Eugene, what about using the light cycle instead of normal?
Another KitchenAid Story
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Eugene,
Ahem......Pics????
Eugene,
Ahem......Pics????
mikepaquette
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With that many dirty dishes I sure wish I had a invite for a meal. I just know your a good cook !!! Mike
With that many dirty dishes I sure wish I had a invite for a meal. I just know your a good cook !!! Mike
GadgetGary-- I wish I had some pics of the Frigidaire, but I don't. It is in my sister's home. I gave it to her when I bought my new Maytag back in December.
Mike-- Yes, meals at my house are pretty damn good if I may say so. I have a full-time buffet (with skirting and the whole nine yards) set up in my dining room. I used to work for a catering business, so I have a lot of equipment and dishes. I live in a very small town and having people over for dinner/brunch a few times during the week constitutes my social life. We have a lot of fun and everyone enjoys the food and company. I'd love to have everyone from AW.ORG over, but my only washer is a 2003 Frigidaire FL'er. I like it, but it's boring and not vintage.
Bob-- Actually, there is no LIGHT cycle on this model. It has HEAVY, NORMAL, CHINA/CRYSTAL and INSTA-WASH cycles. To be honest, I've never once used the CHINA cycle on any of my DW's. Don't know why, I just never have. Maybe I should try that. I'll time it and see how long it is. BTW, in your honor, I refuse to use the term BobLoad® without the registered trademark symbol. Even if it is illegal. You've earned it, man!
Mike-- Yes, meals at my house are pretty damn good if I may say so. I have a full-time buffet (with skirting and the whole nine yards) set up in my dining room. I used to work for a catering business, so I have a lot of equipment and dishes. I live in a very small town and having people over for dinner/brunch a few times during the week constitutes my social life. We have a lot of fun and everyone enjoys the food and company. I'd love to have everyone from AW.ORG over, but my only washer is a 2003 Frigidaire FL'er. I like it, but it's boring and not vintage.
Bob-- Actually, there is no LIGHT cycle on this model. It has HEAVY, NORMAL, CHINA/CRYSTAL and INSTA-WASH cycles. To be honest, I've never once used the CHINA cycle on any of my DW's. Don't know why, I just never have. Maybe I should try that. I'll time it and see how long it is. BTW, in your honor, I refuse to use the term BobLoad® without the registered trademark symbol. Even if it is illegal. You've earned it, man!
I wish I had some pics of the Frigidaire,
How 'bout pics of your current dishwasher...panel, top rack, bottom rack...etc????
Dirty dishes and all.
How 'bout pics of your current dishwasher...panel, top rack, bottom rack...etc????
Dirty dishes and all.
Gary, looks like you missed all the pix Eugene posted of his new dishwasher, at the time, and I do believe he may have had a load or two. But now I hope he shows us many more examples. Eugene, the owner manuals online for your dishwasher use the term light. I believe it's the same as your china/crystal cycle. 1 wash/2 rinses and a time of 82 minutes, that 45 mins. longer than the insta wash, and has the same cycle sequence, but with water heating. You can add high-temp wash option as well as tough scrub (plus?) options even to this cycle. Give it a whirl.
On many of today's dishwasher, china/crystal is a euphamism for light wash cycle.
On many of today's dishwasher, china/crystal is a euphamism for light wash cycle.
Here is his reply on the wash arm..
"I had my wash arm powder coated and made sure they covered the machined bore and shoulder on the underside. It still looks new. However, the white powdercoating I had done to the inside door panel has peeled off in huge sheets. Very disappointing."
Hope that helps!
"I had my wash arm powder coated and made sure they covered the machined bore and shoulder on the underside. It still looks new. However, the white powdercoating I had done to the inside door panel has peeled off in huge sheets. Very disappointing."
Hope that helps!
John, would you mind, when you have a chance, to photo the sump/screen area? It looks very different than later models. This 10 series is so cool!
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John,
LOVE that vintage KitchenAid, those early machines are absolutely stunning!!! Very deco styling if you ask me, and those SS racks make it even better! I bet it just blasts through the dirt...just shows that a long cycle isn't needed to clean well!
Congrats and thanks for posting!
--Austin
LOVE that vintage KitchenAid, those early machines are absolutely stunning!!! Very deco styling if you ask me, and those SS racks make it even better! I bet it just blasts through the dirt...just shows that a long cycle isn't needed to clean well!
Congrats and thanks for posting!
--Austin
Kitchenaid promotion contest
On the kitchenaid site, and go under promotions they ran a contest on who had the oldest kitchaid model dishwasher. Winner was a KD10 from 1950 in a Frank Lloyd Wright house, and thye show some other runners up. Winner won $15,000 in KA appliances. I'm not good at linking to websites, maybe someone else can provide the link.
On the kitchenaid site, and go under promotions they ran a contest on who had the oldest kitchaid model dishwasher. Winner was a KD10 from 1950 in a Frank Lloyd Wright house, and thye show some other runners up. Winner won $15,000 in KA appliances. I'm not good at linking to websites, maybe someone else can provide the link.
toggleswitch
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I an not generally an alarmist, however............
People:
Beware of what you use in a DW-
My father recants horror stories of DOCTORS with which he worked that used an aquarium sealant (assuming it was non-toxic to life) that eventually leached into the DW and caused PERMANENT, IRREVERSIBLE neurological damage to the doctor's family. Sadly they were a bunch of extra-bright intellectually gifted people. Not after the damage was done.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ensure all lubricants, paints, caulking etc is fit for use as you intended to use it.
Remember: would you put the substance on a plate and eat it? Because that is, in effect, what you are doing.
Best of luck! Looks like an AWESOME machine.
People:
Beware of what you use in a DW-
My father recants horror stories of DOCTORS with which he worked that used an aquarium sealant (assuming it was non-toxic to life) that eventually leached into the DW and caused PERMANENT, IRREVERSIBLE neurological damage to the doctor's family. Sadly they were a bunch of extra-bright intellectually gifted people. Not after the damage was done.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ensure all lubricants, paints, caulking etc is fit for use as you intended to use it.
Remember: would you put the substance on a plate and eat it? Because that is, in effect, what you are doing.
Best of luck! Looks like an AWESOME machine.
Sump Pics
Here are the pics as requested. that Is not rust the finish is wearing off and the screen is brass.
Here are the pics as requested. that Is not rust the finish is wearing off and the screen is brass.
drain cover insert bakalite
drain
drain
sump
sump
sump
pump head
pump head
pump head
Sump dimentions
the sump is 10" wide 10" long and 6" deep
the sump is 10" wide 10" long and 6" deep
poisoned by the dishwasher
Toggle, I don't understand how a silicone sealer made for aquariums would have anything to leach into the water that would render people idiots. The non-aquarium silicones have arsenic, I think, to inhibit mold growth, but if anything was going to leach into the water that would damage people neurologically, just from the minute amount that would be a trace film on the dried dishes, it would quickly kill fish that lived in the tank of water into which it was leaching. What did they find in the hair samples of the sealant victims? How long did it take after the dw repair for the family to exhibit symptoms? Was it just the doctor's family and not the doctor who had neurological damage? That would be strange unless the doctor was poisoning his family. Are you sure that this was not more of a Love Canal thing than dishwasher repair? If this was caused by the sealant, why were there not warnings about a very widely used product? The neurological symptoms you describe sound more like the effects of mercury or lead or one of the other heavy metals. Lead has been banned from solder for a long time, but could have leached from the pipes in an older house. Were the kids and mother all poisoned? Were the kids doing drugs? Were they using dishes with lead or cadmium in the glaze? Worse yet, were they mixing and storing KoolAid & citrus drinks in a metalic container or in a ceramic pitcher with a lead or cadmium glaze that was leaching into the acidic solution? Washing ceramic ware with a poor glaze that contained lead or cadmium in the dishwasher would certainly damage the glaze to where it would leach far faster into food and drink. Did they keep wine or liquor in lead crystal decanters? Lead leaches into those liquids very quickly. Something about this story does not add up. I respect the necessity to guard ourselves from contaminents and I respect you and I know that you would not knowingly relate something as the truth that you knew was false when you know we would slash you, our dear friend Toggle, to shreds within seconds of discovering the truth, but I think we have more in this dishwasher sealant story than aquarium sealer.
Toggle, I don't understand how a silicone sealer made for aquariums would have anything to leach into the water that would render people idiots. The non-aquarium silicones have arsenic, I think, to inhibit mold growth, but if anything was going to leach into the water that would damage people neurologically, just from the minute amount that would be a trace film on the dried dishes, it would quickly kill fish that lived in the tank of water into which it was leaching. What did they find in the hair samples of the sealant victims? How long did it take after the dw repair for the family to exhibit symptoms? Was it just the doctor's family and not the doctor who had neurological damage? That would be strange unless the doctor was poisoning his family. Are you sure that this was not more of a Love Canal thing than dishwasher repair? If this was caused by the sealant, why were there not warnings about a very widely used product? The neurological symptoms you describe sound more like the effects of mercury or lead or one of the other heavy metals. Lead has been banned from solder for a long time, but could have leached from the pipes in an older house. Were the kids and mother all poisoned? Were the kids doing drugs? Were they using dishes with lead or cadmium in the glaze? Worse yet, were they mixing and storing KoolAid & citrus drinks in a metalic container or in a ceramic pitcher with a lead or cadmium glaze that was leaching into the acidic solution? Washing ceramic ware with a poor glaze that contained lead or cadmium in the dishwasher would certainly damage the glaze to where it would leach far faster into food and drink. Did they keep wine or liquor in lead crystal decanters? Lead leaches into those liquids very quickly. Something about this story does not add up. I respect the necessity to guard ourselves from contaminents and I respect you and I know that you would not knowingly relate something as the truth that you knew was false when you know we would slash you, our dear friend Toggle, to shreds within seconds of discovering the truth, but I think we have more in this dishwasher sealant story than aquarium sealer.
toggleswitch
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you know we would slash you, our dear friend Toggle, to shre
All information must be taken and judged against its source.
I can only offer a caveat.
Doc used the sealant in question to hold in place and mend a gasket, rather than spend a few rupies on a new one. My father showed me the newspaper article and told me he knew the doctor after having personally designed his laboratory for him. (Dad was an architect by trade.) The doctor was a research scientist for a non-rpofit organization (Translation: VERY low pay.)
My conscious is clear. I said what I thought was prudent.
If my statement is ridiculous, then so be it.
I am not trying to hurt anyone or pee in anyone's Cheerios.
(But I somehow always manage).
All information must be taken and judged against its source.
I can only offer a caveat.
Doc used the sealant in question to hold in place and mend a gasket, rather than spend a few rupies on a new one. My father showed me the newspaper article and told me he knew the doctor after having personally designed his laboratory for him. (Dad was an architect by trade.) The doctor was a research scientist for a non-rpofit organization (Translation: VERY low pay.)
My conscious is clear. I said what I thought was prudent.
If my statement is ridiculous, then so be it.
I am not trying to hurt anyone or pee in anyone's Cheerios.
(But I somehow always manage).
veg-o-matic
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Now see, I always cook my aquarium sealant in a Club Aluminum pot before I use it in the dishwasher. I think it gets rid of all the "bad stuff."
And I'm no stupider than the next guy...
veg
And I'm no stupider than the next guy...
veg
toggleswitch
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The finger is unintentional
It is not directed at anyone. but it IS kinda funny).
It is not directed at anyone. but it IS kinda funny).
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