GE New style racks (for power tower)

[MaytagA710]

A few months ago I was at Home Depot. I looked at a BOL Hotpoint DW, and found the racks are much different. The tines are thinner, but the biggest change is this. There are no verticle tines, the verticle tines are now apart of one continuous wave of tine that runs front to back of the whole rack. 

 

What does everyone think? I think I like this style of tine, the support is all focused in the centre of the plate. But I wonder how well it will work with pots, pans, casserole dishes, etc...

 

 

 

[mrb627]

Interesting

I imagine that ultimately, this is a great idea. No more bent/broken tines. The question is, is GE the first to have it?

Malcolm

 

[appnut]

Oh good grief!! Dish loops. That is exactly the style of rack my 1980 Kenmore had. And several of the other D&M brands featured this style too. For arranging certain items, this style is a bust. It can hinder loading capacity with certain smaller items that can be somewhat interlaced--saucers and bread & butter plates and ":fruit" bowls-small bowls for desserts. This is a step backwards as far as I am concerned. When I moved into a house with a GE PotScrubber, I though I'd died and gone to heaven with the way I could load it more flexible. This style rack is also less expensive to produce.

 

[appnut]

Malcolm, those can still break off like regular stick tines. Seen it happen.

 

[toggleswitch]

It is in a BOL machine. Does that not automatically tell us it is not the most derirable way to go?

 

[bosch2460]

My best friend and his partner have a newer BOL DW in their apartment. The racking is identical to the picture, and it is terrible. Both the top and the bottom rack are really difficult to load to capacity. Wide plates do not fit, or have to be tilted oddly. Forget piggy backing bowls. Small saucers do not even sit upright when placed in the top rack. You sure as hell cannot get a BobLoad in there. Even daily soils are difficult for it, the racking does not help. They have 160 degree water at the tap, and use Finish Quantum tabs. This typically gives decent results. I am sure this DW would be terrible with 120 degree water. I have loaded and ran this BOL DW many times. It is probably the worst dishwasher to load that I have ever used.

 

[appnut]

Thanks Joel. I knew I hadn't lost my mind (yet) lol. What yoiu cited as issues were all simiklar to my dish-looped Kenmore. And I still have many of the same sets of dishes I have now as I had back then. After reading thks thread and seeing that new style rack, I looked at my very nicely BobLoaded Kenmore tonight before I turned it on and was pleased. One dinner plate and the rest of the load consisted of a few salad plates, many cereal bowls, MANY saucers and a couple of fruit/berry bowls. Rest of the bottom rack wre some pyrex custard cups, a medium sized skillet, and small/medium-sized mixing bowls. top rack was all ice tea glasses, coffee mugs, large mugs for hot chocolate, and a couple of GladWare sisposeables. In the end there was not a space for another saucer anywhere. And I was reflecting before I closed the door, I couldn't have gotten all thjis in the old D&M dish-looped Kenmore and I doubt this Hotpoint either.[this post was last edited: 7/28/2012-00:59]

 

[combo52]

New BOL GE DW Racks

Bob, Steve and Joel are completely correct about these crappy racks, if you take one serious look you can see the ONLY reason they are made this way is that it uses less material and parts to make them, the overall effect is that they are harder to load certain items in and the machine does not hold as much.

 

[MaytagA710]

The thickness of the tines was also laughable. I think the only thing you could load, like I said, would be plates. That would be about it. I would imagine bowls (thanks to Bob), and big items like pots and pans, would be near impossible to load. They also got rid of the upper wash arm too, the power tower has a small vertical hole in the top of the tube, the water shoots up (there is a circular device in the middle of the top rack to prevent loading) to the top of the tub onto a angled plate, similar to the WP design.