Electro Sink Center

[countryford]

I just picked this up today. Its made by the Electro-Way Corporation in Los Angeles, CA. Its a model 500. All I really know about it, is on top it has a place to put a blender. I beleive. I'm not to sure much more about it. Does anyone have any ideas?????

 

[countryford]

another picture of this

shows the name of the company

 

[countryford]

and last but not least

the center.

 

[selectomatic]

I have absolutely no clue,

But I'm certain that I need one.

Very cool.

-kevin

 

[petek]

I think there was one on Ebay last year and didn't we discuss it here or am I hallucinating. I can't quite tell from your photos but is that just a control panel with a faucet on top that sits behind any sink or is there a sink there well. It's neat though... and the name and genie pic, love that.

 

[countryford]

LOL

Kevin
I thought I needed one too, thats why I bought it. Couldn't think of a better way to spend $15.00. It appears to be a faucet, theres places in the back where the hot water line, and the cold water line hook up in the back. Also appears to hook up to a live wire as well. Odd thing to hook up together, electricty and water.

 

[countryford]

just a faucet

pete. Its just a faucet that would sit behind the sink. Someone bolted it down onto a board with a power transformer to change it from 220 to 110. so i can plug it into the wall.

 

[retroguy]

I have absolutely no clue....

But I'm certain that I need one. LOL. Kevin, that is the spirit, bro! =)

 

[petek]

Did you get the blender jar with it and where does it fit on.. can you post a pic.. If you didn't get a blender jar with it it's quite possible that another make jar such as a HB or Oster or Waring might fit

 

[countryford]

no jar

It didn't come with the blder jar. I'll have to take the pics of them and send them. I'll do it later this evening.

 

[bpetersxx]

that maybe something that was behind the bar in a tavern or saloon

It may have sat with a little bar sink as u needed a sink and water to make drinks

this may also have been in the diner part of a department store like
L S Ayres they had a restaurant that made ice tea to drink with lunch

u can tell my age if I remember things like this

 

[veg-o-matic]

Didn't someone once say that Laura Petrie had one? Haven't seen the show in years so I can't say for sure.

But whose bright idea was it to put electricity that close to water and grounds? Though I definitely want one, it seems kind of dangerous to me.

veg

 

[frontaloadotmy]

Certainly an awkward set up

That never caught on. In the mid 80's a friend was selling
cool items from his garage in San Francisco once a month ;
he had one of these for a long time. IIRC he had the blender
jar ; it definitely was a cool item but I resisted my
compulsion to buy. I only wish I would have bought the very
fab Old Singer Upright Vac that he had at the time

 

[bundtboy]

solenoid operated water?

I have worked in houses where at every spigot there were 3 buttons. Hot, Warm, and Cold, and by pressing one you'd cause water to come out. This is not unlike how a washer calls for water or an ice maker, and I'm wondering if this device seems to also use electric inlet valves. That might be part of what's going on here. If so one could also put in foot pedals to energize the coils making it hands free. In those houses I've seen with the 3 pushbutton water, in the basement is this electric distribution center with about 30 inlet valves going to all the sinks. Rather intense looking, but apparently it worked.

It's an interesting piece.
Can't say as I've ever seen one.

b

 

[petek]

Re bar/tavern sinks. I have seen the odd bar sink that had a motorized bottle/glass brush inside but that was right in the the sink bowl itself.

 

[perc-o-prince]

I happen to have one of these...

I don't have it hooked up yet and it's in storage but from what I remember mine has the blender attachment as well as an ice cream maker attachment. I don't remember where but mine also has a sterilization light in it. I think it's a UV light.

If I can get to it I will get some pictures but it may not be till Sunday or Monday.

Rich

 

[pturo]

Did Rube Goldberg Design It?

It looks like one of those devices whose complicated mechanics go way beyond the simple task of accomplishing something already simply done with what has been designed already: a faucet with hot and cold, and a blender that plugs in next to the sink, why combine them? Still highly collectable, however, like the clothes washer/dishwasher or the Norge Dryer that dried your hair with carbon monixide included, or the Edsel, a matronly bore of a car released at the dawn of the hot rod era, the Impala, Thunderbird. Aunt Bea or Marilyn Monroe, your choice sweetheart. But I digress.It is unusual,and sort of comical. What would be more useful is an air conditoner that had a drawer that could chill a beer or too,as long as you are running the thing.

 

[countryford]

I appreciate everyones help

On the left of it is where I'm guessing the blender would be. Moving on to the right at the top is a control for the blender and the other mixer thing on the far right. Next to that control is a sterilamps button. Under those two is a red light that says "Hot". Then just below that and to the left is a Lock Button. To the right of that is a temp control. In this area is where the little genie and the name of the corporation of the company. In the center of the unit is the faucet written under that is Electro Sink Center. Underneath that is a dial for the water flow for low or high. In the center of that dial is a button and it says press for dishwasher. To the right of that is another temp control. To the right of the Faucet is a button for hot and one for cold. with a blue light underneath that that says cold. Then below that is a lock button. And at the buttom is the model number. At the far right of the unit is a nother mixer type thing. I'm not quite sure what exactly its for though. The unit is bolted down to a board. The wires are wired up to a transformer, so it can be plugged in. I'm very brave so I plugged the thing in and the blender works, and the other thing on the right side works as well. Either way its an intresting looking peice. I'm thinking of hooking it up in my kitchen and see how it works. Wish me luck. Justin

 

[dalangdon]

There were a couple of these in houses in Council Bluffs when I was growing up. If I recall correctly, there should be a wand for the dishwasher, that can send out sudsy water - kind of like at the old-fashioned car washes.

I always loved the steri-lamp. There was a chain of cafeterias (or Buffets, as they prefered to call them) in the midwest that had steri-lamp toilet seats. But I digress...

Btw, I never, ever knew an electro-sink that had an intact blender pitcher.