Dishmaster faucets

[hunter]

For you lovers of mid-century modern, I've just installed a Dishmaster Faucet.

They are awesome. AND they are USA made.

Take a look at my link.

Hunter[this post was last edited: 2/20/2012-21:24]

http://www.dishmaster-faucet.com/

 

[rp2813]

We bought an M76 model back in the late 80's.  It was very handy, and quite a bit cheaper than today.  It moved with us twice and when we remodeled the kitchen in our last place, we installed it at the laundry sink.  The spout eventually froze in place, and we left it behind when we moved in 2008.

 

[abcomatic]

My mom had one in 1955. It finally gave up the ghost and wouldn't work at all except for just water. She was not in favor of having another one. Gary

 

[arbilab]

I was about 6 when we got a Dishmaster. It had a PUSHBUTTON so naturally I was fascinated by it.

 

[qualin]

I love how they have a left handed model. We're both left handed.

When the Moen faucet in our kitchen sink packs it in, this may be worth considering.

 

[hunter]

Haven't used it that much yet, but..

Since I just installed it yesterday I can hardly call myself an expert at it, but I've been pleasantly impressed, so far.

 

[twintubdexter]

parts available at the big hardware store?

When I first started working for Orchard Supply Hardware around 1986 they carried Dishmaster. I remember how the boxes looked old and worn since they were not high-turn items. I kept several repair parts available later on when I was a plumbing buyer at the store's corporate offices in San Jose but of course no complete faucets. Since I left the company to move to the Desert I've always wondered if they still have those replacement parts. You stop carrying something like that and customers can go ballistic, of course internet availability may have eased that a little. The next time one of you OSH shoppers are in a store you can report back to me and let me know.

We had a Dishmaster when I was a kid. My mom hated it and never used it. She said it sprayed water all over the place and made a mess...picky picky picky.

 

[rp2813]

Joe, the "main" OSH store in San Jose is where our Dishmaster came from, right around the time you worked there.  It was in a yellow box that had a retro look, and even back then the M76/Imperial Four looked very dated, as it still does today.  The Checker Cab of kitchen faucets.

 

[twintubdexter]

hope I'm not getting off subject...

Ah yes, the West San Carlos Street store. I never worked there but spent plenty of hours there...one of those buildings in the back houses the "lab" where we'd do test merchandise sets before they made it to the stores. Many years ago that used to be a fertilizer factory. At one time back when OSH was a farmer's co-op that store sold dynamite! That cabose out back was the original owner's office, the late Al Smith. An avid lover of trains, he was responsible for the "railroad" in Vasona Park in Los Gatos. The annual train calendars were started by him too. One day Peter Grace (one of the wealthiest people in the Country at the time who owned Grace Industries) knocked on the cabose door and told Mr. Smith "I want to buy your company." Al thought he was a nut case and told him to leave, but after he found out who he was he decided to sell the company and retire. Rumor has it that Peter Grace just liked hardware stores and wanted to learn to drive the tractors (the truck part of those big OSH semi's you see on the freeway) around the parking lot at the old distribution center on 7th Street. Of course there was no one to tell him "no." How nice to have so much dispsable income.

members, please let me know if these "off subject" posts do not belong here

 

[twintubdexter]

sorry, "disposable" income..."dispsable" income is what I have

 

[rp2813]

Continuing with the alternative trajectory . . .

 

I'm hopeful now that OSH is no longer affiliated with Sears that they will return to being the "If we don't have it, it probably  doesn't exist" type of store they used to be.  Right now it's more like, "If it exists, we don't carry it, or we carry the peculiar brand, and it's out of stock."

 

That's totally the opposite of the store they were when we bought the Dishmaster.  They were the only major retail hardware store that carried them.

 

Bringing things back around, I purchased the scrubber attachment for my Dishmaster which came in handy for tough jobs.  Dishmasters are great for smaller/older kitchen applications where an actual dishwasher isn't an option.  A friend of mine owns a 1930's rental property.  She wanted to install a dishwasher before new tenants moved in, but the well-maintained original tile counter isn't deep enough.  There's room elsewhere in the kitchen for a portable if a tenant owned one, but a Dishmaster would be a good compromise.  Her current tenants are a pair of clean-freak gay guys who appear to be in there for the long haul, so it's not like a Dishmaster would get abused.

 

[hunter]

spare parts

Spare parts are easily available from Dishmaster themselves. I have found the folks there to be very nice, I talked to them over the telephone a few times.

One thing I've noticed in the last few days:

I have an automatic dishwasher. Yet occasionally there's one thing - like the Tupperware container I use to hold plates of salad in the refrigerator - that must be washed immediately and put back into use. It's this use that is making it so handy for me.

They also sell an extra tough red colored brush, and a green colored brush for scrubbing vegetables. Since I do that all the time, it'll be great.

And, oh yes, I love the alternative trajectory posts. Goodness knows, I do enough of them.

Hunter

 

[rp2813]

I've never seen the green brush.  As mentioned above, I bought the orange brush and used it for tough jobs.

 

The green brush would probably work well for getting the sand out of leeks.

 

[hunter]

Here's their accessories page

Lots of nifty stuff on there

I may try some of their detergent concentrate, too.

http://dishmaster-faucet.com/accessories.php

 

[58limited]

I have an ElectroWay Electro-Sink-Center, its kind of a Nu-Tone meets a Dishmaster set up: motor on each end for blender, mixer, food processor. It has a UV light that shines into the sink and the scrub brush. Mine needs restoration and it is missing the brush - I wonder if a Dishmaster brush will fit? I'll look into this. Unfortunately, there is not enough clearance for it to fit my sink.

http://gregssandbox.com/electroway/index.htm

 

[moparwash]

on Tv

There is one in the kitchen in 'Hot In Cleveland'..

http://retrorenovation.com/2010/06/21/hot-in-cleveland-the-dishmaster/