It's funny, a friend of from college, in Dallas, his parents had that exact same dishwasher and I stayed with them for sseveral OU vs. UT weekends. I heard from him on Wednesday. They were a family of 6 (plus a constant flow of friends from their teenage kids) and it wore out by late 1970s. They felt the replacement was too expensive and ended up with a GE PotScrubber II. they didn't like the huge GE flatware basket, so they used the extra basket from a neighbor's Waste King, lol.