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Early Tappan DW
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Now everyone can see the water distribution mechanism that was used--the black cylinder under the middle of the bottom rack. It rotated very fast and forced the water up and around it.
So basically. You had to put the dishes in clean and this Tappan just rinsed them? I don't see how splashing water against a greasy dish or lipstick stained mug or glass is going to clean them. They would have been better off asking Whirlpool or GE or White Consolidated for an OEM contract.
I wasn't aware 1) of the (large) diameter of it, and 2) it's hollow.
Total useless of a machine with a lot of wasted space,
it would be a nice machine to play with, with a glass door.
This was the absolute worst dishwasher I've ever encountered in my life. the O'Keefe & Merrit labeled version was the installed dishwasher that came with our house September 1961. My dad had decided the 1960 Waste King would be brought from our old house to the new house. The dishwasher would be sent back to our old house as replacement for the WK per agreement with the buyer. My godfather moved to Houston in 1963. The house they bought had a Tappan kitchen in it, complete with this dishwasher. I still hear in my head the noises it made while progressing through the cycle. Also struggling to load the thing after a dinner for 8 people.
Is that drum completely smooth?
Good gods, this looks horrendous to load. I'd like to see a home movie of you loading it, Bob, I'll bet you could get it though.
Greg, the drum cylinder outside is smooth. There are baffles at the back of the cylinder (facing outward to the door) that when rotating at 1700 rpms, that's what causes the water to drench up, out, over and around the dishware.
vacerator
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Seems like
a space wasting design.
a space wasting design.
a space wasting design.
Well yeah. Drove me crazy with that big open area in the top rack. But it had to accommodate the dinner plates going down the center of the bottom rack and the openness also facilitated the water movement from the bottom. Incidentally, that rack was unitized. Both levels rolled out as one.
The cylinder ran during the dry cycle to creat "forced air" drying.
When washing/rinsing, the noise it mad reminded me of the noise car tires made as they moved down the freeway of a rain slick surface. Kind of like a hiss.
Well yeah. Drove me crazy with that big open area in the top rack. But it had to accommodate the dinner plates going down the center of the bottom rack and the openness also facilitated the water movement from the bottom. Incidentally, that rack was unitized. Both levels rolled out as one.
The cylinder ran during the dry cycle to creat "forced air" drying.
When washing/rinsing, the noise it mad reminded me of the noise car tires made as they moved down the freeway of a rain slick surface. Kind of like a hiss.
Okla-freaking-Homa.... AAAAARGH!! I feel like Basil Fawlty when he shakes his fist at the heavens and screams, "Oh, thank you God. Thank you so bloody much"
Anyone out there able to save it??
Anyone out there able to save it??
reactor
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bad prelude to the wonderful reversa-jet
You wonder what was going through the minds of those at Tappan who approved and marketed this machine? The engineer who designed it must have been the CEO's cousin or something.
Apparently Tappan got the message and went from one of the worst dishwashers to one of the best with the Reversa-Jet. The Reversa Jet was over-engineered, I think in compensation and trying to get Tappan's reputation back.
The Reversa-Jet, in the 1965 Consumer Reports test, placed in the top group with the Kitchen-Aid, and Whirlpool.
Consumer Reports stated the Reversa-Jet cleaned up their aged soiled dishes perfectly and they said it would have given it their "Check-Rating" (highest quality and value) except it frequently tumbled glassware on the top rack due to the force of the spray from the upper wash arm.
I've notice many on this site confuse the Tappan "Dual Drench" with the Tappan Reversa-Jet. Goatfarmer's posting is a "Dual Drench" design with the name derived from the fact the drum reversed rotation during the cycle to wash on both sides of the racks.
The Reversa-Jet was a totally different animal. 18 place capacity, dual wash arms that reversed periodically in direction, self-latching door, lighted control panel, adjustable rack dividers and fine particle water filtration.
You wonder what was going through the minds of those at Tappan who approved and marketed this machine? The engineer who designed it must have been the CEO's cousin or something.
Apparently Tappan got the message and went from one of the worst dishwashers to one of the best with the Reversa-Jet. The Reversa Jet was over-engineered, I think in compensation and trying to get Tappan's reputation back.
The Reversa-Jet, in the 1965 Consumer Reports test, placed in the top group with the Kitchen-Aid, and Whirlpool.
Consumer Reports stated the Reversa-Jet cleaned up their aged soiled dishes perfectly and they said it would have given it their "Check-Rating" (highest quality and value) except it frequently tumbled glassware on the top rack due to the force of the spray from the upper wash arm.
I've notice many on this site confuse the Tappan "Dual Drench" with the Tappan Reversa-Jet. Goatfarmer's posting is a "Dual Drench" design with the name derived from the fact the drum reversed rotation during the cycle to wash on both sides of the racks.
The Reversa-Jet was a totally different animal. 18 place capacity, dual wash arms that reversed periodically in direction, self-latching door, lighted control panel, adjustable rack dividers and fine particle water filtration.
Wonder if there was some tie to the rubber industry in Ohio---you could see some engineer visiting Goodyear's lab and saying "wow...we could make a dishwasher with a tread like that it would spray off all the dishes". The only thing I find a bit confusing--since Tappan was already in the porcelain enamel business, and wasn't big enough to have multiple manufacturing locations, why did they initially choose the plastisol interiors? Maybe they were maxed out in their porcelain kilns, but it just seems counterintuitive to put in an entirely new technology line (maybe it WAS a fever dream from Akron---rubber coated steel LOL)
Just a guess but perhaps the choice of plastisol over porcelain enamel was that plastisol was better at muffling the water splashing sounds?
