was right about them.  

How did they mount that to the ceiling? No kidding!  I can't square what I see in the background to that photo.  Has the effect of gravity been suspended there?  If so, super-helpful for loading.

*swoon* I need to find one of those dishwashers.

Filter-clean Westinghouse This one may be.  Same design as the one now posted in Shopper's Square in Honolulu.  Not sure if this one in Phoenix would have the filter, or not: http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?63798

Ah, yes Joseph, "spinout."  Love the shot with the Super Roto Swirl swapped in... http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?5392

One can dream... :-) Yes, one can, and does.  We still want to stage a reconnaissance mission to our local Penneys (built in '71) to see if there might be goodies hiding in its ample basement storerooms.  Who was it here that found that NIB Penncrest stainless solid-tub hiding, forgotten, in a...

Mice "Nuke them from orbit...it's the only way to be sure."  :-)   We tried the glue traps--I have no idea what the hell I was thinking.  They were sprinkled with nut fragments to entice the mice; said mousies nibbled the goodies off the trap, and left the trap in place, which ended up...

Nuclear power plants I'm surprised the Laundromats don't have mirrored controls! :-) By the way, your present wiring matches mine, if it's any help. Hopefully our machines have the same schematic.  If they do, that puts the hot water connection on the right, as you're facing the back of the...

which ones are the hot and cold hose attachments I guessed wrong the first time, too.  I just left the top un-screwed and swapped the wires when I discovered my error.  I fired it up with the "cold water wash" option selected (really, the only use for that setting is as a diagnostic mode ;-) )...

My thoughts exactly I need this woman to come teach me how to clean.

LOL Yes Phoenix causes us to have to make up excuses about why we have matching end-tables of dishwashers.  :-)   The tank on that Westinghouse is throwing me--that top is not like their later GE-clone interior.  Hmm.  Someone will probably be able to eyeball it and know.  If it's the...

In-depth tutorial If it was to actually resolve the issue, it was probably someone else--I posted to bitch about it :-)   I never did get mine sorted completely.  It started mostly-working, after I went in and dinked around with the gear alignment once.  I never went back in there again, and...

Tank? Is that Plastisol, or porcelain?  The speckle is throwing me off.  The scrape-guard on the bottom of the inner door liner suggests "plastique coating."

Naaaaaaate...Naaaaate... Roger *would* love this.  Finally, something that can pre-dirty all the dishes, before placing them in the KitchenAids.  :-)

Hmmm No money-shot, naturally.  Would these be the good ones, with the bowed-upward wash arm and microfilter?  Or are these what were essentially GE clones?

Ugh Great article. That's a fascinating strategy for growth and diversification, but it's interesting to note that their strategy consisted of snagging portfolios of products, keeping the most useful designs, and scrapping the rest, while halting R&D. Think about that--they just acquired...

Detergent dispenser mayhem That's what killed my joy with the 2800s. I stick to the 1200s/1250s these days. The 2800 used a clock motor and large gear arrangement to trip the detergent dispenser electronically. Remember the drain motor on that spin-tube we found? Déjà vu. It's a funky...

So are they bringing back the Penncrest brand? Hopefully only if they bring back the good logo. :-)

GE to Haier <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 12pt;">I'm reminded of the Far Side comic where the goldfish stand outside their bowl, their castle ornament ablaze, lamenting, "Well, thank God we all made it out in time...'course, now we're equally screwed." </span>...

Hypothesis Here's what I suspect about the results.   First, as an aside, I'd love for the Quantum pack to fit in the main wash cup, but I'd also like a pony.  Truthfully, the first wash/main wash segments on this machine are pretty identical, so it's kind of a six-to-one...