Best disposers -- vintage or modern?

[reactor]

addendum

Mark, in my post above explaining the tightening of the support bolts, I wanted to mention to not over tighten. Hobart used only two support bolts where most manufacturers used three. It you overtighten the bolts, you can slightly bend the support plate into a u-shaped configuration. I have a habit of really cranking down when I tighten something. I overtightened the Viking a bit and a small leak developed. I backed the bolts down a bit and the support plate relaxed. Thankfully, I did not permanently distort it and the leak stopped.

Tighten the bolts until you feel some resistance and the disposer doesn't rock easily. You can always tighten them a little more if you see the disposer sway when operating under a heavy load and/or a leak develops.

 

[Marky_Mark]

Thank you very much, Barry.  I tightened them this morning after reading your message.  I don't think I overtightened them, but they were pretty tight, so I've just backed them off a little after reading your latest message.  Tested again by draining an entire sink full of water with the disposer running and no leaks!  It's working great and is very stable.

 

John, it's interesting that in your photo it looks like the mounting ring has not been rotated whatsoever over the tabs.  Instead it seems like the bolts are applying all the required force to ensure a snug fit of the sink flange and also of the disposer.  Now that I am aware of the presence and function of those bolts, I can see how that works.

 

And here is the KitchenAid in all its glory.  When I do my food prep, I generally don't use this particular sink at all.  But now I think I'll do my prep on this side of the kitchen!  It's fast and nice to use.  Grinds very well.  I can see what Barry means about the harmonic beats being transmitted to the sink unlike my ISE Evolution in the other sink.  But grinding is quiet.  The GE was faster though, especially with the mango pit, which the GE got rid of quickly but it bounces a while in the KA and the ISE.  

 

I am very impressed by this disposer so far.  Thank you so much for all your help.  

 

[Marky_Mark]

Update

I'm still loving my new KitchenAid disposer.  While grinding hard items such as corn husks and cobs, I've noticed that it will periodically reverse while munching on the cobs.  I like that feature!  Fast grinding and the chamber is left clean and clear.  It's happily installed in the sink next to its cousin, the KDS-18.  

 

I'm really glad I bought the NIB GE to try it out.  Now I'm ready to pass it on (free) to any AW member who would like it.  Barry gets first refusal of course as a thank you for all his help.  If you'd like it, Barry, please let me know.  

 

Mark

 

[reactor]

thank you, Mark

Thank you Mark for your kind offer! I have some original GE series units, so I will let you pass yours on to someone on this sight who may need it. Thanks for thinking of me though, much appreciated.

Agreed, the KA is one fine disposal. Yes, once in a great while I will hear mine stop and reverse that way. It's really cool. Enjoy yours, Mark!!


Barry

BTW, Your kitchen looks beautiful! Love the Harvest KA dishwasher.[this post was last edited: 6/23/2024-07:44]

 

[combo52]

Our National Hobart style disposer

Hi Mark, glad this is working well for you. My disposer will often reverse when grinding very heavy loads when the motor gets really loaded. I love this feature also.

Here’s a pile of bones left over after making soup out of a 20 pound turkey last Thanksgiving, the disposer ground this up and about 90 seconds using only about 3 gallons of water to flush it all away

Unfortunately, the Anaheim built GE disposer is not worth much, even if handed to me, I would not give it to a customer just too much risk.

Hopefully somebody will want it to play with. I installed a new dishwasher on Friday in a small apartment on Capitol Hill and they actually still had a GE series wound disposer probably the first one I’ve seen in 20 years that was still working , I asked the tenant how it worked and she said it makes a lot of noise not to use it because of the noise.

I took a picture of the cheap mounting brackets that these disposers used this was one thing that Anaheim improved when they started building a similar unit. We used to see a lot of problems with the earlier GE design becoming dislodged and leaking and they were real pain in them. You know what to try to get them to reseal again as the cheap little clips would bend Break, etc.

John

 

[reactor]

mount

Anaheim did not improve the mount, in the latter run of the series General Electric put the same mount on the series units as they did on the induction models. I suggest, John, you research something before you speak of it. Anaheim only continued what GE had last used.

As far as "not worth much" thanks for sharing your OPINION. Anaheim reduced the size of the motor and the amperage was dropped by nearly a full amp. That gave less physical thermal mass to the motor which caused it to overheat more quickly than the GE units, as evidenced by your experience, Mark.
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Yes, the original GE's were a superior unit. The Anaheim units are still a acceptable disposer and even they are faster with the pits than the the KA and with chicken bones. Units with the Carboloy cutter were exceptionally proficient with bones, especially pork chop bones, slightly faster than even my Hobart KS unit. But, with Anaheim the physically smaller motor and mass you can't do a lot of them sequentially due to the unit's overload protection shutting it down.

In case you are wondering what a Carboloy cutter is, Mark. Carbaloy was a metal developed by GE with exception hardness. Your Anaheim units and the lower line series units had a blunt "cutter." The Carboloy units placed within this blunt cutter a small square of Carboloy which actually had a slight edge to it. My parents' Carboloy series unit lasted nearly eight years, with my typical experimentation of introducing almost anything down the drain to see how it ground up (when my parents weren't around.)

I've shared the story before, but after the GE series was replaced by my dad, with a new Sears/ISE unit. It was only in the kitchen for a short time (matter of days) and my dated hated it because it was so slow, compared to the GE series. He gave it to me to donate to our church, which was just in the process of build a new building so they could put it on their small kitchen/food prep area.

Just in time too, as this was the time GE was about to end their disposal production.

I don't like Anaheim's unit as well but I still liked it, but gave itbto a peer at work, as stated earlier in the above text, as hers went out. She was a little pinched for money at the time. She loved it and even asked I move it for her when she eventually purchased a new home. It's far from "not worth much". It is a fully viable disposal, even with Anaheim's cheapening of it.