"avocaco" frigidaire electric stove & maytag dishwasher alert!!!

[hippiedoll]

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/app/4326928914.html

found this craigslist ad & thought it would be perfect to post on here for all the avocado & electric frigidaire stove and maytag dishwasher fans.

it was posted 15 days ago, but updated just yesterday.

ad says:
"60'S MAYTAG DISHWASHER ~ AVOCADO GREEN ~ HARDLY USED ~ WORKS GREAT ~ EXCELLENT CONDITION ~ ORIGINAL PAPERWORK INCLUDED ~ 60'S FRIGIDAIRE COMPACT 30 ~ BUILT IN STOVE & OVEN WITH CHROME COOKMASTER CLOCK ~ PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOTORS USA ~ EXCELLENT CONDITION ~ 30" WIDE 25" DEEP ~ 27" TALL ~ AVOCADO GREEN ~ GREAT WORKING CONDITION & 60'S NUTONE FAN & LIGHT HOOD ~ 30" WIDE ~ GREAT CONDITION ~ ALL MATCHING PERFECTLY IN AVOCADO GREEN ~ SELLING ALL THREE AS A SET ~ SORRY THE PICS ARE SO TERRIBLE ~ ASKING 400.00 FOR ALL ~ CALL @ 480 ~ 593 ~ 8818"

sorry about the pictures. i don't know how to take them off of the ad & put them on here?? hopefully someone can post the pictures. i know how important they are but i'm not too hip with technology & don't know how to take the pictures from the ad.
sorry....
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http://phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/app/4326928914.html

 

[hippiedoll]

woops!!!!

the title is supposed to say "AVOCADO".
LOL.....

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[chachp]

Love that dishwasher

I'd love to have that Maytag dishwasher. Too bad it's so far away!!

 

[hippiedoll]

" SELLING ALL THREE AS A SET "

chachp:

not that i am an expert on any appliances but the dishwasher, with all it's buttons, kinda reminds me of the all push buttoned maytag A906 or A908 washers. just my opinion. it's hard to tell but, it looks like the buttons have the same style of writing on them like the center dial washers buttons. i've never seen the A90? buttons up close to see the style of writing they have on them.

maybe you could ask the seller to sell you the dishwasher separately?? but i wonder how much they would want for just the dishwasher??
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[combo52]

Cool Time Capsule Of very late 60s or early 70s Appliances

The MT DW would be an orignal WU600 and it is an all push-button two motor timer. This was MTs first built-in DW, they were good performers but loaded with problems, if this was closer I would consider getting it for the museums Great Wall of Dishwashers, but if you put it in your kitchen and tried to use it several times per week you would face many repair challenges in the first year or two.

John L.

 

[philr]

John, were these also Plastisol-coated?

 

[combo52]

Plastisol Coated ?

Hi Phil the Frigidaire oven or Maytag DW, LOL.

Seriously the MT DWs had a nice porcelain coated tank and inner door liner, but this brings up two of the problems that these early MT DWs often had with the tanks, first and most serious was the lip at the front of the wash chamber, it had a formed lip that all the wires going into the door were clamped against and the flexing from opening and closing the door would cut through the insulation and cause shorts and broken wires. We scrapped more of these machines than I care to remember for this problem alone, MT to its credit often provided a free replacement DW. The other problem with these early DWs was the top of the tanks were so poorly formed that the top wash arm [ which was SS ] would wear through the porcelain coating and the tank would rust.

 

[philr]

Were their top-loading models porcelain-coated too? I thought the one I brought you with Paul had a Plastisol tank.

 

[swestoyz]

Phil - no Maytag dishwasher from the era had Plastisol tanks. Double coat procelian.

BTW - this is a nice set-up for someone. The Conpact 30 is a lovely range.

Ben

 

[philr]

Thanks for the info Ben.  If I remember well, the racks were rusted in Paul's Maytag top-loading dishwasher. John had a similar one that had another issue but it had good racks. I thought the tank was rusted in John's dishwasher (That's why I thought the thanks were probably coated with Plastisol!) but maybe it was something else (I haven't seen it but I remember him getting the nice racks he had to fit in the dishwasher he had just gotten from Paul!). I also remember he showed that the selector buttons on that dishwasher had letters that didn't rub off like those on Maytag washers. 

 

I had been watching that dishwasher ad on Craigslist for a while, I was wondering how I found that Maytag dishwasher so far from me! That's probably because there was a Frigidaire appliance in that kitchen! But I saved it because of the dishwasher, not because of the Compact30 which isn't Self-Cleaning!

I know someone who offered me a very similar Compact 30 range (in the same avocado color). One of the last ones produced in Canada. Unfortunately, as all Canadian-made Frigidaire ovens, it lacks self-cleaning. The differences between Canadian and US models of 1967-70 are that Canadian ones had dark oven liners, they used Robertshaw infinite switches, they had a fuse access door below the oven door and the "N"models had a split "surface" light that showed "Left/Right" instead of "Surface" (earlier ones had two separate indicator lights). 

 

I might eventually get it just because of these minor differences! But there's no way I'd trade that for my US-made RBE-539N-CH!

 

[combo52]

Maytags First Dishwasher Was The WP600

I think it came out around 1967, Ben this is where you or maybe Mark can help date this, they only made a TL portable at first. These orignal TL portables had a separate drain and main wash motor, I know around the time the WU600 built-ins came out the TLers also got the new MT designed and built reversible main motor and drain pump assembly. This new MT pump used a GM Delco motor that was field rebuildable.

I again do not know how long MT continued to build the WP600 TL portable DW [ help Ben or Mark ] but they were made into the early 1970s and all the TLers had porcelain inner lid panels and plastisol tanks.

 

[philr]

OK, thanks John for the info! Was it the Plastisol-covered tank that had rust issue in yours or something else?

 

[kenmore71]

Here's the full production list of Maytag dishwashers from 1967 - 1980.  The built-ins and convertibles were direct drive from their introduction in 1969 through 1974.  The drain system in the TL portables changed at some point from a separate drain pump to a function of the main pump reversing.  I will do a little digging through my "Let's Talk Service" archive and try to find when that change occurred. The WU*01 line introduced in 1975 brought the about the reversible belt drive pump.

 

[kenmore71]

Here's the service bulletin where the changeover is described in the pumps:

 

[swestoyz]

The only WP600 I've seen was years and years ago behind an appliance store in the middle of winter.  It was pretty beat up, and apparently my memory is starting to go as I would have sworn it had an all porcelain tub. 

 

If I had my choice, I'd shoot for the 01 series belt driven DW's from '75 and later.

 

Ben

 

[combo52]

Maytag TL Portable DWs

Thanks Mark for finding the breakdown of MT DW models.

Phil the one I had was an early two motor and pump machine, and it had rusted very badly on one side starting under the heavy rubber lid gasket. I parted this machine out and put the good racks from it into the machine you and Paul brought me.

All the MT TL DWs had plastisol tanks with a white porcelain inner lid panel, and unfortunately like every other DW that used this cheap to manufacture coating it sometimes spelled and early end to an otherwise good dishwasher.