I finally got around to taking pictures of the Mobile Maid. Here it is, lurking next to a KitchenAid built in.
GE Mobile Maid Pics.
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And here's it's fun Formica top. Flower Power, Anyone?
Looking down into it.
Caught with it's pants down, as it were.
frontaloadotmy
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The innards
Certainly look pristine. Is it recently aquired? Do you use it
often. The first dw we had was a loaner one of these. I loved it. It will be a perfect companion for the new wall unit.
Smitty
Certainly look pristine. Is it recently aquired? Do you use it
often. The first dw we had was a loaner one of these. I loved it. It will be a perfect companion for the new wall unit.
Smitty
We found it on the curb in front of a house that was being redone. At first it wet itself, but a new washer on the hose worked wonders.
That's our first GE dishwasher. Noisy with its single wall construction, but it washed very well. We etched a lot of glasses in it. Of course, back then, we kept the water heater set at 160 so it had very hot water. In the darkened kitchen, I liked to look down in it while it was drying and see the red Calrod element glowing at the botton. Mom did not like the "modern" pattern of the Texolite top.
Congratulations, Dan on a primo acquisition. Gosh, with our appliances, it's almost like finding abandoned babies on our curbs.
Congratulations, Dan on a primo acquisition. Gosh, with our appliances, it's almost like finding abandoned babies on our curbs.
mikepaquette
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Have been looking for one
I grew up with the same machine. Great machine. I have been looking for one for some time now. I have had the built in style & that is what I hope to find some day. I have a spot in my kitchen for one, I remember these machines being loud but worked well. They could hold a lot if packed right. The new dishwasher soap now I am sure would only improve the performance. You have to love the oldies but goodies. Some day I will have one, things will fall into place. It might even be a portable & I would be forced to find a spot to keep it in use . Michael
I grew up with the same machine. Great machine. I have been looking for one for some time now. I have had the built in style & that is what I hope to find some day. I have a spot in my kitchen for one, I remember these machines being loud but worked well. They could hold a lot if packed right. The new dishwasher soap now I am sure would only improve the performance. You have to love the oldies but goodies. Some day I will have one, things will fall into place. It might even be a portable & I would be forced to find a spot to keep it in use . Michael
LOL
I used to do the same thing with mom's D&M Kenmore.
Something about the smell and heat and glow of a glowing calrod unit.
(Everyone here in NYC cooks with gas, so a calrod to me at that age was an oddity.)
I used to do the same thing with mom's D&M Kenmore.
Something about the smell and heat and glow of a glowing calrod unit.
(Everyone here in NYC cooks with gas, so a calrod to me at that age was an oddity.)
customline
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I love it
Being a portable dishwasher fan, I am very inpressed with this unit. I also love the pink interior. Wish you many years of washing enjoyment with this one! By the way, do you have a manual for this one? Is the wash cycle the same as other D&M style portables like these?
Being a portable dishwasher fan, I am very inpressed with this unit. I also love the pink interior. Wish you many years of washing enjoyment with this one! By the way, do you have a manual for this one? Is the wash cycle the same as other D&M style portables like these?
customline
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Me again.......
What year is it?
What year is it?
Hey Custom, I have no idea what year it's from. We found it on the curb 
I'd guess maybe the mid 60's?
There is a slight problem with the soap dispensor. It tends to not dispense, and we end up with a hard little clump of detergent. Anybody have any thoughts as to what's up?
I'd guess maybe the mid 60's?There is a slight problem with the soap dispensor. It tends to not dispense, and we end up with a hard little clump of detergent. Anybody have any thoughts as to what's up?
Customline the cycle sequence was Power Wash (Pre-wash), rinse, mani wash, and two rinses,, then dry. Dan, this would have to be early 1960s given GE came out with their washarm-based dishwasher in 1962 or 1963. I"m sure that design was put in MobileMaids soon there after. Steve 1/18 has one that's about 1964-1966.
This machine is about 1957 or 58. The reason I give that age is the design of the protective grid over the impeller. Our neighbors had the roll out version of this with the same Plastisol-coated grid and they bought their DW a year or two before we bought ours. Ours was a 1959 or 60 and the protective grid had openings that were one-fourth inch in a stainless steel hardware cloth style, no more plastic coated grid. The first year of the new design had even larger openings in the grid than Dan's machine. Once or twice we had the little flat seal that goes on baby bottles fly out of the silver basket and make a racket as it was dragged around under the grid. We stopped the cycle and I managed to work it across the grid, since the plastic disc floated, and then pushed it down and under the edge to retrieve it. There were no closed portions of that silver basket, but we usually figured out ways of keeping things from flying out of it. One of the really neat things shown in the manual was the use for the five slots on the end of the silver basket. Those openings were where you put long-handled cooking utensils like spatulas amd spoons. Our neighbor used to hang cups by their handles from the pins across the back-center of the opening. Each set of pins on the edge of the top rack that rose straight up from the rack had a pin between them that was positioned slightly forward and it was from those that she let her Franciscan cups swing and sway.
Dan, I noticed that the little curved end of the detergent dispenser seems to be missing the little piece of stainless steel that is supposed to fit inside the curve. It was stainless steel with a high enough iron content that it held the cup in place by clinging to the magnet on the shaft of the timer dial that went through the tub wall. After the wash fill, there was no more magnet and the bottom cup dropped so that, unlike some D&M machines, it did not dump the detergent until there was good water circulation. That was why it was so important to remember to close the clamshell lid to the cup, because if you left it open so that it looked like two cups, it would not release. That happened one night and we were wondering the next morning why the baby bottles were not super clean like they usually were, then I looked over and saw the detergent dispenser open with water and detergent sitting there. If you look at the impeller and see the direction it turns and then at the way the detergent cup falls, you will see that the two waves of water flying up from the impeller caught the open cup and flushed out any detergent that did not fall out. GE changed this cup to the slightly larger cup with the hinged cover so that it would always dispense, further assurance for which was gained by the little barrier in the part of the rack right in front of the dispenser: to keep everything away from the area that might prevent the dispenser from falling open. Incidentally, these early versions of the GE had 3 after rinses. And it was not a D&M built machine. It was all GE.
Dan, I noticed that the little curved end of the detergent dispenser seems to be missing the little piece of stainless steel that is supposed to fit inside the curve. It was stainless steel with a high enough iron content that it held the cup in place by clinging to the magnet on the shaft of the timer dial that went through the tub wall. After the wash fill, there was no more magnet and the bottom cup dropped so that, unlike some D&M machines, it did not dump the detergent until there was good water circulation. That was why it was so important to remember to close the clamshell lid to the cup, because if you left it open so that it looked like two cups, it would not release. That happened one night and we were wondering the next morning why the baby bottles were not super clean like they usually were, then I looked over and saw the detergent dispenser open with water and detergent sitting there. If you look at the impeller and see the direction it turns and then at the way the detergent cup falls, you will see that the two waves of water flying up from the impeller caught the open cup and flushed out any detergent that did not fall out. GE changed this cup to the slightly larger cup with the hinged cover so that it would always dispense, further assurance for which was gained by the little barrier in the part of the rack right in front of the dispenser: to keep everything away from the area that might prevent the dispenser from falling open. Incidentally, these early versions of the GE had 3 after rinses. And it was not a D&M built machine. It was all GE.
