FOUND AN OLD MAYTAG DISHWASHER!!!!

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picked this up today in waynesville oh. for $20.00!!!

an old harvest gold maytag front loader! with a wood top!

 

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tub is in great shape!

there is dirt but no chips that i can find! the porcelain interior reminds me of kitchenaid quality!

 

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racks show some age

and some rust but not too bad! i was expecting worse!

i see silverware basket is on top.

 

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top

rack

 

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bottom

rack

 

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even came

with silverware!

 

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and a

detergent cup full of detergent!

 

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it has that unique maytag

spray arm with those tiny water jets and little slits on the top spray tube. don't see how it could clean very well but i'll find out here!

like the stainless stell or whatever it's made out of. uses a horizontal motor and pump.

 

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here's the front

has a dial and 3 buttons. love the harvest gold!

 

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3 cycles

on this one. basically a full wash cycle and a rinse hold cycle.

 

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indicator

lite

 

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has a unique door latch

lever that rotates down unstead of out.

 

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here's the motor

way in the back! since it's a horizontal pump even if the seal is bad the motor is most probably fine!

and i did find a pump seal for it (i think) at repair clinic .com.

gonna call larry tomorrow too in parma and check on them. might as well garb a seal if there are any out there.

hard to get to the motor though as entire bottom is covered by a metal plate that must come off. no time to do it today! will come back to this one later this summer!

 

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uses a double fill

valve like kitchenaid did! the whole machine is built like a tank and quite heavy! seems to be high quality all over!

 

[revvinkevin]

 

See my next post.......

 

Kevin

 

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here's the name plate

anyone know what year it was? or a good estimate. i'm guessing late 60's???

model is hwc 400

 

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here's the schematic

on it. uses a reversing motor and has a water level protector switch i see.

 

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and

the other side

 

[revvinkevin]

anyone know what year it is?

 

 

Hi Pete, 

 

Nice Maytag DW!   Good ol' reverse rack, looks like it has potential!  

 

How is the fullsize spray arm on the roof of the tub??

 

Not sure if the Maytag date code chart for washers/dryers is the same for the dishwashers, but if it is... it was built August 1972.

 

Kevin

 

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and

another view

 

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the woman said

the only thing wrong was the faucet connector. i see the hoses are clamped on making the plastic outer cover not fit on it.

when i loaded it in my jeep water did drip out the bottom. i'm hoping this is from a loose hose or the faucet connector and not the pump!

gonna put some water in it and try it out. since it's a horizontal pump even if it leaks i won't damage the motor!

later this summer i'm gonna pull that bottom cover off and tear out pump and motor and see what it's made of! since this post will probably be gone by then i will do a new post when i tear into it!

 

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thanks kevin!!!

I FORGOT ALL ABOUT THAT FULL SIZE SPRAY ARM ON TOP!!! WILL GET A PIC OF IT LATER TONITE.

excuse typo's in this post but i am runnin out the door and i just got back with it an hour ago and wanted to get this on quick! this was a very spur of the moment trip but for 20 bucks i could not turn it down!

1972! thanks! sounds good to me! they were all built like trucks back then! this is the heaviest one i have ever attempted to lift and load!

thanks again!

 

[gansky1]

That's a fun machine - you'll be amazed at how much quieter this motor & pump is compared with the later belt-drive machines.  It's still rather loud during drain but circulation is noticeably less hair-raising.  This looks to be the first revision of their first models, earlier ones had trouble with leaks around the door and even wash arms that hit the bottom of the door ever so slightly that it would wear away the porcelain and eventually a rust hole would develop. Poor Maytag.  While Maytag never really could dispose of a pea or a stray noodle, this design caught everything in the figure eight strainer and saved it for you to pick out when the cycle finished.  Saved for tomorrow night's stew, Maytag encouraged thrift in homemaking, automatically!

 

[bajaespuma]

Nothing like an old 'Tag!

That there is my daily driver silverware basket; nothing I've ever seen is able to hold chopsticks in place for dishwasher washing. John LeFever said that there were a lot of complaints with that basket because of water retention and release on removal but I love that thing. Congratulations on a wonderful find.

 

[retropia]

The wood top is neat on portable dishwashers of this era. With the trough routed out around the edge, it's perfect for carving your roast beast. The "drippings" will collect in the trough, and you can sponge-clean it out later.

 

[applianceguy47]

"Maytag never really could dispose of a pea or a stray noodle, this design caught everything in the figure eight strainer and saved it for you to pick out when the cycle finished. Saved for tomorrow night's stew, Maytag encouraged thrift in homemaking"

 

LOL

 

What a nice find.  Harvest Gold from the 70s.  Ahh, brings back memories.

 

I'm guessing these use the smaller diameter faucet adapter when connecting to the faucet.

 

That solid wood top would be unheard of today, not to mention not very P.C.

 

Those tops can be removed, if the machine were being recycled, and squared up on a table saw for  a nice size cutting board.

 

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thanks for the comments to all

that faucet adapter is the large diam. size actually.

i do like the wood top. but after i tear this one down and put it back together and clean it up, maybe put in a new seal, it will be stored like most of my machines. so it won't get much "chopping use" from me. but then i'm not much of a cook either ha ha!

but i am curious here, why would a wood top on a dishwasher not be very "p.c."??
granted, i am probably the most un politically correct guy around these days but i have to ask!?

 

[applianceguy47]

 it takes dense, clear,  solid wood members to put together a butcher block top.

 

With the human race stripping timber off our planet (mainly in 3rd world countries these days) for it's blind, insatiable appetite, at an increasingly alarming rate.  There is less material to waste on something so frivolous.

 

for example:

Compare the typical new home made these days with mainly "engineered" wood.  In other words, we are getting so desperate for wood, that we had to come up with a way to take what used to be discarded, and make that into something functional.

 

So now we have saw dust created floor joists - TJI joists

particle board floor sheathing, wall sheathing, and roof sheathing.   recycled newspaper as heavily chemically treated shreaded insulation.  Kitchen cabinets and counters that are made almost entirely of particle board.  Particle board underlayment for our tiled and carpeted floors.  Just for starters.

 

The not so funny part, which is actually something that gets people sick, is,

in order to get all this saw-dust wood to stick together, it takes a lot of Petro-chemical glues that contain lots of formaldehyde (a known carcinogen)

That glue gives off toxic gases.

In your home! 

Add to the mix, wall to wall carpet, vynil floors, vynil windows, vynil siding, paint off-gasing, and the "furniture"which in todays world means particle board covered with a cheap "wood look" veneer, or if you spent the big bucks, a real wood <span style="text-decoration: underline;">veneer.</span>

 

When we had all these Foreclosures coming on the market in 2008,  Built in some abandoned, half finish,

built-to-worship-the automobile-and-oil industry, subdivision in Florida, Arizona, or Colorado,

 I was like,

they paid how MUCH

for THAT??  lol. 

 

 I feel sorry for people.  

And with Autism shockingly on the rise in children.  I think that is more than coincidence.

 

Its true that a typical McMansion may be bigger and "better" (NOT)

compared to a comfortable, eco-friendly 1950s ranch home,

 

but that ranch home was made mainly with solid wood. 

1x8 floor sheathing, 1x6 wall sheathing, roof decking, real wood floor joist, 2x4 walls, 2x6 rafters, solid 3/4" T&G hardwood floors, kitchen cabinets made with solid wood.  thick solid wood trim and interior doors with real wood jambs.   

 

And that Solid butcher block top.  I'm guessing it would be a challenge to find a DW with a solid wood top today. 

 

We tend to take wooden things for granted because the things we used to make with wood can be recreated with inferior materials.  Things that are toxic.

 

Anyway, if your going to put that into storage, maybe clean the top with fresh water, and once dry, give it a good soaking with a lemon oil or the like.  That wood top is just as rare as the machine it's attached to.

 

OK, that was a rant.  (and true)

 

 

 

[alr2903]

Use mineral oil on your wood top.  If its going in storage over the hot summer be very generous with the oil. alr

 

[autowasherfreak]

You can also use linseed oil on the wood top. I used it on my WP portables that I had in the 80's and 90's.