General Electric Bowtie in TN
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mikepaquette
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Some day I will own another one of these. They are always so far away. When I was young these dishwashers were very common around here .
Some day I will own another one of these. They are always so far away. When I was young these dishwashers were very common around here .
Just emailed the seller. I've always wanted one with that magnetic dispenser.
Still on the prowl, however, for my coveted SP-51T (with maple top and rinse-glo dispenser:
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Still on the prowl, however, for my coveted SP-51T (with maple top and rinse-glo dispenser:
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the SU-70V that we had in our first house:
crevicetool
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Please excuse the not-so-appliance-nickname savvy....
Why is this a "Bowtie"?
Rick
Why is this a "Bowtie"?
Rick
...and, of course, the holy grail of pull-outs, the elusive SU-80P:
Rick,
The impeller on the bottom of the tank looks like a bowtie:
The impeller on the bottom of the tank looks like a bowtie:
Ken, that 24" pull out GE dishwasher is in a house that I've been to several times for sales. The lady who owns it is cleaning out the house that belonged to her her aunt, a hoarder. She's been working on it for a couple of years (the niece is a hoarder I suspect so it's difficult) but told me that she's going to remove the sunny-yellow appliances in the kitchen and replace them before she sells the property. Don't wait up for Santa, it may take a while! There's also a set of yellow 700 series Maytags in the basement...
polkanut
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Greg,
Patience is a virtue. You will be rewarded someday. (fingers & toes crossed)
Patience is a virtue. You will be rewarded someday. (fingers & toes crossed)
crevicetool
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I'll be darned - it does look like a bowtie - thanks!
mikepaquette
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Mike,
Have you tried posting a wanted ad on the local Craigslist page for one of these? A lot of this stuff is out there, but no one knows someone would want it. You could also look at shipping one. You want one bad enough. It seems it might be worth it to go ahead and make it happen.
Have you tried posting a wanted ad on the local Craigslist page for one of these? A lot of this stuff is out there, but no one knows someone would want it. You could also look at shipping one. You want one bad enough. It seems it might be worth it to go ahead and make it happen.
That's our first GE smasher.
frontaloadotmy
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Ken-
what are those " fittings " in the right rear su-70v ? Related to boomerang power shower?
-D
Ken-
what are those " fittings " in the right rear su-70v ? Related to boomerang power shower?
-D
Again, more than you probably wanted to know:
I never knew what they were for until the day my Father and I removed it from our kitchen for replacement in 1975. We looked at each other, when it was all done, and both of us agreed that it was an amazing design and maybe we should have though more carefully about repairing that wonderful SU-70V instead of sending it to the curb(AAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!).
All the utilities for the GE pull out dishwashers made from 1960 on were roughed in to a cabinet frame that came with the machine, housed it and was designed to be hard-plumbed to the inlet water and drain facilities and hard-wired to the electrical service. Installation was comparatively easy (mostly in new construction), because the frame is a wide open structure and it is easy to access and work with all of the wires in one junction box, the inlet, drain connections and their knockouts from the front. Once that is done, the installer levels the entire unit by hammering 4 wooden wedges into 4 openings in the floor of the frame and the unit is ready for final installation. That installation then consists of plugging an electrical module into the junction box outlet and rolling the dishwasher tub into that frame. DONE! I will admit that it goes in much more easily than it comes out (think, Tiger sex).
The two small "fittings" on the back of unit are male automatic spring connections for the Power Shower, to the left, and the drain, to the right. They connect to receptacles built into the frame and seal when the user closes the unit by moving the operation lever to the right to the "ON" position (at that point the lid of the built-in dishwasher lowers from the top of the frame and at the back of that lid are the female connections for those fittings. It was an elegant and effective design. I have a BOL version of this dishwasher without a Power Shower that has only one fitting for the drain on the back of the tub. You can see it peeking out from under the counter at the back of the tub in the drawing below:
I never knew what they were for until the day my Father and I removed it from our kitchen for replacement in 1975. We looked at each other, when it was all done, and both of us agreed that it was an amazing design and maybe we should have though more carefully about repairing that wonderful SU-70V instead of sending it to the curb(AAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!).
All the utilities for the GE pull out dishwashers made from 1960 on were roughed in to a cabinet frame that came with the machine, housed it and was designed to be hard-plumbed to the inlet water and drain facilities and hard-wired to the electrical service. Installation was comparatively easy (mostly in new construction), because the frame is a wide open structure and it is easy to access and work with all of the wires in one junction box, the inlet, drain connections and their knockouts from the front. Once that is done, the installer levels the entire unit by hammering 4 wooden wedges into 4 openings in the floor of the frame and the unit is ready for final installation. That installation then consists of plugging an electrical module into the junction box outlet and rolling the dishwasher tub into that frame. DONE! I will admit that it goes in much more easily than it comes out (think, Tiger sex).
The two small "fittings" on the back of unit are male automatic spring connections for the Power Shower, to the left, and the drain, to the right. They connect to receptacles built into the frame and seal when the user closes the unit by moving the operation lever to the right to the "ON" position (at that point the lid of the built-in dishwasher lowers from the top of the frame and at the back of that lid are the female connections for those fittings. It was an elegant and effective design. I have a BOL version of this dishwasher without a Power Shower that has only one fitting for the drain on the back of the tub. You can see it peeking out from under the counter at the back of the tub in the drawing below:
frontaloadotmy
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Well , well ......
Ya learn something new every day. I had always thought that the bowtie builtins were like their predecessors as far as the drains
were concerned, from the bottom of the machine to an air gap fitting mounted on the counter. A small amount of flexible hose does the job ,
until it gets hardened with age. The new design probably solved an occasionally annoying failure. I thought the top spray plumbing would have been easier to accomplish with the limited range of movement of the cabinet housed lid. I bet your SU-70V " kicked ass " ; simply
load, add detergent , close , move the lever to lock , select the desired custom cycle and slightly rotate the timer dial to " power rinse " .....!!!
Time for " Man from UNCLE " .
Ya learn something new every day. I had always thought that the bowtie builtins were like their predecessors as far as the drains
were concerned, from the bottom of the machine to an air gap fitting mounted on the counter. A small amount of flexible hose does the job ,
until it gets hardened with age. The new design probably solved an occasionally annoying failure. I thought the top spray plumbing would have been easier to accomplish with the limited range of movement of the cabinet housed lid. I bet your SU-70V " kicked ass " ; simply
load, add detergent , close , move the lever to lock , select the desired custom cycle and slightly rotate the timer dial to " power rinse " .....!!!
Time for " Man from UNCLE " .
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