GE Mobile Maid, $25, FB Marketplace

[michaelh]

Here is a GE Mobile Maid dishwasher in Summerville, GA for $25

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/902925674884504/?ref=search

 

[tomturbomatic]

If anyone is interested in this machine, be sure to check the detergent dispenser that is excluded from photo #3. It might be a covered timer operated cup type dispenser, but this bol model might have the little chute which allows the detergent to be flushed out in the first fill making for a lousy performing machine. GE did some terrible shit to their portable dishwashers in the mid 60s.

 

[appnut]

Do not ever recall seean impeller based. GE with that kind of timer dial. I always associated that timer dial with the new spray arm design

 

[gansky1]

 

 

That was my grandmother's dishwasher, but with a white (lightly textured?) lid.  Hers had the chute type det. dispenser.  She must have discovered the timing-design flaw as she always popped lid and added more detergent after that first fill drained.  Hers had no pressure release/bypass valve on the unicouple so when disconnecting it from the faucet, it would splash water if not covered with a towel/cloth and made it more difficult to release under pressure.  She never used the machine much...it was not kept in the kitchen but in the laundry-utility room just behind the kitchen. 

 

I think the BOL machine had the impeller, spray arm version was a step up.  Probably an advertised "leader"  model I'd guess. 

 

[tomturbomatic]

The next model up was a real horror show. It had this horseshoe-shaped top rack and the bed of nails lower rack and the wash arm was this amputated pump-powered sprayer with two little pipes about 4 or 5 inches long with a slit on the top at the end of each sprayer to produce a fan-like spray like the impeller, but how it got past the plates lined up in the lower rack to wash glasses in the upper rack is a puzzle. A young family on my paper route had this model. When they moved, an older lady moved in and I asked her how she liked having the dishwasher. She invited me in (I always tried to collect at the kitchen door) to look at it. I felt sorry for her, not just because of the dishwasher, but she had moved from a recently integrated part of Atlanta and was out of contact with her old neighborhood and missed her old house. Anyway, she lived by herself and probably would never use the thing. Before I left, I gave her some loading tips like putting plates on the outside of the rack and said that I would see her tomorrow since I took her paper up to her door. Life can be such a shit show. This dishwasher had a starring role. Eliminating the detergent dispenser was a low blow, but at least the impeller model was constructed to wash.

 

[rollermatic]

love these impeller machines!

have one mobile maid i got from kelleys island, ohio, used in a summer beach house.
don't use it much and it never cleans well but i love cranking it up once a year or so.

agree, that top rack is a terrible design!

i also don't use the detergent cups on any of my old g.e. machines, they seem to all leak out before the main wash. my old hobarts, on the other hand i never have a problem with.

did manage to pick up a new motor and bowtie impeller assembly on ebay about 10 years ago.

these are so nostalgic! love em!

 

[combo52]

GE top load portable dishwashers

Hi Peter, there are at least two different designs that are being disgusted here the one we have is the last design with the shaded pole motor, I mistakenly said it was a 65 or six machine is actually newer probably more like a 69 It’s still available. Somebody wants it one of these weekends when I’m cleaning up it’s gonna go to the crusher if it doesn’t get hauled off.

The later design worked better, but it was still a miserable dishwasher actually get dishes clean if you put them in dirty.

Peter, what seals do you need for what style pump I might have them.

John