First Garbage Disposal

[qsd-dan]

It automatically reverse every time you turned it on.

Yeah, mine did the same. You could hear the motor reverse if the switch was flipped back on fast enough during the spin down. I'm 90% sure I remember the motor reversing if it bogged down to a certain point, which wasn't often.

Wow, I haven't thought about that in 20 years.

 

[circlew]

Garburator

My mom's friend Elizabeth H. lived in the Detroit, MI area, and I remember her calling their disposer a Garburator. She was not from Canada, and in fact was born in West Virginia. However, Mrs. Webster - her neighbor of many years - was from Canada. I imagine Elizabeth was not familiar with such a machine until she moved into that house, and picked up that term from her neighbor.

 

[gansky1]

Maytag had a promotion that proved it could grind nails.  It could, but ruin the grind ring in the process.  The Maytag dealer in Early, IA had one mounted that he demonstrated with nails in the store.  It was still sitting around 30 years later, ready for another handful of nails.  

 

We had a late 60's GE until my mother got a shock, then a TOL In-Sink-Erator.  It seemed as quiet as a church mouse after that whiny, high-pitched Disposall.

 

[tolivac]

The first one I used in my apartment was a "Bus Boy"Autoreverse.Did pretty well until I put a bone in it and the bone punctured the hopper.The unit was old original to the building-over 10yrs old.Replaced with a Badger-did just fine.At present have a Moen similar to the new PM motor Waste Kings and Anehiems.

 

[maytagbear]

My first

disposer was in my first apartment. It was the much maligned ISE Badger 5. Worked perfectly for me.

Next two apartments had noisy but high speed GE. First one eventually died, but since it was original to the apartment, built in the 1960s, that was a good run. It was replaced with an essentially similar Whirlaway. Second was a smaller apartment in the same complex.

Next apartment did not have one. The landlord said I could have one, if I paid for it. Not interested in that.

This apartment? Badger 5!!

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[jamiel]

We had a Westinghouse in the first house my folks bought in 1968...it was original from the house being built in 1958...had a toggle on the front of the housing to reverse and a red reset button. My dad and I replaced it in the early 70s with a Sears ISE; our neighbor had it for about 5 more years before she remodeled the entire kitchen. My one grandmother had a batch-feed Hotpoint from when she redid the kitchen in around 1965; the other one had a high-end Waste King from when she re-did hers in 1970 (she kept her 1940 Chambers stove at that remodel...)

 

[Marky_Mark]

My first one was a slim Waste King model that I bought in the 90s.  A bit of a screamer (the disposal, not me...well.... maybe) it was fast and seemed to work well despite its very small size and low price.

 

Since then I've always had Insinkerators, from the builder grade Badger 5 to more expensive models.  

 

I have a friend in the UK who bought ISE's TOL model.  It's very quiet (partly due to the slow-draining splash guard) and she's very happy with it.

 

[volsboy1]

Our First one was a Emerson E-100 I think(ISE) . It was heavy duty but my Mom entertained so much it did not last that long. She had a pair of G.E. 3/4 H.P. High speed disposals installed when she gutted the kitchen one for the main sink and another for the prep sink.The prep sink disposal lasted about 6 years and I replaced it with a Old Maytag and I was In love with that one.I also loved the G.E. disposals but they are not designed to run for over 5 mins they get to hot.

 

[maytagneptune]

Insinkerator Badger 1

Insinkerator Badger 1. It worked for a while then Upgraded to Evolution Compact. I thought there was not enough power on the Badger.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I think long ago in my appliance drawings stage when I actually included small, soon to be minor appliances like garbage disposers, microwaves and even range hoods, soon to be eschewed among the more favorable refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers and ranges even compactors and dishwashers, I forgot the make of one disposer I drew but in a lack of trade names, and in a wanting spark a little creativity, I dubbed it a “Trash Disposer”...

— Dave

 

[vacerator]

Heck, that was fall of 1979

in my first apt. The place had Whirlpool appliances, and I think it was an ISE Badger one. It was a studio apt. about 600 sq. ft. All electric. Heat, water, stove. No d.w. but a 14 cu ft. double door top mount freezer fridge. My electric bill in winter was about $75 because of the heat. My rent was $215/mo. Phone bill $30 on avge. with touch tone desk phone. The one and two bedrm. apts. had a DW.
Next spring, I was able to buy an 18 months new Olds Cutlass Supreme with 18,000 miles. No cosigner through company credit union.
How many twenty year olds today make enough for that plus can save almost $100 a week towards money down for their first home? I moved in with all new housewares, mostly from Kmart, but for a grand. Douglass chrome and vynil dinette and a 19 inch display model Admiral color tv from Kmart too. I found used Danish modern furniture from a tennant selling it when moving. Chrome and tan swivel chair/ottoman, and 2 teak/oak/mahogany low boy chests of drawers, and one door chest for $200.

 

[tolivac]

Okrest Towers Apartment house in Forestville,MD the first "home" I lived in as mine-had a Bus-Boy auto reverse disposer with fixed hammer impellors.Actually worked well.Was orig to the building-place built in 1969-lived there 1973.Today my own house-a Moen disposer installed by the plumbers that redid my drain plumbing.PVC to replace corroded,rotting cast iron.After they replaced the iron-stood on one of the pipes and it readily crumbled under me!!Normal cast iron would hold just fine.PVC pipe held me,too-230 lbs.