GE ‘High Speed’ Disposall, is this an 8,000 RPM unit?

[ultralux88]

I know it’s a “real Disposall” being made in Louisville KY, so it is definitely of the type I’m after, but I wanted to know if this is the 8,000 RPM. Unfortunately the Anaheim Waste Maid has an accident that led to a broken hammer, going to see if I can warranty it out, but in the meantime I’ve really wanted an 8,000 RPM disposall, as I hear it’s an experience one must have if they like ‘sink grinders’.

 

[tolivac]

These GE "blender motor" disposers are VERY effective-however when you add water and the waste the speed will slow down-and these work best if you feed them a LITTLE at a time so the high speed can work for you-like processing food in a blender.Large amounts in either will bog the motor down-making it run too slow to be effective.

 

[ultralux88]

I figure this will be more of a concern especially with this being the 1/3HP variety, but I do expect to be impressed with this one. I would probably prefer a 1/2 with the Carboloy cutter, as I don’t think this one has it, but these disposals don’t seem common enough for me to feel like I can be too picky... It’s already a very well built disposal that will work quite well.

 

[tolivac]

I have a small collection of disposers-and indeed the GE "Pihrana" model has the half hp motor and the carboloy shredder.A very effective machine!shreds anything thrown in it!

 

[ultralux88]

Well, it’s at home waiting for me! We’ll see what this thing is like soon enough!!

 

[ultralux88]

It’s installed and running!! What a fun thing this is to use! I’ve got video of it, I’ll get that uploaded and posted tomorrow, but pictures in the meantime! Mom finds the motor to be loud, but agrees that you can’t hardly hear a thing from the grind chamber, compared to others there’s very little in the way of crunching or grinding sounds, you just mostly hear the loud whirr of the motor! It sure does dispose of things rather quickly too! It’s a shame they never sold these in a 3/4 or 1 HP version, and 2-4 more of those shredder teeth would be nice too! But I can’t complain about this thing’s abilities so far! Notice in the pictures the clear P traps!

I really have always wanted one of these GEs on one side of the sink and something else vintage but much larger on the other side of the sink, maybe a Kitchenaid or a vintage InSinkErator or Waste king, something one could shamelessly drop beef bones down! I’d even take a commercial unit. I’ve seen big old 3 phase disposals that can be mounted under a normal sink, there’s a National on YouTube... but something that will eat literally more things than I’d ever dare putting down a disposal, like plastic forks and glass bottles. The worst I’ll do are beef bones! I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve always found the idea of being able to shove a paper Chinese food container full off old food down the disposal whole to be an exciting and intriguing idea!

 

[polkanut]

We've had this model for about a year now, and performs like a champ every time.  So much better than the In-Sink-Erator it replaced.

 

[ultralux88]

Stupid YouTube!!! See link for FULL video!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well here it is! Watch it eat all the parts of the chicken people didn't... Mom finds it loud, eventually it'll move to the left side of the sink and a much larger unit will live there, preferably something vintage, beastly, and batch fed if I can find one!

[this post was last edited: 8/30/2018-22:00]

 

[tolivac]

Good shots of the disposer in use-like the transparent trap and discharge pipes!You can easily see clogs!for napkins-prefer to throw those in the trash.Esp if you have a septic tank as I do.I don't use paper products except potty paper.More "teeth" in these machine won't really improve it-the blender motor disposers work on SPEED to do the job-amazing what it does with only the two "slasher" type shredders it has!

 

[ultralux88]

The grind plate has a spike on each side of it, but what really seems to get the shredding action going is the water. It doesn’t want to move as fast as the flywheel, which is what slows the motor down, the water basically seems to hold the food waste while the impellers shred on it. The spike on the grind pad thing also doesn’t work like the teeth on a grind ring, it holds the large items still while the impellers destroy it, I had read in here that these don’t sound or grind like any other disposal. Oddly that statement alone made me want one, I’m fascinated by unique things in vacuums and other appliances, this one so far has definitely been as advertised! I’m thoroughly impressed with how well this thing works. Now I’m looking forward to the finding a large, and slow turning disposal to go on the other side, two opposite types of disposal that work equally well, and the lack of loudness will appease some people... I still want to be able to use this one when it won’t be disturbing anyone.

 

[ultralux88]

I’d still love to see one with a larger grind chamber and maybe a more powerful motor to accommodate that extra drag. Some larger things can get sideways and sort of straddle over the impellers. But if I break up the watermelon rind into smallish pieces before, maybe 2-3 inches square, they disappear so fast I can stuff one piece down after another, in the time it takes to break or cut off the next piece the last one is gone. I can’t wait to see what it does to a corncob!

 

[tolivac]

The "spikes" or or "slashers" are on the wall of the hopper.The impellors move the items to be shredded up against them-grinding them up.
There are lots of Vintage induction motor-low speed disposers-the Maytag ones are excellent-they are worth looking for.Those have a steel alloy cast shred ring.There is an undercutter under the flywheel to further chop up material that goes in between the edge of the flywheel and shred ring.EXCELLKENT machines!!!!Go Volsboy on this site he may have a Maytag he could sell to you.I bought a few disposers from him-including the high speed "Blender" motor GE disposers.GE-Hotpoint also made induction motor disposers with the rind-flipper-slasher stationary cutter,a carboloy cutter and the usual sizing slots.the flywheel on those has two massive cast impellor hammers.No food item is safe from those!!!The Maytag also has the massive hammers.

 

[combo52]

GE Hi-Speed Disposalls

Hi Reggie, Thanks for posting the cool videos of your GE Disposall running, and I love the see through trap.

 

Did you ever see the GE electric sinks with the Disposall demonstration where they had a 20"X 1/2" piece of glass pipe under the sink with a florescent light bulb behind the glass pipe ? GE dealers had these set up in their show rooms in the 40s and 50s to show consumers how a disposall grinds up and disposes of waste, I should try to find space to set one of these up at our museum project.

 

These smaller GE Hi-Speed Disposalls are neat little machines, GE built these because they were cheaper to build and were generally recommended for new home construction as they did not grind waste as finely or evenly as the larger GE induction Disposalls that GE continued to build as their higher end product.

 

I also have a collection of vintage disposers, for almost 20 years we were the exclusive service agency for ISE in Washington DC [ and disposers are required in WDC ] so we have lots of experience with disposers and saw about any interesting or unusual thing you could see relating to them.

 

I think the best home disposer ever for home use were the old National brand, Kitchenaid bought this product in the early 70s and improved it even more, after WP bought KA around 1987 WP sold this design to Viking and Viking continued to build and sell this great disposer at prices up to $1500.00 each. The thing that made these and the early ISEs so good was a powerful motor and fixed hammers on the flywheel, when these hammers hit the food waste it has no choice but to disintegrate, LOL.

 

Generally all commercial food waste disposers have fixed hammers because they are not only more durable but grind much faster.

 

In my own kitchen we currently have a Viking-KA in one sink and the last of the Maytags [ batch feed ] in the other sink, both work well but the V-KA grinds faster.

 

John L.

 

 

 

[ultralux88]

May tag is definitely on my radar, as are Viking, National, Kitchenaid, an older Waste King, and InSinkErator. There's an ISE Kenmore I'm eyeing, hopefully in a week or so it'll still be available, I may g for it, but it is on the newer end of what I'd like to find (I think early 90s, could be older), but its the sort of disposal I'd like. I do like the idea of the fixed hammers, it seems merciless and effective! Also I'd imagine the fixed hammers do well with things like beef bones...

I don't have this video on YouTube, but I got a video of pro ribs and watermelon rind getting disposed of, Tim's brother in law stopped by the night I installed this, and we had some fun. At the end of the video we ran some rind chunks dow it with the splash guard out. Comparing the action to what you see when doing the same in an Anaheim unit was something... This is where I came up with how it seems to work. The rind pieced would tumble over to the spike, stick there for a moment as the impellers chopped at it, it would quickly break up and off the spike and the smaller chunks would sort of slowly swirl above the whirling impellers as they literally would just fade to nothing. This whole process is over faster than you can snap your fingers twice. In the Anaheim WK's I've seen, the hammers usually are pulverizing the chunks against the grind ring, but this GE seems to largely do the job against nothing but a smooth stainless steel wall, relying on the speed of the impellers and whatever keeps the food chunks moving slower than the flywheel, they literally just kind of mozy around the grind chamber wall as the thing chews on them!

 

[combo52]

Video Cleaning An unused ISE Bager 5 disposer With Ice

The tenants said they never used this disposer for the entire year they have lived in this apartment, and now complain it stinks.

 

[ultralux88]

Lack of use is probably the reason it stank! you have to run things through it to keep it clean and knock all the buildup out of it!

 

[combo52]

I am trying to figure out how to download the video from my I Phone.

 

[ultralux88]

You'll have to upload it to Youtube or something similar, and then post the link. For some stupid reason, mobile Youtube and Flickr won't let you access the thing to copy and paste for embedding the video in a post, and Youtube's embed thing seems to be broken lately...

 

[ultralux88]

Sadly the GE has too small of a chamber and was way too loud to please the mother, so despite the insistence on just leaving that one in there and ‘no more disposals’ (I just had the one good working one, come on!) I decided that my search for a vintage beast will take long enough to justify some shopping at habitat for Humanity, and came up with this Kenmore. I believe it’s identical to the 777SS, it’s not an evolution series. So far if mom has noticed a change in ‘sing grinder’ the utter lack of sound being made has made sure no complaints where made. I did choose very deliberately this time...