We had the WWA8500 for a little while. Best, BEST dispensing system ever!!!! Would have been a great machine if not for the idiotic straight-8 activator. Useless except for the mini-basket application.
GE 1972 Appliances Catalogue Scan!!!
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The DDE7900 dryer was a great machine. Fast, quiet and the electronic sensor worked perfectly.
GE ELECTRIC RANGES
Hi Ken thanks for posting this GE range catalog. My favorite is the eye-level Versatronic range you may remember we had a harvest gold one of these hooked up at the Washington wash-in. Happy electric cooking and happy holidays to all.
Hi Ken thanks for posting this GE range catalog. My favorite is the eye-level Versatronic range you may remember we had a harvest gold one of these hooked up at the Washington wash-in. Happy electric cooking and happy holidays to all.
Kind of kills me to think that 30 years ago I could have had a very viable career doing the graphics for these catalogues.
Oh John you will forever be one of my heroes! You are very welcome and I hope you and all your posse down there in DC have a joyous holiday!
Seems to me I chauffeured one of these here washerlitoes around in my back seat recently:
Lord these dishwashers sucked!
We had the SD460 for a little while and it turned us all off of GE dishwashers forever.
I miss garbage disposers. Wish I could have one but my septic system person tells me that they grind up the food too small to decompose and it goes right into the fields where it clogs everything up. I just love the idea of dumping everything down the sink, out of sight, out of mind.
I saw this Go-Go disposer at a Church tag sale recently. So tempted to buy it but wimped out.
Just in case, like me
you might want to track any of these old distributorships down.
I didn't scan the pages with the air conditioners, electric panels, etc. If you want that, send me a hundred dollars in tens and twenties and I'll think about it.
Happy, Safe and Healthy!
FORD ECONOLINE SERVICE VAN
Boy seeing that picture of the Ford van brought back memories of the 1970 and 1974 Fords that I drove for two different service companies. The all drum brakes on these vans were so bad you never knew what lane would end up in when you had to make a hard stop. It may be the reason that I have never had a Ford product since. When Jeff and I started our own company in 1978 we bought two used 1974 dodge vans mainly because they had front disk brakes and they had a much smaller more economical 6 cylinder engine than Ford. Since then we have had 10 more Dodge vans and still have 6 of these on the road.
Boy seeing that picture of the Ford van brought back memories of the 1970 and 1974 Fords that I drove for two different service companies. The all drum brakes on these vans were so bad you never knew what lane would end up in when you had to make a hard stop. It may be the reason that I have never had a Ford product since. When Jeff and I started our own company in 1978 we bought two used 1974 dodge vans mainly because they had front disk brakes and they had a much smaller more economical 6 cylinder engine than Ford. Since then we have had 10 more Dodge vans and still have 6 of these on the road.
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Thanks so much for the scans of my OVEN! I use daily!
You must have ESP!
I was going to start a thread about the RHV886 range.
Here my Feb 1972 Hotpoint RHV886 Range is a sister model to the top of the line GE Versatronic J896 Range in your scans IN REPLY #1, #3, #4.
This was a BIG buck range for its era, the list price when my folks looked at them in the fall of 1971 was 1150 dollars, the Hotpoint RHV886 from Feb 1972 here was 890 bucks, after exhaustive shopping. For comparison our New 1971 VW bug was 1995 bucks, gas was 25 to 30 cents.
The GE J896 / Hotpoint RHV886 It is an early microwave oven, 915Mhz instead of 2.45 Ghz. They are really the same guts, ie like TransAm/Camaro.
One could place a frozen turkey in these things and cook it via the "electronic oven" and regular oven at the same time. It was a Star Trek device for its era. The microwave part lasted about 15 years before parts and repair folks died off. The 5 years say early 1980's repair folks would not believe it was a microwave, or know beans about it.
The last YoYo who worked on it stole the schematic and parts list that is kept behind the bezel with the knobs.
****So if anybody has a schematic for the GE J896/Hotpoint RHV886 please post it.
This is a heavy range, 430 Lbs and the patent plate input is 18.4 Kilowatts, ie 80 Amps at 230 volts. It is the reason my folks old house got a 200 Amp service and the neighboring houses all got 100 amp service.
My unit got 2 feet of salt water during Katrina and the "conventional" low oven is now dead. I threw out the mess of dead microwave emitter unit post Katrina. Even if one could fix the mess the bad seals would be a major issue. To get at the dead lower oven relay means pulling out the 430 Lb beast, thus it is a back {lower } burner project. Last time it was pulled out we had to rig up a puller with some 2x4's. The upper and lower ovens are typical GE/Hotpoint self cleaning ovens of the 1970's era
You must have ESP!
I was going to start a thread about the RHV886 range.
Here my Feb 1972 Hotpoint RHV886 Range is a sister model to the top of the line GE Versatronic J896 Range in your scans IN REPLY #1, #3, #4.
This was a BIG buck range for its era, the list price when my folks looked at them in the fall of 1971 was 1150 dollars, the Hotpoint RHV886 from Feb 1972 here was 890 bucks, after exhaustive shopping. For comparison our New 1971 VW bug was 1995 bucks, gas was 25 to 30 cents.
The GE J896 / Hotpoint RHV886 It is an early microwave oven, 915Mhz instead of 2.45 Ghz. They are really the same guts, ie like TransAm/Camaro.
One could place a frozen turkey in these things and cook it via the "electronic oven" and regular oven at the same time. It was a Star Trek device for its era. The microwave part lasted about 15 years before parts and repair folks died off. The 5 years say early 1980's repair folks would not believe it was a microwave, or know beans about it.
The last YoYo who worked on it stole the schematic and parts list that is kept behind the bezel with the knobs.
****So if anybody has a schematic for the GE J896/Hotpoint RHV886 please post it.
This is a heavy range, 430 Lbs and the patent plate input is 18.4 Kilowatts, ie 80 Amps at 230 volts. It is the reason my folks old house got a 200 Amp service and the neighboring houses all got 100 amp service.
My unit got 2 feet of salt water during Katrina and the "conventional" low oven is now dead. I threw out the mess of dead microwave emitter unit post Katrina. Even if one could fix the mess the bad seals would be a major issue. To get at the dead lower oven relay means pulling out the 430 Lb beast, thus it is a back {lower
} burner project. Last time it was pulled out we had to rig up a puller with some 2x4's. The upper and lower ovens are typical GE/Hotpoint self cleaning ovens of the 1970's era3beltwesty
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HOTPOINT RHV886
In the brown scheme !
The fan on this stove removes air from the top and mid section and has a fairly high CFM which is great for cooking.
In the brown scheme !
The fan on this stove removes air from the top and mid section and has a fairly high CFM which is great for cooking.
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Actual color of the 1972 Hotpoint is that Brown color folks
This was the Kitchen 1+ day after Katrina; *after* gobs of cleaning. I used a hose to clean out the mud from the lower kitchen cabinets and saved the real Pecan cabinets. Stuff that was made out of particle board turned to like soggy Cornflakes.
The 1972 Hotpoint RHV886 range like the rest took 2 feet of salt water, along with shrimp packing boxes, marsh grass, gobs of total crap. One can see the spin basket for my 1976 3 belt westy washer in the crap; I was rebuilding it before Katrina.
The Yellow arrow points to the lower oven which up the the mid 1980's had a working 915 Mhz microwave unit. To pull this 430 Lb unit out a cum-a-long is connected to some 2x4's connected to both left and right sides, to spread the load around.
The early 1990's Fridigaire dishwasher had a stuck solenoid that was freed and now works. The contacts on the float had to be cleaned. Most folks just junked all their stuff, while here I got all to work.
The early 1990's Refrigerator/Freezer just required the lower fan to be lubed, plus the 1/2 bushel of marsh grass removed from the the coils. During Katrina it floated up and came down at about 20 degrees from Horizontal; hanging from its 1/4" water line. Folks who left and did not stay through the storm about always came back to a refrig that got thrown away dud to rotten food that filled up the plastic walls with stink.
Before this 1 to 2 days of cleaning, a pitch fork was used to remove the 2 feet of marsh grass. The local electric company would not hook up the power yet due to safety reasons.{law suits} Thus one at night was using a pitch forks to remove the hay/grass with a Kerosene Lanterns like it is 1700 again. Thus for over 1 week Kerosene Lanterns were used after dark to remove 2 feet of hay from the house.
There was so much clutter that when one set down a hammer while ripping out sheet rock, that one would "loose it". Thus many tools were spray painted day glow orange or pink so as one could find them in the room one was working.
Most all the items folks disposed of like stoves, washers, dryer, dishwashers etc were fixable with minor things. The lady next doors gas stove I fixed only required cleaning of the jets/burners. It actually fixed it so it worked better than Katrina. Then 1 month later a contractor pulled it out and it went into the scrap heap, bizzare since it was a high end premium unit and got replaced with a cheapie 240+ buck electric.
This was the Kitchen 1+ day after Katrina; *after* gobs of cleaning. I used a hose to clean out the mud from the lower kitchen cabinets and saved the real Pecan cabinets. Stuff that was made out of particle board turned to like soggy Cornflakes.
The 1972 Hotpoint RHV886 range like the rest took 2 feet of salt water, along with shrimp packing boxes, marsh grass, gobs of total crap. One can see the spin basket for my 1976 3 belt westy washer in the crap; I was rebuilding it before Katrina.
The Yellow arrow points to the lower oven which up the the mid 1980's had a working 915 Mhz microwave unit. To pull this 430 Lb unit out a cum-a-long is connected to some 2x4's connected to both left and right sides, to spread the load around.
The early 1990's Fridigaire dishwasher had a stuck solenoid that was freed and now works. The contacts on the float had to be cleaned. Most folks just junked all their stuff, while here I got all to work.
The early 1990's Refrigerator/Freezer just required the lower fan to be lubed, plus the 1/2 bushel of marsh grass removed from the the coils. During Katrina it floated up and came down at about 20 degrees from Horizontal; hanging from its 1/4" water line. Folks who left and did not stay through the storm about always came back to a refrig that got thrown away dud to rotten food that filled up the plastic walls with stink.
Before this 1 to 2 days of cleaning, a pitch fork was used to remove the 2 feet of marsh grass. The local electric company would not hook up the power yet due to safety reasons.{law suits} Thus one at night was using a pitch forks to remove the hay/grass with a Kerosene Lanterns like it is 1700 again. Thus for over 1 week Kerosene Lanterns were used after dark to remove 2 feet of hay from the house.
There was so much clutter that when one set down a hammer while ripping out sheet rock, that one would "loose it". Thus many tools were spray painted day glow orange or pink so as one could find them in the room one was working.
Most all the items folks disposed of like stoves, washers, dryer, dishwashers etc were fixable with minor things. The lady next doors gas stove I fixed only required cleaning of the jets/burners. It actually fixed it so it worked better than Katrina. Then 1 month later a contractor pulled it out and it went into the scrap heap, bizzare since it was a high end premium unit and got replaced with a cheapie 240+ buck electric.
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These scans are the best Chritmas gift ever! Thanks!
GE!
Ken thank you very much for posting.
Happy Holidays
Peter
Ken thank you very much for posting.
Happy Holidays
Peter
