A dream machine found!

[tomturbomatic]

Congratulations

Thanks for sharing the loading position of the center portion of the top rack. This machine has a lot more tub height than any of KA's frontloaders of the time. I'll bet you really had to hold that piece of plexiglass with a lot of force against that water pressure. KA used to have ads with that model saying that if you could run it with the top open, the water would shoot 10 feet into the air.

I like the flexibility of being able to remove sections of the top rack. If I have 4 large cookie sheets to wash, I remove the side sections. Place one cookie sheet on each side against the tub wall and one cookie sheet between the pins on each side. It is an amazing piece of construction, a double wall porcelain tank, "all porcelain inside and out" almost like those Savory double wall porcelain roasters, but they're a lot smaller. A piece of rubber matting on the lid will really cut down on the noise.

I hope you have lots of pleasure from your newest treasure.

 

[rpms]

Nice dishwasher Paul. I see the Canadian Club glasses made an appearance for Mother's Day. My mom has the heavy wine glasses too.

 

[lordkenmore]

Ad with dog "prewashing" dishes

I have a sense that I may have seen an ad like that. Maybe a POD here. But I can't really remember for sure.

Then, there's that old joke about the guy who visits a friend for dinner. The dishes don't seem very clean, but the friend insists they are. "These are as clean as Soap and Water can get them!" After dinner, he puts the dishes down on the floor, and calls the dogs: "Here Soap! Here Water!"

It's probably best to avoid letting a dog "prewash" dishes. It's said to encourage begging. Plus it can be bad for the dog. A former roommate was into dogs, and didn't feel that letting the dog lick a plate off was necessarily bad, but said some things were best avoided. One food--I think rhubarb--was so high on the banned list that I was told that I could never even have it in the house at any time for any reason.

Of course, with a KitchenAid, prewashing isn't necessary the way it is with a modern plastic "lets gently sprinkle a few drops of water and call it good!" dishwasher.

 

[spiceman1957]

What a beautiful machine.

Too bad it's not in turquoise he he. You know, there are machines that are pretty on the outside with its' bells and whistles, and then you have a simple, plain color machine on the outside, but dammed hardworking on the inside. We, being my brothers and I, bought our mother her first KitchenAid dishwasher in 1978. This KitchenAid did two loads a day for at least the next 10 years before breaking down. Congratulations on your find.
John