Frigidaire Spin Tube Dishwasher Question

[rinso]

When I was a teen, many of my parents' friends had spin tube Frigidaire dishwashers. They all complained about them not washing well, and in every case I observed pans and bowls often incorrectly placed upside-down on the bottom rack among other failures to follow the instructions.

So, if any of you have used or now use these dishwashers, can you tell me how well they work when used properly?

 

[volsboy1]

I could never get it to work right.I grew up with a Kenmore Roto-Rack dishwasher which was a powerful dishwasher

and lasted a long time.My Aunt had the Spin tube and me being about 11 loaded like I would any dishwasher and

it did not do well at all.My Aunt hated the machine she had to wash the dishes before putting them in there

I do remember her telling me to turn the tube so the spray will hit the dishes.Now I know her machine was broke

which is a common problem on those machines having that metal arm hanging there and forcing water through it plus

all the abuse dishwashers get from loading them.

 

[washdaddy]

You could checkout post 51942 (titled- "two new dishwashers") by PhilR. One of those machines is a Frig spintube. You could get some ideas from other threads on that post or possibly contact some of those members by their emails for possible info.

 

[philr]

I now own 3 of these machines. The 1962 Deluxe I currently use has no detergent dispenser and no constant rinse at the top but still does a decent job if you don't load it incorrectly. I haven't connected the 1963 Custom Imperial I got from Robert yet but this one has double wash with a detergent dispenser, a rinse agent dispenser and the constant-rinse at the top that was found on all 1963-64 models.

 

The finish of the porcelain, the sturdy racks and the unusual wash action still make these machines favorites of mine!

 

[appnut]

Nate had a Dishmobile at one time with the detergent dispenser (double wash). He said loaded properly and 140 degree water, it did ok. My experience as a teenage and these things was abysmal cleaning. Limited glass capacity with suburban families. A whole street a few blocks over had all Frigidaire kitchens. When these things died from rust, they were mostly replaced with Kitchenaids or Maytags lol. And as Tomturbomatic has pointed out, if you had dishes with rims on them (kind of like pie plates (Mikasa), they didn't get washed well and were difficult to put in this machine.

 

[tomturbomatic]

When I was using the ones that friends had, they thought they had to wash dishes before loading them, but with proper loading and adding detergent to the first rinse to give the machine two washes instead of one wash and 3 or 4 rinses, it did much better. I used to angle the dinner plates slightly by loading them so that the outer edge was slightly forward in relation to the inner edge. They had lots of glasses, too and I just set another row of them on top of the ones resting in the rack. This was espcially easy to do with the sterling silver mint julip cups that were used as everyday tumblers. The machine was run after every meal. I generally loaded it after dinner. I managed to get clean pans out of it. When it died, they bought a KDI16 and ran every load on the soak cycle.

 

[roto204]

I managed to get clean pans out of it.

The CI Dishmobile I had did a stellar job. I got clean pots and pans out of it all the time; I just followed the loading instructions conveniently glazed into the door liner's porcelain.

When I first got it, I ran cooler water through it, and the difference was astounding. You need 140-degree water at the tap to make these machines sing.

It's not a KitchenAid, but these are nowhere near as poor of performers as you'd think. You do have to get the hang of the loading, though, and I firmly agree that the Custom Imperial's covered dispenser plus double-wash, and the constant rinse on top, really helps.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Yes, the two washes really helped with the pans and the constant rinse really helped keep food bits from being redeposited. The model I was using was a deluxe so it had no detergent dispenser.

 

[appnut]

Deluxe was all I ever had experience with.