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Believe it or not, I have very little GE literature for 1960-61 washers, dryers and dishwashers.
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the last one was from a Shareholders Report for GE stockholders. This is a builders catalog
the last one was from a Shareholders Report for GE stockholders. This is a builders catalog
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again, Shareholders Report
again, Shareholders Report
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builders catalog
builders catalog
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Our first Dishwasher.
My Mom had all the neighbors over for Tea the day after it was installed just so they all could see the machine and hear how quiet it ran. (Quiet ? I don't think so) That machine sounded like a truck idling in the kitchen. Although it cleaned great. I was 6 years old.
Thanks for that scan. Eddie
Our first Dishwasher.
My Mom had all the neighbors over for Tea the day after it was installed just so they all could see the machine and hear how quiet it ran. (Quiet ? I don't think so) That machine sounded like a truck idling in the kitchen. Although it cleaned great. I was 6 years old.
Thanks for that scan. Eddie
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God Bless you! I mean it.
Thanks, Steve
Eddie, compared to the BOL Hotpoint that friends had, the GE was a quieter dishwasher. I think with the outer cabinet needed for a rollout there was a tiny bit of sound shielding from motor noise, but who cared, really. The noise meant that the machine was doing the dishes and in most older homes, the kitchen was not connected to the den or living room (who knew from family rooms then).
Note the brown glass bleach bottle we were talking about in another thread. Some of you youngsters might never have seen one. The bleach reservoir and pump metering system was soon eliminated in favor of a plain dispenser similar to the combo's. The fumes of the bleach in the reservoir ate up the cabinet around that nice dispenser plate.
The combo had an unbalance switch of sorts in the left front leg. If the machine rocked up and down too much on that leg, it stopped the spin, returned to tumble to redistribute then resumed spinning. Because the undercounter model was locked to the floor and had the countertop restraining it above, it often extracted a bit more dependably than the free standing model unless you knew to sit on the left front corner during spin to hold it down and fool the switch.
I wonder why each of the dishwashers, in ascending model number order used more electricity and had a higher total connected load; longer dry, longer heated wash in the SU-70 for heavy soil, maybe?
Eddie, compared to the BOL Hotpoint that friends had, the GE was a quieter dishwasher. I think with the outer cabinet needed for a rollout there was a tiny bit of sound shielding from motor noise, but who cared, really. The noise meant that the machine was doing the dishes and in most older homes, the kitchen was not connected to the den or living room (who knew from family rooms then).
Note the brown glass bleach bottle we were talking about in another thread. Some of you youngsters might never have seen one. The bleach reservoir and pump metering system was soon eliminated in favor of a plain dispenser similar to the combo's. The fumes of the bleach in the reservoir ate up the cabinet around that nice dispenser plate.
The combo had an unbalance switch of sorts in the left front leg. If the machine rocked up and down too much on that leg, it stopped the spin, returned to tumble to redistribute then resumed spinning. Because the undercounter model was locked to the floor and had the countertop restraining it above, it often extracted a bit more dependably than the free standing model unless you knew to sit on the left front corner during spin to hold it down and fool the switch.
I wonder why each of the dishwashers, in ascending model number order used more electricity and had a higher total connected load; longer dry, longer heated wash in the SU-70 for heavy soil, maybe?
Our SU-70 was a quiet machine. Much quieter than later front load models. It was installed at the end of a counter run, over a wood floor with the auxiliary side panel attached. I think maybe some of these had asbestos insulation panels installed in the shell for heat and noise and some didn't.
One thing I've picked up from these pages is that "Antique Copper" was a finish they introduced in this model year (although I have no idea what the 1959 SU-70 looked like). It's on the panels of the dishwashers and w/d-r's and did anybody get a look at the Combo for this year?
These are colorized (badly) photos, but I believe I see multi-colored control dials on that thing which brings me closer to a conception of a new holy grail, the 1960 "Rotary Fabric Dial" models:
...and it kills me to think that a pristine pair of those old Filter-Flo's waiting in a church basement somewhere for a deserving new owner.
...and it kills me to think that a pristine pair of those old Filter-Flo's waiting in a church basement somewhere for a deserving new owner.
I remember that combo well. I first saw it at the Southeastern Fair at the Fairgrounds in Hapeville, GA in September, 1957 where there was a little temporarily unmanned exhibit/booth, probably of a GE dealer, with this and the portable dishwasher just sitting there with their timers disabled running along. If there was anything else, I don't remember it because I was transfixed by these two machines. There was just water in both of them and a little puddle about the size of a dollar bill under the door of the combo. I was squatting down (never kneel on the floor in a public place) looking in through the window when my mother came up to me with one question. "Did you cause that?" she asked pointing down. I replied that I had not and before she would let me talk about the appliances, she left with the admonition that I was to follow. The dishwasher had a big plastic dome, maybe 12 inches high, over it and might have been slightly overfilled with water because the stainless steel impeller was moving two walls of water around inside the dome. It looked really neat, sort of like the orange drink machines in the lobby of the movie theater. When I was much younger, my father took me to a movie and we spent most of it in the lobby so I could watch the stirer go round and round in the drink machine. We paid for entertainment and I got it. I guess it's a blessing there was not something like a Rich's Department Store that would take back children because I surely would have been exchanged for a non-defective model.
I used to see the combo from time to time in the appliance department at Rich's and I last saw this model at an estate sale in a ancient Georgetown townhouse in the 80s where the kitchen was in the basement. Yes, the dials did have colors.
I used to see the combo from time to time in the appliance department at Rich's and I last saw this model at an estate sale in a ancient Georgetown townhouse in the 80s where the kitchen was in the basement. Yes, the dials did have colors.
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