anybody make a coin-op dishwasher?

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If we really thought about all the gross stuff that we do or that happens around us we'd all be DEAD.

Just don't think aobut it!

I mean I have shaken plenty a hand and it was OBVIOUS that someone just had a personal itch minutes before.

It should be mandatory to have to wash one's hands to get out of a lu. Some type of interlock for the door would be great.

Back to gross dishwashers. BEDPAN in the DW? Not unless it was dedicated to that purpose, and CLEARLY labeled.
 
Any hard contact lens wearers still around?

When I was in high school I had hard contacts. I can't tell you how many times one of those things popped out and went from my dirty hand to my mouth, back to my dirty hand and back in my eye. It's amazing my eyeballs hadn't fallen out years ago.

Thanks goodnes for soft lenses!
 
IMHO, there are no coin-op dishwashers for reasons along those lines...I can't believe someone put a BEDPAN in there!! I hope it was a joke and it hadn't been used for, you know, that purpose.

Yet clothes stained with all sorts of bodily things are washed all the time in coin-ops...so it could go either way!

Well, if my college dorm has a sink and I smuggle a washing machine in, I would have to think REALLY hard about letting the roomies use it, and even then they would have to provided their own detergent. However, use of the "free washer" would not be permitted to persons outside the dorm...and a dishwasher is out of the question! OY!
 
Speaking of losing teeth, several years ago we had a woman lose her upper plate down the can on one of our flights. We had to wait until we landed and then had the "honey wagon" crew put on these long rubber gloves and fish the teeth out of the holding tank. They put them in a little box and sent them to the baggage claim office, and sure enough the woman picked them up and said "Thank you!".

Let me tell you, there wouldn't be enough bleach, disinfectant, water, heat, etc. To get those clean enough for me! If I were in that position, I'd just forget them and go to the dentist for a new set!
 
OMG EEEEWWWWW!!!!!!!!

Ralph / Chachp

my ex wore hard lenses.

One popped out on a subway platform near the pilar. Floor to mouth to eye.

I won't even tell you what body fluids are near the poles/pillars/columns

No, maybe I will. Any and ALL imaginable.
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I'm not going to wast time...

I'm not going to waste time washing dishes by hand anymore! I've wasted all of the dawn dish detergent using that dirty filthy sponge only to get zero results! Unimatic1140 I know how you feel! If there was a dish-o-mat I vould just shut up and take my loads of dishes to the dish-o-mat and wash them in their dishwashers! Nothing smells better than the warm damp air of Cascade complete citrus breeze and Cascade rinse aid! How about Hobart kitchenaids!
 
What about a commercial-style Hobart set up to do one cycle on (quarters, debit card) what have you? There is always the chance that stupid people may try to bathe their children in them, of course, but one runs that risk in an ordinary laundry mat...
 
A few years ago, I had a wildass dream that I opened a nationwide chain of "Dish O Rama" Dishomats where you had the choice of drop off or self serve. We also had step vans to go pick up and/or drop off. Drop off clean dishes to use while your dirty ones go get done. Some of my SAve also Had generators to run the six machines on board to get plenty of business. We did extremely well and Ellen had us on to demonstrate and loved it. Her remark, "My God! That sounds "dish custing, /made me laugh so hard, it woke me up. What a dishaster!! LOL.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
Into the 1950s, there were appliance stores that would put a coin meter on a washing machine before delivering it and send someone around on a regular basis to empty the coin box. It was a form of installment payment.

As for coin-op dishwashers, they could find a place in vacation cabins/apartments as a way of charging guests for the utility costs of operating a dishwasher, although it would be a pretty cheap-ass place to do something like that. They don't need to be located outside of the unit like in a wash house; they can be in the kitchen and still be coin-op.

At the turn of the century in apartments in the immigrant areas of big cities, the gas meter had a coin slot. When you wanted to use the lights, you dropped a coin then lit the light.
 
A coin operated timer power supply.

A few of the property managers tried putting them on household laundry units. The customer puts money in and the timer runs for however long you program it. Me being me, I helped a 'friend' rewire the washer to plug directly into an outlet ;-)

If I might add my two cents to this, if it were me, I'd find a restaurant supply or local auction or something and pick up a low temp commercial warewasher. The control box could be re-wired to where a coin-op/bill acceptor would be the trigger after the door is closed. It wouldn't be hard to wire into one of the safety lines.

You could install the unit, have the chemical dispenser set up, have all the workings out of users reach, behind cages etc, they load the rack, slide the rack into the warewasher, close the door and place their money in the vending unit. When there are sufficient funds, the relay clicks and starts the washer. Since its low temp, the chemicals dispense as needed, the cycle runs, completes and user pulls dishes out the other side.

If you were to set something like that up, ecolab gives you the dispensing equipment as long as you buy the chemical from them.

Someone would just need to pop in throughout the day and check the filters etc make sure there isn't stuff stuck in the sump etc.

*edit: Ugh, I didn't realize ... the age of this thread... there needs to be a way to keep people from reviving posts older than two years.... .......*

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I'm shocked...

 

<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 14pt;">That really is a surprise.  Seems it would be more work to lug them down there but I guess if people do it already there could be a market for this.  If it were me I'd just make sure I had a camper equipped with a dishwasher.  Mamma don't do outdoors.</span>
 
Me too..

 

<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 14pt;">Now the you mention it, I'm thinking of all the times over the years I took a blanket or comforter to the laundromat because the dog or cat did something on them.  Yeah, not me either.  I don't want that in my washer even though I often run the Sanitize cycle.</span>

 

<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: large;">For the archive.</span>

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Back when this post originated 15  years ago, I don't think portable countertop dws existed and if they did, I doubt they were so affordable.

 

It's more common now for RVs to have dishwashers compared to 15 year ago.

 

No struggling RV park is going to waste money with another potential maintenance issue.

 

The last RV park I stayed at in Vermont, attendance was dropping like flies as their older clientele base was also..... 

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