g.e. mobile maid top loader- restoring pics.

[garyl]

Power Shower

If I remember right, the only ones with Power Shower on them had a spray arm in the lid. This was a more deluxe model. I sold a lot of these. They were popular with people who live in apartments and want to save on space. I liked them. I gave one to my mother. Her kitchen was so small, there wasn't enough room to change your mind about what was for dinner, but the little GE fit. Your's is in great shape for the age. I just moved from Yuma, AZ, and the water is so hard there, that dishwashers get clogged with mineral deposits in just a few years. I have poured 1/2 gallon of muriatic acid in my dishwasher full of water and let it run. It cleaned the minerals out and made the machine usable again. These deposits were so bad that a gallon of vinegar in the machine made no differance. I have found that the Cascade packets made the deposits worse in Yuma. I don't know what experiance other people have with these.

 

[rollermatic]

it has a small spray arm on the

top, pictured below.

i also love these machines, they are my favorite portable top loader dishwashers!

i have managed to collect 3 of these, all with power shower. two in coppertone, one (this one) in white. the first one got a new motor and seal when i got it 3 years ago from michigan. now there are no more seals out there but this one runs fine and the third will too i am sure! seal looks fine on it, i just have to put it all back together. am going to do a thread on it sometime here.

 

[combo52]

GE Mobil Maid DWs

Hi Peter another great restoration.

 

This style pump and motor was used from around 1962-3 through 1966 and maybe a little into 1967, but by 1968 all GE DWs had the horizontal motors and pumps. The earlier pumps like yours had black plastic main impellers and diffuser housings and at some point they changed to the white plastic. You should be able to find a date on the side of the motor, motor start relay, inlet valve and stamped on the timer that will date the machine, and of coerce the serial # will date it also.

 

I to always found the vertical pump machines interesting, but when they changed to the horizontal pumps and redesigned the lower wash arm they cleaned MUCH better, it was probably the biggest improvement GE ever made in the performance of there DWs.

 

The procedure that I use to rebuild water inlet valves on washers and DWs always involves dissembling and replacing the rubber valve diaphragm. I also always clean the inlet screen in place, if you remove it you risk bending it and not getting it seated properly. And if not seated perfectly particles can get past the screen and cause the valve to malfunction. Some dirt on the screen does not affect the valves function at all, but a worn rubber valve diaphragm will not allow the full amount of water to past through and you may get an under fill condition.

 

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thanks for the info combo 52

and tips on where to find the date.

i would have thought the black would have been the later models and white the earlier but it's just the opposite! i say that because i have 2 models with white impellers, one i could not get the impeller off at all, the 2nd. took a lot of work! the 3rd. toploader and the one frontloader i have use black impellers and they slid off easily! i assumed the black impellers were from later dated machines but when it comes to dishwasher collecting and restoring i am continually surprised!